Mimora

Everything in one place

Learn Japanese and morefrom real content, one sentence at a time.

Choose your learning and definition languages, then learn through videos, reading and conversations. The latest release brings multilingual content and offline dictionaries together. Grammar analysis and JLPT levels are available for Japanese.

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Available on Google Play and Chrome. Netflix learning requires the browser extension; Android supports YouTube learning.

毎朝まいあさニュースを読むよむのに慣れてなれてきた。

00:36 – 00:39 · sentence 12 of 31 loop ×2

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Sign in to discover videos and readings, study your own media and documents, review saved words and grammar, and continue with your synced library.

Open learning center

Learn on video platforms

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Install the Mimora extension, open a video and select the Mimora button at the upper right. Original-site learning opens in the right panel. Subtitle availability depends on the video, language and region.

Open learning center

Two ways to use a video

Learn from videos. Review through videos.

Learn from YouTube and Netflix, one sentence at a time: subtitles, translation, word lookup and grammar. Netflix learning is available in the browser extension.

Watch mode

Study it the first time

Watch modeReview mode02:19 / 08:44

台風のため、イベントは中止せざるを得なかった。

The event had to be cancelled because of the typhoon.

Word

中止

ちゅうし

cancellation

N3 · estimated

Grammar

〜ざるを得ない

have no choice but to

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  • Grammar detected in context
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Review mode

Come back to it

Watch modeReview mode7 / 27 mastered
Listen first

Sentence 12 of 27 · 00:37

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山を登るにつれて、気温が下がっていった。

Needs workGot it
  • 00:31台風のため、イベントは中止せざるを得なかった。
  • 00:37山を登るにつれて、気温が下がっていった。
  • 00:43人口の増加に伴って、住宅の需要も高まっている。
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  • Or fill the gap: hear the line, pick the missing word
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  • Carry a whole video to completion
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Everything in one place

News

Read real Japanese news — and hear it.

Open an article in the reader: tap any word, see the grammar around it, translate a sentence, and have it read aloud in a natural voice.

  • Sentence-by-sentence reader
  • Read aloud in a natural voice
  • Words saved with their sentence
N3

政府は来年度から、新しい支援制度を始めると発表した。

対象となるのは、子育て中の家庭だ。

申請は四月から受け付ける予定だという。

子育て こそだて

Scenes

Rehearse the conversations you will actually have.

A convenience store, a clinic call, meeting a friend: pick a role and play it. Every line has a voice — or switch to free conversation and the characters answer whatever you say.

  • Scripted dialogues with real voices
  • Free conversation with the characters
  • Your lines go into review
コンビニで12
A
いらっしゃいませ。ポイントカードはお持ちですか？
私
いえ、持っていません。
A
では、お作りしましょうか？すぐできますよ。
はい、お願いします…
TranscriptsNew

Turn what you hear and read into a lesson.

Speak and watch your Japanese appear sentence by sentence, transcribe a video or audio file, or open a PDF, Word or text file — then study it the way you study everything else.

  • Live transcription as you speak
  • Video, audio, PDF, Word and TXT
  • Drag two together to make one
2:41

今日は駅前の新しいカフェに行ってきました。

店内は思ったより広くて、静かでした。

また週末に友だちと来たいと思います。

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ReviewNew

What you save comes back at the right time.

Word cards with the word blanked out, scene lines, and whole videos checked by ear — scheduled by memory, with every card you have saved listed by the day you saved it.

  • Fill-in-the-blank word cards
  • Fill-the-gap listening on videos
  • All your cards, newest first

毎朝？を読むのが習慣だ。

新聞手紙辞書
習慣しゅうかん
申請しんせい
子育てこそだて

Roadmap

Where Mimora is going, at a glance

Four tracks, each moving on its own. Filled circles have shipped; the rest are on the way.

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Video & reading

  1. YouTube, Netflix and reading

  2. Japanese, English, Spanish and French

  3. More content and audio

Speaking & listening

  1. Scenes and conversation

  2. Live transcription

  3. Practice with your own sentences

Review & learning paths

  1. Spaced repetition and listening review

  2. Personalized learning paths

  3. Deeper learning guidance

Languages & platforms

  1. Multilingual interface and dictionaries

  2. Browser extension and Android

  3. A better mobile experience

Not alone

Two who study with you

They are not decoration. Rinrin keeps the schedule; BB brings back what you were about to forget.

Rinrin (凛凛) character art

Rinrin 凛凛

Keeps the plan

Smug
  • · Knows what is due before you do
  • · Quietly pleased when she was right

Likes: Tidy queues · a finished video · pretending she never doubted you

知ってたよ〜“I knew it all along~”
BB character art

BB

Brings things back

Blank
  • · Digs up the card you nearly lost
  • · Slow to react, never gives up on a word

Likes: Sunny windows · long sentences · running off mid-review

ん？“Huh?”

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