Learn and master the japanese phonetic alphabets at your own pace with this meditative language learning tool.
| App ID | 1031900 |
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| App type | Game |
| Developer | James Moulang |
| Publisher | James Moulang |
| Homepage | http://jamesmoulang.co.uk/kana |
| Release date | 2021-08-11 09:00 UTC |
| Release state | released |
| Store page | store.steampowered.com/app/1031900 |
| Last store refresh | 1 hour ago |
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| 0 | you-can-kana.exe | --in-process-gpu --disable-direct-composition | windows | |
| 1 | You Can Kana.app | macos |
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| 2026-09-11 21:23 UTC | $9.99 | $9.99 |
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| Branch | Build ID | Description | Updated | Password |
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| public | 11228395 | 2023-05-14 10:31 UTC |
| Depot | Name | OS | Size | Download | Public manifest | Notes |
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| 1031901 | windows | 241.44 MB | 89.36 MB | 4068255004419846184 | ||
| 1031902 | macos | 388.20 MB | 202.04 MB | 2981666159377258220 | ||
| 1031903 | windows |
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🍎 You 🍏 Can 🍎 Kana 🍏 Functionality: 🍏 Steam cloud save transfers between macOS and Windows 🍏 Intel 🍏 M1 🍏 M2 If you're enjoying You Can Kana and appreciate these free updates, please recommend the game on Steam! 🪱 Due to technical limitations, I was unable to support the in-game overlay on macOS. Sorry!
Improved graphics tablet / touch-screen support (tested on Wacom Intuos). Now, a pen can be used to navigate the menus and complete the stroke order sections. Note: even on graphics tablet, the stroke order section is still design to just teach stroke order. It's not a free-drawing mode, the best way to practise actual handwriting is still pen/paper.
Added click audio to word explainer ESC key now closes Word Explainer
Summary Added the Word Explainer, an interactive way to view the valid inputs for a word. Multiple improvements to the translation system If you're enjoying You Can Kana and appreciate these free updates, please recommend the game on Steam! Word Explainer {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35769671/d85111cd7b0238738ff610f4930573a43a4a6cf4.gif Use the mouse to click on the kana or romaji and explore the relationships between the two. For example, hovering over チュ reveals two possible inputs: chu and chi xyu. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35769671/2260cbd00a2a778d1bb0cb38e9c069088ad754b5.png The Word Explainer can be acce
Hi everyone, a new update for You Can Kana is available! Thanks again to everyone who submitted feedback, I do read through it all and try to address what I can. Apologies for the large gap between this update and the last one - I have to balance development on YCK with my day job, which can get very busy some times. Summary Challenge Mode Improvements Added (experimental) touch screen support - feedback welcome! Added two new colour palettes (which were actually unlocking before, but had no menu option) New mode: JLPT Training Mode - practise the JLPT Challenges with no time restrictions Rand
Hi everyone, hope you're all enjoying You Can Kana! It's been a while since the last update, hasn't it? I've been very busy working on a new game, which I'm hoping to announce some time next year. But I still have something new for you all. To celebrate the Steam Autumn Sale I've updated the game to add a new mode: Training Mode! You can access Training Mode the same way you access Challenge Mode. In Training Mode, all timers are disabled, and the Cheat Sheet is enabled, so you can look up characters you don't remember. I hope you find it useful for practising the characters if you find Challe
Change summary: Added JLPT Mode, a new form of Challenge Mode Hiragana and katakana are both active at the same time in this mode Choose which JLPT levels to limit vocab to Complete both hiragana and katakana campaigns to unlock JLPT Mode Skip mode has been sped up to make it easier to complete the campaigns A new achievement has been added for reaching 10,000 points in JLPT Mode More details: Making skip mode (even) faster Building on optimisations from previous updates. Now the word picker prioritises words that have a high proportion of unseen characters, meaning less word answers in total
✔ Fixed characters that won't rendering in tooltips in the skip summary. ✔ Fixed a crash that happened during the multiple choice section of katakana lessons. ✔ Made it so that in review and test mode, we always prioritise the characters from the actual lesson we're on. ✔ Removed a 'rya' question from the part of the katakana campaign where we introduce the small 'ya' character, as the 'r' characters are not introduced at this point. ✔ Removed erroneous "デョ" words that were showing up in katakana mode. ✔ Fixed a minor graphical issue where small characters would shrink suddenly when they finis
Removed words with consisted solely of a small tsu, followed by a vowel. In the case that these do show up in game, they can now be inputted as e.g. 'aa' or 'xtsua' for 'ッア' Made the ッ character show smaller to better differentiate it from regular ツ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35769671/ed7f846acab155fbd198cd5b61044d6794d3e861.png Regular ツ Small ッ (before change) Small ッ (after change) Thanks to @クラゲくん for the suggestion! James
Support for more romaji inputs Skip mode: made the mode quicker to complete Skip mode: added warning Skip mode: prevented the player from disabling challenge mode by skipping backwards Added more words and JLPT N level data in preparation for JLPT mode Added text to handwriting mode to clarify its purpose Edit: I forgot the most important thing! The little You Can Kana guy's eyes now follow your mouse during handwriting mode. More detail: 1. Support for more input methods A few cases were found where typing romaji would not count as a correct answer even if it was a valid input, I've addressed
You Can Kana is out now! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought the game so far. The 10% launch discount lasts until Aug 18 so please take advantage of it. I want to make You Can Kana the best kana learning game it can be, so I intend to keep supporting the game after release. I'll be sharing a roadmap of post-release improvements soon and I'd love to hear suggestions from the players too, so please leave a comment if you have any suggestions. ありがとうございます - James
Hi everyone, thanks for playing the demo. You Can Kana is due to launch at the end of July and I'd like to share what I've been working on since Steam Next Fest. Please give the game a wishlist if you're enjoying the demo! The demo was a great opportunity to get some feedback on the gameplay and the no. 1 requested feature was the ability to draw the characters. So I've added this functionality to the Learn phase! If you've already completed all of the characters, you can still review the stroke order from the kana tables in the menu. I've also made it possible to reset your save if you just w
Strings like "イイー" or "シーイー" can now be answered with only vowels (in this case, iii/ii- or shiiii/shi-i-) Thanks to soka-chan for pointing out this bug! Hope everyone's enjoying the demo :) James
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