Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Michi out of frustration. Every "learn Japanese" app I tried did the same thing: gamify me into a streak, then nudge me toward a subscription. A year later you've got a 300-day streak and still can't read a menu. The truth is, the resources to learn Japanese for free are already incredible — Tae Kim, Anki, WaniKani, NHK Easy News, the official JLPT practice tests. What's missing isn't content. It's the map: what to do, in what order, this week, for your level and your schedule. So Michi is that map. You answer 3 questions — where you're starting, how much time you have a day, and your goal — and it generates a week-by-week roadmap from N5 all the way to N1, with the exact free resource linked to every task. A few things I care about: • It's honest. Study hours come from Coto Academy & the Japan Foundation. N1 from zero is ~4,000 hours — a 2–3 year journey. Michi shows the real timeline at three paces instead of promising "fluent in 3 months." • No login, no paywall. Your email just saves your progress. Everything it points you to is genuinely free. • It's a tool, not a teacher. A skill tree unlocks as you tick off weeks; switch your pace or goal and the whole plan regenerates. It's free and live today — I'd love your honest feedback, especially from anyone who's studied Japanese: what would you add to the roadmap? 🙏 — Yash Verma

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Learn Japanese daily — a free, personalized roadmap

Learn Japanese daily — a free, personalized roadmap