Nande now speaks your language — 14 of them
Nande's lessons, explanations and AI tutor are now available in 14 languages, so you can learn Japanese without translating through English first.
July 27, 2026
Learning Japanese is hard enough. Doing it through a second language makes it harder.
Until now, Nande explained everything in English. If English wasn’t your first language, every new word went through two translations — Japanese into English, English into your own language. That’s a lot of work for a single vocabulary card.
Today, Nande speaks 14 languages.
The 14 languages
| Language | Language | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| English | English | Portuguese | Português |
| Spanish | Español | Russian | Русский |
| French | Français | Korean | 한국어 |
| German | Deutsch | Chinese (Simplified) | 简体中文 |
| Italian | Italiano | Chinese (Traditional) | 繁體中文 |
| Vietnamese | Tiếng Việt | Hindi | हिन्दी |
| Thai | ไทย | Indonesian | Bahasa Indonesia |
It’s not just the buttons
Plenty of apps translate their menus and stop there. We didn’t want that.
- The interface — every screen, button and message.
- The lessons themselves — word meanings, example sentence translations, grammar explanations.
- Your AI tutor — when you ask why a sentence works the way it does, the answer comes back in your language.
The Japanese stays Japanese, of course. Everything that explains it now comes to you in the language you think in.
How to switch
If you’re new, we’ll pick it up from your device language when you sign up — you can always change it later.
What we actually translated
Machine-translating an interface takes an afternoon. Machine-translating a language course produces something worse than English: explanations that are fluent but subtly wrong, which is the one thing a beginner can’t detect.
So every language went through the same checks — plural rules, script handling, and a pass on the screens where a slightly longer word breaks a button. Chinese needed two versions rather than one, because Simplified and Traditional readers shouldn’t have to squint at each other’s characters.
Your language isn’t here?
Tell us. The list grows based on where learners actually are — if enough of you are studying Japanese in a language we don’t cover yet, that’s how it gets on the roadmap.