Japanese Counters Practice Tool
Drill the counter words Japanese uses for people, animals, books, machines, and drinks until choosing the right one is automatic.
About the author
Luke McLaughlin created Constructing Language after living in Japan and later learning Mandarin Chinese from scratch. The lessons, games, and guides are built from that first-hand learner experience and checked against native-speaker course work with Hiro for Japanese and Xiang for Mandarin Chinese.
- Lived in Japan and studied Japanese through immersion and structured self-study.
- Learned Mandarin Chinese from scratch as an adult learner.
- Created the Construction Method: audio-first sentence building, grammar graphics, and active recall.
- Built Japanese course material with Hiro and Mandarin course material with Xiang, both native-speaker collaborators.
What the tool trains
Japanese counts different categories of things with different counter words. The tool trains learners to match the counter to the noun category and to say the fused readings correctly.
How to use it
Read the sentence with its romaji, pick the counter, listen to the full sentence, and note the sound change before moving on.