Pricing

The curriculum is the same either way: Jump Start, Practice Dojo, and Slow Japanese videos. Pick how you want to work through it.

With a cohort

Janai Core

$180one-time · 12 weeks

Founding cohort price.

  • Full access to the whole curriculum
  • A cohort with a set start and a steady pace
  • Mana checks and stamps your progress
  • A checkpoint every 4 weeks
  • 30 days of free access after week 12
See Janai Core

With Mana directly

1-on-1 with Mana

From $270for 5 weeks · prepaid
  • Full access to the whole curriculum
  • A 50-minute private session every week
  • Your own fixed weekly time slot
  • Personal feedback, at your own pace
  • Runs alongside Janai Core if you do both
See 1-on-1

Already past the basics, around JLPT N5? Janai Plus is the next 12-week cohort, same format one level up.

Finished a cohort or wrapped up your 1-on-1? Keep full access as an alumni — all of Jump Start (Core + Plus), every video, the whole Dojo, and the community, at your own pace — for $90/year (or $9/month), from your plan page.

Not sure yet? Start free.

A free account includes the first 3 Core lessons and 2 Plus lessons of Jump Start, hiragana practice, and the 2 newest videos, always free. No card, no newsletters.

Try for free