ゴミ先生 GOMI SENSEI

COMING SOON · iOS & ANDROID

The most useless way to learn Japanese.

Real JLPT vocabulary, genuinely unhinged example sentences, and a sensei who keeps every word you forgot in a small bin.

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N4 · ADVERB

ぜんぜん

全然

not at all

N5 · NOUN

ごみ

ゴミ

garbage; trash

かくごしろ

覚悟しろ

“Prepare yourself.”

Sensei says: excellent for ordering coffee.

N3 · PHRASE

Gomi Sensei, pointing at the cards

THE WHOLE PITCH, FIVE CARDS

01 · THE NAME ゴミ

ごみ

ゴミ

garbage · trash · rubbish

Japanese already had a word for the vocabulary you keep forgetting. We built the whole app around it.
02 · HOW IT WORKS 覚

Swipe. Forget. Repeat.

  1. 1A word appears. Tap to hear it.
  2. 2Knew it? Swipe right, it's done.
  3. 3Blanked? Swipe left. It's gomi now.
Four minutes a day. A streak you can ignore. No lives, no guilt-trip notifications.
03 · THE GOMI BIN ゴミ箱

Your misses live here.

  • 面倒missed ×3
  • 締め切りmissed ×2
  • 我慢missed ×1
Every right answer takes one miss off it. Clear them all and it leaves. Sensei will still remember.
04 · FREE & PRIVATE 無料

No account. No ads. No data.

  • Everything runs on your phone, fully offline.
  • We collect nothing. No sign-up, no tracking, no analytics.
  • Free permanently, there is no premium sensei.
05 · WHERE TO GET IT ダウンロード

iOS and Android, soon.

The app is in the last stretch of building. Leave an email and we'll message you exactly once, on launch day.

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INSIDE THE APP

A classroom that fits in one thumb.

One phrase a day on the home screen. A deck you can finish before your coffee lands. A bin you'll pretend not to check.

  1. 1Gomi of the Day, tap for Sensei's opinion, which nobody requested.
  2. 2Word bank sorted by class, with progress on every set.
  3. 3Build a 10-card quiz from any set, any level, in two taps.
今日のゴミ N5

GOMIBAKO

ゴミ箱

“trash can”

Start Learning Start Quiz
Nouns14 of 22
Verbs6 of 18
Adjectives2 of 12
家語ゴミ己
ゴミ箱 · BIN 7 words
面倒a hassle×3
締め切りdeadline×2
我慢endurance×1
Take out the trash

SEVEN LEVELS

Start at hiragana. Regret it at N0.

  • あ

    Pure beginner

    Hiragana and katakana first. Words can wait until you can sound them out.

  • N5

    Survival gomi

    Enough words to order food and then apologise for it.

  • N4

    Confident nonsense

    You can now be wrong in complete sentences.

  • N3

    The wall

    Where most learners quietly stop. Your bin gets crowded.

  • N2

    Business gomi

    Vocabulary for emails you will never send.

  • N1

    Ceremonial suffering

    Words even Sensei looks up. He denies this.

  • N0

    Pure gomi

    If you can use one of these in daily conversation, you're an anime character.

FREE · OFFLINE · NO DATA COLLECTED

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Leave an email. We'll write exactly once, when the app is out.

One email. Then silence, as promised.

Gomi Sensei, one finger raised