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    Guides

    Guides & how-tos

    Guides for getting started, daily use, and how Kumi stacks up against everything else.

    Basics

    IME basics

    What is an IME?

    An IME (Input Method Editor) lets you type Japanese by spelling sounds in romaji and converting them to hiragana, katakana, or kanji. This guide shows how it works and how to type with one.

    5 min read

    Home screen setup

    How to Add Kumi to Your Home Screen

    Kumi does not have a native app yet, but you can add the Kumi website to your phone or desktop home screen as a shortcut, so it launches with one tap like an app.

    3 min read

    KMT explained

    What is KMT?

    KMT (Kumi Mastery Tiers) is a 1 to 10 mastery scale Kumi tracks separately for each domain. Unlike JLPT levels, which have no official study list, it reflects what you have actually mastered and decides what to study next.

    6 min read

    Mastery explained

    What is Mastery?

    In Kumi, mastery is a 0 to 100 score for a single concept, built from every way you can know it. It grows when you truly recall something, and it fades when you stop reviewing, the way real memory does.

    6 min read

    Using Kumi

    Getting the most from Kumi

    How to Use Kumi

    A high-level walkthrough of how to use Kumi day to day: the daily fold, lessons, the dictionary, and concept lists.

    5 min read

    Self-report & Anki import

    Start Where You Are

    Kumi does not make you start over. Self-report or import from Anki, and its trust-based system lets you skip what you already know instead of starting from zero.

    5 min read

    Comparisons

    Kumi vs competitors

    Kumi vs Other Japanese Learning Apps

    How Kumi compares to popular Japanese apps like WaniKani, Bunpro, Anki, Duolingo, LingoDeer, and Migaku, and what it would cost to match Kumi by stacking them or hiring a tutor.

    6 min read

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