August 2025

Hey everyone, here's the August 2025 update!

As a quick summary, we...

released a major update to Review Sets
released a major update to Custom Flashcards
released 18 new Phase Three Units
added 4 new Progression badges
released 2 new Ty's Take videos

Details! ↓

Review Sets update

Review Sets got a major update! The focus of this update is to help improve the study experience outside of the core Study Now button.

The major details are...

There are now several auto-generating Review Sets, which pull from things you've seen in your studies, including…
- Recently Completed Units
- Recent Flashcard Sessions
- Completed Units in a range
Review Sets are more stable

Of course, they cover everything in the Unit (lessons, kanji, vocab, Dialogues), and you can adjust which part of a given Unit you'd like to see as well. They're a great way to review specific areas that you want to practice with!

These new auto-generated sets also come with some keyboard shortcuts if you happen to study with a keyboard available:

space - advance to next Material
shift + space - jump back to previous Material
] - advance to next Unit
[ - jump back to previous Unit

Check out the Review Sets article to see the full functionalities of the improved Review Sets!

Custom Flashcards update

Custom Flashcards now support official NativShark content!

If you want to spend extra SRS time with certain sentences, you can create a deck and add to it while studying. Just look for the Custom Flashcard icon near study content!

Custom Flashcards also support Dialogues, meaning Dialogues are now SRS-able!

We made a few Custom Flashcard decks that contain (nearly*) all of the Dialogues in each Phase if you're interested in them.

The download and setup instructions are available in the Community ^^

*Since it's a CSV we're working with, it contains the Dialogues up to the time it was made. We'll try to update it as we go, but there may be a small handful of the most recent content that may be missing at any time. These can be added as you reach late Phase Three content, or by uploading more recent versions of the CSV as they become available. Thank you for your understanding!

New Units and Badges

We released 18 new Phase Three Units in August, from Units 428 to 445!

These Units are full of the usual Japanese-study goodness you're used to and include...

19 new lessons
73 new lesson sentences
227 new vocab sentences
18 new Dialogues
4 new Progression badges

Unit 431 Progression badge
Hiroshima Yakuza
You know how じゃ is used in Hiroshima dialect.

Unit 435 Progression badge
Map Marking
You know about the old "provinces" of Japan.

Unit 439 Progression badge
Second-Place Trophy
You know some interesting ways 二 is used.

Unit 445 Progression badge
Fortune-Teller
You know all about おみくじ.

Ty's Take

Ty released two videos about his daily study routine and ways to enjoy native materials more

Daily study routine:

Enjoying native materials:

Thanks for studying with us & checking out the monthly update!

Happy studies,
The NativShark team