March 2025

Hey everyone, it's time for the March 2025 update!

As a quick summary, we...

released 15 new Phase Three Units
added 2 new Progression Badges
fixed a bug in the Today's Studies dashboard
made improvements to loading speeds
added 3 newsletters to the archive

New Units and Badges

We released 15 new Phase Three Units in March, from Units 376 to 390!

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

17 new lessons
63 new lesson sentences
177 new vocab sentences
15 new Dialogues
2 new Progression Badges

Milestone 44, Unit 382
Minister of Japanese Studies
You know about the various 省しょう in Japan.

Milestone 44, Unit 388
Are we there yet?
You're still learning new layers to things you already know.

Study Site updates

Site loading speed improvements

The Study Now button and stats section on the My Journey page load faster now.

Also, the Study Now button is nearly immediately clickable, so you can hop into your studies instead of needing to wait for your study forecast to load fully before clicking.

Today's Studies changes

There was a bug that was preventing the appropriate text from showing in certain study states. That has been fixed and we've updated some of the text too ^^

As a part of this, you are always assigned a new Unit to do, so that will show in the Today's studies forecast. (You may have to refresh the page for this to fully show after completing certain sections of your studies ^^)

Newsletter archive

We added 3 newsletters to the archive!

Early cherry blossoms in Japan

Order this when you're in Fukuoka!

Japan's must-haves in March: what's in season?

It's been a while since I've been able to get to these, but hopefully I should be making more progress in them again.

This is because a big project the team and I have been working on is in the final stages now, and you should see an announcement for it in April. I hope you enjoy it when it comes out!

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

Happy studies,
The NativShark team