May 2024

May 2024 monthly update

As a quick summary:

We published 16 new Phase Three Units and reached Milestone 37 on Nativshark while adding more newsletters to the archive here on the help site.

We also fixed various typos and styling issues that were reported by our fellow learners in the Discord community.

Thanks for all the reports and for helping us to make NativShark the best platform for learning Japanese out there!

And now the details:

Units

We published 16 new Phase Three Units this month, containing...

68 lesson sentences
195 new vocab sentences
16 Dialogues

We also released Milestone 37 this month:

Milestone 37:
Double Negatives
You're highly familiar with uses of double negatives in Japanese.

And two new progression badges:

Unit 214:
Radio Calisthenics
You know what big groups of old people are doing in the park in the morning.

Unit 223:
City Hall
You know how city/ward offices are a big deal in Japan.

Newsletter Archive

We added the following past newsletters to the help site archive:

Some of the coolest places in Fukuoka

The "ghosts" of Japan 👻

Finding retro games in Japan 🕹️

The key to learning Japanese

お弁当: The easiest tasty food in Japan

Fixes

Fixed formatting issues on various places of the app site due to a browser update.
Fixed typos and missing highlights throughout the core study path.
Updated several lessons to improve explanations or add more details
Updated the subscription page on the app site to make it clearer that USD is being charged (rather than AUD or CAD, for example).