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Hepburn (modified Hepburn, the default) writes し shi, ち chi, つ tsu, ふ fu, じ/ぢ ji, しゃ sha, ちゃ cha, じゃ ja. Long vowels take a macron: とうきょう tōkyō, おかあさん okāsan; えい stays ei and いい stays ii. Small っ doubles the next consonant (きって kitte, まっちゃ matcha). ん before a vowel or y is written n' (こんや kon'ya). The particles は, へ, を are written as pronounced: wa, e, o.
Kunrei-shiki (ISO 3602) writes si, ti, tu, hu, zi, sya, tya, zya; long vowels take a circumflex (tôkyô); ぢ and づ are zi and zu; particles wa, e, o. Nihon-shiki is the strict letter-for-letter form: like Kunrei, but ぢ di, づ du, ぢゃ dya, and the particles as spelled: ha, he, wo.
What counts as correct. Spaces and capitals don't matter. Long vowels can be typed with a macron or circumflex (ō, ô) or doubled (ou, oo). The style is checked separately: if every sound is right but the spelling belongs to another style (si instead of shi in Hepburn), the trainer tells you which spellings to change. In sentences, particles are underlined with dots.
Levels. 1: basic kana only, up to 4 · 2: with ゛ and ゜ (が, ぱ), up to 6 · 3: with small ゃゅょ, small っ and long vowels, up to 8 · 4: 9–16 · 5: 17–40 (counting each kana sound, small っ and long vowel). Levels 4–5 are mostly sentences.
Timer challenge. The clock starts at your first keystroke. Correct answers move on automatically; Skip counts as a miss. At the end you see every item with its translation, and your best score is kept for each combination of style, level, material and duration.
Sources. Words and translations come from JMdict (Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0), via jmdict-simplified; only common words written in hiragana are used. Sentences come from the Tanaka Corpus as maintained in Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); their hiragana readings are built from the corpus's word-by-word readings. This page's word data is a derivative of JMdict and shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.