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Japanese Skills · 言の葉 MCP Server

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Japanese Skills · 言の葉 is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Japanese words with pitch accent and conjugation, kanji and grammar for JLPT learners.

Uptime history 7 days of history
7 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
193 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Japanese Skills · 言の葉 every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add japaneseskills-mcp --transport http https://japaneseskills.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://japaneseskills.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.japaneseskills-mcp]
url = "https://japaneseskills.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "japaneseskills-mcp": {
      "url": "https://japaneseskills.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "japaneseskills-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://japaneseskills.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

lookup
lookup_kanji
Use this when the user asks about a kanji (a Chinese character used in Japanese): which JLPT words use it and how it is read in them, at which JLPT level it first appears, or where to learn it. For each kanji given (up to five), lists the words in the site’s JLPT word list that contain it, easiest level first, with reading, level and meaning in the user’s language; how many words use it and the lowest level among them; and the site’s kanji lessons that teach it (title, link, and whether each is free or needs a subscription or pass). Gives no on’yomi/kun’yomi table or stroke order: the readings are those of the words.
lookup_word
Use this when the user asks about a Japanese word: what it means, how to read or pronounce it, its pitch accent, whether it is a godan or ichidan verb, how to conjugate it (te-form, past, polite, potential…), or how to say something in Japanese. Searches the 9,040 JLPT words (N5–N1) of Japanese Skills · 言の葉 by the word in kanji or kana (食べる, たべる), romaji (taberu), or a meaning in English, Chinese or Korean (eat, 吃, 먹다). Each result has the reading, JLPT level, the meaning in the user’s language, the pitch accent (accent number, type and H/L pattern), the word class and conjugation table where the site has one, an example sentence with its translation where the site has one, recordings in two voices where available, and the word’s page. Shows a word card in chats that display app UI. Returns no results when the word is not in the list. Not for translating whole sentences.
courses
list_courses
Use this when the user asks how to study Japanese or prepare for a JLPT level with Japanese Skills · 言の葉, or what study material the site has. Lists the study library (sections, counts and links), the JLPT practice levels (number of questions; links for the free ones), and the 15 courses with their level, number of lessons and link. With course, lists that course’s lessons with titles and links. Each level, course and lesson is labelled free or needs a subscription or pass.
grammar
find_grammar
Use this when the user asks about a Japanese grammar pattern or particle (〜てもいい, ために, ば vs たら, は and が), what it means, how it is used, an example of it, or how to say something with a pattern. Searches the site’s 828 grammar points (N5–N1) by the pattern in Japanese or romaji, or by its meaning in the user’s language. Each result has the pattern, JLPT level, meaning in the user’s language, an example sentence with translation, a recording of the example where available, and the grammar page; plus the site’s course lessons whose titles match, with links and whether each is free or needs a subscription or pass.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://japaneseskills.com/mcp streamable-http answering 77 ms 5 min ago

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Japanese Skills · 言の葉 — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Japanese Skills · 言の葉 do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_grammar, list_courses, lookup_kanji, lookup_word. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Japanese Skills · 言の葉 working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 193 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Japanese Skills · 言の葉?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Japanese Skills · 言の葉 need an API key?
No. Japanese Skills · 言の葉 completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Japanese Skills · 言の葉?
It answers our handshake in 193 ms on average, which is faster than 72% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.