Kanshudo Founder and Joy o' Kanji Partner
Jonathan Kirk is an England-born, Cambridge-educated, San Francisco–resident engineer, educator, and entrepreneur with a lifelong love of Japan and Japanese. Jonathan is the founder of Kanshudo, an online system for teaching the Japanese language. Kanshudo's AI tutor provides a personalized study program using an array of proven language-learning techniques, including flashcards, knowledge association, games, positive reinforcement, and more.
Kanshudo is delighted to partner with Joy o' Kanji, whose in-depth essays give kanji context and bring them to life.
Jonathan has been studying kanji with varying degrees of intensity since childhood, when he first saw someone reading a Japanese book on the London Tube. His favorite kanji is 駿 (fast; quick-witted) because an inspirational Japanese calligraphy teacher introduced him to it while improvising a kanji rendering of his name.
