HIRAGANA
あ
a
Say the sound aloud, then continue when you’re ready.
YOUR JAPANESE STARTS HERE
A little Japanese,
every day.
Take it one sound, one word, one character at a time. You’re right where you need to be.
TODAY’S LITTLE WORD
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Learn characters to unlock a word.
Say it out loud
A few seconds of speaking helps a new word stick.
YOUR LEARNING PATH
Where would you like to begin?
YOUR NEXT LESSON
Start your first lesson
Begin with N5 · Lesson 01.
YOUR PROGRESS
Every step counts
Characters you’ve learned0 132
Keep going, at your own pace.✦
YOUR FIRST SCRIPT
Hiragana ひらがな
The soft, rounded script you’ll see in every Japanese sentence. Tap any character to mark it learned.
0 / 46basic characters learned
✦Start with the vowel sounds. Read each row from left to right: a · i · u · e · o.
THE WORLD IN JAPANESE
Katakana カタカナ
A sharper-looking script used for borrowed words, foreign names, and sound effects. Tap a character when it feels familiar.
0 / 46basic characters learned
✦You may already know a few! カメラ (kamera) means “camera.”
MEANING IN EVERY STROKE
Kanji 漢字
Characters that carry meaning. Start with familiar ideas like person, day, mountain, and water.
0 / 40characters learned
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One character can have several readings. Learn it inside a word and the reading starts to make sense.
WORDS FOR REAL LIFE
Little words,
big connections.
Explore everyday Japanese, grouped by the script you’re learning. Each word includes its reading and meaning.
A FEW USEFUL WORDS
Start with the essentials
JAPANESE LANGUAGE PROGRAM
Your Japanese
classroom.
Follow a guided path from your first characters to advanced reading. Study one lesson at a time, at your own pace.
5 progressive levelsSelf-paced lessonsPractice included
YOUR STUDY PLAN
Course curriculum
Choose a level to open its lesson materials.
LESSON 01 OF 12 · N5
Vowels, K & S sounds
LESSON MATERIALSStudy the characters in this lesson, then review level vocabulary
LESSON 01 CHARACTERS
Learn these characters
✦JLPT levels are curated study groupings. The JLPT does not publish fixed official vocabulary or kanji lists.
A MOMENT TO REMEMBER
Practice, gently.
Choose a JLPT level and practice only its learned characters or words made from characters you’ve learned.
CHOOSE JLPT LEVEL
CHOOSE WHAT TO PRACTICE
CHOOSE A SCRIPT
HIRAGANA · LEARNED ONLYCARD 001
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Mark characters as learned in a chart to start.
Type your answer, then check it.
✦ Words cycle endlessly through the words you’ve learned.
JLPT PRACTICE · INDIA
N5 Test Centre.
Sit a timed, original mock paper shaped around the JLPT N5 sections and question styles.
LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGEVocabulary~21 questions · 20 min
LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGEGrammar · Reading~22 questions · 40 min
LISTENINGListening~24 questions · 30 min
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The JLPT uses the same N5 section format across test locations. In India, registration and test-day details come from each local host. See official India test hosts ↗
PRACTICE PAPER · N5
Ready for the exam room?
This original 67-question mock follows the JLPT’s approximate section counts and N5 time limits. Real exam item counts can vary slightly by session.
Language Knowledge · VocabularyKanji reading, orthography, context and paraphrases
20 minLanguage Knowledge · Grammar / ReadingGrammar forms, sentence order, passages and information search
40 minListeningTask response, key points, expressions and quick response
30 minBefore you beginChoose one answer for each question. You can move within a section; once you submit it, you move forward. The official test is multiple choice, with four choices for most questions and three for some listening items. Listening here uses replayable browser text-to-speech, not official JLPT recordings.
Original practice questions, not an official or reproduced JLPT paper. The JLPT publishes approximate item counts and notes that actual counts can vary; this mock’s raw accuracy is not an official scaled score.