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?
A STEP-BY-STEP COURSE
From first kana to JLPT N1
Follow seven open stages: foundations, beginner Japanese, then N5 through N1. Progress tracks learned items and practice completed.
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 WORD REVIEW
Keep new words fresh
Missed words will return in later lessons and your review queue.
YOUR STUDY PLAN TODAY
A focused session, at your pace
Reviews first, then the next small piece of your course.
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.”
SOUND · SPELLING · RHYTHM
Kana sound rules.
Learn the small marks, combinations, and timing patterns that turn kana into natural Japanese sounds. Listen to examples and check your understanding as you go.
QUICK CHECK
Try one question
Loading a kana sound question…
MEANING IN EVERY STROKE
Kanji 漢字
Study common kanji inside real words, then search readings, meanings, and stroke references from the Jōyō set.
0 / 1,814characters learned
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One character can have several readings. Learn it inside a word and the reading starts to make sense.
JLPT VOCABULARY LIBRARY
Words for every
level.
Browse the N5–N1 study lists by script, or search spelling, reading, romaji, meaning, and common Japanese conjugations.
A FEW USEFUL WORDS
Start with the essentials
SEARCHABLE GRAMMAR REFERENCE
Grammar, made clear.
Look up a pattern, see why it works, then try a short question. The current reference is a curated starter set, not yet a complete N5–N1 grammar catalogue.
READ · LISTEN · BUILD
Japanese in context.
Build sentences with the curated prompts, or browse thousands of attributed examples from the vocabulary library. A source example’s level describes its keyword estimate, not sentence difficulty.
SENTENCE BUILDER
Put the sentence together
Build the Japanese sentence for the English prompt.
Choose the pieces in order
READING COMPREHENSION
Read a little further.
Short original passages with questions from N5 through N1. Try the questions before opening the translation.
Show translation
Original study passages. Furigana and browser Japanese text-to-speech are provided where available; speech voice quality depends on your device.
YOUR LEARNING DASHBOARD
Your progress, in view.
A snapshot of learning actions you completed, words waiting for review, and a clear next step.
A SMALL, REALISTIC TARGET
Today’s study goal
Completed learning actions count here—opening a page does not.
YOUR PERSONAL DICTIONARY
Saved words
LAST SEVEN DAYS
Learning activity
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
✦Vocabulary: OpenJLPT community list, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The JLPT does not publish fixed official wordlists, so level labels are estimates—not a guarantee of every word needed to pass.
JLPT WORD CLASSROOM
Learn every word,
one lesson at a time.
Choose a level, study short word lessons, and learn each word with its reading, meaning, and an example sentence when available.
SPACED REVIEW
Bring difficult words back
Missed words return in later lessons. Review answers are saved on this device and, after the database update, across signed-in devices.
LESSON 01
Words 001–025
Build your vocabulary one word at a time.
N5
Word 1 of 25 · 0 learned
WORD 01✓ LEARNED
会う
あう
au
to meet
✦The level lists are community estimates, not official pass checklists. Example sentences link to their Tatoeba sources when available. Vocabulary data: OpenJLPT under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
JAPANESE SPEAKING PRACTICE
Say it out loud.
Meet your speaking partner. Read a character or word, say it in Japanese, and get a spoken example if you need one.
JLPT LEVEL
PRACTICE WITH
YOUR SPEAKING PARTNER
READY WHEN YOU AREOne prompt at a time
あ
Say this character’s sound in Japanese.
No sound from the speaker?
Turn up your phone’s media volume. If it stays silent, install and select a Japanese text-to-speech voice in your device’s speech settings, then reload this page and try again. The speaker uses the voices available on your device.
Your browser listens in Japanese. Short sounds can be tricky to recognize, so you can retry or hear the example.
OPTIONAL · FOR RETURNING LEARNERS
Find your starting point.
Try 15 short questions across vocabulary, grammar, and reading. This is a site-made guide, not an official JLPT score.
A quick check, at your pace
Questions move from N5 to N1. You can skip anything unfamiliar, and your answers are used only to suggest where to begin.
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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Official section names and time limits follow the selected JLPT level. In India, registration and test-day details come from each local host. See official India test hosts ↗
CHOOSE A PRACTICE LEVEL
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.