Japanese from JLPT N5 to N1

Five levels, six worlds

• N5事件簿a detective agency, drawn in cel ink; Kuro, a black cat.67 lessons
• N4湯山館a hot-spring inn, printed like a woodblock; Taro, a Japanese dormouse.60 lessons
• N3明文堂a newspaper, cut as a line block on newsprint; Kenta, a pika.190 lessons
• N2中央報道局a broadcaster, lit like a colour television picture; Taro, a field mouse.180 lessons
• N1日本橋the central bank, a draughtsman's drawing; Natsume, a Japanese hare.150 lessons
• N1祇園a kaiseki guild, sumi on washi; Shinji, a raccoon dog.150 lessons

How a lesson runs

A lesson opens on its scene: a few lines of dialogue between the level's cast, in Japanese with furigana over each run of kanji and an English line beside each one. The new words in that dialogue become the lesson's cards, and a word is taught only in the lesson that first uses it; later lessons that use it again ask it again.

Then come the steps: read each card from its kana, choose its meaning, fill a gap in one of the dialogue's own sentences, match pairs, and put a sentence's words back in order. On a device that can speak Japanese, some questions are asked by ear. 復習, the review tab, asks again on a schedule: the questions missed first, then the cards that have waited longest.

Kanji are written by hand, stroke by stroke, in 書き取り, on the stroke order each kanji page shows. Each level has mock papers in the JLPT's own parts, vocabulary, grammar and reading, and listening, each part with the minutes the test gives it.

What is inside

• 事件簿Course

  One map a level. A lesson is a scene: read it, hear it line by line, then match its words, pick their reading, their meaning, fill a gap in the word's own sentence, and put a sentence's phrases in order.

• 資料室Kana & kanji

  Hiragana and katakana a row at a time, read and written; a dictionary of every word and kanji of the course, with stroke order; 書き取り, the kanji of each lesson's words written from what is heard.

• 手口Grammar

  433 grammar points by level and by what they do, each in the scenes that use it, with a gap question and a ★ ordering question in the JLPT's own style.

• 昇任試験Tests

  25 mock papers, 5 a level, in the JLPT's current format and timing; 復習, a review schedule of the cards, points and questions missed.

• 身分証Me

  Level, stamps, grammar met, learnt and mastered, mock paper marks by part, achievements, and whoever you have finished a scene with.

Price

• Full versionUS$9.99paid once

Everything is free. The full version removes the ads in the Android app. Progress stays on the device unless you sign in, which carries it to another device.

Every word, on a page

• JLPT N5 to N1: the five levels, their test format, words, grammar and kanji
• JLPT level test: five words a level, from N5 up
• JLPT N5: vocabulary, grammar, kanji
• JLPT N4: vocabulary, grammar, kanji
• JLPT N3: vocabulary, grammar, kanji
• JLPT N2: vocabulary, grammar, kanji
• JLPT N1: vocabulary, grammar, kanji