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How to learn, how to keep going, small bits of culture. Short reads that make the daily five minutes inside the app feel a little different.
Typical stumbles for beginners: mixing up wa and ga, ni and de; conjugation slips; and confusing honorific and humble keigo. See each mistake with a clear fix.
What changes when you move from N5 to N4: the entry points to the potential form, tara conditionals, nagara, the passive, and the causative, plus tips for keeping up your study. N4 is the level just after N5.
Learn how i-adjectives and na-adjectives differ, how they modify nouns, and how to form present, past, and negative endings, including the irregular ii to yokatta.
A compact summary of core N5 grammar: the particles wa, ga, o, ni, de; desu and masu; the tai form; te kudasai; arimasu and imasu; and inviting with masen ka. N5 is the most basic of the five JLPT levels.
Practical phrases for buying tickets, using Suica or PASMO, passing ticket gates, transferring lines, and understanding delay announcements. Ask station staff for help with confidence.
Getting sick abroad is stressful, and explaining how you feel is the hard part. The core pattern is simple — "X hurts" plus a small symptom vocabulary. Here are the words and phrases to describe what's wrong at a clinic or pharmacy.
The konbini is daily life in Japan, and its checkout runs on a fixed set of questions. Learn the four you'll hear every time, plus the one answer (大丈夫です) that confuses everyone, and you'll breeze through.
Honne is the inner feeling; tatemae is the public face. Understanding this everyday distinction helps learners hear the soft no, the polite maybe, and the kindness behind indirect Japanese.
Listening is the skill many learners avoid and then wish they had practiced. A patient, practical look at how to get familiar with the JLPT choukai section and natural spoken Japanese.
In Japanese conversation, the pause is not empty space to fill but a meaningful part of the message. A gentle introduction to ma — the silence between words — and how learners can grow comfortable with it.
The first 1,500 words carry most of daily Japanese. A calm, repeatable way to practice N5 and N4 vocabulary using grouping, spacing, and real sentences instead of endless lists.
In Japanese you don't count things with bare numbers — you attach a counter word that changes with what you're counting. Here are the numbers, the counters you'll actually use, the sound changes, and a survival shortcut for when you forget.
Japanese overflows with sound and mood words like doki-doki and pera-pera. A beginner-friendly tour of giongo and gitaigo, why they matter, and how to start enjoying them.
Public baths are one of Japan's great pleasures and a common source of first-timer nerves. A gentle, practical walkthrough of onsen and sento etiquette so you can relax instead of worrying.
Eating out in Japan follows a predictable sequence — being seated, ordering, eating, paying, leaving. Learn the phrase for each beat and you can walk into almost any restaurant with confidence.
Japan marks the year with greetings, foods, and festivals tied closely to the seasons. A warm tour of the annual rhythm, from New Year to summer matsuri to autumn leaves, with phrases to enjoy along the way.
The て-form is the master key of Japanese verbs. Get the conjugation rules down and you unlock requests, the progressive, permission, linking actions, and more. Here are the rules, the mnemonic, and the traps.
Telling time and reading dates comes up every single day in Japan. The system is regular except for a handful of irregular readings that you simply have to memorize. Here they are, front and center.
Every Japanese verb belongs to one of three groups. Once you can tell which group a verb is in, every conjugation — polite, negative, te-form, past — follows the same predictable rule. Here's how to sort them.
Short version: は marks the topic (what we're already talking about), が marks the subject (often new or being singled out). Here's how to actually feel the difference instead of memorizing rules.
Forget the 2,136 character chart on the wall. These are the kanji that cover 60-70% of what you'll read in daily Japanese — and the smart order to learn them.
Asking for help is one of the highest-stakes language moments — getting it wrong can sound demanding. Here are the phrases, registers, and small body moves that get you genuine help in Japan.
Why hiragana first, katakana second, and how to think about kanji once you arrive at it. The script question that derails more beginners than grammar.
Sonkeigo, kenjogo, teineigo — three tiers that scare every learner and confuse most beginner textbooks. Here's the practical model that gets you through 90% of real situations.
From the immigration officer to checking into your hotel, the convenience store, and the first restaurant — a walkthrough of the Japanese you'll actually use on your first 12 hours in the country.
Japanese has at least ten pronouns for "I", each carrying a different image of who you are. Why this matters more than grammar, and how to pick yours.
How to spend five honest minutes a day on Japanese — and why that beats the weekend cramming you keep promising yourself.
What the JLPT levels really mean for your day-to-day life in Japan, and how to plan the path from N5 to N3 without losing your weekends.
Five common etiquette mistakes that even fluent learners make in Japan — and what to do instead. None of these are deal-breakers, but getting them right makes everything smoother.
Why we made Learning JP, and what we believe about picking up Japanese — for travel, for work, for the conversations you haven't had yet.
Ikigai is often drawn as a four-circle diagram online, but in everyday Japanese it points to something quieter: a reason to get up in the morning. Here is the word as learners actually meet it.
The JLPT reading section (dokkai) is as much a time-management test as a Japanese test. A few habits — reading the question first, scanning for the answer's location — make the clock far less scary.
Kanji stop looking random once you see the building blocks inside them. Pairing those radicals with spaced repetition turns thousands of characters into a smaller set of recombined parts to play with.
Mottainai is the small exclamation Japanese speakers let out when something useful is about to be wasted. It is half regret, half respect for the thing itself. Here is how to feel it and use it.
Picking the wrong name suffix can sound too stiff or too familiar, so most learners are safest defaulting to san. Here is what each suffix signals and how people generally choose between them.