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Hello everyone, to anyone who takes the time to read this thank you!

I’ve been looking into some different japanese language schools and saw that if you don’t have n5, you have to essentially do an interview where you prove you know basic stuff like hiragana, katakana (some kanji maybe) and be able to have basic small talk style conversation skills.

I want to apply for the April intake (1 year program) and i am genuinely a beginner at japanese. Over the past couple of days I have memorized hiragana but that is all I know.

Do you guys think that I can study my japanese level up to a passable standard in a month when the interviews are conducted? I know it’s possible my interview could happen later than 1 month from now but I don’t want to take a risk by betting on that.

- I have no job and nothing but time to study
- I recently graduated my bachelors degree which was work at your own pace in a little under a year studying around 8 hours per day consistently and want to study this amount or more on japanese per day
- I have money to buy a certain course or materials that can help me.

Please let me know if applying for April intake is a bad idea and if you guys have any tips to prepare for the interview let me know, i am new to all of this any help is appreciated, thanks

hi! I’m a beginner and I’ve been taking japanese classes for a couple of months now. my japanese teacher is currently teaching the first book of mina no nihongo. for some reason the book is too much for me, the practices provided in the book aren’t enough for me and my teacher and I don’t click exactly, she doesn’t answer my questions or if she does, she answers rudely, and our class has become so stressful for me. I’ll appreciate it if you have any tips or worksheets for extra practice.

I'm a beginner (kana plus some N5 words) and I've started watching anime with Japanese subtitles. If I pause on every line to look things up, one episode takes forever and I stop enjoying it. If I just let it run, I barely catch anything.

For people who've been through this: - Did you pause and look things up, or just watch and absorb? - Did you rewatch the same episode, or keep moving to new ones? - At what point did it start to feel worth it?

Curious what actually helped and what turned out to be a waste of time.

I'm currently studying Kana on the renshuu app, and I've hit a bit of a snag when i comes to what i'd like to do to make my learning more efficient.

After having completed the Hiragana studies in app, I decided to move on to Katakana. The way I went about answering questions on the app so far was by removing the multiple choice options from the quizzes/reviews, and instead manually entering my answers. So if I was asked to translate the Romaji spelling for a Hiragana character, I would switch my phone's keyboard to Japanese and input the corresponding Hiragana. If I was asked to translate a Hiragana character, I would switch over to English keys and input the corresponding Romaji.

I thought this method was more efficient than doing the multiple choice thing, and so I wanted to try the same with the renshuu Katakana studies.

Unfortunately, I cant switch over to a dedicated Katakana keyboard on my phone. I would have to convert my Hiragana inputs into Katakana, if I want to manually enter questions that involve translating the Romaji spelling of a character.

I worry that this will cause me to associate the Katakana characters with Hiragana, and I dont know if that's the best idea.

What do you all think I should do?

Hello! As the title says, I am looking for a Japanese conversational partner!.. I am currently studying to learn and especially pass the N4 exam this december 2026, and I realized how badly I need to improve my Japanese output skills, and I want to work on this side of myself. I find it hard to communicate on hello talk It's been one year since I've downloaded this but I still don't have any friends who I can talk to in japanese😿 forgive my shyness.

More info about me⭐⭐:

Filipina🇵🇭

17-year-old girl

I like anime, music, games( mobile legends, roblox, minecraft) but I'm not good at it I just like playing.

Kinda busy with school but surely I can make time. 😁

I don't care what nationality as long as we share the same interest in getting better at Japanese 😁 and I highly prefer someone around my age☺️. Also, I’d highly prefer one-on-one messaging because I'm a bit shy and find group chats hard to keep up with. Thank you! ☺️☺️☺️

Hello everyone! I’m 20, a wheelchair user, and planning to take the JLPT N5 next July. I had a four-year study gap due to personal difficulties and accessibility issues at school, but I restarted high school in 2024 and am now working toward my goal of studying Fine Arts in Japan.

Because I currently have limited access to language schools, I’m preparing through self-study. I’ve started learning Kana and I’m now confused about how to begin vocabulary and grammar.

I’m thinking of using Genki + Irodori. Is this a good combination for N5? I’d really appreciate any simple guidance on where and how to start.

Hello everyone! I’m 20, a wheelchair user, and planning to take the JLPT N5 next July. I had a four-year study gap due to personal difficulties and accessibility issues at school, but I restarted high school in 2024 and am now working toward my goal of studying Fine Arts in Japan.

Because I currently have limited access to language schools, I’m preparing through self-study. I’ve started learning Kana and I’m now confused about how to begin vocabulary and grammar.

I’m thinking of using Genki + Irodori. Is this a good combination for N5? I’d really appreciate any simple guidance on where and how to start.

Imagine you only have 1hr a day of learning Japanese, how would you manage your time

How would you divide that hour between listening, reading, vocabulary, kanji, grammar and speaking?

If you also have work or school that's taking up much of your time, how would you manage everything so you don't get a burn out?

I'm on a very slow journey with Japanese, it must be said, but I've just got to a point in my [main] material where it's explaining how different things have different ways of being counted.

As soon as I saw that, of all things, long, cylindrical objects have their own way of being counted, I felt like walking out the room 😂

There's been a couple of moments like this, admittedly - I was just wondering if anyone else has had instances like this?

I’ll answer most things.

Does anyone know what Japanese book this is? It was my mom’s when she was learning Japanese. Sadly, the front and back covers are missing.

hey, i had a question. how do you guys stay consistent in learning the language?. ive been learning kanji off and on since febuary and i feel like i havent made it very far and things arent sticking all that well, i take sometimes a month long breaks/few weeks or even days off and on, i cant seem to stay consistent in learning my longest was a 21 days streak on anki but failed bci moved, now i cant seem to get the groove and stay consistent. any tips? or if anyone else has/had this problem?

I'm trying to understand why these sentences differ and which are grammatically correct or natural.

趣味

趣味は勉強です。

趣味が勉強です。

勉強が趣味です。

勉強は趣味です。

好き

好きは勉強です。

好きが勉強です。

勉強が好きです。

勉強は好きです。

名前

キムは名前です。

キムが名前です。

名前がキムです。

名前はキムです。

How do は and が affect meaning and emphasis? Why can some words change places while others cannot? Which sentences are incorrect, unnatural, or context-dependent, and why?

So I've been studying for almost 4 weeks now. I try to study everyday for 1 hour, but recently it's become 1-2 because I'm doing 2 anki decks (kaishi 1.5k and manabi 2.7k). I recently reduced the number of new words to 5 per deck. If it still gets too much after a couple of weeks, I plan on reducing it to a total of 5 new words across both decks.

I'm really struggling with Kanji, and I heard WaniKani is amazing for that. I know WaniKani can be expensive, but the first 3 levels are free. If I don't like I'll just go back to just anki then.

I also do 35-45 minutes (sometimes an hour) of genki. I'm on genki 1 and I try to do 1 lesson a week. Currently on lesson 3, and I think I should be able to finish it by Saturday, with review on Sunday.

So to split the time betwen Anki and WaniKani, I was thinking of doing 1 every other day. So one day Anki, the next WaniKani, the next Anki, etc.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Hi everyone!

I used to live in Japan and took JLPT 1 a few years ago. I now live in a different country but still go back to Japan multiple times a year. I have a lot of Japanese friends and feel like my conversational skills are pretty native like but my reading skills (kanji/vocab) have gone down since I stopped studying. It’s quite a hassle to read a book or anything too complicated so I often stay out of it. I have a full time job and a bunch of hobbies beyond that so it’s not always easy to study regularly.

For those of you who managed to improve beyond N1 what did you do? How do you incorporate it into your routine?

tried jpdb.io as a free alternative to wanikani, the way it shows kanji strokes is too confusing for me(sorry.)

also found tangochou but it just requires you to upload your decks so might as well just use anki.

Pretty much the title. I had heard a lot of really great things about jidoujisho and I was really excited to use it but it seems to have gone the way of the dodo. Are there any good alternatives? Maybe some good forks that people recommend?

When I am playing retro games in English, Gamefaqs and Neoseeker are my go-tos. However, I can't find their Japanese equivalent, and googling (in Japanese) doesn't bring me satisfactory results.
The game that I currently want a guide for is Tales of Eternia (テイルズ オブ エターニア), but I am also interested in playing more retro games in Japanese.

You may find Japanese words with the final n, most of them are chinese loanwords (on'yomi or sino-japanese)

漢字 kanji

千 sen

ご飯 gohan (go is native but han is a chinese loan)

睡眠 suimin

安全 anzen

天 ten

損 son

there are native Japanese words with final n but ones I found are all shortened forms of another word which does not contain a final n.

なにですか -> なんですか

さま -> さん ちゃん

あなた -> あんた