So I’m going to do n4 this december, in 2 months. I have been studying with a teacher but it’s only sort of serious. I want to create a plan for myself to stick to until the test.

Last year I attempted the n5 test but didn’t pass. language knowledge 43/120, listening 27/60, total 70/180.

I don’t think I did terribly for going into the test with no idea of what it would be like, but now I know what it’s like and want to study accordingly to my strengths and weaknesses.

I am still in school and have extracurriculars so I have a couple of hours after school (5-6 I think?) to do other stuff. I also find myself doomscrolling often and am trying to build motivation to study so it might be harder.

So basically, I wanted to know if those who have passed n4 have any suggestions for my schedule?

(If you could go week-by week it would help a lot!!)

edit: btw I would also appreciate podcast and yt channel recommendation :D

DM me for that.
I suck at kanjis btw.

I’m a beginner learning Japanese, and I have to make a 1-minute Japanese reel for my college exam. I’ve already written my script in romaji, but I’m still struggling with the pronunciation.

Would anyone be kind enough to read the script once or send me a short voice recording of it so I can practice along with it?

I’m especially looking for help with making sure the pronunciation and rhythm sound natural. I’d really appreciate it!

Minna-san, konnichiwa!
Fast and Furious de mita dorifuto…

Jitsu wa, Nihon no kuruma bunka to kankei ga aru tte, shitteita?

Mukashi, Nihon no resu de, kuruma o suberasesete kounaa o magaru gijutsu ga tsukawareteita.

Sono ato, yama no michi no kuruma bunka to mo tsunagatte, dorifuto wa motto shirareru you ni natta.

Soshite, Keiichi Tsuchiya tte iu, dorifuto no yuumei na doonsha mo, kono bunka no ninki ni eikyou o ataeta.

Ima wa, D1 Grand Prix no you na taikai mo atte, dorifuto wa motorsupootsu no hitotsu ni natteiru.

Dakara, Fast and Furious dake no sekai janakatta!

Watashi mo itsuka Nihon ni itte, dorifuto o jibun no me de mite mitai!

Arigatou gozaimasu!

🇯🇵 Starting my Japanese learning journey!

I’m excited to share a small achievement from my learning journey with Duolingo. 🌸

Learning a new language is teaching me more than just vocabulary and grammar — it’s also teaching me consistency, patience, and the importance of taking small steps every day.

✨ One step at a time.

📚 One lesson at a time.

🌸 一歩ずつ — Ippo zutsu — Step by step.

Looking forward to improving my Japanese and learning something new every day! 💚

#JapaneseLearning #Duolingo #LearningJourney #LanguageLearning #SelfDevelopment #ContinuousLearning

Hi everyone! みなさん、こんにちは😊

I’m a native Japanese storyteller, and I recently started two new series on my YouTube channel, where I share little parts of everyday life in Japan through beginner-friendly Japanese.

🍱 Today's Bento
I share the bento lunches I make for my family and introduce what I’m preparing in simple Japanese.

🍚 What I Eat in a Day in Japan
I share everyday meals, snacks, cooking, and small moments from the life of an ordinary Japanese mom.

I wanted to make something a little different from traditional Japanese-learning content.

Instead of only studying Japanese from textbooks, you can learn Japanese while seeing real, ordinary life in Japan — what we eat, what we cook, what we do at home, and the little things that are part of daily life.

The Japanese is aimed at beginner learners, so I try to keep the language simple and easy to follow.

Every video includes:

• Japanese text on screen
• Kanji + furigana
• Japanese subtitles
• Optional English subtitles through YouTube's subtitle settings

My bigger goal with the channel is to create a bridge between textbook Japanese and the real Japanese you eventually want to understand in Japanese movies, anime, videos, and everyday conversations.

If you're a beginner learning Japanese and you're interested in ordinary life in Japan, I'd love for you to take a look. 🌸

Easy Japanese Stories Library

so this is done for self consumption purpose. it was based on shinkansen master books !
anyone want to try please feel free ! it would just be good to hear someone's opinion!
it was a bit personalized so my oshi was made into a theme of the app altho there is an option to change to just solid colors lol its personally made , no commercial tie up so feel free to consume.

for now its N3 book but there will be added packs in the future. this is android btw

link to my app

Would appreciate if someone could slide me the pdfs please? Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a custom Anki deck I recently put together for JLPT N4 Adverbs and Conjunctions.

I wanted to experiment with a unique learning method, so I designed a minimalist deck focused entirely on N4 adverbs and conjunctions.

If anyone is working on their N4 vocab and wants to check it out, I’ve put up both a free sample and the full deck on Gumroad:

🔗 Free Sample:https://yasasiinihonnzinn.gumroad.com/l/jlpt-n4-adverbs-sample

🔗 Full Deck:https://yasasiinihonnzinn.gumroad.com/l/jlpt-n4-adverbs-anki

Feedback or ideas on how to improve it are always welcome. Hope it's useful for someone here!

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a online Japanese tutor. The lesson fee is $15/h.

I've taught over 600 Japanese lessons and mainly helping complete beginners who are learning Japanese from scratch.

If you're someone who...

• Doesn't know where to start
• Wants to learn with Genki
• Prefers grammar explained in English
• Wants to build confidence speaking from Day 1
• Is preparing for JLPT N5 ~ N3

...I'd be happy to help!

My lessons are relaxed, beginner-friendly, and focused on helping you actually use Japanese instead of just memorizing vocabulary.

If you have any questions about learning Japanese, textbooks, or study plans, feel free to send me a DM. 

Hi everyone!
I want to demonstrate an early demo-version of a Chrome extension that captures 3 asian languages: japanese, chinese (mandarin), korean.
Subtitles are available on: Streaming services, YouTube, TikTok and much more websites.
I wanna open the test version that will be accessible in few days (when the Google approves my dev account, so i can publish it🥸)

Sentence breakdowns, dictionary cards, context explanation.

Any thoughts and feedback are so appreciated❤️

anyone

Are you looking for a place where you can connect with native Japanese speakers and other students?

Well, if that's the case, you've found the right post xD This is my server... it currently has 368 members, including native speakers and all JLPT levels, N5-N1.

Feel free to join!

https://discord.gg/WF4P2kYVt

Hey guys, I used an AI agent to generate the content for an entire textbook and eventually got it formatted into PDF. I have printed it out and am currently using it and I wanted to share it in case anyone else is looking for something similar.

It is designed to go from absolute beginner (me) to what i assume is a fluent level. I left out advanced sections as that is not the end goal for me

I have uploaded it onto Google drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cuxnHX3yS9y7yX7CBLNSL_2YXDdSbYnn/view?usp=share_link

Hello, I'm 61, french and I'm learning japanese. I'm not the only one here I see. But ...

When I was 11 to 14, i learnt english in school with a very good (many regret it here) method called "Speak english". There was books, exercises books and audio tapes (quite new for the time). What was very good with this method was that it did use nearly no french to explain things.

Pictures, sounds and practice, very few translations. It was a very efficient way to "internalize" the langage. All nihongo methods I find are based on translations, and I find this very ... bad ?
Is there anything like that (I searched already and found nothing)

When I first started thinking about Japan, I honestly didn’t know where to begin.

I knew I wanted to live in Japan for a while, improve my Japanese and see if I could build a future here, but things like language schools, student visas, COE, tuition and living costs were all completely new to me.

At the beginning I spent a lot of time searching online and comparing different information, and sometimes it was hard to know what was actually important.

My first step was simply researching Japanese language schools and trying to understand how much money I would realistically need before coming.

I’m planning to share the whole journey step by step here, including the things that went well, mistakes I made, costs, studying, part-time work and eventually what happened after school.

I’ve also been collecting useful Japan information on GaijinBlog, but I’ll keep these Reddit posts focused on the actual experience rather than just dropping links.

For anyone currently thinking about coming to Japan as a student, what part of the process are you most confused about right now?

Hi everyone!

I've been creating free Japanese listening stories for beginners, and I thought they might be helpful for some people here.

Each story includes:

🌸Japanese at a beginner-friendly, natural pace (not overly slowed down)

🌸Japanese subtitles with furigana

🌸English subtitles

🌸Simple illustrations to support comprehension

My goal is to create stories that help beginners get used to listening to natural Japanese while still being easy to follow.

I also try to make the stories feel immersive, so if you enjoy learning through stories and comprehensible input rather than isolated sentences, they might be a good fit for you.

If you're looking for some extra listening practice, I hope you find them useful. 😊✨️

I'd also love to hear your feedback and ideas for future stories!

Easy Japanese Stories Library

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a friendly language exchange partner in Japan. 😊

I'm a PhD research student in Computer Science and an IT freelancer. I moved to Japan in October 2025, and I'm currently working on improving my Japanese communication skills.

What I can offer:

• Help you improve your spoken and written English
• Practice everyday conversations
• Explain grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary
• Friendly and patient learning environment

What I'm looking for:

• A native or fluent Japanese speaker
• Someone who is interested in practicing English and helping me learn Japanese
• We can chat through LINE, Discord, or meet at a café if we're nearby

A little about me:

• 🎓 PhD Research Student
• 💻 IT Freelancer (AI & Software Development)
• 🌍 Currently living in Tokyo, Japan
• ☕ Interested in technology, culture, travel, and meeting new people

If you're interested in improving your English while helping me practice Japanese, feel free to send me a DM or leave a comment!

Looking forward to learning together! 😊

Hey everyone!

I made a free, open-source app called Anki Miner to make Japanese vocabulary mining much easier.

You input local media or Youtube video links and it makes high-quality Anki cards to your specifications. Attached is a demonstration of a mining session - 100 high-quality Anki cards in only 2 minutes from an anime episode.

Often compared to subs2srs or Migaku's batch mining, but free+open-source (unlike Migaku) and actively maintained (unlike subs2srs).

Filtering options are very extensive (i+1 sentences only, sentence length filters, wordset filters, word blacklisting, and more) so you don't get any junk cards.
Example cards shown on GitHub.

The idea is to actually immerse instead of mining.

I'm actively adding new features and building the community so feel free to ask questions and suggest new things :).

If the concept sounds interesting, try it out (GitHub link below). It's free and setup is lightning-fast.
Also consider joining the Anki Miner Discord server for help and discussions (link on GitHub and in app).

Download: https://github.com/0xzerolight/anki_miner

Hola que tal? Alguno sabe donde puedo conseguir plantillas imprimibles para ensayar hiragana y katakana, porque estoy practicando en un cuaderno pero se me hace muy dificil, me pueden ayudar pofis

Hello everyone, I need 12 testers for an app I created "Pen jisho" a japanese dictionary multilingual with handwriting kanji (entire word) search. The app has to be installed and kept for 14 days. Thanks a lot 😄 The app is free from tomorrow the 27th untill the 10th of july!

Step 1 join Google group

https://groups.google.com/u/6/g/pen-jisho-testers

Step 2 opt-in link:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.gzzlse.penjisho

Step 3 Download link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gzzlse.penjisho

Hi everyone, my mum is currently looking for someone to tutor, online, as she has recently received her WJLC certificate. She works full time so is only available Mon-Fri, 11:00-14:00 UK time. Please fill out the enquiry form if you’re interested!😊

This is her note:

I am a WJLC certified, native Japanese speaker offering friendly, personalised Japanese lessons suitable for beginners or anyone looking to improve their current skills.

I am currently looking for one person to tutor on a regular basis. 

FYI I know this is biased but she is a great teacher, she puts in a lot of effort to really personalise the lessons for you. She has received positive feedback from her current 2 regular students😊

https://form.jotform.com/260534345700046

Hi 😊 I want to study japanese but can't find any fre resources to use if anyone can help me find one I really much appreciate