Japanese Mastery
Free tools to take you from zero kana to JLPT N1. Structured, practical, built by someone learning alongside you.
Foundation + N5 — Live now
Master Hiragana and Katakana before anything else. Flash-card trainer with speed control, romaji toggle, and a full character reference. The essential first step.
Open tool → N5 · Reference · LiveAll 103 kanji, 172 vocabulary words, and 80 grammar patterns for the JLPT N5. Search, click to learn, mark as known. Track your progress as you go.
Open guide → N5 · Interactive · Liveは vs が vs に vs で vs を — particles are where most N5 students stumble. Pick the right particle for each sentence. Instant feedback, themed rounds.
Start drilling → N5 · Interactive · LiveJapanese word order (SOV) is the opposite of English. Tap words in the correct order to build sentences. Starts simple, gets progressively harder.
Start scramble → N5 · Interactive · LivePractice the 80 N5 grammar patterns through real sentence completion. Select a pattern, get 5 sentences to fill in. Drill until each pattern feels natural.
Start patterns →Reading Practice — Coming Soon
Books and articles where every word belongs to your level — nothing above, nothing wasted. N5 through N1, each passage built from its exact vocabulary list.
Short dialogues and simple stories. Only N5 words. Full furigana on every kanji.
Diary entries and graded articles using N5–N4 vocabulary. Furigana on N3+ kanji only.
Blog posts, news summaries, and short manga excerpts. Where real reading begins.
Newspaper articles and light novel passages. Native sentences, no hand-holding.
Literature, essays, and academic texts. Full native difficulty. The long game.
N4 → N1 — Coming
300 kanji, 1,500 vocab, intermediate grammar. The step most people skip — don't.
650 kanji, 3,750 vocab. Where casual conversation starts to click.
1,000 kanji, 6,000 vocab. University-level comprehension. The real target.
2,000 kanji, 10,000 vocab. Native-level fluency. The long game.