Yunvern Nihongo Starter — Free Japanese Self-Study for Beginners

A free, structured self-study path for English-speaking beginners learning Japanese, from kana through JLPT N5 grammar and into early N4 reading. Progress is saved locally in your browser.

Your learning path

• Getting Started (Pre-N5) — Understand how Japanese works — sentence order, particles, and sounds — before memorizing rules.
• Kana Foundations (Pre-N5) — Learn hiragana and katakana step by step, then read simple words without romaji.
• Survival Japanese (N5 Starter) — High-frequency phrases and beginner vocabulary for everyday situations.
• N5 Core Grammar (N5) — The grammar foundation needed for JLPT N5-level Japanese: particles, verbs, and sentence shapes.
• N5 Reading & Listening Builder (N5) — Build comprehension through short readings, simple dialogues, audio-style recognition, and N5-style tasks.
• N4 Bridge (N4 bridge) — Move from N5 polite sentences into early N4 grammar and more natural Japanese.
• Guided Graded Reading (N5/N4) — Build reading fluency with short level-controlled Japanese texts.
• N4 Grammar & Reading Expansion (N4) — Expand into core N4 grammar and longer beginner-intermediate reading.