JLPT roadmap
Five levels, from N5 to N1
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How many kanji, how much vocabulary, how many study hours.
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Understand basic Japanese. Read short sentences written in hiragana, katakana and common kanji.
100 kanji · 800 vocabulary
Understand basic Japanese used in everyday situations, spoken slowly.
300 kanji · 1,500 vocabulary
Understand Japanese used in everyday situations to a certain degree. The bridge between N4 and N2.
650 kanji · 3,750 vocabulary
Understand Japanese used in everyday situations and in a variety of circumstances. The level most employers ask for.
1,000 kanji · 6,000 vocabulary
Understand Japanese used in a broad range of circumstances, including abstract writing and complex reasoning. The highest JLPT level.
2,000 kanji · 10,000 vocabulary
No machine translation. Each entry covers nuance, usage limits, and how it differs from patterns you might confuse it with.
Finish a lesson and its drills are waiting, each with an explanation of why the other options fail.
Simulates 問題1 fill-in-the-blank, 問題2 sentence ordering with the ★ slot, and 問題3 connectives in context.