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Japanese JLPT N4 · Part 2: Ready for the Exam

The second half of our JLPT N4 course, continuing from Part 1. Twenty-four lessons cover ～ようだ / らしい, ～ために / ように, ～ことに する / なる, the passive, causative and causative-passive, polite keigo and business phone Japanese, and the final N4 points, with about 280 new words and about 75 new kanji. Every lesson has words, grammar, kanji, a reading, JLPT-style listening with audio, practice exercises with answers, practice questions on every page and a quiz, and a review chapter follows every six lessons. It ends with exam strategy and a full mock JLPT N4 with listening. Buy both parts together to save 20%. Listening audio voices: VOICEVOX:玄野武宏, VOICEVOX:春日部つむぎ, VOICEVOX:冥鳴ひまり.

What's inside

1Start here: how this part works and reference lists

Your study plan, the JLPT N4 exam, and the vocabulary, grammar and kanji lists.

  1. How this part works 10 min 🔒
  2. Vocabulary (by lesson) 5 min 🔒
  3. Vocabulary (あいうえお order) 5 min 🔒
  4. Sentence patterns 15 min 🔒
  5. Kanji list 5 min 🔒

2Lesson 25: It seems…

Make guesses from what you see, hear and smell with ～ようです / ～みたいです and ～らしい, and compare things with まるで ～の ようだ.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: となりの 人 (サラの ブログ) 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 2 quiz 10 questions

3Lesson 26: In order to

Say why you do things with ～ために (purpose and cause) and ～ように (so that), and talk about health and your body.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: 毎朝 ジョギング 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 3 quiz 10 questions

4Lesson 27: Doctor's orders

Talk about health habits and follow advice with ～ように する / ～ように して います / ～ように して ください.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: リーさんの メール 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 4 quiz 10 questions

5Lesson 28: It's been decided

Talk about decisions you make with ～ことに する, decisions made for you with ～ことに なる, and rules with ～ことに なって いる.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: おおさかへ てんきんします 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 5 quiz 10 questions

6Lesson 29: Do you know if…?

Ask and talk about what you know, remember or need to check with embedded questions (～か / ～か どうか), and review the nominaliser の.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: あしたの はっぴょう 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 6 quiz 10 questions

7Lesson 30: Even though…

Complain, show disappointment and talk about surprises with ～のに (even though), and say what something is useful for with ～のに (for).

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: ひどい 一週間 (マイクさんの 話) 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 7 quiz 10 questions

8Review 5: lessons 25–30

Review guessing with ようだ / みたいだ / らしい, purpose with ために and ように, ように する, decisions with ことに する / ことに なる, questions inside sentences, and the two uses of のに.

  1. Vocabulary review 30 min 🔒
  2. Grammar review 30 min 🔒
  3. Reading: サラさんの ブログ「新しい アパート」 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening test practice 20 min 🔒
  5. Practice 30 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 8 quiz 15 questions

9Lesson 31: Praised and scolded

Say what was done to you with the passive form: praised, scolded, invited, stepped on.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Mike's blog: a bad day, a good day 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 9 quiz 10 questions

10Lesson 32: Made in Japan

Describe how things are made, who made them and when, and complain about things that happened to you with the passive.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Glass from my town 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 10 quiz 10 questions

11Lesson 33: Making and letting

Say what someone made or let another person do with the causative form.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Lessons after school 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 11 quiz 10 questions

12Lesson 34: Let me do it

Ask for permission politely with ～させて ください and ～させて いただけませんか, and say what someone let you do with ～させて もらう.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: メール：来週の 水曜日の こと 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 12 quiz 10 questions

13Lesson 35: I was made to…

Say what you were made to do (and how you felt about it) with the causative-passive: 待たされる, 食べさせられる, させられる.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: ブログ：ぶかつの 思い出 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 13 quiz 10 questions

14Lesson 36: He wants to…

Talk about what other people want and feel with ～たがる and adjective + がる (寒がる, こわがる, いやがる).

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: 山田さんの 家の いぬ 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 14 quiz 10 questions

15Review 6: lessons 31–36

Review the passive (including the suffering passive and に よって), the causative and asking permission with ～させて, the causative-passive, and talking about other people's wishes and feelings with ～たがる and ～がる.

  1. Vocabulary review 30 min 🔒
  2. Grammar review 30 min 🔒
  3. Reading: リーさんの 作文：アルバイトの 一年 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening test practice 20 min 🔒
  5. Practice 30 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 15 quiz 15 questions

16Lesson 37: Honorific verbs

Show respect for other people's actions with special honorific verbs such as いらっしゃる, おっしゃる and めしあがる, and learn who gets keigo.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Sara's blog: keigo at my part-time job 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 16 quiz 10 questions

17Lesson 38: At the hotel

Make honorific forms of ordinary verbs with お～に なる and ～(ら)れる, and ask customers politely with お～ください, as hotel and shop staff do.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Checking in at a hotel 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 17 quiz 10 questions

18Lesson 39: Humble verbs

Lower your own actions politely with humble verbs such as まいる, いたす, もうす and うかがう, and offer help with お～する / ご～する.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: An email to Professor Tanaka 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 18 quiz 10 questions

19Lesson 40: On the phone at work

Handle business phone calls politely with でございます, set phone phrases and 以上・以下・以外・以内.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: 電話の でんごん 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 19 quiz 10 questions

20Lesson 41: Without doing

Say what you did without doing something (or instead of it) with ～ないで and ～ずに, and tell them apart from ～なくて.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: 森の 中の 池まで 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 20 quiz 10 questions

21Lesson 42: While, by, until

Talk about time spans and deadlines with ～間 / ～間に, ～まで / ～までに, and recognise ～うちに.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: サラさんの メール 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 21 quiz 10 questions

22Review 7: lessons 37–42

Review honorific and humble keigo, very polite phone language, 以上・以下・以外・いない, ～ないで / ～ずに, and the time words 間, まで / までに and うちに.

  1. Vocabulary review 30 min 🔒
  2. Grammar review 30 min 🔒
  3. Reading: マイクさんの ブログ：ホテルの アルバイト 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening test practice 20 min 🔒
  5. Practice 30 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 22 quiz 15 questions

23Lesson 43: Senses

Describe sounds, smells, tastes and feelings with ～が する, say what sometimes happens with ～ことが ある, and turn adjectives into nouns with ～さ.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: キムさんの ブログ「いなかの 夜」 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 23 quiz 10 questions

24Lesson 44: Start, keep, finish

Say when an action starts, continues and ends with compound verbs (V-stem + はじめる / だす / おわる / つづける), and review ～すぎる.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji review 15 min 🔒
  4. Reading: マイクさんの にっき 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 24 quiz 10 questions

25Lesson 45: Talking with friends

Sound natural with friends by using casual sentence endings (かな, っけ, よね, じゃない, でしょ, の) and spoken contractions (～てる, ～とく, ～ちゃ, ～ちゃう).

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji review 15 min 🔒
  4. Reading: あしたの パーティー 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 25 quiz 10 questions

26Lesson 46: Only, any

Complain about people who do nothing but one thing with ～ばかり and ～て ばかり いる, and say "anyone, anything, anytime, anywhere" with question word + でも.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji review 15 min 🔒
  4. Reading: 教えて、田中先生！ 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 26 quiz 10 questions

27Lesson 47: Notices and emails

Read and write notices and polite emails with the written だ / である style, ～に ついて, ～に よって and ～場合は.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji review 15 min 🔒
  4. Reading: スピーチ大会の お知らせと メール 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 27 quiz 10 questions

28Lesson 48: Exam week

Get ready for the JLPT N4: learn how the test is organised and scored, practise every question type, fix common mistakes and sharpen your listening.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji review 15 min 🔒
  4. Reading: 試験の 前の じゅぎょう 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 28 quiz 10 questions

29Final review and mock exam

Review the senses, compound verbs, casual endings, ばかり and でも words, and written style from lessons 43–48, then sit a full mock JLPT N4 test covering the whole course.

  1. Vocabulary review 30 min 🔒
  2. Grammar review 30 min 🔒
  3. Reading: マイクさんの ブログ「試験の 日」 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening test practice 20 min 🔒
  5. Practice 30 min 🔒
  6. About the final test 5 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 29 quiz 15 questions
  1. Final test: mock JLPT N4 110 questions