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Japanese JLPT N5 · Part 2: Ready for the Exam

The second half of our JLPT N5 course, continuing from Part 1. Twenty-four lessons cover where things are, counting, comparisons, wants, the て-form, permission and rules, plain forms and casual speech, with about 360 more words and the other 40 N5 kanji. Every lesson has words, grammar, 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 N5 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 N5 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: There is, there are

Say what is where, using あります and います with position words.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Sara’s room 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 2 quiz 10 questions

3Lesson 26: Around town

Ask and give simple directions, and use question words with が and か.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: The way to the library 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 3 quiz 10 questions

4Lesson 27: Counting things

Count things, people and animals with the right counter, and ask how many.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: At the post office 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 4 quiz 10 questions

5Lesson 28: How long, how often

Talk about how long things take and how often you do them.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Kim’s week 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 5 quiz 10 questions

6Lesson 29: How was it?

Describe past events and experiences with past-tense adjectives and nouns.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Sara’s weekend trip 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 6 quiz 10 questions

7Lesson 30: Comparing

Compare two things and say which one is the most ~ in a group.

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

8Review 5: lessons 25–30

Review where things are, directions, counters, durations and frequency, past adjectives, and comparisons.

  1. Vocabulary review 30 min 🔒
  2. Grammar review 30 min 🔒
  3. Reading: Mike’s weekend in the mountains 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening test practice 20 min 🔒
  5. Practice 30 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 8 quiz 15 questions

9Lesson 31: Wants and plans

Say what you want, what you want to do, and where you are going and why.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Summer holiday plans 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 9 quiz 10 questions

10Lesson 32: Verb groups and the て-form

Sort verbs into three groups, make the て-form of any verb, and ask people to do things with ～て ください.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: A test in Tanaka-sensei's class 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 10 quiz 10 questions

11Lesson 33: Doing right now

Describe actions in progress with ～て います and offer help with ～ましょうか.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Getting ready for Kim's party 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 11 quiz 10 questions

12Lesson 34: States and appearance

Talk about where people live, what they know and do, and describe what they look like and wear.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: The party photo 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 12 quiz 10 questions

13Lesson 35: First this, then that

Describe a series of actions with the て-form and say what you do after something with ～て から.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Sara's day 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 13 quiz 10 questions

14Lesson 36: Permission and rules

Ask for and give permission with ～ても いいです, state rules with ～ては いけません, and talk about being ill.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: At the doctor's 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 14 quiz 10 questions

15Review 6: lessons 31–36

Review wants, the て-form and everything built on it: requests, actions in progress, states, sequences, permission and rules.

  1. Vocabulary review 30 min 🔒
  2. Grammar review 30 min 🔒
  3. Reading: Kim's Sunday 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening test practice 20 min 🔒
  5. Practice 30 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 15 quiz 15 questions

16Lesson 37: Dictionary and ない forms

Make the dictionary form and the ない-form of every verb, ask people not to do things, and say what you do before something.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: The day before the test 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 16 quiz 10 questions

17Lesson 38: Must and don't have to

Say what you must do and what you don't have to do, using the ない-form.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Before the school trip 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 17 quiz 10 questions

18Lesson 39: The た-form

Make the た-form of verbs, say what you do after something, and give examples of activities with ～たり ～たり します.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: What did you do at the weekend? 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 18 quiz 10 questions

19Lesson 40: Casual speech

Speak casually with friends and family using the plain forms of verbs, adjectives and nouns.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Kanji 20 min 🔒
  4. Reading: Friends and a teacher 15 min 🔒
  5. Listening 10 min 🔒
  6. Practice 20 min 🔒
  7. Chapter 19 quiz 10 questions

20Lesson 41: Describing nouns with sentences

Describe people and things by putting a whole sentence in front of a noun.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Reading: Kim's family photo 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening 10 min 🔒
  5. Practice 20 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 20 quiz 10 questions

21Lesson 42: When and while

Say when something happens with ～とき and do two things at once with ～ながら.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Reading: Mike: when I was a child 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening 10 min 🔒
  5. Practice 20 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 21 quiz 10 questions

22Review 7: lessons 37–42

Review plain verb forms, must / don't have to, before / after, casual speech, describing clauses, とき and ながら.

  1. Vocabulary review 30 min 🔒
  2. Grammar review 30 min 🔒
  3. Reading: Sara's diary 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening test practice 20 min 🔒
  5. Practice 30 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 22 quiz 15 questions

23Lesson 43: Probably

Make predictions with でしょう, understand a simple weather forecast, and check facts with でしょう？.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Reading: A day at the sea? 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening 10 min 🔒
  5. Practice 20 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 23 quiz 10 questions

24Lesson 44: Becoming

Describe changes with ～く なります and ～に なります, and talk about seasons, age and the future.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Reading: Almost a year in Japan 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening 10 min 🔒
  5. Practice 20 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 24 quiz 10 questions

25Lesson 45: Linking ideas and sentence endings

Use ね and よ to sound natural, link sentences with でも, だから, それから and そして, and say “but” casually with けど.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Reading: Next week's test 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening 10 min 🔒
  5. Practice 20 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 25 quiz 10 questions

26Lesson 46: Question words, complete set

Put all the question words together, including question word + か, question word + も, どうやって, なにで and なぜ.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Reading: A weekend in the mountains 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening 10 min 🔒
  5. Practice 20 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 26 quiz 10 questions

27Lesson 47: Everyday expressions

Use the set phrases people say at meals, when leaving and coming home, when visiting, in shops and on special days.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Reading: A birthday dinner 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening 10 min 🔒
  5. Practice 20 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 27 quiz 10 questions

28Lesson 48: Exam week: the JLPT N5

Learn how the JLPT N5 works, practise every question type, and check the grammar mistakes that cost the most points.

  1. Words 25 min 🔒
  2. Grammar 35 min 🔒
  3. Reading: Advice for exam day 15 min 🔒
  4. Listening 10 min 🔒
  5. Practice 20 min 🔒
  6. Chapter 28 quiz 10 questions

29Final review and mock exam

Review predictions, change, sentence endings, question words and set phrases, then take a full JLPT N5-style mock exam.

  1. Vocabulary review 30 min 🔒
  2. Grammar review 30 min 🔒
  3. Reading: My year of Japanese 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 N5 70 questions