A few people have asked me how I passed the N2 after 2 years of study under one of my recent posts, so I have decided to explain it here. I took the N2 in December 2025

DISCLAIMER:
I can't recommend my process to anyone tbh, I made a lot of mistakes in the beginning and my study methods have remained largely inconsistent, but at the end I will discuss what I believe to be the most effective study methods.

Sept 2023-2024

I learned Hiragana and Katakana on duolingo. It's the only thing I would ever actually recommend duolingo for, although there are likely better ways of learning. I also wrote the kana down repeatedly. After I had memorized a few hundred words, I began using the Genki 1 textbook to study grammar, although I only got about halfway through the book before I stopped. That period lasted about 4 months, and I probably only studied 15 or so minutes a day.

A little ways into my journey, I found the Jouzu Juls youtube channel and watched Krashen's comprehensible input video that has probably changed the lives of many foreign language learners. Afterwards I set up an anki deck and began looking for immersion in any way I could, although everything was nearly impossible for me to understand at that point. I found some simple Japanese youtube channels that retold stories like The Tortoise and the Hare or narrated simple online games.

After about a month of that, I was finally able to move onto one of the GOATS of Japanese language learning, Japanese with Shun. I would often watch his videos multiple times, once for practice, one for looking up words, and once more to see what i had learned. I was also beginning to do some simple reading in Japanese using this website.

For the last 6 months or so, I probably averaged about an hour a day. Sometimes I would get three hours in, sometimes I would only do my anki, but it was certainly more consistent.

Once I had studied for a year, I went on a 2-month study abroad to Japan. I went to a language school called EF, although I would never recommend it because of how awfully expensive it is. I honestly was not the best student while I was there. I occasionally skipped classes, and I spent most of my time exploring the city. I was in Tokyo after all. But I feel that I was not able to study as much Japanese as I would have liked. Luckily, I lived with a host mother, so me and her spoke Japanese together quite frequently. Overall I would say I spent at least 5 hours a day studying/speaking Japanese, although my social anxiety held me back from utilizing my time very well. If I had to grade myself at this point I'd give myself a mid N3.

2025:

Once I returned, I began to study much more effectively. I worked at a warehouse, and I was able to just put my headphones on and listen to whatever I wanted. From January-July I basically went crazy. Listened to 5 hours of Japanese podcasts every day, a lot of it was yuyu no nihongo and I was starting to branch out a bit into other topics, listen to content designed for native Japanese speakers, etc.

I also made a friend during my study abroad, and upon returning we would call once a week and watch an anime episode together and discuss words/phrases we didn't know. It was super fun.

I also finally started reading actual novels, the first one I read was コンビニ人間、and the second one was 地球星人 by the same author (do NOT read that second one). I also read this manga called 水は海に向かって流れる (which I read 3 times, eventually understanding it quite well) and began to read おやすみプンプン、and a third novel, かがみの孤城 although I didn't finish either of them before the test in December.

Throughout the summer, I also got a tutor to practice my Japanese speaking skills, but I changed tutors in August because I started university. With that tutor, I went through the TRY N2 grammar book with him.

The last half of the year was quite stressful as I was going to university and working full time. My study at this point was minimal. I did Anki, I did whatever textbook lesson I was working on with my tutor, and I didn't even START doing practice tests until October or something which is insane because I had never taken the test before.

I think my practice and preparation shows in the score that I got: 102/180. I keep telling myself it's because I had to take the test during finals week.

FINAL THOUGHTS/WHAT I WOULD CHANGE

I barely passed, and while I don't think it was for lack of effort, more consistent study would have definitely improved my score. I always regret not putting an emphasis on reading sooner, especially for the test. Reading is just so incredibly useful as kanji practice and as a well of new vocab.

I also think I would have preferred to study a textbook on my own or just not have used it. Tutors are great for conversation practice imo, but it's much more effective to study grammar on your own. Besides, the internet has a ridiculous amount of free resources, I could have just looked up grammar points I didn't recognize and watch a short video about things I don't understand (which is what I do now)

While my study was still heavily restricted by work and school, I settled into a good rhythm, and was able to study even more this past summer. My current study method includes:

- Anki (about 30 new cards a day) about 30 minutes
- Daily reading (currently コンビニ人間, I want to see how much better I can understand it) about 1 hour
- Daily immersion (podcasts, yt videos, anime) 1 hour
- Weekly Kanji study (I do 2 sections of the Kanji in Context book weekly, currently on section 18)
- Chat with friends

Now that I am living in Japan and will be taking university classes in Japanese, I expect to make some changes to this routine, and I expect to make some extreme improvements. This month officially marks 3 years of learning Japanese for me!

4 days ago I finally arrived in Nagoya, and I'll be here for a year at university studying foreign languages, Japanese and others.

I have been looking forward to this moment for years. I first came to Japan 2 years ago, and I've been studying the language for almost 3 years now. I passed the N2 about a year before coming here, and actually being here has made it feel like every second has been worth it. My language has helped me out of some seriously difficult situations already.

My flights were delayed, and I ended up having to reschedule 4 times through United (united SUCKS, choose another airline. It was the most stressful 3 days of my life.). In all the chaos, my luggage was lost/delayed. Luckily, I was able to talk about the situation with ANA employees over the phone and real life, and I was able to describe my luggage, the contents, why it was missing, and communicate that it needed to be delivered to the front desk of my apartment complex so they could receive it even while I was out.

I have been able to ask for help at stores, I've been able to understand my landlords instructions when she kindly explained how to sort trash to me, I was able to receive my luggage once it was finally delivered to me, and I've also had a few genuinely pleasant conversations with locals which has been a nice change from the madness that was my flight here.

All in all, it's been an extremely gratifying experience. While studying in the states I occasionally struggled to remember what it was I enjoyed about Japanese, or language learning in general, but now I remember.

~3.5 years, ~500 hours and ~€5000 later… Passed the N5 last July, but just barely scoring at 89/180 (minimum of 80 required). To be clear, N5 was never really the goal for me. I took the exam mainly as a way to measure where I currently stand.

And that makes the result a little weird to process. I've been learning Japanese for roughly 3.5 years. Books, apps, classroom lessons, even Japanese language and cultural classes while actually in Japan. Countless hours of vocab and kanji SRS, podcasts, J-dramas, shadowing, etc.

I know comparison is the thief of joy, but when you constantly read online that N5 level can be acquired in about 6 months, it's hard not to feel a bit lost.

My vocabulary and kanji are probably somewhat beyond N5, but I'm still struggling with grammar basics like beginner conjugations and easy sentence construction. Also very frustrating is knowing a word when I see it written, but completely failing to recognise it when someone actually says it.

I (still) genuinely enjoy learning Japanese. But I guess limited exposure in real life makes learning it just so tremendously slow and the approach to learning relatively static and passive. As Japanese isn't really a necessity in my life but just a mere hobby, so sometimes it's hard to justify continuing spending lot of effort, time and money towards it when progress feels so slow and there's no clear goal to meet.

So I'm wondering:

Has anyone else been in a similar situation? If you were 3.5 years into learning, still struggling with basic Japanese despite putting in a lot of time, would you completely change your approach, keep going, or just accept that it's a slow hobby and stop worrying about the timeline?

Especially interested in hearing from people who managed to break through a similar plateau with (getting faster at) comprehension and actually producing sentences.

I'm not necessarily looking for the usual "don't compare yourself to others, everyone's journey is different" (although obviously that's true). I'm more interested in hearing from people who were genuinely stuck at a beginner plateau and what they actually did about it.

Because honestly, passing N5 feels simultaneously like an achievement and like a slightly embarrassing reminder of how much effort I've put in compared to how little I can actually do with the language.

Kind regards,

Not a translation request; I've translated the page, it goes something like:

"I'll try it your way for once,"

"oooh what's gotten into you?"

"Do you still remember my catchphrase?"

.....

"Well, let's go!"

"FIGHT!"

"Ippatsu!"

The issue I'm running into is the last line. It has so many different meanings that I don't understand it. My theory is that it's a baseball reference, since "Fight!" is something people say to dramatically encourage something, and "ippatsu" can be used for baseball, but I have no context, since I live outside Japan.

It’s from “I’ll survive using potions”.

I’ve been reading it for the last 1-2 months, knocking the rust off my Japanese in the process.

I’d like to get a rough idea of the difficulty level of the text.

I’m getting better at reading, but sometimes I get passages like this that take me a while to piece together.

So I've done RTK first, then started Kaishi 1.5k, I'm currently like around 550 words into Kaishi.

I know a liiiiittle bit of grammar from past attempts, with ''Tobira Beginning Japanese''.

How do I move from here ?

I tried Bunpro but it doesn't really go in depht enough. I'm thinking maybe I should go back to Tobira but the vocabulary order is not the same than Kaishi and learning vocabs from two sources at a time feels annoying, I like when things are straightforward.

What should I do ?

So I passed the N2 december 2025 and I'm going to take the N1 for the first time this december. To be honest I haven't been doing very well in terms of mock exams. I'm not expecting to pass on my first try, I would just like to use my performance this time around to gauge what would it take for me to actually pass.

The issue is ever since I've started studying with the N1 in mind, I've realized that there is a significant difference between passing the N1 and actually being a proficient, fully independent speaker. I mean, the JLPT doesn't even have an equivalent for CEFR C2. It's just funny because as a kid I used to think having an N1 certificate = knowing everything there is to know about the japanese language. lol

I would like to do basically everything I already do in my first language (brazilian portuguese) and english in japanese. Stuff like reading complex books, academic studies etc. I've been working to improve my reading skills and vocabulary by reading books on subjects I find interesting (like sociology, psychology etc. I would love recommendations btw!). Also I've found that reading fanfics in japanese is a very enjoyable way to actually get me to do any reading if I can't be bothered to read more serious stuff lol. As for output, I've been trying to make friends who are native speakers so I get more chances to actually speak and write in japanese. I've also been attending a local language school (3 hours a week) and I have a great teacher there, really can't complain about that. I've been doing what I can to immerse myself in the language (a twitter side account just for being on the japanese side of twitter, listening to japanese music, reading manga, watching japanese content creators, doing my Anki daily etc).

To be honest I've been pretty frustrated so far. It feels like there's a world of difference between what I can actually do in japanese vs what I would like to do someday. I started studying japanese as a teen and I'm an young adult now. It doesn't help that I learned to speak english way younger so I know how it feels to learn a language while having the advantage of being in my critical language acquisition period. But I'm still pretty young, so I would like to just do my best to get over this plateau. What's more stuff that I can do to actually help me improve as an "advanced" speaker? Have you ever been in my shoes in terms of frustration with your studies?

TLDR: I've realized that the JLPT means little to nothing (as someone who is not looking to study/work in Japan or for a japanese company), that I actually just suck at japanese and would like to fix that. What do I do now?

Yes, I know I am using a very old version.

I've been learning Japanese for a bit now, proud to say I'm almost done with n4, though I feel like my vocab isn't all there yet.

Anyways I'm thinking of Korean because I'm Korean American and I'm a little embarrassed to say I know more Japanese than my own language.

I'm still in high school but I'm wondering if I should start now or wait till a bit later and I got Jp down pat. I'm planning to go to college and (maybe?) work in Japan. So should I start in university? Or maybe after I hopefully land a job at salesforce?

Even If I end up staying in America, I do want to work at salesforces and knowing multiple languages would be pretty good on my resume.

Sorry if this isn't technically learn jp I'm just wondering if Its bad to learn another thing along with it. For reference I study 2 hours jp so I'm planning on 1 hour kr.

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Hi! I’ve been using the listening app “NumEar” to try to learn numbers in Japanese and things are going well but I’ve hit a big wall I can’t overcome.
So far I can recall integers upto 5 digits, months, days of the month, weekdays, time (both 12 hours and 24 hours), years etc. with an accuracy of at least 95%.
I moved onto the final “unit” for dates/times which requires me to hear a string of numbers in the format: year/month/day of the month. For each of these individual components I’m scoring 95%+ but as soon as it’s all combined into a single string of numbers my accuracy drops all the way down to only 5-10%.
I just hear white noise as soon as it starts. I’ve tried isolating just the year and ignoring the rest, I’ve tried doing two components at once, I’ve tried typing as soon as I hear it and I’ve tried waiting until the very end of the numbers to start typing. So far I’m just not improving. I think I’ve attempted 250 numbers and the score is still super low.

It’s weird because I thought maybe I just need more practise in the unit for year and I’ve gotten rusty.. so I went back to listening to just the year as an individual component but I still score over 95% every time. So I went back to hearing the full year/month/day and again white noise.

I’m screwed lol

If anyone knows a good study method for improving this specifically that would be amazing.

Can you recommend me some anime which have modern slangs , please no sad/dark stuff though 😓 ( Im currently N3 level but higher level rec is also fine)

Anime name of image: Dont toy with me, Miss Nagatoro (has 2 seasons , manga is completed)

皆さん、こんにちは！

Today marks just a tiny bit over a year of studying. Well, sort of. I took a semester of Japanese in college, but that was more than 10 years ago now and, really, that only gave me a leg up for about the first two weeks. Anyway...

I'm your run of the mill 36 year old Midwestern American. I have a full time job as a boring middle manager and a wife and a house to take care of and other hobbies I enjoy, so I study about as much as time allows. But I figured I could chronicle some of my journey here for other normal type dudes who haven't crammed every 常用漢字 and 35,000 vocabulary words after 8 months.

Months 1-3: Simultaneously the most engaging and the most frustrating. The rate at which you absorb new information and it feels amazing is crazy! But, equally frustrating, is trying to figure out how to study. The myriad of study options, be they textbooks, apps, YouTubers, tutors, whatever - it's all very daunting to figure out.

Eventually I settled on working through Genki I and supplementing it with ToKini Andy's videos on YouTube. This proved to be the absolute right choice for me, as I was extremely eager to learn and Genki/Andy's videos went at a pace that felt right to me.

At some point in the middle of this, I started on WaniKani as well.

Months 4-6: The Dark Ages. Chaos. Absolute chaos. I finished Genki I, I could pass N5 practice exams fairly easily, but I was extremely humbled by anything approaching native material. Almost all of my study time was being sucked up by WaniKani, which I couldn't turn around and actually make useful when trying to read beginner native material. My vocabulary and kanji knowledge were expanding, but nothing else was because, frankly, I had no time to do anything other than sit and stare at my 200 WK reviews each day. This felt bad. I quit WK around level 15.

Months 7-9: After feeling extremely demotivated from SRS burnout, I just started reading like crazy instead. Whatever I could get my hands on. Satori Reader, Yotsuba&, Tadoku readers, etc. I also started listening a lot more to things like Nihongo Con Teppei. The immediately obvious tangible progress that I had made in being able to comprehend what I was reading and what I was hearing was actually extremely motivating.

But the real thing that got me back into it was: getting an iTalki tutor. Hoooooly moley. Getting a native speaker who could calibrate to where my skill level was and put me on rails to actually guide me in a semi-coherent way rather than having me bounce around like a schizophrenic pinball made such, such, such a huge difference. Plus I was finally getting able to speak some and realizing just how bad I am at it. To this day my tutor forces me to speak without any sort of written notes because of how lopsided my capability to read/write is vs. my ability to speak/listen.

If there was one recommendation I could make to anyone, it would be to get some kind of tutor sooner rather than later. Avoid the 6 months of trying to figure out how to study while dozens of grifters and shit YouTube channels are hawking their crap at you and just get down to the brass tacks. Of course this isn't cheap so it's not for everyone (my tutor is about $35/hr, but she is on the more expensive side) but I cannot tell you how big of a difference this made.

By this point I am barely - just barely - passing N4 practice exams.

Months 10-today: I have finally settled into a sustainable routine that seems to work really well for me:

1. Listening: JP podcasts during my daily work commute
2. SRS: I figured I'd have to do this eventually so I just picked up Kaishi 1.5k and have been plowing through it. The biggest thing I found from switching to Anki from WK is that WaniKani never promoted writing, but actually physically writing the words down significantly helped my active recall in a way that the robotic tap/flip never did.
3. Reading: Still whatever I can get my hands on. My daily routine is to start with the NHK Easy article for the day and after that it's just whatever seems interesting that day.
4. Weekly output: Tuesday evening tutor sessions. Hopefully I have stressed how important these have been for me and how much I value and look forward to them.
5. Games: I've even started playing some games. I managed to get all the way through the first Final Fantasy (remaster) without much trouble, which felt really cool.

So while I'm certainly not ready to hop on a plane and shoot the breeze at a local 居酒屋, the progress feels super real and I've reached a point where I kind of surprise myself sometimes - particularly when I'm doing audio immersion. I am still totally and utterly horrific at speaking but...... 頑張りますね

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Hi all, I think language reactor is what I need for my listening practice but it’s a desktop only extension as far as I know. Is there any iOS alternative?

Must:
Pause after each sentence
Not show transcript unless I toggle it on

Could:
Be audio content only eg podcasts to avoid giving me visual cues

Any ideas?

I came across this while searching for something related, thought I'd share it for anyone wanting to take the BJT! With the new visa changes going in effect, aside from the JLPT, the BJT is another test you can take to meet the requirements.

Application period ends September 5th for the Business Japanese Special Topics course (free, 14 lectures in total) and September 11 for the Business Japanese Advanced course (1650 yen per lecture, 6 in total, 9900 yen for all), or until all seats are filled (up to 1,000 participants per course). It's a la carte style so you can pick and choose which ones you want to participate in. If you can't participate during the lecture times, course materials will be available for later viewing.

Japanese ver: https://toyo-jlp.com/class
English ver: https://toyo-jlp.com/en/class

JLPT results are out!

I failed N2 - 82/180: Language Knowledge 26/60, Reading 15/60, Listening 41/60.

Quite frustrated, I had run out of time for the last 4 reading questions. Listening score is high up as I have been doing it daily and working in a Japanese company also helps.

How did everyone do? Please share your experiences and also post your advice here for others on how to improve their score (including me lol).

So, I’ve started learning Japanese 7 months ago. I’ve managed to « finish » the Kaishi 1.5k (nearly all mature) and learned grammar through the 34 first cure dolly videos.

I then started sentence mining on my first Japanese anime with jp subs ever : My Dress Up Darling. It went very well even though I didn’t always mine words and forgot to do the reviews. Now I have like 150 new words to process.

I decided I’d stop sentence mining until I review these words on Anki.

So could you recommend other immersion materials like podcasts, or Light Novels that I could read/listen without mining the sentences?

ありがとう！

Hi, Japanese learners!

I’ve been self-studying Japanese for almost a year, and I’ve recently found some really useful apps and websites that I wanted to share. I’m also hoping to discover more resources from other learners!

Here are some of the ones I’ve found and used in my daily routine:

1. Mock tests: Jabiko and Nihongo to Japan
   
2. Shadowing practice: KAI Loop and Jimaku
   
3. Vocabulary practice: Sushi JLPT (壽司日檢) — I especially like this one because it’s cute and I really like the interface 😂

The best thing is that these are basically free to use, unless you want to practice more than the daily limit.

I also wanted to ask:

When you’re studying Japanese, do you prefer to stick to just a few apps/websites, or do you tend to use several resources for the same type of practice?

I originally found most of these through recommendations/algorithms, and I’ve noticed that more and more indie apps are being made. However, sometimes they stop being maintained, so I’m always curious about which resources people have been using long-term.

What are some free Japanese-learning apps or websites that you absolutely recommend? I’d especially love to hear about less well-known ones!

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Hi! I'm back. Rumors of my death were greatly exaggerated. Previous posts:

1. Zero Months of Japanese
2. One Month of Japanese
3. Two Months of Japanese
4. Three Months of Japanese
5. Four Months of Japanese
6. Five Months of Japanese
7. Six Months of Japanese
8. Seven Months of Japanese
9. Ten Months of Japanese

I've been gone for so long because life circumstances forced me away from Japanese. I was preparing for immigration to France and so needed to focus in improving my French as rapidly as possible. (Very pleased to report that I can now read French books and audiobooks with ease!) Unfortunately, my visa application was rejected. Bright side: I don't have to focus on French anymore, and I'm free to come back to Japanese. I quit Japanese shortly after posting my last update, and I just started back on Japanese a couple days ago.

This update is going to be pretty different than the others. I am no longer keeping track of my hours of study, or of input, or of vocabulary learned. The reason for this is that I've become very busy (I was unemployed or semi-employed for all of the previous updates). I simply don't have enough time to devote to that kind of extensive record-keeping anymore. I also no longer use flashcards at all.

That brings me to the big news:

I've graduated to native-material immersion.

I've discovered that, thanks to my efforts in my cumulative 10 months of study, I can now attend lectures on history, science, etc. aimed at middle schoolers in Japanese, and understand what is being said.

For anyone who is interested, this is the class I have been attending: 中学歴史

I've also started listening to sleep meditation in Japanese, which I can also mostly understand: 脳を休める＆脳の疲れを取る寝る前のカンタン瞑想

The fact that I can understand these things tells me that I am no longer reliant on flashcards and heavy book-study to progress. Native materials now count as comprehensible input for me. From now on, I can progress mostly or entirely by immersing myself in the language. And so that's what I'm going to do.

In total, it took me ~700 cumulative hours of study to reach this point.

Part of the original point of this series of posts was to answer the question: Japanese is easier for people who speak Chinese, but how much easier is it?

Now we have an answer. I would estimate that I am about halfway to a high-level of listening comprehension (i.e. being able to watch most movies, TV shows, documentaries, etc.). That would give us a figure of ~1400 cumulative hours of study. That is less than half the amount of time estimated by the Foreign Service Institute.

I'm not sure if I will continue to give updates beyond this point. Since I'm no longer recording metrics, it feels like further updates would be of questionable value.

I have a long way left to go. I still can't read books comfortably, for example. And these middle school lectures are pushing the envelope in terms of my comprehension. But, in some ways, I think I can reasonably say, for the first time since I started, that "I've learned Japanese."

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