8 docs tagged with "getting-started"

Choose your first Japanese resources: the four-slot day-one toolkit (kana app, grammar, SRS, dictionary), a free path, a budget-paid path, and what to skip.

Hiragana, katakana, or kanji first? The right order for beginners, why romaji is a one-week tool, and why "kanji first" methods fail in real Japanese.

How long does it take to learn Japanese? FSI says 2,200 hours. This page unpacks what "fluent" means, what one year buys, and how to set realistic goals.

How to learn Japanese from zero to fluency: a sourced roadmap from kana through JLPT N5 to N1, with hour budgets per level and the anti-patterns to skip.

A short wayfinding guide to the Japanese Learning section, with reading paths for absolute beginners, JLPT N3 candidates, and returning intermediate learners.

JLPT levels explained: a single canonical guide to N5 through N1, the test's sections, the 0 to 180 score, the section-minimum rule, and sitting dates.

A structured, source-backed guide to learning Japanese, built for serious learners who want depth over rote memorization.

Daily Japanese study routine for beginners: the four-slot stack, weekly time budgets for N5 and N4, a 15-minute fallback, and a worked example day.