By the end
What you'll build
- Read and write all of hiragana and katakana
- Understand why Japanese uses three scripts and what each is for
- Explain kanji on- and kun- readings and why they exist
- Produce correct vowel length and double consonants, which change words
- Keep the mora beat that gives Japanese its rhythm
- Read simple Japanese aloud accurately
Curriculum
What's inside
3 modules · 18 lessons
- 01
Three Scripts, One Sentence
8 lessons- Find Your Level — Read This First
- Find Your Level — 5-Minute Placement Checkquiz
- Welcome — Why Three Writing Systems
- Hiragana — The First Halfscript trace
- Hiragana — The Second Halfscript trace
- + 3 more lessons
- 02
Kanji, Timing and Reading
5 lessons- What Kanji Actually Are
- The Timing Rulespronunciation card
- Listening: Timing Changes the Wordlistening lab
- Word Power: Your First Twelve Wordsword power
- Reading All Three Scriptsfill blank
- 03
Putting It Together
5 lessons- Speaking Lab: Read a Japanese Menuspeaking lab
- Listening: Japanese at Real Speedlistening lab
- Flashcards: Scripts and Soundsflashcard sr
- Final Check: Scripts & Soundsquiz
- Course Review — Spaced Recallflashcard sr
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
18 lessons across 3 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.