JLPT December 2025

Yeah ofc no problem! Mainly, it focuses on kanji. It’ll give you usually an onyomi
And kunyomi reading for kanji to practice, and then you have to remember both of them
And when you review it gives you a vocab that Changes using it to practice. It doesn’t teach vocab, but it’s still nice just to see
It in a word so you can get used to seeing it. It also doesn’t do levels, so you can learn as much as you want as fast as you want. It shows you radicals in an order where they
Will build on each other and the kanji you learn will utilize
The radicals you looked at. However it doesn’t review your radicals you learn; it just shows you them. So it’s a bit
Harder
To remember kanji sometimes. It does have mnemonics, but they are pretty scarce, and the ones it does have are pretty bad ngl. On the bright side though, it has full in-depth tutorials on how the app works, the order in which you learn kanji, the jlpt and joyou levels by which the kanji are seperated, and a bunch of beginner guides like the difference between onyomi and kunyomi, hiragana and katakana, etc. The interface is pretty clean and easy to
Use, but I will admit
It is kinda bland. It does an SRS system
For review, and kinda like how wanikani
Does the levels like apprentice, guru, and master, etc, kanji garden uses planting. So when you learn a kanji you plant it (like getting put into apprentice in wanikani), and when you water it you
Move
It up the srs levels, and once it’s grown, it’s like the burned level in wanikani basically. Unlike wanikani, you have access to all of the n1 kanji as well. They also have a built in dictionary, where you can look up all the kanji readings/meanings, and vocab on there. It’s free for the first month and then it’s 5 dollars a month usd. I have been using it and I couldn’t recommend it more! Definitely
Worth the money :smiley: it has both a mobile app and a pc app too, so it’s pretty versatile (at least on iphone; I don’t know if there’s an android
App, sorry

and yeah that’s basically all I could
Think of. Sorry for the yap and the
Bad grammar and random new lines lol. I wrote this on my phone

I’m taking the N5 and I’m confident I’ll pass it. If it went badly and I failed, I suppose I would just try the N4 directly in the future. The JLPT exams aren’t my priority, but it’s true that they’re very good for motivation.

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