If you are already in Japan, it would be a good idea to buy a writing practice book for elementary school children and practice tracing alphabets and simple kanji. Here is a simple list of kanji in JLPT level N5 you need to learn to pass this level (total 80 characters) With Japanese and its characters kanji it's all about images and imagination! Each character has a sense and a meaning, and if you can catch what it represents, it will be much easier for you to understand and finally learn and memorize those kanji.
Now you can see plenty of trees gathered together making some woods! ：） So you get an image of a forest that is actually easy to memorize! And at last let's take a 森（もり）or “mori” character, that means “woods”.
When you look at a word 林（はやし）or “hayashi”, that means “a forest”, now you can see 2 trees standing in a row. So for example, if you take the word 木（き）or “ki”, that means “a tree”, you can get an image of a tree standing alone. Japanese kanji are structured the way that they look like pictures. This time we are talking about Japanese characters, or kanji (漢字). Now, let's take the next step after learning the alphabet and first words. We are going to give you a list of words you need to learn to pass JLPT N5 in our later articles, but for now we wanted to give you a simple overview on what to expect. But once you get a feel of them, it all becomes easier! Practice, practice, practice!)) For westerners, there are almost no connection between our native languages and Japanese, so words themselves are quite difficult to memorize. Now, the difficult part starts with memorizing new words (like in any language you are about to learn for the first time). In Japanese there are practically no such things and everything is pretty much easy. In English there are nasal or liaison sounds, which are also difficult for non-native learners. The easy part is that you pronounce what you see! In some languages, like for example in Russian, you see one letter, but you pronounce it completely differently.
#Easy japanese for beginners how to#
Pronunciation of Japanese is actually easy, anyone can learn how to pronounce it right. Children usually learn how to write these letters, the structure of simple kanji ( Japanese characters), first wording etc. You can think of Level N5 as your 1~2 years at an elementary school here in Japan! Like little kids here you will start from learning the alphabet, and there are two by the way for those who don't know, called hiragana and katakana. There are 5 levels overall from N5 (beginner) to N1 (advanced), and each level consists of corresponding level of vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension and kanji. 🙂 JLPT Level N5: What's In It?įor those who are new here, JLPT stands for Japanese Language Proficiency Test and you can read more about it on its official page here. However, we don't want to discourage anyone who is about to start learning Japanese and would like to give our readers some ideas and outlines for starting off on the right foot.Īlso we are going to tap into what is that you need to know if you are planning to finally pass that beginner level JLPT N5 exam. And why JLPT N5 by the way? Because this level is all about basics, and this is the first mountain you need to climb if you are dedicated to reach Japanese language mastery one day. It doesn't matter what language you are currently learning, you need to learn and memorize basics, period. And by the way, it is not as difficult as it may seem! So continue reading as we dive deep into JLPT N5 basics.īasics – they are always basics. So specifically for you we have started these series, because we want you to feel a little bit more comfortable when approaching and actually starting out to learn this language. We suppose that you, as our reader, are interested in learning Japanese language and in coming to Japan one day. And as today is our first day of the series, we are going to focus on basics.
#Easy japanese for beginners series#
Today we are starting out a series of articles, where we are going to discuss topics related to learning Japanese language.
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