Kanji and kana
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Japanese Handwriting Practice for Adult Learners
You will type almost all the Japanese you produce, and you should still write some of it by hand. Fifteen minutes a week is enough if you spend them on shape and balance rather than on filling pages.
13 min readHiragana or Katakana: Which Script Goes Where
Japanese writing mixes three scripts in a single line, and each one is doing a different job. Once you can name that job, a mixed sentence stops looking like noise.
12 min readFurigana and How to Read Real Japanese Text
Furigana is the small kana printed beside kanji to show how it is read. Used well it speeds you up; used as a crutch it quietly prevents your kanji recognition from ever forming.
12 min readHow to Learn Hiragana and Katakana Fast: A 14-Day Plan
You can learn to recognise all 92 basic hiragana and katakana in two weeks. The fastest reliable method combines recall, handwriting, and reading real syllables every day.
6 min readJLPT N5 Kanji Study Guide: 100 Characters with Memory Tricks
N5 kanji are small pictures with big jobs: time, people, places, numbers, and everyday actions.
5 min readJLPT N5 Kanji by Topic: Time, Numbers, School, and Daily Life
Topic groups turn a flat N5 kanji list into a set of useful scenes you can actually picture.
5 min readJLPT N4 Kanji Memory Method: Compounds, Radicals, and Readings
N4 is where kanji stop behaving like isolated pictures and start behaving like building kits.
4 min readJLPT N4 Kanji by Situation: Travel, Work, Health, and Weather
Situational kanji practice gives N4 learners the words they need when a sign, message, or conversation suddenly matters.
4 min readJLPT N3 Kanji: How to Remember Abstract Words and Compounds
N3 kanji become memorable when you turn abstract ideas back into concrete images and word families.
4 min readJLPT N3 Kanji Reading Speed: A Practical Daily Training Plan
N3 kanji speed is not handwriting speed; it is the ability to recognise a word before the sentence moves on.
5 min readJLPT N2 Kanji for Newspapers: Policy, Economy, and Formal Words
N2 kanji open the door to news, workplace documents, and explanations where one compound can carry an entire idea.
5 min readJLPT N2 Confusing Kanji: Similar Compounds and Memory Tricks
At N2, a single swapped character can change the whole word, so contrast is more useful than repetition.
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