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JLPT N4 kanji lessons

Basic everyday Japanese: simple conversations and short texts on familiar topics.

3 lessons

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N4 Kanji
Lesson 6

Kanji: family and people

Learn the family kanji 私, 家, 族, 兄, 弟, 姉 and 妹, the two sets of family words — for your own family and for someone else’s — and how to talk about your family with coworkers and read the family fields on Japanese forms.

35 min
N4 Kanji
Lesson 15

Kanji: seasons, weather and amounts

Learn the kanji of the four seasons — 春, 夏, 秋, 冬 — plus 去, 同, 多 and 少, compare with 〜ほど〜ない and 同じ, and make small talk about the weather and how Japan’s seasons feel compared with home.

40 min
N4 Kanji
Lesson 20

Review 11–19: kanji and grammar review

Review N4 lessons 11–19: compare たら, ば, と and なら and ている, てある, ておく and てしまう, sort all 48 kanji by meaning, tell look-alike kanji apart, and read a train notice, a recipe card and a typhoon notice. No new kanji.

45 min