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N5 Japanese listening practice

Free N5 stories, listening quizzes and conversations with slow, clear native audio and English. Very short, concrete sentences about yourself, family, numbers, food and daily life, in the polite です/ます form, mostly in kana with the simplest kanji.

words you know
About 800
lessons
10

N5 story

N5 conversation

N5 grammar lesson

N5 culture lesson

N5 survival Japanese

N5 vocabulary lesson

N5 grammar you will hear

  • AはBです / ではありません
  • verb ます, ません, ました, ませんでした
  • particles は, が, を, に, で, へ, と, も, の
  • い and な adjectives in the polite form (たかいです, しずかです)
  • あります / います
  • 〜たいです (want to)
  • 〜ませんか / 〜ましょう (invitations)
  • question words with か (なに, どこ, いつ, だれ, いくら)
  • 〜てください
  • counters for things and people (ひとつ, ふたり)