Japanese · For teachers
Every Japanese printable, chapter by chapter
The whole Japanese curriculum in one place, mapped to its 1 chapters and 29 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.
Chapter 1 · Foundations
Chapter page →- How Japanese worksIntroduction
Three scripts, the verb at the end, and little words that do the work English gives to word order. You never have to type Japanese here: romaji is always accepted.
The five vowels and the k, s, t and n rows. Enough to read your first ten words by the end of the next lesson.
- Words 1-10Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 1-10
The remaining rows, the two little marks that turn k into g, the small ya, yu and yo, the small tsu and long vowels.
- Words 11-20Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 11-20
X は Y です is half of everything you will say for the first month. Add か and it is a question.
- Words 21-30Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 21-30
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 31-40Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 31-40
- Particles: を, に, で and のGrammar
The little words after a noun that say what it is doing in the sentence. Japanese word order is loose because these carry the meaning.
- Words 41-50Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 41-50
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 51-60Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 51-60
The second kana, for words borrowed from other languages. Coffee, television, bread and hotel are all in it.
- Words 61-70Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 61-70
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 71-80Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 71-80
Every verb you have met so far, made polite: 食べます, 行きます, します. And the one rule that sorts verbs into three groups.
- Words 81-90Vocabulary
11 words · ranks 81-90
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 91-100Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 91-100
- Read: 今日はちょっと……Graded-reader story
A LINE chat between two friends: one invitation, one very Japanese way of saying no, and a photo that changes everything. Every word in it comes from this chapter.
- The number house: ゼロ to 九Vocabulary
10 words · Zero to nine. Four and seven have two readings each: say よん and なな when you count, and keep し and しち for later.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Number house two: 十 and the teensVocabulary
2 words · 十 (じゅう) plus a digit is a teen: 十一 is じゅういち, 11, and 十九 is じゅうきゅう, 19. Ask how many with いくつ.
- How Japanese numbers workGrammar
Eleven words build every number to 99,999: a digit after 十 adds, a digit before it multiplies. And the sound changes that make 三百 さんびゃく.
- Number house three: the tens, 百, 千 and 万Vocabulary
3 words · A digit before 十 multiplies: 二十 is 20. Then 百, 千 and 万, and the one that trips English speakers: Japanese counts in ten-thousands, so a million is 百万.
- Here, there, over thereThemed review
これ, それ, あれ, どれ: four prefixes that build this, that, that over there and which, and the same pattern again for here and where.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets105 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
