Baby Japanese

The tour

Your first hiragana to a JLPT pass.

The JLPT is sat twice a year. This is what the months in between look like when one system carries the whole way — instead of six that never speak to each other.

  • 411 short lessons
  • 3,234 real exam questions
  • Full timed mock papers

Arrow keys, or the timeline below.

Before

Six tools, and none of them answers the only question.

A serious learner assembles the stack by hand: a channel for explanations, a deck for memorising, a question bank as a PDF, a group chat for morale, one paid mock the week before. Nothing is connected, so nothing can tell you where you actually stand.

  • Effort is not readiness — 300 hours in a game app is not a graded 問題
  • The exam format itself is never taught
  • Words learned in month one quietly disappear by month four

Week 0

Pick the level and the sitting. Everything points at it.

Choose the level you are sitting and when. A short placement check seeds where you begin, so the feed opens where you are rather than at lesson one — and the countdown to your exam date starts running.

  • N5 through N1, on the same engine
  • A placement check, not a lesson-one reset
  • Your exam date, counted down on the dashboard

Weeks 1–4

A lesson is forty-five seconds long.

Kana first, then your first words, then your first grammar — delivered as a vertical feed of short videos with native narration. Tap any word to hear it. Every shot is tagged and tracked, so the feed always knows what you have already seen.

  • 411 N5 shorts, in a feed you already know how to use
  • Eight shelves: stories, vocabulary, scripts, grammar, listening, speak, culture, exam prep
  • Furigana on or off, and a search that covers kanji and grammar

Week 1 on

You speak in the first week, and nobody hears it.

Say the line out loud. Your pronunciation is scored inside your own browser, character by character, and the audio never leaves the device. When you want a conversation instead of a line, the AI tutor runs real scenarios at your level.

  • Nothing recorded, nothing uploaded, nothing stored
  • Per-character feedback, not a single blunt score
  • Scenario practice — the office, the ward office, the first hello

Weeks 5–12

Week six is where people quit.

So this is where the product works hardest. A streak you would rather not break, petals you earn, a league you are placed in — and a syllabus inventory that visibly fills up, one word at a time, so progress is something you can see rather than something you assume.

  • 951 words, 109 kanji and 71 grammar points to light up
  • Streaks with freezes, petals, leagues, medals
  • A twelve-week activity map of every day you showed up

Every week

If you study with a school, your sensei walks it with you.

A teacher reads one join code to the room, or emails the invite to the whole batch, and the class lands in the school’s own space. From then on the roster shows who studied, who did the homework and who is stuck — down to the individual 問題 type — so the two hours a week in class go on whatever the other 166 actually needed.

  • Invite a batch in one go — a join code read out, or an email invite per student
  • A roster that sorts itself by who needs attention first
  • Per-student and whole-cohort breakdowns, down to the 問題 type

Months 3–5

Drill the actual exam, not a generic quiz.

The JLPT is not one test of Japanese — it is a set of numbered question types, each with its own format and its own traps. Every one gets an overview, worked examples and a pitfalls video, and then you drill it with real questions in the real shape.

  • 3,234 published questions across 14 問題 sections
  • Timed and untimed quizzes, with your best score kept
  • Feedback that tells you why the wrong answer was tempting

Ongoing

Nothing you learned in month one quietly disappears.

Items come back just before you would have forgotten them, at widening intervals. Anything you got wrong drops into a separate lane you can clear in one sitting, and the weak question types are named rather than left for you to find.

  • A spaced review queue, due-dated per item
  • A mistakes-from-this-week lane, kept separate
  • Weak areas named — “問題2 reorder” — and routed back into practice

Month 6

Sit the paper before you sit the paper.

Full timed mocks in the real structure, graded to the real cut-offs, with language-knowledge and listening subscores and a straight pass or fail. Incomplete papers are hidden, so every mock in your history is one you actually finished.

  • Complete papers, or a single section when that is all you have time for
  • Graded against the official cut-off, not a friendly curve
  • Every attempt broken down by 問題 type

Exam day

You already know how this goes.

By the morning of the exam you have sat the format under time more than once, cleared the question types you were weakest at, and watched a readiness score climb for months. The result confirms something instead of revealing it.

  • One readiness score, built from graded exam-format work
  • A level certificate issued when you clear it

After

Then the same pattern, one level up.

The engine was not built for a single level. Every level above runs on the same feed, the same question bank and the same mock engine — more words, longer passages, faster listening, but not a different product you have to learn all over again.

  • Levels, tags and exam blueprints are data, not code
  • Fourteen interface languages, including right-to-left Arabic
  • Your streak, history and certificates stay with you

Start

Start at week zero.

The feed, your first lessons and your first questions are free. Pick a level, pick a date, and the rest of this deck becomes a calendar.

See the product

Slide 1 of 13. The tour: Your first hiragana to a JLPT pass.