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General tips for JLPT

The Japanese Language Proficiency Test requires you to be familiar with a lot of vocabulary and grammatical patterns that you never hear in everyday conversation and almost everyone who takes it expresses frustration about how many useless things they had to learn in order to pass it.The listening section is full of trick questions and the test often includes somewhat archaic...

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Studying Kanji and Vocabulary

You don't have to be able to write a single kanji character in order to pass the test, so don't bother wasting your time studying how to write when you are studying. Writing out Kanji hundreds of times is not an effective study method. There are two best ways to study kanji and vocabularies.1. Do a lot of reading. There are fairly decent textbooks and online reading materials...

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Listening Section

Many people agree that the listening part is the easiest part of the test. If your reading is weak, you will need to get a very high score in this section to compensate. Here are few hints that will improve your score. Taking notes doesn't help at all and actually lowers your score because you tend to miss key points because you are concentrating too much on individual words...

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Reading and Grammar

Although they call it a grammar section, it's actually more of a vocabulary test. There are a few questions where they test your knowledge of passive, causative forms and polite language, but they are not a major part of the test and you can get away without a superficial knowledge of them. The best way to learn grammar/vocabulary is by learning short phrases rather than individual...

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NEW JLPT

JLPT will be divided into 5 levels instead of 4 levels starting July 2010. It will be held twice a year - respectively early July and early December. The score evaluation for listening module becomes higher up from 25% to 33%. The score of both overall and individual module have to be higher than the passing score.No past exams published for the year 2010 and 2011. Instead...

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Body Parts

These are the commonly used term for body parts. You can use them in your medical consultations.1. Head (あたま) - Atama2. Eyes (め) - Me3. Eyelid (まぶた) - Mabuta4. Teeth (は) - Ha5. Ears (みみ) - Mimi6. Ear lobe (みみたぶ) - Mimitabu7. Nose (はな) - Hana8. Chest or breast (むね) - Mune9. Back (せなか) - Senaka10. Bone (ほね) - Hone11. Shoulder (かた) - Kata12. Neck (くび) - Kubi13. Stomach (おなか)...

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