Wakaru Beginner Japanese Learning Method

A clear, visual path into beginner Japanese.

Stop piecing Japanese together from disconnected apps, videos and notes. Wakaru is a visual, story-led self-study method designed for complete beginners.

Across 20 illustrated everyday situations, five coordinated resources help you move from vocabulary to grammar, exercises and listening in a clear sequence.

What’s included:

• The Wakaru Learning Toolkit: 90 pages, 21 chapters, 20 illustrated everyday situations and more than 400 contextual words.
• The Wakaru N5 Grammar Book: 49 pages with 146 beginner grammar cards connected to the situations in the toolkit.
• The Wakaru Exercise Workbook: 44 pages with 100 exercises across five activity formats, plus 20 pages of reasoned answers.
• The Wakaru Listening Companion: 23 pages with Japanese, romaji and English scripts, accompanied by 131 MP3 audio files.
• 25 Japanese Word Pairs Every Beginner Gets Wrong: 23 pages with 25 word-pair comparisons, 50 example sentences and 25 memory hooks.

Included bonuses:

• 20 illustrated printable flashcards: double-sided A6 cards supplied as 40 PNG files at 300 dpi, plus a printing guide.
• Manga Hunter’s Guide to Japan: a 28-page digital guide to manga shopping, editions, book conditions and useful store language.

Complete digital offer:

• 229 pages across the five core resources
• 7 PDF files including the bonuses and printing guide
• 131 MP3 audio files
• 40 printable PNG flashcard files
• One-time purchase
• No subscription
• No physical product is shipped

Wakaru introduces beginner concepts associated with N5-level study, but it is not an official JLPT preparation course and does not promise an exam result.