Daily life
Life Japanese
Practical Japanese for city hall, apartments, banks, hospitals, schools, trains, emergencies, shopping, and daily independence in Japan.
Open Life Japanese →Sitemap
Find your Japanese path.
Nihongo.co.jp is organized around one practical mission: helping learners build Japanese for visas, work, JLPT, daily life, travel, and real confidence in Japan.
Site map: Japanese begins with sounds, grows through practice, and becomes useful when it helps you live.
Main sections
The core Nihongo.co.jp pages
These are the main doors into the site: immigration readiness, test preparation, workplace language, daily-life language, beginner lessons, and practice games.
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Home
The front page: visa/work/life positioning plus immediate hiragana learning.
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Visa Japanese
Japanese for immigration readiness, job descriptions, interviews, JLPT N2, and CEFR B2 planning.
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JLPT Roadmap
A practical path from kana to N5, N4, N3, and N2 for real-life and professional Japanese.
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Work Japanese
Interviews, email, meetings, customer language, keigo, job duties, and professional trust.
Learning hubs
Study by purpose
Beginner
Beginner Lessons
Start with hiragana, katakana, first phrases, basic grammar, survival expressions, and simple Japanese you can use immediately.
Open Beginner Lessons →Practice
Games
Kana games, phrase games, memory drills, listening practice, and lightweight repetition to help Japanese become familiar.
Open Games →JLPT pages
The test ladder
JLPT levels give learners structure. Nihongo.co.jp connects each level to real communication: reading, listening, speaking confidence, work, and daily life.
N5
First footingHiragana, katakana, basic grammar, simple sentences, numbers, time, greetings, and survival Japanese.
N4
Daily basicsSimple conversations, trains, stores, restaurants, school, appointments, and everyday forms.
N3
The bridgeLonger listening, short articles, workplace phrases, practical explanations, and natural grammar.
N2
Professional targetSerious reading, faster listening, work Japanese, interviews, visa readiness, and daily independence.
Beginner lesson pages
Start with sounds, then words, then life.
Hiragana
The first Japanese writing system every beginner should learn. Start reading Japanese sounds.
Open Hiragana →Katakana
The writing system for many foreign words, names, foods, brands, and modern Japanese expressions.
Open Katakana →First Phrases
Practical beginner phrases for greetings, asking, confirming, apologizing, and getting help.
Open First Phrases →Numbers & Time
Essential Japanese for prices, train times, appointments, dates, forms, age, phone numbers, and counters.
Open Numbers & Time →Basic Grammar
Particles, verbs, adjectives, sentence order, questions, negatives, past tense, and useful sentence patterns.
Open Basic Grammar →Survival Japanese
The first language for travel, daily life, emergencies, counters, stations, stores, and asking for help.
Open Survival Japanese →Visa Japanese pages
Language for work and immigration readiness
Visa Japanese Home
Japanese-language readiness for work visas, JLPT N2, CEFR B2, interviews, and job duties.
Open page →Visa Checklist
Language proof, study history, job description language, interview scripts, and readiness file planning.
Open checklist →Job Duties
Practice explaining your work clearly and politely in Japanese.
Open job duties →Interview Proof
Prepare Japanese answers that support your work, study, and visa-readiness story.
Open interview proof →Work Japanese pages
Japanese for professional life
Work Japanese Home
Practical workplace language for interviews, email, meetings, customers, keigo, and job trust.
Open page →Interview Japanese
Self-introduction, work history, strengths, reasons for applying, and job-duty explanations.
Open interview Japanese →Email Japanese
Subject lines, greetings, requests, apologies, confirmations, attachments, and follow-ups.
Open email Japanese →Meeting Japanese
Reports, questions, confirmation, agreement, careful disagreement, and summary language.
Open meeting Japanese →Customer Japanese
Reception, service, sales, support, complaints, explanations, and polite problem solving.
Open customer Japanese →Keigo Basics
Safe polite Japanese, respectful language, humble language, and practical workplace tone.
Open keigo basics →Life Japanese pages
Japanese for everyday independence
Life Japanese Home
Daily Japanese for city hall, apartments, banks, hospitals, schools, trains, and emergencies.
Open page →City Hall Japanese
Residence registration, health insurance, pension, forms, certificates, taxes, and official counters.
Open city hall →Apartment Japanese
Rent, contracts, guarantors, utilities, trash rules, repairs, neighbors, and move-in questions.
Open apartment Japanese →Hospital Japanese
Symptoms, appointments, insurance card, pharmacy, pain, allergies, fever, and emergency language.
Open hospital Japanese →Train Japanese
Stations, tickets, delays, transfers, lost items, directions, announcements, and travel safety.
Open train Japanese →Emergency Japanese
Help, ambulance, police, lost items, danger, injury, illness, and urgent communication.
Open emergency Japanese →Games and drills
Practice until Japanese feels familiar.
Kana Game
Practice hiragana and katakana recognition through quick memory repetition.
Play kana game →Phrase Game
Match useful Japanese phrases with meaning, sound, and situation.
Play phrase game →Work Phrase Drill
Practice confirmation, apology, request, email, and customer-service language.
Play work drill →Life Phrase Drill
Practice city hall, train, apartment, hospital, bank, and emergency phrases.
Play life drill →JLPT Vocabulary
Review useful vocabulary by JLPT level, from N5 foundations to N2 professional Japanese.
Open vocabulary drill →Listening Practice
Short listening prompts for daily Japanese, work Japanese, and JLPT readiness.
Open listening practice →Site information
About Nihongo.co.jp
About
Learn the editorial mission of Nihongo.co.jp and the Japan.co.jp language-learning network.
Open About →Disclaimer
Important limits: educational language content, not legal, medical, immigration, or professional advice.
Open Disclaimer →Privacy
How privacy, analytics, cookies, contact information, and site usage may be handled.
Open Privacy →License
Content, image, design, code, and reuse terms for Nihongo.co.jp.
Open License →Advertise
Opportunities for language schools, employers, relocation services, and Japan-related organizations.
Open Advertise →XML Sitemap
Machine-readable sitemap for search engines and indexing.
Open sitemap.xml →The map is simple
Start with sounds. Build toward trust.
Hiragana opens the door. JLPT gives structure. Work Japanese builds credibility. Life Japanese builds independence. Visa Japanese connects language to the future.