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Lesson LibraryJLPT N3 Master Course

JLPT N3 Master Course

This pathway will help you pass the JLPT N3 test.

124 Lessons, 29 Assessments • 27hrs 40min
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1

Good Japanese Kids Go Home at Five

Learn how to use the Japanese word yōni

13 Minutes • Audio
2

Be Sure to Listen for Japanese Tsunami Warnings

Learn how to make the passive form of a verb in Japanese

14 Minutes • Audio
3

Be Careful Not to Start Fires in Japan

Learn how to make an extra-formal request and how to use -te orimasu

16 Minutes • Audio
4

Listen Out for Japanese Earthquake Announcements

Learn how to make the humble form of a Japanese verb

13 Minutes • Audio
5

A Scenic Japanese Flight Over the International Date Line

Learn how to form the honorific form of a Japanese verb and about the usage of goran ni naru

14 Minutes • Audio
6

Getting Played Out of the Store in Japan

Learn how to express gratitude in an extra-formal way using itadaku

14 Minutes • Audio
7

Announcements at the Japanese Train Station

Learn how to use the humble verb mairu

16 Minutes • Audio
8

Be Careful During Emergency Train Stops in Japan

Learn about the usage of -o miawaseru/toriyameru and -to iu in Japanese

15 Minutes • Audio
9

A Japanese Train Accident

Learn about the usage of -shidai and a humble verb, -itasu, in Japanese

13 Minutes • Audio
10

Party in the 'Burbs! 2

Learn about asking for directions at a train station

14 Minutes • Audio
11

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 1

Learn about asking to open a bank account

22 Minutes • Audio
12

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 2

Learn about asking to open a bank account

24 Minutes • Audio
13

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 3

Learn about talking about money and finances

17 Minutes • Audio
14

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 4

Learn about asking to change coins into bills

22 Minutes • Audio
15

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 5

Learn about talking about money and finances

1 Minute • Audio
16

Cheerleaders and Lost Kids

Learn about helping out lost children

17 Minutes • Audio
17

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about expressing one's volition or inviting someone to do something

17 Minutes • Audio
18

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about telling someone that you want or intend to do something

13 Minutes • Audio
19

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about talking about the purpose of something

13 Minutes • Audio
20

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about making rough commands

17 Minutes • Audio
21

How to Meet People Online 3

Learn about using the nominalizer "no"

15 Minutes • Audio
22

Box Karaoke for One Part 1 - You Don't Have to Read this, but you Should!

Learn about talking about what you don't have to do

17 Minutes • Audio
23

The Right Way to Form Japanese Sentences

Learn about using the passive voice in a clause modifying the following noun

15 Minutes • Audio
24

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Introduction

Learn about talking about giving and receiving

18 Minutes • Audio
25

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Kureru

Learn about expressing that someone does something for the speaker

14 Minutes • Audio
26

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Ageru

Learn about expressing that someone does something for someone else

14 Minutes • Audio
27

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Morau

Learn about talking about benefiting from someone else's actions

16 Minutes • Audio
28

Journey to Japan 1

Learn about making polite requests

13 Minutes • Audio
29

Journey to Japan 2

Learn about asking for a favor

13 Minutes • Audio
30

Journey to Japan 3

Learn about expressing requests in a casual way

12 Minutes • Audio
31

Journey to Japan 4

Learn about making polite requests

12 Minutes • Audio
32

A Slight Possibility

Learn about expressing possibility

14 Minutes • Audio
33

What do you Really Think?

Learn about expressing one's opinion

15 Minutes • Audio
34

What's Your Probability of Success?

Learn about expressing possibility

14 Minutes • Audio
35

What Did You Expect?

Learn about expressing expectations

15 Minutes • Audio
36

Tell Someone Else in Japan to Do This!

Learn about making indirect requests and commands

16 Minutes • Audio
37

Japanese Embedded Questions: I Don't Know WHO will come!

Learn about asking about plans, making questions inside another statement or question

16 Minutes • Audio
38

Japanese Embedded Questions Part 2: I Don't Know if I'll Go!

Learn about asking whether or not questions

16 Minutes • Audio
39

Do You Know Where Your Japanese Will Take You?

Learn about making a question in another question or statement

17 Minutes • Audio
40

How Did YOU Learn Kanji?

Learn about reporting something one has heard

18 Minutes • Audio
41

Students Always Know the Language of Food

Learn about reporting hearsay

16 Minutes • Audio
42

A Popular Japanese Trend You Can't Afford to Miss!

Learn about expressing the speaker's conjecture or guess

17 Minutes • Audio
43

I Hear It's Not Just for Japanese Men Anymore!

Learn about indicating hearsay or conjecture

19 Minutes • Audio
44

A Japanese Discussion Gone to the Dogs

Learn about expression the idea of making someone do something

14 Minutes • Audio
45

My Japanese Father's Lament

Learn about expressing the idea of letting someone do something

16 Minutes • Audio
46

Radio Advice for the Socially Inept in Japan

Learn about describing the idea that one person makes another feel a certain emotion or emotionally react in a certain way

16 Minutes • Audio
47

Munch on the Idea of Japanese Lunchbox Day!

Learn about expressing the idea of letting someone do something and making someone do something

17 Minutes • Audio
48

International Student Exchange in Japan

Learn about expressing the idea of "to let someone do something"

16 Minutes • Audio
49

In Japan, What Does Your Blood Type Say About You?

Learn about talking about conditional situations

20 Minutes • Audio
50

When You Study This Japanese Lesson, Many Things Will Fall into Place!

Learn about talking about conditional situations

18 Minutes • Audio
51

If You Watch Late-Night Japanese TV, You Might Get a Deal!

Learn about talking about conditional situations

17 Minutes • Audio
52

If You Follow Her Japanese Advice, You Won't Make a Mistake!

Learn about talking about conditional situations

18 Minutes • Audio
53

When You Look into the Crystal Ball, You Will See Your Future in Japan

Learn about talking about conditional situations

16 Minutes • Audio
54

If You're Smart, You'll Follow My Japanese Advice!

Learn about talking about conditional situations

18 Minutes • Audio
55

Even If You Book Your Japanese Travel at the Last Minute, You May Still Get a Deal

Learn about saying "a even though b"

17 Minutes • Audio
56

Even Though You're in Japan, You Can't Expect to Learn Japanese by Osmosis!

Learn about saying "despite a, b"

18 Minutes • Audio
57

Despite My Laziness, I Still Want to Work in Japan

Learn about comparing "temo" and "noni"

17 Minutes • Audio
58

Why Do Japanese People Often Feel Sickly in May?

Learn about giving and requesting an explanation

16 Minutes • Audio
59

A Match Made in a Japanese Kitchen!

Learn about confirming or requesting confirmation of a previous situation or sentence

13 Minutes • Audio
60

I'm Really Sorry, but My Dog Doesn't Understand Japanese

Learn about making opening remarks

15 Minutes • Audio
61

Why Are You Being So Critical of Everything I Say in Japanese?

Learn about reviewing the different usages of "no da"

14 Minutes • Audio
62

Pushing Yourself to Your Limit in Japan

Learn about turning verbs into nouns

16 Minutes • Audio
63

Is That the Thing You Got in the Japanese Mail?

Learn about modifying nouns

15 Minutes • Audio
64

You Can't Believe Everything You Hear in Japanese!

Learn about modifying nouns

13 Minutes • Audio
65

Flattery Will Get You Everywhere in Japan...Almost!

Learn about talking about change

17 Minutes • Audio
66

Please Listen to My Japanese Sales Pitch!

Learn about using transitive and intransitive verbs

14 Minutes • Audio
67

I Love When They Say 'I Want to Work for World Peace' in Japanese

Learn about talking about one's purpose

16 Minutes • Audio
68

I'm Going on an All-Ramen Japanese Diet to Lose Weight!

Learn about comparing "tame ni" and "you ni"

17 Minutes • Audio
69

Why Didn't You Wake Me Up for the Japanese Tour?

Learn about using "te iru" and "te aru"

15 Minutes • Audio
70

I Am Already Prepared for Our Japanese Adventure

Learn about talking about how an action is done in preparation for something

15 Minutes • Audio
71

Tell Me What Your Japanese Crystal Ball Says

Learn about talking about how something appears

15 Minutes • Audio
72

Did You Hear the Latest Gossip in Japan? I Heard That...

Learn about talking about what you have heard

15 Minutes • Audio
73

Tell Me about Your Past in Japanese

Learn about talking about something you have just remembered

16 Minutes • Audio
74

You're Just About to Learn More Japanese!

Learn about the usages of the Japanese word tokoro

16 Minutes • Audio
75

Take the Time to Learn More Japanese

Learn about three different Japanese time expressions: tabi ("whenever"), irai ("since"), and totan ("in no time")

15 Minutes • Audio
76

These Passive Sentences Will Actively Improve Your Japanese

Learn how to use the passive voice

15 Minutes • Audio
77

Express Your Annoyance in Japanese

Learn about the Japanese indirect passive voice

14 Minutes • Audio
78

Are There Monster Parents at This Japanese School?

Learn how to say "to let/to make someone go somewhere" or "to let/to make someone do something"

17 Minutes • Audio
79

Having a Bad Hair Day in Japan

Learn continue learning about Japanese causative verbs

15 Minutes • Audio
80

You May Not Wear a Miniskirt to a Japanese Funeral

Learn how to use the causative to ask for permission to do something

15 Minutes • Audio
81

An Offer of Kindness in Japan

Learn how to how to use the causative to say "someone kindly let me/allowed me to do something"

15 Minutes • Audio
82

You Won't Need to be Made to Listen to This Japanese Lesson!

Learn how to say "I was forced to do something" in Japanese using the causative passive

15 Minutes • Audio
83

The Case of the Missing Japanese Diamond

Learn about the usage of -te iku and -te kuru

17 Minutes • Audio
84

Cloudy with a Chance of Tadpoles in Japan

Learn how to use te kuru to indicate the beginning or the continuation of an action

14 Minutes • Audio
85

Continue Studying to Improve Your Japanese

Learn how to use te iku to express continuation

14 Minutes • Audio
86

Learn to Make Japanese Teriyaki Chicken

Learn how to use hajimeru, tuzukeru, and -owaru

17 Minutes • Audio
87

Tips for Improving your Formal Written Japanese

Learn about the conjugation of the de aru copula

17 Minutes • Audio
88

Moving In Japan - The First Big Step 1

Learn about saying "something is not so — as [noun]"

18 Minutes • Audio
89

Moving In Japan - The First Big Step 2

Learn about explaining apartment equipment

19 Minutes • Audio
90

Moving In Japan - The First Big Step 3

Learn about asking to confirm something

19 Minutes • Audio
91

It's Your Responsibility

Learn about using the word "sekinin" which means "responsibility"

13 Minutes • Audio
92

Should you Take a Gift to the Japanese Research Lab?

Learn about the usage of the auxiliary verb beki, meaning "should"

16 Minutes • Audio
93

New JLPT N3 Prep Course #1

Learn about an overview of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, which was revised for 2010

9 Minutes • Audio
94

New JLPT N3 Prep Course #2

Learn some practice words and questions to help you master these sections of this Japanese exam

8 Minutes • Audio
95

New JLPT N3 Prep Course #3

Learn what you'll find in question five of the language knowledge section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

7 Minutes • Audio
96

New JLPT N3 Prep Course #4

Learn what you'll find in question one of the grammar and reading comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

11 Minutes • Audio
97

New JLPT N3 Prep Course #5

Learn what you'll find in question two of the reading comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

9 Minutes • Audio
98

New JLPT N3 Prep Course 6

Learn what you'll find in question three of the grammar and reading comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

7 Minutes • Audio
99

New JLPT N3 Prep Course 7

Learn how to prepare for the reading comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

8 Minutes • Audio
100

New JLPT N3 Prep Course 8

Learn how to prepare for a new section of the reading comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

8 Minutes • Audio
101

New JLPT N3 Prep Course 9

Learn how to prepare for the Listening Comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

12 Minutes • Audio
102

New JLPT N3 Prep Course 10

Learn how to prepare for the part of the reading comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam that asks for detailed information

11 Minutes • Audio
103

New JLPT N3 Prep Course 11

Learn about Listening Comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

10 Minutes • Audio
104

New JLPT N3 Prep Course 12

Learn how to handle the fourth section of this part of the Japanese test where you have to identify what's going on in a picture

8 Minutes • Audio
105

New JLPT N3 Prep Course 13

Learn about the final part of the Listening Comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam

10 Minutes • Audio
106

Looking At Apartments in Japan

Listen to a conversation about choosing an apartment

2 Minutes • Video
107

Reserving a Room in Japanese

Listen to a conversation about reserving a hotel room

3 Minutes • Video
108

At the Hairdresser in Japan

Listen to a conversation about getting a haircut

2 Minutes • Video
109

Reading Japanese Job Postings

Listen to a conversation about job postings

3 Minutes • Video
110

Shopping for an Outfit in Japan

Listen to a conversation in a clothing store

2 Minutes • Video
111

Discussing a Document in Japanese

Listen to a conversation about a document

3 Minutes • Video
112

Reporting a Lost Item in Japanese

Listen to a conversation about a lost scarf

2 Minutes • Video
113

Looking for an Apartment in Japan

Listen to a conversation about finding an apartment

3 Minutes • Video
114

Choosing a Cake in Japan

Listen to a conversation about choosing a birthday cake

3 Minutes • Video
115

Buying Shirts in a Sale in Japan

Listen to a conversation about buying shirts in a sale

2 Minutes • Video
116

Delivering a Sales Report in Japanese

Listen to a report about bag sales

3 Minutes • Video
117

Scheduling a Checkup in Japanese

Listen to a conversation about scheduling a health checkup

3 Minutes • Video
118

Talking About a Person in Japanese

Listen to a conversation describing a person

2 Minutes • Video
119

Where in Japan Did You Lose Your Wallet?

Listen to a conversation about a lost wallet

2 Minutes • Video
120

Organizing a Meeting in Japan

Listen to a conversation about scheduling a meeting

3 Minutes • Video
121

Talking About a Photo in Japanese

Listen to a conversation about identifying people in a photo

2 Minutes • Video
122

Talking About School Subjects in Japanese

Listen to a conversation about school subjects

3 Minutes • Video
123

Listening to a Japanese Weather Forecast

Listen to a conversation about a weather forecast

2 Minutes • Video
124

Finding Your Way Around a Building in Japan

Listen to a conversation about finding a department in a building

2 Minutes • Video