Build Japanese from hiragana to your first N5 skills.
Smart Nihongo now has account login, tracked flashcards, badges, and a learning path that starts with hiragana, moves into katakana, then builds toward N5 kanji, vocabulary, grammar, and review.
Account tracking
Login turns practice into progress.
Once signed in, Smart Nihongo saves your flashcard results and uses them to unlock badges and the next N5 modules.
Step 1
Hiragana flashcards
Practice reading, listening, and typed romaji prompts. Logged-in progress tracks accuracy, streaks, and weak characters.
Step 2
Katakana flashcards
After hiragana, move into katakana with the same tracked flashcard system and badge framework.
Roadmap
Work toward N5
The path now organizes the N5 lists, Genki I lesson flow, badges, unlocks, and tracked review into one study sequence.
Level 2
N5 Kanji Lab
Master common kanji for numbers, time, people, directions, school, and travel before bigger reading practice.
Levels 2-4
N5 vocabulary decks
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and expressions are grouped into recognition cards from the N5 source material.
Level 5
Readiness review
Mixed sentence cards pull together kana, kanji, vocabulary, grammar, and practical survival phrases.