Learn Japanese — for the show, the trip, or the move.

Tell Strive why you want Japanese — anime and manga, business in Tokyo, a trip you actually booked, or JLPT prep — and AI builds the curriculum around it. Lessons stream live; the daily recall queue (1 / 3 / 7 / 14 / 30 days) is what keeps the kana, the particles, and the kanji from quietly fading.

What you’ll learn

• Read and write hiragana and katakana fluently — no more romaji crutch.
• Use the core particles (は, が, を, に, で, へ, と, も) without freezing.
• Recognise around 100 foundational kanji and the radicals that explain them.
• Hold a basic introduction, café, station, or shop conversation in plain form and です／ます.
• Tell apart polite, plain, and casual register — and know when each is wrong.
• Read a simple native text (sign, menu, NHK Easy headline) and pull meaning from structure.
• Retain it — recall queue surfaces full phrases, not isolated vocab.

A typical Strive course on Japanese (N5 → N4)

1. Hiragana, katakana, and the sound of Japanese5 lessons
2. Particles — the small words that carry the sentence5 lessons
3. Verbs, です／ます, and the polite register5 lessons
4. Your first 100 kanji — by radical, not by rote4 lessons
5. Past, negative, and the te-form that opens everything5 lessons
6. Reading a short native text — what you already know3 lessons

Demonstration outline — your course is generated around your answers, so module count, depth, and difficulty will differ from this. Across the 6 modules above there are 27 lessons.

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