Learning to Read Japanese Online

Japanese Complete is the best way to acquire skill in Japanese. Our training program teaches you a solid foundation for how the grammar of Japanese is structured, so you have an intuitive grasp of the language as fast as possible.

We have developed unique training methods that are quickly proving to be the best techniques for bringing people up to speed and to a level of understanding that sticks with them long-term. Learners who have tried other programs are already reporting that so many things are clicking for them thanks to Japanese Complete.

How to Learn Kanji Fast

We break down learning Kanji into two steps:

  1. Learning how the kanji came to have its current shape and meaning, and learning English meaninng words for the kanji as well as how to draw it. We pair the kanji with helpful mnemonics so your association is fast and delightful. Little film reels or painted image scenes in your mind help you recall what a kanji means and how to recreate it yourself. Lots of care has gone into these lessons so you won't forget what you learned, but with a little review it will stay with you for a long long time.
  2. Then, after a kanji has been taught with its English keywords, we incorporate verbs from Japanese that use said kanji as a mask and we move on to kanji readings later on once meanings and verb maskings have been thoroughly understood.

Japanese Complete's 5 Factors of Fluency

Grammar Situation We make a huge effort to teach grammar in its most simplified and distilled state, by using Japanese grammar terms with English nouns and verbs. This saves time, because you do not have to learn all the Japanese nouns and verbs before you can start parsing grammar, you simply learn a handful of Japanese hiragana and you're ready to start forming phrases in the shape of the Japanese grammar!

Language Anticipation We really want people to have an intuitive grasp of Japanese, so we give tips, tricks, and secrets you won't get elsewhere on how to train your brain to anticipate how a sentence will unfold, just through listening practice and formulating sentences on your own in your free-time.

Japanese Pitch Accent and Flow We incorporate teachings on Pitch Accent (the tonal changes in Japanese) early on to help learners understand how to create natural, fluid speech, and how to use this to segment concepts. Pitch Accent is a sign of expertise in the Japanese language and we train our learners to develop Pitch Accent and recognition of it through the pages of our textbook, where pages are read to you and you can hear the difference.

Reading Lips Elder people who have lost most of their hearing, no matter what their linguistic culture, can still piece together speech sounds by reading lips! It's so important to read lips when learning a language, and it's even more important to make the proper shapes. Granted, in Japanese, lip motion is fairly conservative, but we make an emphasis on physical emotive properties to help prepare one for deep immersion and engaging in the culture right away.

Our fifth factor of fluency is vocabulary which comes last for a reason: learners of Japanese for years 1, 2, and 3 struggle most with grammar and the grammar particles of Japanese, while 6th year students and beyond have great control of nouns and vocabulary. It's clear: you can sit on a bus with a dictionary and learn nouns all day, but unless you unlock the secrets of grammar for how to string them together, you're not going to be making the fast progress to fluency that you want. Lay a solid foundation with JPC.

Secrets and Tricks of the Trade

We feature fluency tips from languge experts who have gone from beginner to fluent. Our team of bilingual and trilingual teachers has been crafting this curriculum and language learning platform just for new learners like you, to save you significant time and money.

Secrets Our quizzes that are new for each chapter are designed to develop your reflexes for your Japanese training. Start like a newbie and end up with a quick intuition like a pro!

A path plotted out for you has been created by our instructors to take you all the way. Our system makes it easy and convenient, with no guesswork required on your part for what to do next.

Efficiency for new learners and people who have tried other programs that just did not cut it. Get an intuition for Japanese with our great content, and train your intuitive grasp of Japanese with our drills and quizzes, and learning tools like Wag: visual sentence composer.

Japanese and Learning Kanji

Kanji are at their basis graphics like emoji or symbols, it ought not be hard to learn them fast but it seems like such an obstacle for every learner in the realm of Japanese. Typically, we attribute this to teachers and classes putting too much onus on the student. While it might be fine to rote-write and rote-memorize kanji every day from age 7 to 17, adult learners or learners in different cultures simply don't have that sort of time, schedule, or determination. Plus, you already know plenty of nouns and verbs in your native tonuge, why not put them to good use?

That's why at Japanese Complete we teach kanji faster than the rest by teaching people etymological origins of kanji based on the lastest and greatest research by scholars of the characters and glyphs. We then teach English meaning words to associate with the kanji, with helpful mnemonic scenes. We even devised a whole new method to teach the variety of association words called Kanji in English Context, that showcases the flexibility of kanji right away.

Kanji in English Context™

Sonnet 五十五

N不t m大理bl石 [marble], nor the g金ld縁d [gilded] monum碑nts
Of pr王nc子s, shall outl生ve this p力werful rh句me;
But you shall sh照ne more br明ght in these c内nt容nts
Than unsw掃pt st石ne besm塗ar'd with sluttish t時me.
When w無st駄ful w戦r shall st像tues overturn,
And broils r根根t out the w職rk of masonry,
Nor Mars his sw刀rd nor w戦r's qu早ck f火re shall b燃rn
The liv生ng record of your m思m出ry.
'Gainst d死ath and all-oblivious enm敵t意 [enmity]
Shall you p歩ce forth; your pr褒ise shall still find r余地m
Even in the 目y目s [eyes] of all p子st孫rity
That w擦ar this w世rld out to the end終ng d凶運m.
So, t迄ll the j判dgm定nt that y自分rself ar起se,
You l生ve in this, and dw居ll in l愛ver's 目y目s.

-Sh揺kesp戈are

Saving you Time and Money

Consider the cost of taking university courses or study abroad in Japan to cover the essentials of Japanese grammar, reading, writing, and speaking, and you're looking at $3000 to $60,000 for three years of study.

With discipline to study 30 minutes or more a day, you can make rapid progress through Japanese Complete that will also stick with you better than a normal college course!

Monthly or Yearly Subscriptions Available

Get two months free when you subscribe for a year or simply subscribe month-to-month for when you have time to study. Your progress is never lost, so if you leave for a while you can be reassured that the progress you've made will be there when you get back to studying.

The first and best interactive textbook

Japanese learning has never been more straightforward or convenient.

Learn. Train. Retain.

Spend time reading, taking notes, and listening along to the lessons. Take the quizzes when you're confident in your understanding, and move through all the lessons one by one. The path has never been more straightforward. We teach kanji by frequency, based on the 2011 Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese which means as soon as you learn a kanji, you're likely to encounter it in the wild, in native Japanese media.

Membership Benefits

Complete Access to the Fastest Way

  • Develop intuition for Japanese.
  • Unlock the secrets and progress faster than ever.
  • Establish a rocksolid foundation.
  • We are releasing new lessons every week. More and more content for you to take you all the way.
  • Lessons have audio recorded so you can simply hit play and listen along to the chapters 🎶
  • Start forming your own phrases using Japanese grammar from chapter one onwards.
  • The quiz system has been created to really test your understanding, while being fun and interactive. It's such a delight to see how our students master grammar, day-by-day.
  • You can access the platform from any screen with internet.
  • Maximize insight and understanding, and minimize time spent studying!

Dedicated Students are in Agreement

  • "It surprised me to see that Japanese Complete starts with particles, but it has helped me to understand them better. Now I feel I have a better grasp of how they work."

    I.G. via Spain.

  • "The approach that’s being taken to build a solid understanding in the structure and rules of how the language works really is helping a lot of things click with other programs I’ve studied in the past."

    C.B. via Australia