Not having some basic Japanese language skills will make your time in Japan, confusing, frustrating and expensive because you can’t communicate effectively

Japanese is written in columns starting at the top right-hand corner of the page and continues to the left-hand side of the page. Newspapers, books and magazines are read from the back page to the front page

As there is no official textbook or guide for the JLPT N3 level this study guide has been created to help fill an information gap

The official JLPT guide states that JLPT N3 level is roughly equivalent to Japanese Grades 1 through 4 in terms of kanji and vocabulary content with approximately 650 Kanji made up of Grade 1 (80), Grade 2 (160) Grade 3 (200) and Grade 4 (200) and 3750 vocabulary