Japanese Workbook Vol.4

About this book

THE SERIES GROWS — 300 NEW KANJI, 600 NEW WORDS, AND 920 KANJI IN TOTAL.

Finished Vol.1, Vol.2 and Vol.3? This is your Vol.4 — with zero overlap. Every kanji and every word in this book is new, and with it the four volumes together train 920 kanji and 2,400 words.

Inside: 300 kanji for JLPT N2 (the characters taught for N2 across the major textbooks and courses), each on its own study page with a step-by-step stroke-order build-up, a numbered stroke diagram, an example compound — and four full rows of practice squares (trace, copy, then write from memory). Then 600 new words in 20 themes — government and courts, the economy and industry, news and media, science and research, environment and resources, health and care, work and management, university life, society, feelings, nature, travel and living abroad, food and farming, home and infrastructure, money and contracts, the arts, sports, and the adverbs and formal expressions of real Japanese — every word with a reading, romaji, meaning, a natural example sentence, and space to write it three times.

Plus 12 new culture readings — a third set. Read about a convenience store at midnight, moving house and a new town, a year of working from home, a small room with a cat, a town facing ageing, the future of rubbish and recycling, a summer of extreme heat, life in a snow country, a night bus journey, life on a remote island, kabuki for the first time, and a traditional craft workshop — in real N2-level Japanese, with a full English translation, key words and questions on every reading.

17,000+ guided practice squares. Review quizzes close every part, with a full answer key and a kanji index at the back. A 12-week study plan in the front matter (25 kanji, 50 words and one reading a week) takes you through the whole book. Stroke order for all 300 kanji verified character-by-character against the KanjiVG database.

Inside: 300 kanji study pages · 600 words with example sentences · 12 culture readings (Japanese + translation + questions) · quizzes and answer key · 12-week plan.