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Here, you will find a growing collection of the Japanese workbooks for beginners — downloadable PDFs.
Yes, these are 100% free and original.
If you’re interested in learning Japanese, I do suggest getting a Japanese language program later, but first let’s do workbooks.
How to download and use these Japanese workbook PDFs.
- Click on the images to open up the PDFs.
- You can also right click and “save as” to save the PDFs to your device
- Print the workbooks. If you don’t print and write in them, you’re getting NOTHING out of this. You have to practice and put in work to learn Japanese.
1. The “How-to-Write” Hiragana and Katakana Workbook
- Goal: Teaches you to read and write Hiragana and Katakana
- Target: Absolute Beginners (start here)
New to Japanese? Want to learn to write the Japanese alphabet?
Then you’ll want this free Japanese workbook for beginners. This workbook contains 52 pages with Hiragana and Katakana tutorials and plenty of space to write each character out. By the way, workbook is made by JapanesePod101 — a popular Japanese learning system. So, if you click on the image below, you can download it from them.
2.Hiragana & Katakana Mastery Practice Workbook
- Goal: Helps you practice hiragana & katakana and reinforce what you’ve learned.
- Target: Absolute Beginners who learned hiragana & katakana but want practice.
This 10-page Japanese Workbook PDF is all about testing your kana (meaning, Hiragana and Katakana.) So, if you went through the workbook above and learned the characters, it’s time to test and practice. And that’s where this workbook comes in. There are 10 pages of Hiragana and Katakana comprehension quizzes, matching exercises, writing exercises and more… to make sure that you know your Kana inside out. Download for practice.
This workbook is made by Linguajunkie (me) and PDF-Language-lessons.com.
3. The Level 1 Japanese Workbook
- Goal: Tests you on Japanese words and grammar.
- Target: Absolute Beginners who are learning with a program or textbook already but need exercise.
This workbook since it has 101+ beginner level questions. Don’t worry, the questions are easy if you follow the lessons that I introduce on in the inside. There are plenty of exercises: matching, translation, multiple choice, grammar, plus a lot of repeated questions for extra review.
4. Japanese Writing Workbook Bundle
- Goal: Teaches you words and phrases & helps with writing
- Target: Absolute Beginners who are learning with a program or textbook already but need exercise. Anyone who wants to practice writing.
If you’re looking for Japanese workbook PDFs that you can print and write in… here’s a nice collection also from JapanesePod101. The workbooks are based around various topics: greetings, nouns, adjectives, time-related phrases and more. Each Japanese workbook contains a number of words and phrases along with the translations. Your job is to write out the Japanese words in the blank spaces.
5.Talk About Yourself in Japanese – Writing Workbook
- Goal: Teaches you words and phrases for talking about yourself (introduction, name, age, nationality, etc.)
- Target: Absolute Beginners who are learning with a program or textbook already but need exercise. Anyone who wants to practice writing.
Want to be able to introduce yourself in Japanese?
This Japanese workbook for beginners will give you the phrases you need and… give you the chance to practice writing it all out. Like… your name… Where you’re from in Japanese… Your age …. And more.
So, download the PDF, follow the sentence pattern examples. and practice the writing.
6. Japanese Workbook for Kanji (N5 and N4)
- Goal: Teaches you beginner level Kanji.
- Target: Absolute Beginners who are learning with a program or textbook already but need exercise. Anyone who wants to practice writing.
Once you’re done with Hiragana and Katakana, you should move onto Kanji. So, here are 2 worksheets that were designed for the N4 and N5 Japanese Proficiency tests. In total, you’ll pick up 280+ kanji if you print out and fill out these worksheets. If you’re a brand new beginner, start with N5, and then move down to N4. N5 is considered the test that beginners should take and N4 is harder than N5.
7. 100+ Japanese Words & Phrases for Beginners
- Goal: Teaches you the 100+ most common words and how to write them.
- Target: Absolute Beginners who learned the Hiragana and Katakana (and perhaps some Kanji). Anyone who wants to start boosting their vocabulary.
Done with Hiragana and Katakana?
Want to learn the top 100 common Japanese words? And want to practice writing them? Then this is where this Japanese Writing Workbook comes in. There are 100+ words and phrases with translations, romaji, and space for you to practice writing out each one.
8. Japanese Learning Checklist for Beginners
New to Japanese? Wondering where and how to start? And what exact things you need to do? Fear not. This PDF worksheet/checklist lays out all the steps you need to take as a beginner. Some are simple ones. Others you’ll need to continue doing well until you’re fluent. But, they’re all important.
Why Learn with Japanese Workbook PDF?
- Free at Linguajunkie.com
- Get a chance to practice your Japanese
- Remember Japanese better through practice (writing in the workbooks)
- Speak fluently later… because you’ve practiced
- You’ll never learn simply by “listening” or “reading about things.” You have to DO things. It’s like learning to dance without actually trying to dance.
The fact is… you can read and listen to things all day long…
But, you will NEVER learn Japanese…
And you will NEVER learn to use it freely and speak it freely like your very own language… if you don’t actually do work — practice writing and speaking.
Hence, these Japanese writing workbooks give you a good opportunity to remember what you’ve learned and write things out. Doing this — using the words and writing them — will help you remember them better. So that later, you can freely use them while you’re speaking Japanese.
Related resources:
– The Main Junkie