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Personally, I love workbooks. Do you?
Why? I love ’em because you get to practice Japanese… which gets you learning faster.
So here, you’ll get a growing collection of Japanese PDF workbooks.
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.
2. Japanese Verbs Past Tense Workbook: 100+ Phrases
Want to master the past tense for Japanese verbs?
Well, you’ll want this pretty big, 100+ phrase 26+ page Japanese PDF workbook. Practice writing out the past tense phrases and you’ll automatically master the past tense.
Click the button bellow to learn more and get the workbook.
3. 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.
4.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.) 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.
5. 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.
6.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.
7. 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.
8. 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 Workbook comes in. There are 100+ words and phrases with translations, romaji, and space for you to practice writing out each one.
9. 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.
10. Your First 100 Japanese Words Workbook
- Goal: Teaches you the 100+ words and how to write them. This is an update of the above.
- Target: Absolute Beginners Anyone who wants to start boosting their vocabulary.
Want to learn Japanese words? I made this workbook just for this purpose. This allows you practice writing ’em out as you pick up the meanings along the way. Kill 2 birds with one stone – vocab acquisition and writing!
11. Workbooks & Worksheets by PDFWorkbooks.com
PDFworkbooks.com is another place…
Where you can find a variety of Japanese PDF workbooks to help you learn and practice Japanese. They offer 10+ which you can download for free. Below is a preview of what you can expect.
Check ’em out by clicking the image below.
12. Japanese How Are You Phrases
- Goal: Learn to ask and answer this common question.
- Target: Absolute Beginners.
Learning how to ask and answer how are you in Japanese...
Well, that’ll help you a lot with speaking Japanese and overall flow of conversations. You know, since you and I ask and answer this almost on a daily basis, right? So, I made this workbook just for this purpose.
13. Phrases That’ll Improve Your Japanese
- Goal: Teaches phrases that help you learn in Japanese.
- Target: Absolute Beginners and above.
What kind of phrases? I’m talkin’ about phrases and question you’ll use with native speakers. The kind that ask for explanations, translations, and meanings. Like, “how would you say X in Japanese?”
14. Talking About Japanese (20+ Phrases)
- Goal: Be able to talk about your Japanese studies
- Target: Absolute Beginners and above.
I know you’ll agree here… any Japanese learner should be able to talk about their Japanese learning… in Japanese. Because, you’ll be asked. You’ll want to talk about how your language is coming along. And so you can say “ah… it’s too hard.”
15. Encouraging Japanese Phrases
- Goal: Learn positive phrases that everyone likes to hear
- Target: Beginners and above.
You know the kind… phrases like “do your best,” “I wish you well,” and ganbatte. This workbook will help you practice writing out encouraging Japanese phrases.
16. Japanese Verbs Past Tense
- Goal: Master verbs in the past tense
- Target: Beginners and above.
I made this for anyone who learned how Japanese verbs work in the the past tense…
…but needs practice to lock it in.
Consider this grammar practice through writing. Your job here is to practice writing out the lines inside… and through the repetition, you’ll internalize the grammar. The phrases inside include both casual and formal variations.
16. Japanese Adult Phrases
- Goal: Fun adult phrases
- Target: Beginners and above.
What…? What are Japanese adult phrases?
Perhaps something salacious and saucy?
Well, maybe. But all the phrases inside are some of what adults would want to use with native speakers. While doing adult things. Like talking about back pain or grabbing coffee.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What’s the big deal about Japanese workbooks? The big deal is.. if you want to learn Japanese for good. I mean, be able to speak it and understand it like it’s second nature, you need to practice. There are many ways to practice. Workbooks are one of those ways.
2. But will this help me with speaking…? You still need to open your mouth to speak. But, writing out phrases will lodge them in your brain for good.To the point that you can automatically use ’em when you’re talkin’ in Japanese. So, yes, it will help.
3. How do I download these workbooks? Click on the green buttons and links above. Be sure to check your downloads folder. The PDF files will either open in a new window or get sent to your downloads.
4. Should I print ’em? You totally should. Without the writing, there’s no practice. Or, heck, if you can put it on a tablet and write digitally, that’s fine too.
5. Will these workbooks make me fluent? Ha, if only! No. And no one app, textbook, or class will make you fluent either. All resources are steps on the journey of learning Japanese. They all help in different ways and to different extents. Use ’em all.
6. What’s your favorite way to learn Japanese? Mine thus far has been listening to Japanese conversation, which you can do with JapanesePod101 (click here to learn more).
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.
So, practice on!
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– The Main Junkie