Road to N3 takes you from N5 to N3 with practice in the real test format. Every wrong answer is traced to its cause: a look-alike kanji, a long vowel you didn't hear, a particle borrowed from your own language. Then it tells you how to fix that habit.
Kanji reading, orthography, vocabulary in context, paraphrase, usage, grammar, ★ sentence order, reading and listening.
Each wrong answer is matched to the trap it fell into, with a fix. Every wrong option has its own note on why it doesn't fit that sentence.
Mistakes come back after 1, 3, 7 and 14 days, just before you would forget them.
The real mix of question types and reading formats, the real part times, scored out of 180 with the real pass line and section minimums. Each mock uses fresh questions first.
Most apps tell you that you got 6 out of 10. This one tells you which of 26 kinds of mistake caught you, how often, and why it happens. The explanations are written for someone who thinks in Indonesian and English, because that is where many of the mistakes come from.
After every answer you see the English translation: the sentence, the whole reading passage once you've answered every question on it, and the listening script line by line.
All 650 kanji from N5 to N3 have questions. The 122 that are easiest to confuse sit in 47 look-alike groups (休 体 本 木, 待 持 特 時, 験 険 検). Every kanji comes with its parts and a short memory story, so you remember 休 as "a person leaning on a tree", not as a shape.
The optional Claude coach goes further. It reads your actual wrong answers and explains the pattern behind them in plain language. It runs on your own API key, which stays in your browser.
| Trap | Why it catches you |
|---|---|
| Particle role助詞 | Indonesian di covers both に (where something is) and で (where something happens), so the two blur. |
| Direction and opposites方向性・対義語 | Pinjam is often used for both borrow and lend. Japanese splits them: かりる and かす. Opposites learned as a pair (ふえる / へる) swap the same way. |
| Word order語順 | Kue yang dibuat ibu puts the noun first. Japanese puts it last: 母が 作った ケーキ. |
| Vowel length長音 | Neither language changes meaning with vowel length, so びょういん (hospital) and びよういん (salon) sound alike. |
| Look-alike kanji形の似た漢字 | Kanji get stored as a whole picture, so 休 and 体 trigger the same memory. Learning their parts separates them. |
The app times every answer. A fast wrong answer is different from a slow one: it means a wrong rule feels right, and that has to be unlearned, not just studied more. Slow right answers are knowledge that isn't fast enough for the real test yet.
It also notices what you forget after getting it right once, and whether your accuracy drops at the end of a session.
You know it at test speed.
You know it, but too slowly for the timed test.
A wrong rule that feels right. The most important ones to fix.
You think it through and still miss.
Every grammar point from Minna no Nihongo I and II follows the book's lesson order, and the N3 points are grouped by theme, covering what Shinkanzen Master and So-matome teach. Each point has its own practice questions. Practise a whole lesson, drill one point, or let the app start with your weak ones.
Mock exams are timed and scored the way the JLPT is: out of 180, with the real pass line and a minimum for each section. Fall below one minimum and you fail, even with a good total, so the app shows exactly which section is at risk.
The typing drills make you type readings and verb forms in kana instead of choosing them. Recalling an answer builds stronger memory than recognizing it. Romaji turns into hiragana as you type, and there is an on-screen kana keyboard for phones.
Reading includes N3-length passages and timetable-style info searches, with a clock that compares your pace to the real test. Listening can play exam-room, café or street noise underneath, because the real 聴解 room is never silent.
senshuuせんしゅうJourney splits each level into steps: kanji, vocabulary, grammar, typing recall, reading and listening, then a mock exam. A step is mastered once you get 80% of its test-style questions right, and a countdown shows the days left until the next JLPT.
Scores turns your answers into Pass readiness: a predicted score out of 180 for each level, marked On track to pass, Close to the pass line or Below the pass line, with every section set against its pass minimum. Only test-style questions count, and a score appears only once every section has enough answers, so a lucky streak can't fake a pass.
Road to N3 is meant to be used alongside these textbooks, not instead of them. The books teach each grammar point with full explanations and examples; the app gives you practice and shows where you go wrong. The questions here are written for the app, so you won't find the books' exercises in it.
Minna no Nihongo, Elementary I & II · 3A Corporation. The app's grammar list for N5 and N4 follows its lesson order, 第1課 to 第50課.
Shinkanzen Master N3 Grammar · 3A Corporation. A thorough N3 grammar book with JLPT-style exercises. The app's N3 grammar covers its points, grouped by theme.
Nihongo So-matome N3 · Ask Publishing. Short daily lessons, with a separate book for grammar, vocabulary, kanji, reading and listening.
There is no login. Your progress stays in your own browser, unless you turn on sync.
Turn on sync on the Scores page and open the sync link once on your phone or other computer. Each device keeps working offline and catches up later; nothing is overwritten, and for a question answered on two devices the newer answer counts. Only study progress is stored, on Cloudflare, under a secret key that works like a private link. You can delete it any time, or use a backup file instead.
Every question is written for this app in the JLPT format. They are not official JLPT items, and the app is not affiliated with the Japan Foundation, JEES, or the publishers of the textbooks it follows.
Listening is recorded with synthetic voices (VOICEVOX), which sound natural but are not real exam audio. Every word on the N5–N3 lists has a meaning question, but only the trickier words get sentence practice, so use it alongside your textbooks.