This page introduces our free worksheets for learning Japanese.
Are you looking for good Japanese study materials?
Find many excellent educational materials here, all are free and printable.
Following the Japanese elementary school curriculum, our worksheet collection has been developed to gradually expand your Japanese skills.
Not only will you learn hiragana, katakana, and basic kanji, but you will also learn everyday life words, easy phrases, and grammar.
All worksheets are free to download as a PDF document and print out.
Hiragana chart
Use this hiragana chart as the first learning step.
Hiragana writing worksheet (letter tracing)
This is a worksheet for practicing writing hiragana character letters in the correct order
and learn the basic words containing 2 or 3 characters at the same time.
The illustrations will also help to improve your vocabulary!
Printable hiragana tracing worksheets (all individual characters)
Chart of dakuon, handakuon, yo-on of hiragana
Next is the table for dakuon, handakuon, and yo-on.
You can learn the words with dakuon (゛）, handakuon （゜）, or yo-on (hiragana letter followed by a small ‘ya,’ ‘yu,’ or ‘yo’) including ぷりん (pudding), びょういん (hospital), and でんしゃ (train).
Printable chart of dakuon, handakuon, and yo-on in hiragana
Hiragana worksheets
More hiragana worksheets are listed here.
・Numbers in hiragana
・Days of the week in hiragana
・Sokuon and yo-on of hiragana (Small ‘tsu’, ‘ya,’ ‘yu,’ or ‘yo’)
・Choon of hiragana (long vowel sound)
・Hiragana puzzles
・Hiragana word scrambles
Katakana worksheets
These are free worksheets for katakana.
In addition to the basic katakana chart, you can enrich your vocabulary by learning daily-use words.
| Katakana chart | All katakana |
| Katakana word scramble | Katakana word scramble |
| Sokuon and yo-on of katakana | Small ‘tsu’, ‘ya,’ ‘yu,’ or ‘yo’ |
| Choon of katakana | Long vowel sound |
| Hatsuon of katakana | Words with ‘n’ |
| Animal sounds in katakana | Write Japanese animal sounds |
| Countries in katakana | Write country names in katakana |
| Katakana puzzles | Puzzles and crosswords |
| Convert to katakana | Change hiragana to katakana |
| Confusing words | Similar katakana |
| Basic words | Transportation, animal, plant, food, sport, and more |
Kanji worksheets
These are worksheet series for kanji.
You can learn the Japanese Ministry of Education’s Kanji List which is taught in grades 1 to 9.
・Grade 1 kanji worksheet (quiz)
・Grade 2 kanji worksheet (quiz)
・Grade 3 kanji worksheet (quiz)
・Grade 4 kanji worksheet (quiz)
・Grade 5 kanji worksheet (quiz)
・Grade 6 kanji worksheet (quiz)
・Kanji worksheets and drill exercises for grades 7-12
Vocabulary and grammar
These worksheets will help improve your vocabulary and grammar.
Master the basic language skills with these worksheets for the vocabulary and grammar taught in elementary schools in Japan.
This worksheet list includes a wide range of Japanese words and expressions some of which are unique to Japanese. The topic covers subjects and verbs, conjunctions, propositions, ko-so-a-do words (demonstrative pronouns, etc.), modifiers, polite expressions, different words of the same sounds, and more.
Vocabulary and grammar worksheets list
Keigo (polite expressions)
These are worksheets to learn polite expressions.
Using examples and exercises, these worksheets explain the basic idea of keigo (polite expressions) and its three forms: honorific, humble, and polite forms.
Try the exercises to change the plain term to the keigo form!
Charts for the proper use of keigo in its different forms
Proverbs and idioms
These worksheets are for proverbs and idioms.
Hiragana is written on the proverb worksheets so that you can practice reading as well.
・Four character words (yojijukugo) list (with meanings)
・Four character words (yojijukugo) worksheets and quizzes
・Proverb quiz
・Proverb and idiom list
Reading comprehension test
These can test your reading comprehension.
The materials are used for Japanese elementary school students. Multiple readings will help to boost your Japanese.
There are 20 pages, so you can try one page a day!
Reading comprehension test list
More worksheets are available here!
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