And now, riding a bike is probably second nature to you. When you started riding your bike, you probably fell down a lot, you probably didn’t go very fast, but over time you got better and more skilled. It’s so frustrating!” Yeah, it is a bit rough. “But Mac! I never know the words for what I want to say. You just have to practice with it a little bit.Īnd, I know what you are saying your head. What can you possibly say with the 600 words that are covered at the N5 level? Well, with a little practice you can say and write a lot with that set of words. The same could be said about speaking at this level of course. Amazingly, you can convey quite a bit of things. So, if you are thinking about taking the N5 test, you might be wondering to yourself what the reading could possibly be like with such a limited vocabulary and limited knowledge of kanji. You have a general idea of how to say the words too.īut that is not the case for Japanese. Some other languages, that are based on roman characters are slightly easier to get into because you can read it from day one.
I remember when I first started studying Japanese well over 10 years ago, what could I possibly read at this level? Japanese is such a complicated language because you have to know 2000+ characters to read it (well/easily).
