Reading (JLPT N4)
20 passages · 6,512 characters · CC BY-SA 4.0 · EN
Twenty passages after the N5 twenty, written for this site: a notice in the lobby, an email to a teacher, a phone call to a clinic, a sale advert, library rules, a year in review. They use only the 235 kanji of Level C and Level E, the grammar of Level F — plain forms, たら, 〜と思う, 〜てしまう, 〜ことができる, 〜なければならない — and mostly the N5 and N4 word lists. Anything else is in kana.
Two printed pages each, as before: text with furigana, words worth knowing and four questions; then answers, the English, and the passage's kanji with a line to write each. These are longer — 200 to 480 characters — so the copy box asks for the first two sentences only.
★☆☆☆ Everyday situations
Moving house, a part-time job, asking the way, booking a doctor — 200 to 240 characters, N4 grammar from the first line.
★★☆☆ Notices, emails and essays
A notice in the lobby, an email to a teacher, a short essay on trains and one on the seasons; 220 to 300 characters.
★★★☆ Longer narratives
Sports day, a wedding, a festival, a health plan, an advert, a trip — 280 to 410 characters.
★★★★ Real-world texts
A job interview, an argument about pets, library rules, a year in review — 420 to 480 characters.
How to use them
One passage a day, after the kanji set and the grammar sheet it leans on. Read it aloud once — the furigana is there so you can — then a second time for meaning, then answer. Question 4 has no options on purpose: producing a sentence is a different skill from picking one, and the model answer on page 2 is one right answer among several.
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Teachers: page 1 alone is a ten-minute class exercise; the answer page hands out afterwards, or you keep it. Both are CC BY-SA 4.0.