Michi turns “someday” into a daily plan. Answer 3 quick questions and get a personalized roadmap from JLPT N5 to N1 — week by week, built entirely on the best free resources. No paywalls. No fluff. No login.
Takes 15 seconds. Your plan appears instantly.
Michi hands you the same map serious self-learners use to go from zero to fluent — then gets out of your way.
Start exactly where you are — total beginner or N2 — with the time you actually have and the goal you actually want.
Tae Kim, Anki, WaniKani, NHK Easy, the official JLPT tests and more — every link hand-verified and free to use.
Each week has specific tasks with the resource links attached. You always know exactly what to do today.
Three paces — Aggressive, Standard, Sustainable. We never fake-compress N1 into “3 months.” Real numbers only.
Tick off weeks and watch N5 → N1 light up. Momentum you can see beats motivation you have to summon.
Come back any time, right where you left off. Switch pace or goal and the whole plan regenerates instantly.
Your level, how much time you have a day, and your goal. That’s the whole sign-up.
Instantly see your personalized N5 → N1 path, week by week, with every resource linked.
Follow the plan, tick off weeks, and let Michi track the climb. Small days add up.
Most Japanese apps keep you tapping for a streak, then nudge you toward a subscription. You finish a year “fluent” in an app and still can’t read a menu.
Michi isn’t a course and isn’t trying to be your teacher. It’s the map — the exact sequence of free tools and milestones that take you from kana to N1 — organized around your life.
You bring the daily reps. Michi makes sure they point in the right direction.
Study hours come from Coto Academy & the Japan Foundation: roughly 400–500 hours for N5, and 3,900–4,500 hours for N1 from zero.
That means N1 in a year is only realistic with near full-time study or living in Japan. Michi shows you the true timeline at every pace — because a plan you can trust is a plan you’ll actually follow.
N5 in a few months, though? Completely doable. Everyone starts there.
One email. Three questions. A complete, honest path to Japanese — free, forever.
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