About Daily Dokkai

Daily Dokkai (デイリー読解, “daily reading comprehension”) is a Japanese course that takes you from your first word to JLPT N1, with a short reading to practice on every day at every level from N5 to N1.

What you can use

• The lessons teach Japanese step by step. Each one is built around a real conversation, teaches the grammar in it a little at a time, and ends with a short test. Every question you miss is saved and comes back in later lessons and on your Weak spots page until you get it right twice in a row. Every line of every conversation and every grammar example can be played aloud, each in the voice of the person speaking.
• The practice exams come at the end of N5, N4, N3, N2 and N1. Each one is timed like the real JLPT and covers vocabulary, grammar and reading, and listening.
• The daily reading is a short story based on the news, written for your level. You can tap any word to see its reading, its meaning and the kanji it is made of, then quiz yourself on the words you didn't know.
• Kana & numbers has charts for hiragana, katakana, numbers, counters and telling the time, with flashcard quizzes that bring back the cards you miss.

What it costs

Daily Dokkai is free while it is in beta, and there is no card to enter. A paid membership is coming for the lessons after Lesson 1 of each level. Starter, Lesson 1 of every level, the daily reading and Kana & numbers will stay free, and anyone with an account will be told before anything changes.

Starter and Lesson 1 of every level work without an account. From Lesson 2 on you need a free one, which saves the questions you get wrong so they follow you between your phone and your computer.

How it is made and checked

The lessons and articles are written with the help of AI (Claude, by Anthropic) and edited so that the sentence length, grammar and vocabulary fit each level.

Readings

Every word's reading is checked against the JMdict dictionary, including words in conjugated forms and compounds. Names, irregular verbs and dates are checked by hand. In the lessons, every kanji belongs to a word you have already been taught, so you can always tap it to see how it is read.

The readings of individual kanji (on'yomi in katakana, kun'yomi in hiragana) come from KANJIDIC2, published by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group and used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Word readings are checked against JMdict from the same group, under the same license.

All dictionary-derived data on this site, such as word readings, meanings and kanji readings, is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, version 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0), as set out in the EDRDG license statement. That data remains the copyright of James William Breen and the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group.

The JLPT level shown for a word comes from Jonathan Waller's JLPT vocabulary lists (tanos.co.uk, CC BY), as matched to JMdict by Stephen Kraus (yomitan-jlpt-vocab, CC BY-SA 4.0). The JLPT itself hasn't published an official word list since 2010, and Waller's lists are the ones most learners use. Names, conjugated forms and words that aren't on the lists don't show a level.

Facts in the articles

Every article is an original text written for learners, based on official statistics and published reporting from sources such as government ministries, the Bank of Japan and major news outlets. Each article names its source and links to it. In articles published since September 20, 2026, every number in the Japanese text can be found on the page the article links to. Some older articles link to a page on the same topic, and their numbers come from a report linked from that page.

Voices

The voices you hear in the lessons, the practice exams and our short videos are computer-generated, made with Microsoft Azure's neural text-to-speech voices.

Photographs

All photographs are openly licensed (Creative Commons or public domain), mostly from Wikimedia Commons, and each one is credited under the image with a link to the original. We never use AI-generated images of real people or events.

Get in touch

You can send questions, corrections and ideas from the Contact page. The privacy page explains what we store and what we don't.

Daily Dokkai is an independent project. JLPT is a registered trademark of its respective owners, and this site is not affiliated with them.