Every bundle below is a digital download: eBooks with audio, and on many titles Anki decks and Sentence Explorer access as well. Buy once, download straight away, keep it forever.
The bundles are grouped by level. If you are not sure where you sit, start with one of the two below. They are the ones we point most people to, and between them they cover the first year or two of study.
Not sure? Start with one of these.
Complete Beginner Digital Bundle $49
Start here if you are new to Japanese. Hiragana and katakana, first phrases, simple stories, and audio throughout. It is the widest on-ramp we sell.
Learn Japanese with Stories, Complete Bundle (20 Volumes) $49
Start here if you already know hiragana and some basic grammar, and what you need now is reading practice. Twenty volumes of folktales and legends, every word defined, with audio and Anki decks.
ABSOLUTE BEGINNER
You are starting from zero, or still working on hiragana and katakana.
For the total beginner. Builds from the very first characters upward, with a lot of simplified stories for hiragana practice.
Beginning Japanese Phrases & Stories $9.99
A step up from Beri- Beri- Shoshinsha and a step below Learn Japanese with Stories. Good for bridging that gap.
Frank and the Obaasan (Vol. 1-2) $9.98
A reader favorite from Makoto magazine. Frank the alien crash-lands in Japan and has to learn the language and the customs. Silly, and genuinely instructive.
BEGINNER
You know the kana and can follow a basic sentence.
JLPT N5 Bundle $35
Grammar, reading, vocabulary and kanji at N5 level, with audio, Anki and Sentence Explorer. Useful whether or not you sit the actual test.
Learn Japanese through Dialogues $20
Eight books, each built around a real conversation with full vocabulary and grammar notes. The best choice if your goal is speaking rather than reading.
UPPER BEGINNER
You can read simple Japanese and now want volume and variety.
Learn Japanese with Stories, Complete (20 Volumes) $49
Both story bundles together, and the best value in the shop. Buy this rather than the two separately.
Learn Japanese with Stories #1 (10 Volumes) $35
Ten volumes of Japanese folktales. Every word defined, with the grammar and culture explained as you go.
Learn Japanese with Stories #2 (10 Volumes) $35
Ten more folktales and legends, continuing on from the first bundle.
Learn Japanese with Stories, Audiobooks $29
The story bundles already include audio. This one goes further and works with no written material at all, for listening on the move.
JLPT N4 Bundle $19
The next rung up from N5. Kanji, grammar and vocabulary at N4 level.
Learn Japanese Vocabulary (10 eBooks) $30
Proverbs, idioms, sound words and internet slang. The vocabulary textbooks tend to skip.
LOWER INTERMEDIATE
You can work through a page of Japanese with a dictionary nearby, and you want real subject matter.
Japan’s legendary creatures, read in Japanese at roughly N4 level. Every word and grammar point defined.
Learn Japanese with History & Essays $24
Japanese history read in Japanese, with full vocabulary support, plus audio, Anki and app access.
Japan’s Jidai: The Eras of Japan $18
Five volumes walking through the eras of Japanese history, from Nara to Showa.
Biographies of Great Japanese Figures $18
Five volumes on the people who shaped Japan, written to be read in Japanese.
Sightseeing in Japan $9.99
Read about the places you would actually visit, and why they matter. Good preparation for a trip.
Geography, jokes, haiku and the martial arts, all used as a way into the language.
MAKOTO MAGAZINE
Our long-running magazine for learners. Every issue mixes stories, dialogues, culture and audio, so it suits a range of levels at once.
Makoto 6-Issue Value Bundles $15 each
Six issues at a time, at a steep discount. Bundles run from Issues 1-6 all the way up to the most recent.
Fifty issues in one purchase. Years of reading, and by a distance the lowest cost per issue.
The next fifty issues, picking up where the first bundle ends.
IF ENGLISH IS NOT YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE
Some of our beginner titles are also available in Spanish and Italian.
Colección de Libros Japoneses, Vol. 1-10 $18
Nuestra colección de lecturas japonesas, con todo el vocabulario y la gramática explicados en español.
Collezione di Letture in Giapponese, Vol. 1-5 $12
Le nostre letture giapponesi, con vocabolario e grammatica spiegati in italiano.
Beri- Beri- Shoshinsha (edizione italiana) $9.99
Per chi parte da zero, con le spiegazioni in italiano.
Still not sure which one?
Write to us at help@thejapanshop.com and tell us roughly where you are and what you want to be able to do. A real person reads every message, and we would rather point you to the right bundle than sell you the wrong one.
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