The N5 Coverage Map
This is the honest map of the whole course: every JLPT N5 area, the real game lessons and word lists that teach it, and the extra material we wrote where the game leaves a gap. Yellow links are playable game content; cyan notes are textbook extras.
Grammar coverage
The middle column links to the game lessons (each with native audio and a quiz); the right column is what this textbook added.
| N5 area | Covered by the game | Guide extra |
|---|---|---|
| Writing systems (kana, first kanji) | Long and short vowels Spelling rules | Full hiragana and katakana charts, kanji introduction (ch. 1-2) |
| Greetings & self-introduction | First greetings Basic self introduction Greeting at the front door Nice to meet you | から来ました pattern |
| です sentences & negation | No, it is not | Full です conjugation table, は vs が primer (ch. 4) |
| Questions: か + question words | Questions Expressing doubt | The nine N5 question words table, なん/なに rule (ch. 5) |
| こそあど demonstratives & の | Topic with の Location of products in stores | The full こそあど grid (ch. 6) |
| Numbers, counters & age | Counting words Age and birthday | Counter sound-change tables, irregular readings (ch. 7) |
| Days, dates & time | Asking about business hours From ...to... Ask about duration Wake up and go to bed | Clock-reading rules, ふん/ぷん changes (ch. 8) |
| Core particles を に で へ と も | Do something somewhere | The whole particle system, explained one by one (ch. 9) |
| Verb groups & ます form | Getting out and coming back home Wake up and go to bed | Group identification rules, conversion tables (ch. 10) |
| Past tense & まだ/もう | Past tense Not yet | Four-form polite verb table (ch. 11) |
| て-form & requests | Entire chapter: sound-change rules, ～てください (ch. 12) | |
| Existence あります/います & directions | Direction I got lost! | Animate/inanimate rule, position words (ch. 13) |
| い-adjectives & colors | -i anding adjective Negative -i adjective Past -i adjectives Past negative -i ending adjectives Describe clothes Asking about colors | Full conjugation table, the いい irregular (ch. 14) |
| な-adjectives | -na ending adjectives Past of -na ending adjectives Past negative -na ending adjectives | な vs い contrast table, きれい/きらい traps (ch. 15) |
| Comparisons & superlatives | Comparisons More or less The best | Sentence frames for より/のほうが/どちら (ch. 16) |
| Wants たい, invitations ましょう | I would like to Let's do something Invitations to events | たい conjugation rules (ch. 17) |
| Ability できる & reasons から | I can do this being good at something As, since, because Praises and compliments | が requirement with できる (ch. 17) |
| Shopping & ordering set phrases | Initiate a conversation at the cafe Ordering drinks Asking about food served in a cafe Polite interactions Bargaining Not the right size Buying and selling Change mind | Counting money in yen (ch. 18) |
| Weather, health & people talk | Windy but sunny Symptoms 1 Symptoms 2 Symptoms 3 Symptoms 4 Taking medicines Transportation Social roles | Body-parts primer (ch. 19) |
Vocabulary coverage
The game teaches 774 words with audio across these groups — all browsable in the dictionary and revisable in the game's SRS.
| N5 area | Covered by the game | Guide extra |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday objects (11 scenes) | 387 words across Bakery, Beach, Cafe, Clothes, Farm, House, Office, School, Sports, Supermarket and Zoo — with pictures and audio | — |
| Numbers | 101 number words | Counter words beyond the game's set |
| Verbs | 78 verbs with audio | Group labels and conjugated forms |
| Adjectives | 58 adjectives + 13 colors + 4 temperature words | い/な classification per word |
| Places & directions | 35 places + 18 direction words | Position words (うえ、した、なか…) |
| People & questions | 28 jobs + 15 conversation questions + 16 weather questions | Body parts, family terms |
| Time | 7 days of the week | Clock times, months, relative days |
What N5 needs that we added
The Noun Town game is built around vocabulary, listening and real dialogue — so the textbook's job was to add the system behind what you hear. Everything in cyan across the course is textbook-only material:
- The complete kana charts and pronunciation rules (chapters 1-2)
- Explicit conjugation tables — です, verbs, both adjective families (chapters 4, 10-12, 14-15)
- The particle system as a system, not just examples (chapter 9)
- The て-form — the one large N5 grammar area the game's lessons don't yet drill (chapter 12)
- Counter sound-changes and irregular readings (chapter 7)
Everything else — the dialogues, the audio, the words, the tips — comes straight from the game.
How to use this map
Three ways, depending on where you are:
- Studying for the exam? Work the chapters in order; each row above tells you where every syllabus point lives.
- Already play the game? Scan the middle column for lessons you've finished in-game, then read just the cyan extras to systematise what you already know.
- Revising? Jump straight to a weak area — every lesson link opens with audio, and every chapter ends with a quiz.
If you have a free Noun Town Link account, the words you've learned in the game are also revisable in your browser with spaced repetition.
Test yourself
A quick self-check across the whole syllabus — can you place each item?
6 quick questions on this chapter.
Your score
Common questions
Quick answers about this chapter's grammar.
Does the Noun Town game cover all of JLPT N5?
It covers the large majority — all the core vocabulary with audio, and most N5 grammar through its 84 dialogue lessons. The textbook fills the remaining gaps (the て-form, full conjugation tables, the particle system and the writing-system charts) and marks every addition in cyan so you always know what's game content and what's extra.
Can I pass N5 using just the game?
The game builds excellent vocabulary and listening — two of the three exam sections. For the grammar section you'll also want the systematic tables in this textbook, especially chapters 9-12. Together they cover the full syllabus.
Where do I revise the vocabulary?
Every word links to the free online dictionary, and if you play the game with a Noun Town Link account, your learned words appear in a browser-based spaced-repetition reviewer at noun.town/link — the most efficient way to keep them fresh.
Want more practice? Browse all free Japanese lessons or look words up in the Japanese dictionary.