Why we’re building this
Passing N2 and holding your own in a Japanese meeting turn out to be two different skills. This is practice for the second one.
The gap this fills
Japanese study material is built around reading and listening, because that’s what proficiency tests measure. So people arrive in a Japanese workplace able to parse a contract but unable to say “I need two more days” to a manager without it landing as an excuse.
The hard part was never vocabulary. It’s choosing a register in real time, under mild social pressure, out loud, with no chance to redraft. That’s a speaking problem, and speaking is the one thing textbooks, flashcard apps, and the JLPT don’t ask you to do.
What you can practice
Five modules, from the interview through to the meetings you’ll sit in once you have the job — interviews, workplace conversations and keigo, built around situations that come up in a real working week. The full syllabus is published, and it shows one scenario worked start to finish.
Who’s behind it
Work Ready Japanese is an independent project, built by people who have had to do this in Japanese themselves and wanted the practice tool that didn’t exist at the time.
Questions, or a workplace situation you’d like to see covered? Write to hello@workreadyjapanese.com — it reaches a person.
Where it’s up to
The app isn’t released yet. The scenarios, the feedback model and the syllabus above are what’s being built now, and the waitlist is how the first group gets in. Joining it gets you an email when Module 01 opens and the founding rate when it does — and nothing else.
We’re not going to pretend a launch date we don’t have. When it’s ready, you’ll hear about it once.