掲示板 Forums - New Intermediate/N3 schedule pack released!

As of today (October 15th, 2025), our new Grammar/Word schedule pack for the JLPT N3 (Intermediate) is available for all users.

What all is new?

1. Each of the 55 grammar lists in the schedule will be preceded by one of the newly completed (written) grammar lessons, written by a Japanese teacher specifically for renshuu.

2. The number of words in the N3 pack has expanded to 2,496 words. This is roughly 900 more words than our previous lists. While our previous lists were slightly on the lean side, we believe that you are better to be over-prepared for the JLPT exams (if you take them), and the JLPT lists that float around on the internet often leave out a significant number of everyday terms. All the new words have been pulled from frequently used word lists or from Japanese example sentences written by a native Japanese teacher for renshuu's Intermediate/N3 level.

Important things to note

1. While the older lists are still available, the default for all users adding Intermediate materials will be these new schedules.

2. Your old schedules will not be automatically removed or converted to the new schedules. We'll leave that decision up to you.

I am already studying N3/Intermediate. Should I switch?

While it's up to you, I strongly recommend switching. Because the new written lessons are lined up with the new schedules, it will make the most sense to learn the new grammar in each lesson then have the grammar grouped together for you to practice. The word lists are also arranged to best support your grammar learning.

How to migrate:

1. Go to Manage your Schedules (accessible from the Dashboard)
2. Check both the grammar and word schedules for Intermediate/N3, and remove them. This will NOT remove any mastery/study data.
3. Switch over to All Schedules (on the same Manage page)
4. Under renshuu recommended > Intermediate, tap the + button next to the "Intermediate Japanese" schedule pack.

With this, you're ready to go! Remember, each vocabulary lesson will include (among others) all words that appear in the grammar exercises, so it is always best to clear out all new vocabulary before learning the grammar.

If you have any questions feel free to leave them here.

Not a typo, but could have been clearer. Fixed it up!

I actually intentionally do not do that - I'd rather the path to get there be something that the user becomes familiar with, so next time (for any schedule), they hopefully can find it more easily.

It sounds like a nice idea, but moving stats for a schedule (which is where the streak comes from would be a significant amount of work for a relatively small number of users.

It wasn't until I looked but I was apparently almost done with both intermediate words and grammar (98 and 95 percent complete). Is it worth me migrating these now?

They're not broken - unlike the old schedule, these schedules are the same style as the n5/n4 ones: they let out one lesson of materials at a time (since the vocab and grammar are linked up), and when you clear out the new materials, you can move onto the next lesson.

That being said, if you're at 95/98%, I wouldn't say these schedules are overly necessary for you. Move onto N2 :)

Thrilled to see the updated N3 course live!

In my case, I see the 50% completion on the Intermediate Japanese pack (had 100% and 90% on the old vocab and grammar schedules) and 100% & 99% respectively on the kanji and sentences. If this information is useful to someone.

So, I guess there is a long way of practice ahead :)

マイコーさん、どうもありがとうございます！

これからもよろしくお願いします！

That's great, thank you so much !