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Our new Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond is live!
Are you curious about what's coming to MaruMori and when? Worry not—our new roadmap is now live!
You can check out the full roadmap by clicking here, but here are a few of the main points:
N3 will be completed in Q1 2025, meaning we'll start Q2 with our new N2 region and content! This means our release schedule will also increase soon! Starting January we'll be releasing a new batch of N3 content every 10 days.
Q1 will bring a lot of different mini games and study tools to help you nail down some of the more difficult parts of learning Japanese (counters, intransitive vs transitive, etc). But next to this, it will also bring some cool new features, like sharing study lists and having a community study list section!
Q2 will focus not only on new tools (like a MPV (video player) mining plugin, and a reading assistance tool for novels/text), but also on completely reworking some of our existing features like the reading exercises.
The mobile apps will continue to be worked on while in early access, we're aiming to get all bells and whistles in there in the coming two quarters, and release it "for real" somewhere in Q2!
In Q3 and Beyond, we will of course keep our schedule filled with releasing N2, as well as N1 content later on, put out Graded Readers, release a browser mining extension (a la Yomichan et al., but with a way to directly add items to your MM Study Lists). And much more! (But more on that later!)
Aside from the features and tools listed, we'll of course also keep improving MaruMori with smaller features and bugfixes as we go. The same goes for content! We'll keep adding content and making adjustments and changes where needed.
Speaking of N2.. Our talented artist is working on the region's artwork, and so far it's looking fantastic! Here's a small sneak preview of a small part of the region!
We're super excited to disclose our plans for the coming year(s), and we hope you're just as enthusiastic about them as we are! 2025 is looking to become another great year for MaruMori!
P.S. Our Annual Holiday Sale is starting in the next few days, keep an eye out for that!
November 2024 Community Profile Share Roundup!
Hi everyone! It's time for the monthly progress roundup again!
For those who don't know: Over on our Discord, we have a "share your profile" event on the 1st of every month. Sharing your profile banner is a great way to track your progress and show off your beautiful custom profile share images and statistics.
So if you also want to be featured next month, be sure to join our discord and post in the corresponding channel on the first of January 
Let's show off those pretty profile images!
New Mobile Apps Update - v1.0.4 - Conjugation trainer, dictionary improvements and more!
A brand new update for the mobile apps just dropped, bringing not just the conjugation training tool, but also SRS details and item management for the dictionary pages. Of course, it also brings some bugfixes and smaller improvements:
New Features:
- Conjugation Trainer - The conjugation trainer has been implemented! You can now start a conjugation session from the "more" tab, or start one from the corresponding Adventure tiles.
- Conjugation Trainer - To make it even easier to start a session, we've added presets for common conjugation combinations. Just tap the preset, and it will change all the settings for you automatically.
- Conjugation Trainer - Of course, we've also implemented the training results screen, so you can immediately view what you did (or did not) wrong.
- Dictionary - Search Results - Now shows markers for your SRS level, known and suspended state on each item.
- Dictionary - Details Page - Same as above
- Dictionary - You can now suspend/unsuspend and mark as known/unknown items from these pages.
Dictionary - You can now add items to study lists straight from the search results page.
Bugfixes:
- Grammar SRS - Fixed an issue with blank screens for certain grammar points & sentences.
- Vocabulary & Kanji SRS - Fixed an issue with blank screens.
- SRS - Fixed an issue where text answers input through keyboard autosuggestions would get marked as incorrect due to a trailing space.
- Android - Discord Login - The authentication modal should now close and let you log in properly.
- SRS - Kanji - Used In tab content now has the correct colors in dark mode.
In the coming months, we'll be bringing the mobile app up to par with the website in terms of features, this release is step one in that direction, but you can expect a lot of stuff coming soon!
Speaking of stuff coming soon, we'll be releasing a new roadmap (for both website and mobile apps) very soon, so keep an eye out for that!
First N3 Mock Exam Released!
The (short) wait is over! We are happy to announce the arrival of the very first MaruMori N3 mock exam!
It may be just one for now, but rest assured, it’s a high-quality practice exam, and there are more in the works. We plan to release two more (to start with) in the not-too-distant future, so keep your eyes peeled for more N3 goodness!
For now, we wanted to make sure that those of you going for the N3 had at least something to practice with on the Maru side of the internet, and we really hope you enjoy doing this mock exam (as much as it is possible to enjoy doing a practice test, haha!).
JLPTを受ける皆さん、頑張ってください！全力を出しきれますように！
From the MaruMori team
P.S. Passing this exam will also give you a new title, achievement, badge, and certificate image for your profile
JLPT Mock Exams Release!
After much hard work, revision, tweaking, and tinkering (don’t forget the tinkering!), we’re proud to announce the release of our JLPT Mock Exam feature!
TL;DR: Find them here
These exams are designed to closely resemble the actual JLPT, so each section has the appropriate time limit, as well as type and amount of questions. The scoring is also true to the official format.
We currently have five full exams each for N5 and N4, featuring the vocabulary, grammar, and reading sections. (We’ll have a separate release for listening in the future.) We’re also hard at work on the N3(+) versions as well, for all of you intermediate(+) pandas out there.
The vocabulary section for N5 and N4 has a 20-minute limit and has the following question types:
Kanji reading
Orthography (choose the correct kanji)
Fill in the blank (with the correct word)
Paraphrase
Usage (N4 only)
Following completion of the vocabulary section, there is a mandatory break. On the actual exam, this break is around 15 minutes, but you can skip it after two minutes on our mocks if you wish. If you do not skip it, it will automatically resume the exam after 15 minutes, so be sure to be back on time from your break!
The grammar and reading section has a 40-minute time limit.
The grammar section has the following question types:
Sentence form (FITB for grammar)
Sentence composition (unscramble)
Text grammar (FITB in a paragraph context)
The reading section has the following question types:
Comprehension short
Comprehension medium
Information retrieval
Every answer on the test is clickable, or you can use the hotkeys “1, 2, 3, 4”. to select answers one through four, and “right arrow” to go to the next question. Once you submit a (full) section, or the time runs out, you cannot return to it.
We’ve also linked each question to its corresponding vocabulary/kanji/grammar point and grammar lesson in MaruMori. So when you finish your test, you’ll see which questions you got wrong (if any!) and will be able to navigate to the appropriate content in need of revision easily.
You can also view all of your past attempts from the results overview, and look at specific exam attempts to see what you may have gotten wrong on each attempt (and hopefully see a better score on every newer attempt!).
Upon passing you will get a bunch of cool things:
Achievement
Badge
Title (that's right! New titles!!!)
Certificate Image (for your profile page, or to share with friends! (People say it’s actually cooler to have the MM certificate than the JLPT one.)
Each level has its own rewards for passing, so be sure to try them all out!
Speaking of passing: Scoring works the same as on the real JLPT. This means you'll not only need enough points per section of the exam but also get enough points on the exam as a whole in order to pass. The amount of points you need differs per JLPT level. If you wish to read more about this, you can find the official JLPT information about it right here: Clickie
We hope this tool is just what you need to ACE your next JLPT attempt!
For all of you taking the JLPT (and everyone else), good luck and happy studies!