This series picks up where the Japanese Core 2000 left off, covering the next 4,000 most important words in Japanese. So when you finish both series, you’ll have mastered 6,000 items.

The series contains a total of 12 Goals that cover quite challenging intermediate and upper-intermediate items.

This series is for the learner of Japanese who has already mastered the basics and can get by in most everyday situations. Once you have completed this series, you’ll have a solid command of spoken Japanese, and you should be able to follow the majority of what you read in newspapers.