Course lesson 1
Japanese Greetings for Everyday Moments
Choose a useful Japanese greeting or polite expression for a familiar moment, then recall it without romaji.
Beginner grammar
Learn Beginner Japanese Grammar in Context
Grammar is easier to notice when it helps you do something. Begin with understandable Japanese, see one useful relationship, and practise it with words you already recognize.
Example first
A pattern gives familiar words a job
Look at the Japanese before the explanation. The recurring ending tells you what the speaker wants the listener to do.
In the first request lesson, 見てください works as a polite classroom instruction: “Please look.” You learn the whole expression now. The rules for making the verb form arrive later, when they can be understood and reused.
A first useful pattern
見てください。
Reading: みてください。
Published lessons
Begin with useful Japanese
Greetings establish the first usable expressions. Later lessons build identity, questions, personal details, and a three-way object system. Lessons 7–10 add checked number, calendar, and action language; Lessons 11–13 add bounded existence, destination, transport, and direction patterns.
Course lesson 2
Simple Japanese Classroom Requests
Understand three useful classroom requests and give a simple response before studying how the verb form is made.
Course lesson 3
Introducing Yourself in Japanese
Build a short first introduction with your name, role, nationality, and a polite closing expression.
Course lesson 4
Ask Simple Questions About People and Places
Turn a familiar polite statement into a question, then ask what, who, and where with a small set of useful words.
Course lesson 5
Add Personal Details with の, も, and から
Add one useful detail at a time: say “also,” connect two nouns, and state where someone came from with one fixed expression.
Course lesson 6
これ・それ・あれ: Talking About Things
Build one clear distance map for three Japanese thing words, then use the same map before a noun.
Course lesson 7
Japanese Numbers, Age, and People
Read one through ten, then use checked whole forms for counting people and talking about age without guessing counter readings.
Course lesson 8
Tell the Time in Japanese
Ask what time it is, read checked hour and minute forms, and use 午前, 午後, and 半 in complete clock times.
Course lesson 9
Japanese Weekdays and Month Expressions
Recognize 今日 and 明日, read the seven weekdays, ask 何曜日ですか, and learn all twelve checked month expressions.
Course lesson 10
Make Your First Japanese Action Sentences
Build polite action sentences with を, ask 何を, and add a specific clock time or weekday with に.
Course lesson 11
Say Where People and Things Are
Point out places with ここ・そこ・あそこ, use basic position words, and say where familiar people and objects are with あります and います.
Course lesson 12
Destinations and Transport in Japanese
Say where someone is going with destination に or へ, then say how they travel with transport で while keeping each particle inside its sentence job.
Course lesson 13
Follow Simple Directions in Japanese
Recognize entrance, exit, right, left, and straight ahead, then follow two checked Japanese direction phrases and one safe floor expression.
How the course builds
Useful chunks first; productive rules when they are ready
Some expressions are worth using before you can explain every change inside them. The course preserves that learning history.
Whole expression first
見てください
Recognize and use a short classroom request as one useful phrase.
First productive pattern
A は B です
Substitute a name, role, or nationality to build a polite identity statement. Productive verb-form rules still arrive later.
Extend the known pattern
A は B ですか
Add か in the bounded polite pattern to ask a simple question about a person, work, or a place.
Add one detail at a time
の・も・～から来ました
Connect two nouns, say “also” in a familiar identity sentence, or add an origin with one fixed expression. Each extension keeps a narrow job.
What grows next
A cumulative beginner progression
Future reviewed lessons will add these areas in prerequisite order. They are described here, not linked as unfinished pages.
- First sentences: identity, questions, personal details, demonstratives, checked calendar forms, and polite actions with を are live now.
- Where and everyday life: existence, first movement destinations, and two complete direction phrases are live; preferences and routines come later.
- Description and verb forms: adjectives, past events, requests, and short sequences.
- More natural choices: invitations, current situations, reasons, comparisons, and desire.