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 vocabulary
Learn Beginner Japanese Vocabulary in Context
Begin with words you can use in a real moment. Each short lesson introduces a manageable group, brings familiar words back, and asks you to recall Japanese instead of only scanning a list.
A useful learning loop
Meet a word, use it, then retrieve it
A word becomes easier to remember when it belongs to a situation and returns after the first explanation.
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See the Japanese
Start with the natural expression, with reading support only when it helps.
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Place it in a moment
Connect the word to a greeting, action, question, or other clear use.
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Meet it in a sentence
Notice how the word works with one understandable pattern.
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Recall before revealing
Try to retrieve the reading or meaning, then check the answer.
Published lessons
Start with conversations, things, actions, and places
These thirteen lessons move from greetings and classroom requests into personal details, numbers, everyday actions, locations, transport, and simple directions. Only live lessons appear here.
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.
What the labels mean
New words and familiar words have different jobs
A later lesson should not pretend that every familiar word is new again. The label tells you how to use your attention.
- New word
- Pause for the Japanese, one useful meaning, and the situation where it fits.
- Review
- Try to retrieve the word before checking the reminder.
- Known context
- Use the familiar word to understand one new relationship without a full re-teach.