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Pre Lessons Overview

Pronunciation Key
understanding Japanese phonetics

Basic Counting
zero to nine million 

First Meeting
self introduction and basic greetings 
Course 1 Lessons Overview

LESSON 1. What is it?
simple questions

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Plurals in Japanese
  • Using です to make simple statements
  • The question marker
  • The question word なに
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Using さん with names

LESSON 2. Which One?
working with a topic

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • The topic marker
  • The question words どれ and どっち
  • Following the same pattern when answering
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: すし and さしみ

LESSON 3. Who is it?
showing possession and personal pronouns

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Using to show possession
  • Using to show possession (part 2)
  • The question word だれ
  • The particle
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Unique use of ぼく

LESSON 4. Who is it?
colors and using nouns to modify

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • The particle
  • Making nouns into adjectives using
  • The colors as adjectives
  • "True" adjectives
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Blue is Green (sometimes)

LESSON 5. Satoko and Yoshio
likes, dislikes and the "one" pronoun

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • The particle with すき and きらい
  • Using じゃない to make things negative
  • The "one" pronoun
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Reversed Names

LESSON 6. Matsumoto's Computer
negative adjectives and wanting things

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Using ほしい and ほしくない
  • Making adjectives negative
  • Tricky uses of the particle
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Replacements for さん

LESSON 7. Where is it?
location and special emphasis

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Using でも to link sentences
  • The war between and
  • Using and to stress
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Leaving and coming home

LESSON 8. The Calendar
dates and past tense

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Making sentences past tense
  • Saying complete dates
  • The particle
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Japanese Christmas

LESSON 9. New Year's Day
days, weeks and years

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Saying the year
  • Next Friday, Last March etc.
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Japanese New Year

LESSON 10. Spaghetti Please
asking for things

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Give me please (standard version)
  • Give me please (polite version)
  • The difference between ください and おねがいします
  • Sizes
  • The particle
OTHER AREAS
  • Culture Clip: Paper, Scissors, Rock in Japan

LESSON 11. Counting Things
various counting units

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • The counters and particles
  • More

LESSON 12. Party! Party!
polite verb conjugation

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Languages and nationalities
  • Conjugation verbs
  • Location particles and
  • Marking particles and making questions
  • The verb わかる (to understand)

LESSON 13. Time, Time, Time
start, finish and telling time

GRAMMAR
SECTIONS
  • Telling time in Japanese
  • Half past
  • Using the particle から
  • Using the particle まで
Hiragana Lessons Overview

WRITING 1. あいうえお

WRITING POINTS
  • The difference between and
  • The importance of the various styles
OTHER AREAS
  • The Basics

WRITING 2. かきくけこ

WRITING POINTS
  • The different versions of (KI) 
  • Writing the "dakuten"  properly
  • Writing the correct way

WRITING 3. さしすせそ

WRITING POINTS
  • The different versions of (SA) and (SO) 

WRITING 4. たちつてと

WRITING POINTS
  • The double consonants
  • Which version of ZU and JI should be used? 

WRITING 5. なにぬねの

WRITING 6. はひふへほ

WRITING POINTS
  • The easy way to write (FU)
  • The topic marker (WA) 

WRITING 7. まみむめも

WRITING 8. やゆよわをん

WRITING POINTS
  • The particle (O)
  • What about the particle (WA)?

WRITING 9. らりるれろ

WRITING 10. Compounds 

WRITING POINTS
  • The correct way to write the compounds
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