Overview

Lessons are short explanations on how to use specific grammatical elements in Japanese and explain the role of specific particles, illustrate various sentence structures and much more.

Basics

In order to understand subsequent lessons, it is important to first understand the very basics such as the writing system (lessons generally expect basic hiragana and katakana reading skills).

• fujiPod: functions and features
• Writing system: Hiragana
• Writing system: Katakana
• Writing system: Kanji
• Memorizing kanji

Beginner

• Verbs
• State of being - いる, ある
• Nouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives
• Negative verbs
• Relative clauses
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
• Adverbs

Intermediate (draft - still being worked on)

• Causative verbs - 〜させる (draft)
• Causative-passive verbs - 〜させられる (draft)
• Units of measurement (draft)
• Arithmetic operations (draft)
• Deciding to do something - 〜ことにする (draft)
• Hoping for something - 〜といいな/といいね (draft)
• Can't help but do something - 〜ずにはいられない (draft)

Advanced (draft - still being worked on)

• Expressing the feeling of others - 〜がる (draft)
• Actions before/after an event - 〜とき (draft)
• Performing an action every time when X happens - 〜たび (draft)
• Emphasizing non-changing state - まま (draft)

Additional resources

For a full list of lessons, click here.