Comprehensive Casual Japanese For Beginners

Name: Comprehensive Casual Japanese For Beginners
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Speak natural sounding casual Japanese with confidence

Created byRichard Heiney

Last updated 6/2017

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What you'll learn

understand the basics of casual Japanese
speak naturally with their Japanese friends
confidently invite their Japanese friends to hang out
ask people's age and reply to such questions
talk about themselves and their hobbies
talk about relationships and feelings

Course content

6 sections • 27 lectures • 6h 46m total length

Welcome11:22
Five modules guide beginners from polite to casual Japanese, with about five units per module and each unit roughly 15 minutes. The outline mentions a five-week pace and feedback.
ANKI Tutorial - How to use the flashcards4:21
You can download all the flashcards to help you with reviewing the vocab right here (in the resource section of this video)!

Unit 1 - Hey! How are you?15:27
Master casual Japanese greetings, including hey and how are you, and express being in good health with genki; learn masculine and feminine speech and the topic marker ha (wa).
Unit 2 - What are we going to do?15:34
Explore casual Japanese greetings and invitations in this unit, such as 'how are you' and 'let's hang out,' and dropping particles and context-driven meanings.
Unit 3 - What are your hobbies?16:28
Unit 4 - Let's go to the party together17:27
Learn casual Japanese for social outings, including saying let's go to a party together, eat, or drink; discuss hobbies, the continuous form of suru, and introductions with san.
Unit 5 - Where are you from?17:42
Learn to ask and answer where you are from using place of origin phrases, introduce yourself in basic Japanese, and talk about hobbies like tennis.

Unit 6 - What are you doing today?16:24
Unit 7 - Sorry, I'm a bit busy...13:00
Learn essential Japanese basics for introductions, asking names, discussing languages, and planning activities today or tomorrow, including expressions like sorry I'm a bit busy and going to the cinema.
Unit 8 - I have time before the part-time job14:45
Unit 9 - After work I have free time for sure14:42
Unit 10 - Let's meet at Shinjuku station14:10

Unit 11 - What's this called?16:50
Unit 12 - I want to eat meat14:01
Explore casual Japanese phrases for ordering drinks and meat, I want to drink beer, I want to eat meat, and particle usage for asking what would you like to drink.
Unit 13 - Numbers 1 - 1016:08
Unit 14 - What would be good I wonder?16:20
Learn practical casual Japanese for ordering and dining, including what would be good and can you eat. Practice expressing recommendations, orders, and preferences at a bar or restaurant.
Unit 15 - How was the drinking party yesterday?16:18
Learn how to talk about yesterday's drinking party in casual Japanese: ask what to drink, order beer, discuss all you can eat or drink, and describe how it went.

Unit 16 - We're going on a date tomorrow17:29
Unit 17 - Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?17:38
Unit 18 - Numbers 11 - 9916:31
Learn to count in Japanese from eleven to ninety-nine, including formation rules like ten plus one, with guided practice and review.
Unit 19 - How old are you?15:51
Explore casual Japanese basics in Unit 19, including how old are you, saying ages from twenty to ninety, expressing liking, love, and handling past relationships like dating and breaking up.
Unit 20 - We're dating13:47

Unit 21 - I'm feeling down13:29
Unit 22 - Come on, cheer up!15:14
Unit 23 - Days of the week15:24
Learn to say the days of the week in Japanese and use on Monday through Sunday phrases to plan activities, dates, and conversations.
Unit 24 - Awww I'm so jealous!14:41
Master practical casual japanese phrases for dating, parties, and daily conversations; express jealousy, invite friends to events, and discuss plans like dates, coffee, cinema, and travel.
Unit 25 - Aaah, feels good!15:38
Review casual Japanese where you practice common yes, no, and maybe expressions, party invitations, and everyday feelings like 'feels good' and 'I miss you'.

Requirements

Nothing at all. This course is 100% newbie friendly

Description

This course focuses on casual Japanese - meaning you will learn how to talk to your friends.

The course is absolutely beginner friendly and as such you are required to know nothing. Just some English will be enough.

All lessons are videos combined with slides - sort of a audio visual teaching method, you will be both hearing and seeing the words for easier remembering.

There is a total of 25 units, each about 15 minutes long. You should do at least 1 unit a day.

Included are also flashcards (PC / Mobile) to help you review vocab effectively and fast!

Great emphasis is put on reviewing and steady progress. Each unit starts and ends with a review to help the students remember recently learned vocab and grammar.

This course will be your gateway for tearing down the barriers, that polite Japanese puts up, in order to bring you closer to your Japanese friends and build some real long lasting relationships.

Also will help you understand spoken casual Japanese in both Anime and Japanese drama/movies better.

Who this course is for:

anybody who wishes to learn about how to talk to Japanese friends
both beginners and slightly advanced students will benefit from this course
intermediate students won't probably find this course very useful
anybody who wishes to refresh their spoken casual Japanese

Comprehensive Casual Japanese For Beginners

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Course content

Module 0 - Introduction2 lectures • 16min

Module 1 - Introduction to casual Japanese5 lectures • 1hr 23min

Module 2 - Hanging out5 lectures • 1hr 13min

Module 3 - Hanging out 25 lectures • 1hr 20min

Module 4 - Relationships5 lectures • 1hr 21min

Module 5 - Feelings5 lectures • 1hr 14min

Requirements

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