Japanese Language Crash Course

Practice yes and no in Japanese by answering questions with hai or iie, including prompts about sushi, sashimi, sake, and marriage.

Learn to introduce yourself in Japanese by using watashi, watashi wa, and desu to form polite self introductions, such as watashi wa Yamaguchi desu and konnichiwa.

Learn to describe yourself in japanese using the watashi wa desu pattern, practicing nouns like samurai, ninja, or gei and writing sentences in your notebook.

Learn how to turn a Japanese sentence into a question by adding 'ka' at the end, the equivalent of a question mark, with examples like 'Yamaguchi-san desu ka?"

Practice turning statements into yes/no questions in Japanese and learn when to omit the subject or name it explicitly, with examples like samurai desu ka and gei desu ka.

Learn to ask what's your name in Japanese with 'namae wa nan desu ka' and respond 'watashi wa yamaguchi desu' or 'yamaguchi desu'.

Practice asking for names in Japanese and responding with names using phrases like 'namae wa nan desu ka' and 'Yamaguchi desu'.

Apply the recently learned structure to ask where things are in Japanese, practicing basu wa doko desu ka, hoteru wa doko desu ka, and Yamaguchi-san wa doko desu ka.