
Build confidence in your vocabulary and common Japanese phrases as you complete all lessons, raising your vocabulary to pre intermediate level and advancing your Japanese learning journey.
Ayana, a native Japanese tutor who has taught over 100 private students and holds a Bachelor of Arts Education in Japan, introduces beginner vocabulary and phrases for online JLPT preparation.
Master Japanese vocabulary and basics by learning grammar points and essential phrases, then reinforce memory with spaced repetition and practical practice across speaking, writing, and quizzes.
Introduce classroom Japanese phrases, covering polite checks and translation requests, numbers and counters like bun, and the use of adjectives and adverbs in sentence construction.
Compare polite and informal Japanese and how relationships and context dictate formality in work life. Understand polite endings like masu and desu, question intonation, and adapting to others' speech.
If you have not yet learned Hiragana, please watch the lesson video and learn the basic Japanese characters.
Dive into katakana vocabularies and practice Japanese-style pronunciation of foreign loanwords, including French and German origins, to expand your vocabulary and reading of katakana.
Count from 1 to 100 by learning numbers and practicing with repeat after me exercises, starting with greetings like konichiwa and basic numerals.
Count from 100 to 1000 in Japanese and learn essential beginner phrases to expand your vocabulary.
Practice building Japanese numbers by combining digits to form 24, 101, 361, 1538, and 8290, then write them in Olympic numbers, repeat after me, and say arigato.
Learn japanese numbers from 1000 to 1,000,000 and how to count from right to left. Practice pronunciation by repeating after the instructor to start building beginner vocabulary.
Practice kanji pronunciation and vocabulary for beginners while counting from 100,000 to 1,000,000. Repeat after me to reinforce kanji and common phrases.
Practice saying Japanese numbers aloud, including thousands, millions, and currency in yen. Explore converting Arabic numerals to spoken forms with examples like 2400, 380,000, and 10,500.
Learn to tell time in Japanese using basic numbers, express hours and minutes, and note pronunciation exceptions for certain hours such as 4, 7, 9, and 11.
Practice counting minutes and telling time in Japanese, using basic numbers and phrases to ask what time it is. Learn to respond with times like 7:10 and 9:15.
Practice time-related vocabulary in Japanese, using phrases like what time is it now, it is 8:30, and it is 2:45, with imagined scenarios in Japan and New Zealand.
Learn to express time in japanese without quarter phrases, using direct time statements. Practice 3:15, 9:20 pm, and 1:30 pm tomorrow with minutes and am/pm.
Practice Japanese numbers and pronunciation by writing prompts in a notebook, timing responses, and comparing answers across image prompts while reinforcing hiragana usage.
Master the days of the week in Japanese by learning hiragana reading and writing first, then katakana, and finally kanji characters, focusing on youbi.
Learn how to ask the days of the week in Japanese, using polite and casual forms, with examples like 'what day is today?' and 'what day was yesterday?'
Learn time related vocabulary and phrases for beginners in Japanese, focusing on foundational terms to express time clearly.
Explore how to say days of the week in japanese for writing and speaking, including hiragana usage, bracket conventions, and pronunciation, with background on the sun and lunar associations.
Improve your Japanese vocabulary for beginners by learning how to count dates, days, weeks, and time, and describe one day, one week, one month, or one year.
Learn to count dates in Japanese, from the first to the tenth, with special readings and exceptions, and practice how many days you will stay.
Learn how to say months and weeks in Japanese by counting with numbers and date phrases, including casual forms and the use of hiragana and kanji after learning.
Learn year-related Japanese vocabulary and example sentences, including how to ask how many years you studied Japanese, while practicing polite forms.
Practice reading calendar dates and listening exercises to describe birthdays, holidays, and date ranges in Japanese, using month-first order and phrases like from seventh through twenties.
Learn how Japanese counters work, the words used to count objects, people, time, and events, and how counting in Japanese relies on category-based counting words with special readings.
Learn to count small objects and bound volumes in japanese, from 1 to 10, using appropriate counters, with examples like magazines, books, and dictionaries, including practical purchase phrases.
Improve your Japanese vocabulary for beginners by learning counters hiki for small animals and hon for long objects, with examples like cats, wine bottles, pencils, and yakitori.
Master counting in Japanese for equipment and flat objects using the counter mai, with pronunciation practice and examples like towels, shirts, and pizza.
Practice describing pictures using counters to express quantity as you name items like books, apples, dogs, pens, motorbikes, and towels.
Learn Japanese counters for counting persons and orders, practice with examples like cafe orders and queues, and drill number-based counting using repetition.
Learn how Japanese marks age with two forms after a number, and see how counters for age and clothing items evolved, with pronunciation practice for age expressions and garment counts.
Explore basic Japanese vocabulary through pronunciation drills, practice phrases, and counting for things, with examples like numbers such as 168 and usage of 'things' as any item.
Practice describing the picture using counters to express quantities, ages, and colors, such as two children, eighteen years old, and colors like black and khaki, in Japanese vocabulary.
Learn Japanese counters for shoes, socks, and songs, practice counting footwear and music items, and reinforce pronunciation through example sentences.
Master essential Japanese vocabulary for houses and building floors by counting rooms, practicing pronunciation of chi counters, and recognizing floor names from ground floor to upper levels.
Practice Japanese vocabulary for drinks and containers, including cups, glasses, and bowls, with pronunciation drills for coffee, tea, water, soup, and wine.
Describe a picture using Japanese counters to count items such as shoes and houses, learn basic phrases and katakana words like soup, and practice forming quantity expressions for beginners.
Improve your Japanese listening and pronunciation by practicing with full sentences, fill-in activities, and key phrases like kudasai, kono, and kodomo, while learning basic counters and vocabulary for beginners.
Whether you are simply interested in Japanese language or just would like a solid start on learning the basics of Japanese vocabulary and phrases, the “Improve your Japanese vocabulary and phrases for beginners” will guide you through the most useful words, counters, and grammatical patterns in an easy-to-understand way. You can access a mini-quiz at the end of every lesson to review key points as well as self-assessment tool (Total 105 Quiz).
This course is suited to beginner to upper beginner level. If you have already studied Hiragana or Katakana, this course is the next step. You can study vocabulary, expressions, and useful phrases in everyday life. By practicing and listening to native pronunciation, students will be able to use the word or phrases in daily life conversations. Learners will study about ~30 phrases and ~200 vocabulary as well as a lot of example sentences by the end of the course. Also, students can access/download a list of 158 verb conjugations in both Japanese and romaji. Ideally, you will be able to read Hiragana and Katakana, but it is not essential. If you can not read Japanese characters, you need to copy the sounds and learn them by watching lessons. (30% contents includes romaji) If you're wanting to learn how to speak Japanese, then you have to know Japanese vocabulary and grammar rules! Japanese counting system patterns are quite different to those we have in English, and there are a lot to learn. If you have questions related to the course, you can post your comment on the Q & A section. After you complete all the lessons and learn all of the vocabulary, your Japanese vocabulary level will move to pre-intermediate level!
Note : a few of the lessons are the same as some of my other courses, so you can skip past those ones if you have already learnt that topic.