JLPT N5 (Minna no Nihongo lesson 1 to 4)

Master beginners Japanese basics: learn hiragana and katakana, essential vocabulary, and simple grammar. Introduce yourself, count, tell time, shop in Japanese, and master counters, days, months, and dates.

Master the hiragana alphabet with example words like sushi and sakura, explore dakuten and handakuten changes, and anticipate learning katakana in the next lecture.

Learn the katakana alphabet and its use for loanwords, contrasted with hiragana for native words, with examples like coffee, internet, email, and hotel.

Learn the lesson one vocabulary from Minna no Nihongo, including greetings, pronouns, and suffixes such as san, chan, and sensei, plus jin nationality terms and polite phrases dozo, yoroshiku.

Master basic Japanese grammar from Minna no Nihongo lesson 1, including noun1–noun2 sentences, affirmative and negative forms, question ka, mo, no, age questions, and jikoshoukai.

Master the Minna no Nihongo lesson 2 vocabulary, covering demonstratives, common Japanese nouns, loanwords, and essential country and family names.

Learn jlpt n5 lesson 2 grammar, including demonstratives kono, sono, ano, kore, sore, are, and the noun1 no noun2 pattern. Apply ka questions and practical neighbor gift giving dialogues.

Master counting in Japanese from ichi to sen, learn large-number readings like man and oku, and read numbers by placing a comma four digits from the right.

Learn to name floors in Japanese, from the first floor chi to basement chika, and the ninth floor kyu, and how to ask nan gai for a floor.

Learn the days of the week in Japanese, with examples such as nichiyobi for Sunday and getsuyobi for Monday, and review the weekly sequence from Sunday to Saturday.

Learn to say time in Japanese using ji for o'clock and the minute units fun and pun, with examples like ichiji, juji, hachiji, kuji, ippon, and sanju go fun.

Learn to say months in Japanese by adding gatsu to numbers, with key exceptions, and master date readings from 1st to 31st, including hatsuka and ju yuka.

Master the Minna no Nihongo lesson 3 vocabulary, including greetings such as hajimemashite and konichiwa, location terms (koko, soko, asoko, doko), and polite phrases like sumimasen, de gozaimasu, kudasai.

Learn how to express locations in Japanese with koko, soko, asoko, and doko, use dochira or kochira for polite direction, and explore noun1 no noun2 constructions and the o prefix.

Explore the lesson four vocabulary from Minna no Nihongo, including times of day, daily activities, greetings, and common phrases for beginner learners.

learn to tell time in japanese with o'clock and minutes, master masu and plain verb forms, and apply patterns with time and date using ni, kara, and made.

Learn about kanji in Japanese writing, compare hiragana, katakana, and kanji, and explore onyomi and kunyomi readings, including when each reading is used with kanji, with holiday and train examples.

Explore ten essential kanji for jlpt n5, including the kanji for day and the numbers one to nine, with their on'yomi and kun'yomi readings.

Explore the next ten essential kanji for jlpt n5, with their meanings and on'yomi and kunyomi readings, covering ten, hundred, thousand, man, up, below, middle, month, ear, and now.