GUIDED PATH · PHASE 5
Guided Japanese Course
A mastery path for complete beginners and technology professionals.
HOW THIS COURSE WORKS
Follow the path. Advance by mastery.
The primary path tells you what to do next. You can still open any available lesson, but completion is based on checkpoints rather than calendar days.
FULL TARGET CURRICULUM
Tracks 0–10
TRACK 1 · 1-11
Vocabulary 4: Status & Project Nouns
Recognize nouns for status, project artifacts, meetings, and basic engineering workflow.
- Track 1 noun linking with の.
Demonstratives become far more useful when you can point to real project artifacts and identify their status or purpose.
1. Learn words as usable components
Vocabulary is useful only when you can recognize it inside a sentence and retrieve it when you need to speak or write. Read each word aloud, notice its script, then study the example sentence instead of memorizing an isolated English pair.
Natural: project
Structure: project
Common loanword.
Natural: meeting
Structure: meeting
Native/kanji workplace term.
Natural: problem / issue
Structure: problem
General issue noun.
Natural: bug
Structure: bug
Technical loanword.
Natural: requirement
Structure: requirement
Professional project noun.
Natural: result
Structure: result
Useful after tests/checks.
Natural: release
Structure: release
Technical loanword.
Natural: status / situation
Structure: situation
Useful for status discussion.
2. Put the vocabulary into a workplace scene
Imagine a project review table containing a requirement, test result, bug ticket, release plan, and status report. The next lessons will teach how to point to and identify them.
project
meeting
problem / issue
3. Pen-and-paper production
Close the word list. Recreate at least six target words from memory, then write three short Japanese phrases or sentences using the vocabulary. If a word does not come back, leave a blank first—do not immediately peek.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Pen-and-paper production
From memory, write six target words and three short phrases/sentences that use them. Reopen the lesson only after your first attempt; correct mistakes in a different mark.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
3. Pen-and-paper production
From memory, write six target words and three short phrases/sentences that use them. Reopen the lesson only after your first attempt; correct mistakes in a different mark.
4. Reinforce only the words worth keeping
Use Manabi Kōbō tools with a specific purpose: retrieval for durable memory and word recognition for faster reading.
Japanese Adaptive Recall
Why here: Project nouns recur in later professional scenarios.
How to use it for this lesson: Keep cards for high-value terms such as 要件, 結果, 状況 if they are not already familiar.
Review project nouns →Kotoba Fishing
Why here: It can reinforce fast recognition across mixed kanji/katakana workplace nouns.
How to use it for this lesson: Use a short round after recall. Prioritize whole-word recognition.
Open Kotoba Fishing →5. Retrieval pass
Cover the English and look only at the Japanese. Say the meaning. Then reverse it: look at the English concept and produce the Japanese aloud or in writing. Mark any item that takes more than a few seconds; that hesitation—not the easy words—is your review signal.
Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory. Use the explanations after checking to debug any miss before moving on.
