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 2 · 2-1
Vocabulary 1: Core Actions
Build the action vocabulary needed to begin verb grammar: do, go, come, return, read, write, see, listen, speak, work, and study.
- Track 1: basic noun statements, time, demonstratives, and core vocabulary.
Track 2 is where Japanese begins to move. Nouns identify things; verbs let you report work, schedule actions, describe routines, and collaborate.
1. Learn verbs as actions, not English labels
Learn each verb with its dictionary form and one polite form preview. Track 2 explains the conversion next; today connect Japanese sound, action, and context.
Natural: do
Structure: do
Common polite form of する.
Natural: go
Structure: go
Move toward a destination.
Natural: come
Structure: come
Irregular verb.
Natural: return / go home
Structure: return
End-of-day routine.
Natural: read
Structure: read
Documents, tickets, messages.
Natural: write
Structure: write
Code, notes, documentation.
Natural: see / watch
Structure: see
Screens and dashboards.
Natural: listen / ask
Structure: listen/ask
Context determines nuance.
Natural: work
Structure: work
Professional routine.
Natural: study
Structure: study-do
A する compound.
2. Hear the verbs inside a developer morning
Visualize a sequence instead of translating a list: arrive, read messages, write code, check a screen, meet, and study.
3. Action inventory homework
Close the list. Write ten actions you perform in a normal workday. Use Japanese for any verb you know; leave a blank rather than guessing when you cannot retrieve one. Reopen the lesson and repair the blanks.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Action inventory homework
Write 10 workday actions from memory. Beside each, add an object or destination you expect to use later.
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3. Action inventory homework
Write 10 workday actions from memory. Beside each, add an object or destination you expect to use later.
4. Put actions into retrieval
Action words become useful only when they come back quickly enough to build a sentence.
Japanese Adaptive Recall
Why here: Core verbs recur throughout later tracks.
How to use it for this lesson: Add only verbs that hesitate. Produce Japanese before revealing the answer.
Review core verbs →Kotoba Fishing
Why here: Fast whole-word recognition prevents character-by-character decoding.
How to use it for this lesson: Use a short round and focus on recognizing the complete polite verb.
Open Kotoba Fishing →Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory. Treat every miss as a debugging signal: inspect the explanation, repair the rule, and retry.
