GUIDED PATH · PHASE 5
Guided Japanese Course
A mastery path for complete beginners and technology professionals.
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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.
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TRACK 2 · 2-13
Vocabulary 4: People, Objects & Places for Existence
Learn nouns needed to understand ある / いる and location descriptions.
- Track 2 particles and routines.
Existence grammar is easiest when you can picture animate and inanimate entities in a workplace.
1. Split the world into animate and inanimate referents
Japanese uses different existence verbs based on referent type.
Animate → いる
人社員猫Inanimate → ある
サーバーパソコン資料机Natural: person
Structure: person
Animate.
Natural: employee
Structure: employee
Animate.
Natural: cat
Structure: cat
Animate.
Natural: server
Structure: server
Inanimate.
Natural: computer
Structure: computer
Inanimate.
Natural: document
Structure: document
Inanimate.
Natural: desk
Structure: desk
Inanimate.
Natural: room
Structure: room
Place noun.
2. Room inventory
Draw an office. Add at least three people/animals and seven objects. Label every noun and classify ANIMATE/INANIMATE.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
2. Room inventory
Draw an office inventory with 10 labeled entities. Classify each animate/inanimate.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
2. Room inventory
Draw an office inventory with 10 labeled entities. Classify each animate/inanimate.
3. Reinforce the categories
Use word/kanji tools only where they help recognition.
Japanese Adaptive Recall
Why here: Existence nouns should be automatic enough that grammar gets your attention.
How to use it for this lesson: Review only weak nouns.
Review nouns →Jōyō Kanji Hub
Why here: Words like 人, 社員, 資料, 机 introduce recurring kanji.
How to use it for this lesson: Inspect only the kanji from your room inventory.
Inspect relevant kanji →Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory. Treat every miss as a debugging signal: inspect the explanation, repair the rule, and retry.
