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 4 · 4-1
Vocabulary 1: Goals, Needs & Reasons
Build vocabulary for wants, goals, reasons, tasks, changes, learning, fixes, releases, and destinations used throughout Track 4.
- Tracks 0–3, especially polite verbs and adjective classes.
Track 4 moves from describing reality to explaining motivation: why you are doing something, what you want to do, where you are going to do it, and whether an action is easy or excessive.
1. Learn vocabulary that supports intent
Attach every noun or verb to a real goal. These are reusable in work, study, and everyday plans.
Natural: reason
Structure: reason
Useful before から.
Natural: purpose / objective
Structure: purpose
Project and learning goals.
Natural: fix / revise
Structure: correction-do
Technical action.
Natural: change / modify
Structure: change-do
Configuration/project work.
Natural: check / confirm
Structure: confirmation-do
Recurring technical verb.
Natural: learn
Structure: learn
General learning verb.
Natural: practice
Structure: practice-do
Course activity.
Natural: prepare
Structure: preparation-do
Release/meeting work.
Natural: company / office
Structure: company
Destination context.
Natural: meeting room
Structure: meeting-room
Destination context.
2. Organize words by intent
Think in three buckets: WHY, WANT, GO-TO-DO. This predicts the grammar coming next.
WHY
理由問題必要WANT
修正する学ぶ確認するGO TO DO
会社会議室店3. Goal inventory homework
Write ten current goals: five professional/technical and five personal/Japanese-learning goals. For each, list the action verb and one reason in English for now. You will convert these into Japanese during Track 4.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Goal inventory homework
Create 10 goals with columns: Context | Japanese action | Why | Destination (if any). Leave Japanese grammar blank for later lessons.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
3. Goal inventory homework
Create 10 goals with columns: Context | Japanese action | Why | Destination (if any). Leave Japanese grammar blank for later lessons.
4. Prepare only the vocabulary you need
Keep review selective so Track 4 remains about grammar, not deck maintenance.
Japanese Adaptive Recall
Why here: Goal/action verbs recur through this track.
How to use it for this lesson: Add only weak verbs or noun+verb chunks such as バグを修正する and リリースを準備する.
Review Track 4 vocabulary →Kotoba Fishing
Why here: Fast recognition helps technical verbs become usable in later sentence production.
How to use it for this lesson: Use a short word-recognition round after recall.
Open Kotoba Fishing →Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory. If you miss one, identify whether the failure was vocabulary, conjugation, particle choice, or meaning before retrying.
