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 5 · 5-7
Directions & Procedures + Track 5 Capstone
Use て-form action chains, requests, permission, and prohibition to give and understand beginner directions and technical procedures.
- Track 5 lessons 5-1 through 5-6.
This is where Track 5 becomes a practical skill: guide someone through a building, explain a workflow, write a simple runbook, or walk a teammate through a support task.
1. Directions combine movement verbs with position/location language you already know
Use familiar words such as 右, 左, 前, まっすぐ, ここ, そこ, and movement verbs. The て-form chains the path.
Natural: Go straight and please turn right.
Structure: straight go-て — right to turn-て please
Physical direction.
Natural: Exit the elevator and go left, please.
Structure: elevator exit-て — left go-て please
Building directions.
Natural: Enter the meeting room and wait there, please.
Structure: meeting room enter-て — there at wait-て please
Destination + action place.
2. Technical directions use the same grammar
A runbook and a hallway direction are structurally similar: perform A, then B, then C.
3. Add permission and prohibition to a procedure
A useful procedure distinguishes required actions from optional/allowed actions and forbidden actions.
Natural: You may use the test environment.
Structure: test environment use-て — okay
Allowed.
Natural: You must not change production.
Structure: production environment change-て — not-okay
Forbidden.
Natural: If an error appears, please show the screen.
Structure: if error appears — screen show-て please
This includes たら as preview only; focus on 見せてください.
4. Track 5 handwritten runbook capstone
Create a safe 10–12 step procedure for a fictional support task, office navigation path, Japanese-study setup, or device workflow. Required: at least six て-form connectors, two ～てください requests, one permission, one prohibition, and one clearly marked final action.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
4. Track 5 handwritten runbook capstone
Write/draw a 10–12 step runbook. Add arrows between actions, show dictionary form above each て-form, and label REQUEST / ALLOWED / FORBIDDEN where appropriate. Complete on-screen or Print Blank.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
4. Track 5 handwritten runbook capstone
Write/draw a 10–12 step runbook. Add arrows between actions, show dictionary form above each て-form, and label REQUEST / ALLOWED / FORBIDDEN where appropriate. Complete on-screen or Print Blank.
5. Use the full Manabi Kōbō loop
Track 5 is important enough to transfer through construction, reading, and selective recall.
Language IDE
Why here: Long action chains and て-form wrappers expose transformation errors clearly.
How to use it for this lesson: Rebuild your runbook in smaller chunks. Verify each て-form, then inspect request/permission/prohibition wrappers.
Debug the runbook →Tsundoku Reading Nook
Why here: Instructions and procedural passages let you recognize て-form under real reading pressure.
How to use it for this lesson: Read a beginner instructional/technical passage and mark every て-form before opening literal translation.
Read て-form in context →Furigana Lens
Why here: Real Japanese instructions may contain unfamiliar kanji even when the grammar is familiar.
How to use it for this lesson: Try reading the instruction first. Use Furigana Lens only for the kanji that blocks the procedure, then reread the complete sentence aloud.
Use Furigana Lens →Japanese Adaptive Recall
Why here: The て-form rule families are good retrieval targets if a specific family remains unreliable.
How to use it for this lesson: Create no more than 10 Track 5 review items. Prefer representative verbs for each ending family plus any request/policy form you repeatedly miss.
Build selective Track 5 review →6. Track 5 exit gate
You are ready for Track 6 when you can convert common verbs into て-form without a chart, use ～てください, connect several actions, distinguish ～てもいい from ～てはいけません, and follow/write a short procedure or direction sequence.
Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory. If you miss one, identify the exact transformation or sentence role that failed before retrying.
