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 6 · 6-1
Vocabulary 1: Ongoing Work & Visible State
Build verbs and nouns used to describe actions in progress, recurring work, and visible state.
- Track 5 て-form mastery.
Track 6 begins with ～ている, one of the most important everyday patterns. The vocabulary should immediately support real developer/status language.
1. Learn actions that naturally continue over time
Focus on actions you can imagine being underway.
Natural: is working
Structure: work-て — exists
Ongoing work.
Natural: is developing
Structure: development-do-て — exists
Project activity.
Natural: is testing
Structure: test-do-て — exists
QA activity.
Natural: is investigating
Structure: investigate-て — exists
Research/debugging.
Natural: is waiting
Structure: wait-て — exists
Process/person state.
Natural: is using
Structure: use-て — exists
Tool/environment use.
Natural: lives / is living
Structure: live-て — exists
State-like ている usage.
Natural: knows
Structure: know-て — exists
Important state-like expression.
2. Picture a live status board
Ongoing Japanese maps naturally to work status: who is testing, what is running, what someone is investigating.
3. Live-work inventory
Write ten activities that could truthfully be 'in progress' during a normal day. Use Japanese verbs where possible.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Live-work inventory
Create 10 status items: person/system + action. Mark whether each is an ongoing action or a continuing state.
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3. Live-work inventory
Create 10 status items: person/system + action. Mark whether each is an ongoing action or a continuing state.
4. Prepare the recurring vocabulary
Use recall for weak verbs and Tsundoku for seeing ongoing forms in context.
Japanese Adaptive Recall
Why here: A small set of recurring action verbs will appear throughout Track 6.
How to use it for this lesson: Keep only weak verbs or chunks such as テストしています.
Review ongoing-action vocabulary →Tsundoku Reading Nook
Why here: Narratives and dialogues contain many ～ている forms.
How to use it for this lesson: Find three ～ている forms and guess whether each is action-in-progress or state before translation.
Find ongoing forms →Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory. Use every miss to identify the exact form or meaning distinction that needs another pass.
