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 8 · 8-1
Plain Past: Incident-Recap Foundation
Stabilize plain past affirmative/negative forms so they can feed Track 8 grammar.
- Track 7 plain forms.
Incident recaps, experience, conditionals, noun qualification, and time clauses all depend on reliable plain past.
1. Rebuild past without polite endings
Treat た/だ and なかった as structural forms, not casual decorations.
2. Use plain past inside a polite recap
Study the examples and identify the structural pattern before relying on the English translation.
Natural: I think we tested yesterday.
Structure: yesterday tested — quote — think
Plain past embedded inside polite 思います.
Natural: The thing is, no error appeared.
Structure: error appeared-not-past — explanatory
Past negative + explanatory layer.
3. Incident verb conversion sheet
Convert 15 incident verbs to plain past affirmative and negative.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Incident verb conversion sheet
Create 15 rows: dictionary | plain past | plain past negative | one short incident sentence.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
3. Incident verb conversion sheet
Create 15 rows: dictionary | plain past | plain past negative | one short incident sentence.
4. Compile before combining
Track 8 becomes much easier when past forms are automatic.
Language IDE
Why here: Later constructions attach directly to plain past.
How to use it for this lesson: Transform 15 verbs before adding ことがある, たら, とき, or noun qualification.
Open past-form compiler →Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory, then repair the exact distinction behind any miss.
