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.
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Tracks 0–10
TRACK 8 · 8-5
~たことがある: Past Experience
Use plain past + ことがある to say you have had the experience of doing something.
- Plain past.
This is different from saying when you did something. It answers whether an experience exists in your history.
1. Package a past action as an experience
Vた + こと + がある ≈ there exists an occasion/experience of having done V.
2. Ask and answer experience
Study the examples and identify the structural pattern before relying on the English translation.
Natural: I have been to Japan.
Structure: Japan to went — occasion — exists
Experience, not a dated trip report.
Natural: Have you ever used this tool?
Structure: this tool used — experience exists?
Professional experience question.
Natural: I haven't used it yet / have never used it so far.
Structure: yet — used experience — does not exist
Negative experience.
3. Experience interview sheet
Write 10 experience questions and answer each truthfully or as a fictional learner.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Experience interview sheet
Create 10 Vたことがありますか questions with YES/NO answers and one follow-up detail where appropriate.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
3. Experience interview sheet
Create 10 Vたことがありますか questions with YES/NO answers and one follow-up detail where appropriate.
4. Keep event past vs experience distinct
Use the linked Manabi Kōbō tool for focused transfer practice.
Japanese Adaptive Recall
Why here: Learners often confuse 'I did X yesterday' with 'I have ever done X.'
How to use it for this lesson: Review paired prompts: 昨日使いました vs 使ったことがあります.
Review experience contrast →Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory, then repair the exact distinction behind any miss.
