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 10 · 10-4
Status Reporting: Done, Doing, Not Yet, Next
Give a compact status update with completed work, current state, remaining work, uncertainty, and next action.
- Past, ~ている, もう/まだ, potential, uncertainty.
Status reporting is one of the strongest practical uses of the grammar already learned.
1. Use a five-part status frame
DONE → CURRENT → NOT YET / BLOCKER → HYPOTHESIS → NEXT.
2. Keep facts and hypotheses separate
終わりました is a fact claim. かもしれません marks possibility. と思います marks your judgment. This distinction is professionally useful even with elementary Japanese.
3. Daily status sheet
Write three separate five-line status reports: study, everyday task, and technical/project scenario.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Daily status sheet
Each report must contain DONE, CURRENT, NOT YET/BLOCKER, HYPOTHESIS or OPINION, and NEXT. Annotate FACT / STATE / UNKNOWN / HYPOTHESIS / ACTION.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
3. Daily status sheet
Each report must contain DONE, CURRENT, NOT YET/BLOCKER, HYPOTHESIS or OPINION, and NEXT. Annotate FACT / STATE / UNKNOWN / HYPOTHESIS / ACTION.
4. Compare natural and structural readings
Use the linked Manabi Kōbō tools to transfer the lesson into active production.
Tsundoku Reading Nook
Why here: Connected text helps you stop reading each grammar form in isolation.
How to use it for this lesson: Read a short passage and mark past fact, ongoing state, uncertainty, and next action if present.
Read status structure →Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory and repair any weak structure before moving on.
