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 · 10-6
Asking for Help & Describing Favors
Ask for manageable help and describe who helped whom using requests and giving/receiving perspective.
- ~てください, ~てもらう/くれる, potential.
Collaboration requires both requesting action and accurately reporting the help received.
1. Separate request, ability question, and received favor
These are related but not identical.
2. Avoid pretending every English 'can you' maps perfectly
At this level, the goal is functional clarity. More nuanced business requests and honorific forms come later.
3. Help-desk role sheet
Write 10 collaboration exchanges and map actor/beneficiary for each favor.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Help-desk role sheet
Create 4 requests/ability questions, 3 ~てもらう reports, and 3 ~てくれる reports. Draw arrows for every favor expression.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
3. Help-desk role sheet
Create 4 requests/ability questions, 3 ~てもらう reports, and 3 ~てくれる reports. Draw arrows for every favor expression.
4. Watch perspective in connected dialogue
Use the linked Manabi Kōbō tools to transfer the lesson into active production.
Tsundoku Reading Nook
Why here: Benefit direction is easier to understand in a conversation than as a vocabulary list.
How to use it for this lesson: Find a giving/receiving or favor expression and identify actor, beneficiary, and viewpoint.
Trace favor direction →Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory and repair any weak structure before moving on.
