Let’s Read a Japanese Newspaper article – Suitcases Left Behind
Article from NHK Easy talking about an issue of too many suitcases. We’ll be going through this article in detail. Please check below for a link to the Google Doc which has a word list.
Author: Ace Japanese
Learn Japanese – Starting from scratch and learning to speak
Tune in for an absolute beginner’s guide to Japanese. I’m going to run through my introductory lessons for people who have no background in Japanese but always wanted to learn it. In this video we’ll look at three aspects of Japanese: The Japanese language implies a lot of things Politeness…
Learn Japanese – Addressing others, referring to yourself
Continuing on with the beginner Japanese course. We’ll be looking at talking about others, talking about yourself and talking about family members. Check out the playlist to see the other videos in this series.
Learn Japanese – Adjectives Part 1
Continuing on with the beginner Japanese course. We’ll be looking at an introduction to adjectives and we’ll finish it off next video. Check out the playlist to see the other videos in this series.
Study Tips for Beginners – Remembering and Using Japanese
Learning Japanese is not about going on exchange or taking lessons, you also have to get into certain habits so that you can organise all those words, grammar and kanji in your head. In this video I will go through the techniques I use to remember Japanese.
Learn Japanese – Adjectives Part 2
Continuing on with the beginner Japanese course. We’ll be looking at how to make negatives, past and negative past forms for adjectives and nouns. Check out the playlist to see the other videos in this series.
Negative, past and negative past changes for nouns and na-adjectives
Negative, past and negative past changes for nouns and na-adjectives in Japanese. Check out the playlist to see all the videos in this beginner’s Japanese course.
Verbs – How to recognise and classify
Next stage in our basic grammar, verbs! We’ll be looking at verbs first by means of classification: what is a verb, what do they look like and how can we recognise them. Next, we will look at a rule that will become very important for the next stage.
Verbs – Making the plain-form negative and masu form しない、します
Today we’ll be looking at the plain negative form eg しない as well as how to make the masu forms eg します. This video is for someone who is learning to use verbs at a beginner level, or if you want to start learning about the plain form in Japanese….
Verbs – Plain-form past, te-form, plain-form past negative and masu-form past negative
Today we’ll be looking at the plain-form past, plain-form past negative and we’ll also do the te-form along the way.