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Negative, past and negative past changes for nouns and na-adjectives

Ace Japanese March 20, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar, High school Japanese, JLPT

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

Ace Japanese March 20, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar, High school Japanese, JLPT

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

Ace Japanese March 20, 2020 June 16, 2021Beginners, grammar, High school Japanese, JLPT

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

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar, High school Japanese, JLPT

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.

Leave your books behind -Let’s Read a Japanese Newspaper article

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar, High school Japanese, Japanese culture, JLPT, NHK Easy, Reading, 漢字　かんじ

Article from NHK Easy talking about back problems, heavy textbooks and a policy change from MEXT to deal with it. We’ll be going through this article in detail. Please check the youtube description box for a link to the Google Doc which has a word list.

Let’s Read a Japanese Newspaper article – Earthquakes in Hokkaido

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar, High school Japanese, Japanese culture, JLPT, NHK Easy, Reading, Study methods, 漢字　かんじ

I’ll read through the article explaining words and grammar along the way. This is an article from NHK Easy talking about earthquakes in Hokkaido. We’ll be going through this article in detail. Please check the youtube description box for a link to the Google Doc which has a word list…

Kanji – How to learn and the materials I recommend

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, High school Japanese, JLPT, Study methods, 漢字　かんじ

Not sure how to learn Kanji? Finding your progress is slow? This video will show you the ways I learnt over 2000 kanji and the books and materials I used. I got JLPT 2級 in 2008 and JLPT N1 in 2020. Of course these exams require you to know a…

Counting to a trillion and above in Japanese

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar

Introductory lesson for those who want to learn to count to ridiculously high numbers. I’ll be continuing on with this in future videos to learn how to count objects as well.

世界で一番長生きの男性 — Article Read-through

Ace Japanese March 9, 2020 January 12, 2021grammar, High school Japanese, Japanese culture, JLPT, NHK Easy, Reading

Article from NHK Easy talking about the former Guinness World Record Holder for Oldest Living Man

A complete guide to 1700 kanji through Kanjidamage.com – Part 1

Ace Japanese March 9, 2020 October 12, 2022Japanese culture, JLPT, Reading, Study methods, 漢字　かんじ

Here is the link to Part 2. This will be a video series on how to learn kanji from absolute scratch. I’ll be running through the website kanjidamage.com as this is the best online free kanji program I have found. In this video I’ll be running through the way to…