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. It is also for any person doing Japanese in a school program.
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.
Leave your books behind -Let’s Read a Japanese Newspaper article
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
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 and a link to the article.
Kanji – How to learn and the materials I recommend
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 lot of kanji in depth and so you need a way to approach learning so many bits of information.