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Acknowledgement of Country
Acknowledgements
Title page
Introduction
About the Author
Accessibility Information
1.0 Head Start with Japanese
1.1 Introduction to Hiragana
1.2 あ (a) – こ (ko)
1.3 さ (sa) – と (to)
1.4 な (na) – ほ (ho)
1.5 ま (ma) – よ (yo)
1.6 ら (ra) – ん (n) and Hiragana Review
2.0 Welcome to Japanese-Learning Communities (1)
2.1 The Japanese Sound System
2.2 Additional Features of Hiragana
2.3 The Art of Meeting and Greeting
2.4 X is Y: Xは (wa) Yです (desu)
2.5 Particle を (o)
2.6 The Japanese Punctuation System
2.7 Gender and First-Person Pronouns
2.8 Review
3.0 Welcome to Japanese-Learning Communities (2)
3.1 Japanese Word Order
3.2 Is X Y?: X は (wa) Y ですか (desu ka)
3.3 Describing Likes and Dislikes
3.4 The Particles の (no) and も (mo)
3.5 Numbers 0 to 10 and Year Levels
3.6 Review
4.0 Bringing Japan Home (1)
4.1 Introduction to Katakana
4.2 Demonstrative Pronouns: これ (kore), それ (sore), あれ (are) and どれ (dore)
4.3 What Is X?: Xは (wa) なん (nan) ですか (desu ka)
4.4 How to Count Small Items
4.5 The Particle と (to) and the Conjunction それから (sorekara)
4.6 The Sentence-Ending Particles ね (ne) and よ (yo)
4.7 Review
5.0 Bringing Japan Home (2)
5.1 Formal and Informal Speech Styles
5.2 X is not Y: Xは (wa) Yじゃないです (janai desu)
5.3 Numbers 11 to 100
5.4 Telling and Asking One's Place of Origin
5.5 The Conjunction でも (demo)
5.6 Review
6.0 Expanding Your Japanese Toolkit (1)
6.1 ます (masu) Form and Verb Conjugation
6.2 The Particle に (ni) for Time References
6.3 Frequency Words
6.4 Closed-Ended Questions: ますか (masu ka)
6.5 Exploring the Verbs 'Come' and 'Go'
6.6 The Particles に (ni) and へ (e) to Indicate Destinations
6.7 The Sentence-Ending Particle よね (yone)
6.8 Review
7.0 Expanding Your Japanese Toolkit (2)
7.1 Introduction to Kanji
7.2 Asking and Telling the Time
7.3 The Particle で (de) to Indicate Activity Locations
7.4 The Particle で (de) to Indicate Tools, Methods or Transportation
7.5 Open-Ended Questions Using the ます (masu) Form
7.6 The Conjunction から (kara)
7.7 Review
8.0 Getting Ready to Take On Japan (1)
8.1 Kanji: 今, 何, 半, 上, 中, 下, 月, 火, 水, 木, 金, 土, 日, 曜
8.2 Location Words
8.3 Days of the Week and Months
8.4 Describing Existence: あります(ari masu) and います (i masu)
8.5 Open-Ended Questions with あります (ari masu) and います (i masu)
8.6 Large Numbers: 101 to 10,000 and Beyond
8.7 Review
10.0 Getting Around Japan (1)
10.1 Kanji: 大, 学, 先, 生, 女, 男, 見, 行, 食, 飲
10.2 Verb Conjugation: Te-Form
10.3 How to Make Polite Requests: Verb Te-Form + ください (kudasai)
10.4 How to Ask for and Give Permission: Verb Te-Form + もいいですか (mo ii desu ka) and もいいです(よ)(mo ii desu [yo])
10.5 How to Connect Verbs with the Te-Form
10.6 Review
12.0 Looking Back, Moving Forward
12.1 Kanji: 天, 気, 元, 外, 国
12.2 Past Tense of Adjectives and Nouns
12.3 Past Tense of Verbs
12.4 Past Tense of あります (ari masu) and います (i masu)
12.5 Desires in the Past Tense: たかったです (takatta desu)
12.6 Review
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Peer-Review Statement
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