Textbook Contents
- Japanese for Young People Courses
- Japanese for Busy People Courses
- JYP-1
Introduction
Asking and telling phone numbers
Asking and telling time
Days of the week
Months / Days of the month
Shopping
Counting objects
Adjectives
Verbs
Coming and going
Transportation - JYP-2
Here / There / Over there
Describing a photograph
Explaining places and location
Adjectives
Making a phone call
Giving and receiving
Ownership
Events
Invitations
Ability and possibility
Expressing preferences
Sickness
Transportation
Making a speech about my family - JYP-3
Successive actions
Requests and orders
Asking permission
Progressive form
Expressing desires
The present condition
Prohibitions
Obligations
Connecting adjectives and nouns
Nai forms / ta forms
Suppositions and reported speech
Informal invitations
Comparisons
Potential form
Writing a letter
- JBP-1
Hiragana and Katakana (Japanese phonetic alphabets)
Introductions
Time, day of week, date
Numbers and counting
Adjectives -i and -na
Verbs present and past tense
Give a brief reason
Giving and receiving
Making, accepting, and declining an invitation or suggestion
Successive actions
Making a request
Asking and giving permission
Prohibition
Progressive form / present condition
Preference and desire - JBP-2
160 basic kanji
Asking preference / Getting suggestions
Comparative degree / Superlative degree
Stating decisions
Progressive form
Plain forms
Asking for and giving explanations
Expressing frequency
Past experiences
Describing a change in state
Direct and indirect quotation
Giving a reason
Potential form
Expressing uncertainty
Hypothetical statements
Conditional statements
Expressing necessity - JBP-3
Expressing suppositions
Expressing impressions
Expressing second-hand information
Expressing preparatory actions
Expressing certainty
Expressing conjecture
Expressing ideas that run contrary to expectation
Expressing causes of or reasons for situations
Describing change
Nominalizing sentences
Expressing purpose
Stating decisions
Expressing intention
Causative / Causative-passive
Keigo (honorifics)
Expressing reasons
etc.
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