You've learned there are two kinds of adjectives in Japanese, I-adjectives and NA-adjectives. I-adjectives end with the syllable I, such as YASUI "inexpensive." NA-adjectives take NA after them, when ...

Tam, Mi Ya and Kaito are having a conversation in "Haru-san House," when Mike, an American who loves Japanese culture, visits them. Mike and Kaito are planning to go to the Ninja Museum and they are ...

The TA-form of verbs is the conjugation form of verbs that ends with TA or DA. It is for the past or the perfect aspect of verbs. Let me explain how you can change the MASU-form to the TA-form. The ...

When you express your ideas, opinions or guesses, first you say what you think, then you say TO OMOIMASU (I think that, more literally, That is what I think). OMOIMASU is a verb that means (to ...

We call the verbs that end with MASU "the MASU-form of verbs." We use the MASU-form, when we speak politely. To make it a negative, we change MASU to MASEN. So, YOMIMASU (to read) becomes YOMIMASEN.

In Lesson 16, you learned to express more than one action in one sentence by linking the TE-form of verbs. If you add the particle KARA (after), after the TE-form of verbs, you can make it clear that ...

You use DESHÔ at the end of a sentence, when you talk about a prediction for the future or something uncertain. When you use it in combination with nouns or adjectives, you replace DESU at the end of ...

When you want to tell others what they are not allowed to do, you combine the NAI-form of verbs and DE KUDASAI, and say NAI DE KUDASAI (Please don't do it). For example, let's say "Please don’t go." ...

In the previous lesson, you learned the basic pattern for changing the MASU-form verbs to the TE-form : simply change MASU to TE. But today, let’s learn another pattern. In this pattern, you are to ...

You can express ability or potential if you use the dictionary form of verbs, and attach to it KOTO GA DEKIMASU (can do / Literally, can do the thing of). Let's make a sentence, using KOTO GA DEKIMASU ...

In Japanese, "the first day" of a month is TSUITACHI. Originally, it meant the day when the moon rises. From the second to the tenth day, we say as follows: As I explained in Lesson 7, these words are ...

As in OMOSHIROSÔ (It seems interesting), if you add SÔ after an adjective, you can talk about what you think or guess, after you look at or listen to something. In Lesson 13, we said we have two kinds ...