Grammar guides, particle explanations and conjugation references, from the first sentence patterns to advanced usage.
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Explains how the Japanese calendar uses era years alongside Gregorian dates, with methods to convert between systems and guidance on reading date fields on forms.
Guide to the Japanese verbs 行く and 来る covering their basic meanings, usage patterns with particles and te form, conjugations, politeness levels, and supplementary meanings in various contexts.
Lesson on Japanese counting systems and counter particles, covering sentence joining with conjunctions and the noです construction. Designed for beginning learners tackling fundamental vocabulary and grammar concepts.
Counters With Sino-Japanese Numbers II: ~名・羽・部・戸・発・軒・人前…
Category archive page featuring beginner lessons on Japanese greetings, vocabulary, conversational phrases, and counting. Covers topics like body parts, travel phrases, and practical dialogues for new learners.
Detailed grammar lesson on the pattern いったん~ば, which expresses irreversible consequences and inevitable results once a threshold is crossed.
Grammar lesson on ということだ, explaining its two main uses for reporting information and confirming statements with clear formation rules, examples, and comparison to related expressions like ~そうだ.
Explains Japanese syllable structure and consonant clusters through the lens of past tense verb conjugation, helping learners understand why certain consonant combinations appear in verb endings.
Grammar and vocabulary lessons drawn from popular anime series, covering character speech patterns, dialect variations, and fan culture terminology.
A study site covering major Japanese dialects including Osaka-ben, Kyoto-ben, Hiroshima-ben, Hakata-ben, Hokkaido-ben, Sendai-ben, and Nagoya-ben.
Preply's grammar blog and tutoring platform provides articles on Japanese grammar topics like tense, pronouns, and verb forms alongside an online tutoring service with personalized lessons for learners of all levels.
Maggie Sensei explains casual Japanese contractions like てる (teru) for ている (teiru) and てん (ten) for ている (teiru), showing how native speakers actually speak versus textbook forms.
Explains why kanji have multiple readings by distinguishing between different words and morphemes written with the same characters, with examples from manga and Japanese words.
Complete JLPT N4 grammar list: 116 grammar points with meanings, usage notes and 923 example sentences with audio. Free N4 grammar study, no sign-up.
Bundle of three online Japanese courses from beginner to intermediate level covering hiragana, katakana, kanji, vocabulary and grammar needed to pass JLPT N5, N4 and N3 exams with audio, video and interactive lessons.
Explains how to express unintended actions using しまう and its casual variants ちゃう and ちまう, with example sentences and vocabulary for intermediate learners.
Guide explaining the difference between the particles de and ni, covering their uses for locations, actions, and destinations with example sentences.
A graded story about an employee writing an apology email to his manager, featuring N3 grammar patterns with furigana, vocabulary list, grammar explanations, and comprehension questions.
Explains the JLPT N4 grammar contrast between ようにする (deliberate effort) and ようになる (natural change), with detailed examples, common mistakes, and usage in instructions and commands.
Lesson on Japanese apologies from casual to formal, covering expressions like sumimasen and gomennasai, sentence patterns, and cultural context for learners.
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