Human Japanese Intermediate: Extra Credit
Reading, listening, and sentence construction practice based on grammar and vocabulary learned in Human Japanese Intermediate.
Human Japanese Intermediate is the second volume in our Human Japanese family of apps, which starts at square one and provides a step-by-step introduction to Japanese.
While the content in this "Extra Credit" series is tightly linked to what we introduce in Human Japanese Intermediate, it's also designed to be useful for people coming from other backgrounds. Please have a look at these exercises, and if you find that you'd like more a little more explanation of each grammar point, please have a look at our Human Japanese apps as well!
Drill yourself on the “big six” forms of ichidan (“dropper”) verbs: present, past, positive and negative; plus the -te form and the “let’s do” form.
Notes: Contains a brief review of how to get to each form, plus copious example sentences.
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Welcome to Japan! Drill on your travel vocabulary as we make our way through customs, out into the main terminal, and beyond.
Notes: Don't forget your passport!
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Dozens more practice sentences exercising vocab from Chapter 2.
Notes: Also contains a note about using the "let's do" form to volunteer to do something.
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Review and drill on the “big six” forms of godan (“changer”) verbs: present, past, positive and negative; plus the -te form and the “let’s do” form.
Notes: Also contains a note on the use of ni after days of the week.
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Check yourself into a fabulous review of vocabulary and patterns related to staying at hotels.
Notes: Also contains bonus uses of the kochira/sochira/achira/dochira set.
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Reviews the particle e and a unique power it has.
Notes: Also includes a note on using the word kaeru to speak of returning to locations besides home.
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Drill on the four main irregular verbs in Japanese: to go, to come, to do, and to be. After this point, you'll be able to rock any verb in its informal (plain) form!
Notes: Also exercises vocabulary learned in the previous several chapters.
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Drill on a few patterns and important male-female speech differences related to using informal verbs.
Notes: Also contains a review of how to create informal questions without sounding blunt.
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Drill yourself on sentences using the reason-marking kara.
Notes: This episode also looks at sentences that omit the consequence ("It's because I like movies") and incomplete sentences that do the same ("Because I like movies").
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Start your day off right with a refreshing splash of vocabulary and grammar.
Notes: This episode also reviews the expression made ni, "by (a certain time)."
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In this continuation of our review of Chapter 10, we focus on the verb motsu, along with its use in the multi-word expressions for "bringing" and "taking."
Notes: This lesson also reviews additional vocabulary from the chapter.
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Drive through lots of sentences using the musing, emoting, and wondering out loud particle na.
Notes: This episode also introduces a new use for the word taihen.
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Reviews four important uses of the familiar -te form when joining two phrases together.
Notes: The fourth use discussed, to name the manner or state in which the main action is carried out, is particularly important.
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All aboard an express review of vocabulary and grammar related to the rail system in Japan!
Notes: This episode also contains a note on using humble verbs like mairu on people besides yourself.
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Sort out your wants and needs with this review of several new grammar patterns, including wanting things, wanting actions, and giving signs of wanting and feeling a certain way.
Notes: Also reviews why ga is used with hoshii and wo with hoshigaru.
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Drill on several important patterns for getting by courteously in everyday life.
Notes: Also reviews how to ask if it's okay not to do something.
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Brew yourself up a good, strong cup of review of the grammar and patterns we learned in this chapter.
Notes: Includes -te kuru for "be right back" missions, issho to mean both "the same" and "together," using janai? as a tag question, using atta!/ita! to report finding a missing item or person, and more.
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Did you start your review session, transitively? Or did your review session start, intransitively? Drill on the important difference in this lesson.
Notes: Focuses on eight common transitive/intransitive verb pairs.
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Exercise the pattern for saying you have done something before.
Notes: Also looks at two common speech abbreviations.
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Irasshaimase! We hope you find everything you're looking for in this review of convenience store vocabulary and customer service interactions.
Notes: Contains six short dialogues and a note on a short but possibly confusing sentence you will definitely hear a lot.
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Drill into an important new meaning of the -te iru pattern.
Notes: Also contains a note on two key categories of verbs -- ones that are conceived of as taking time, and ones that are conceived of as completing instantaneously -- and how this relates to what -te iru means.
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Drill on questions that contain embedded questions, including timeless classics like "I forgot where I put my keys" and "Do you remember when the meeting starts?"
Notes: Also contains a note about the use of the past tense within an embedded question.
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Order up! Dig into some tasty food and restaurant vocabulary and review three useful new patterns.
Notes: The three patterns are the "go to do" pattern, the "easy/hard to do" pattern, and the "do and see" pattern.
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Promote your Japanese to the next dimension with the addition of relative clauses: short sentences that stand before nouns as descriptions of them, allowing you to create phrases like "the person who is standing over there."
Notes: Relative clauses can even be nested: "the cat that caught the mouse that ate the cheese."
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Takes a breather from the heavy lifting to reconsider the oft-misunderstood particle yo.
Notes: Also includes a note that considers the combination of yo + ne, which at first blush seem to be polar opposites.
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Looks at direct and indirect quotations using to.
Notes: Also introduces the casual quotation particle tte.
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Review several common ways of talking about the future in this lesson.
Notes: Also contains sentences that demonstrate the (volitional) to omou pattern, meaning "I think I'll (verb)."
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Review vocab and grammar related to being seated, ordering, and paying the bill at restaurants.
Notes: Also contains a note on the use of the habitual present negative to mean that something does not happen, despite many opportunities for it to do so.
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Drill on this crucial grammar point with dozens of sentences that slowly increase in difficulty.
Notes: Also includes sentences that showcase the patterns koto ni suru and koto ni naru.
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Practice talking about your needs (and sometimes wants) with the words iru and hitsuyou.
Notes: Reviews several important patterns these words can be used in.
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Drill on the use of no to explain, justify, or rationalize, or to seek explanations or confirmations, with more than 50 example sentences.
Notes: Also introduces node and notes that ending statements with no can begin to sound feminine.
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Review the use of the verb iu to talk about what things are called.
Notes: Also looks at the combinations kou iu, sou iu, aa iu, and dou iu.
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Put the vocabulary we covered in this chapter to use with more than 50 example sentences.
Notes: Also includes a note on the word okashi and one showing the contrastive use of wa.
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Practice all manner of sentences using the basic patterns for comparing.
Notes: Also looks at naming preferences, which looks like saying, "X is better than Y," but which really means "I prefer X to Y."
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Review a handful of words related to saying when things happen and for how long.
Notes: Includes toki, mae, ato, uchi, and -kan.
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Drill on vocabulary we learned on our stroll through the supermarket together.
Notes: A tasty lesson, if ever there was one.
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Review the different verbs for giving and receiving with lots of examples.
Notes: Covers ageru, sashi-ageru, yaru, kureru, kudasaru, morau, and itadaku.
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Drill on combinations of interrogatives with ka, mo, and -te mo.
Notes: These patterns allow you to say things like "something," "anything," "nothing," and "no matter what."
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Build on Lesson 37 by putting the verbs of giving and receiving to use in combination with the -te form of verbs.
Notes: This allows us to speak of doing things for someone else, someone doing things for you, or getting someone to do something.
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Practice identifying speech traits that tend to sound feminine.
Notes: This lesson centers on feminine speech traits because there are several key ones that cause a sentence to sound unmistakably feminine. To sound more feminine, adopt these; to sound more masculine, avoid them.
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Spend one last day with John and Mariko, exercising all the vocab and grammar learned so far.
Notes: Thank you for studying with us, dear reader! We look forward to seeing you in your next series.
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