Online Japanese N5 Course

Course Description:

 N5 is the basic level of Japanese Language Proficiency Test aka JLPT. JLPT is held worldwide by the Japan Foundation to evaluate and certify the proficiency in Japanese of non-native speakers.
Taking this course will make the student confident to take the upcoming Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
Even if the student does not intend to take the JLPT, they can enrol in this course, as this course will help them learn basic Japanese scripts, expressions, vocabulary, grammar, and simple conversations used in daily life.

Topics you will learn in this course:

• Learning to write and pronounce the three basic Japanese scripts viz. Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji (The pictorial script)
• Learning the writing & pronunciation of 800-1000 basic words.
•  Learning grammar patterns to make simple sentences.
• Studying basic greetings & expressions often used in daily life.
• Having short & simple conversations in daily life.
• Listening practice to grasp the native pronunciations.
• Reading short, medium, long passages related to common & easy topics.

Learning Outcome of the course:

– Upon the completion of the course, the student will be confident to take the JLPT.
– Course material provided. (PDFs, Videos, Audios. Etc.)
– Homework for each lesson.
– Class test after completing every 3rd lesson.
– Interactive sessions. / Role plays
– The student will be able to listen and comprehend conversations about topics regularly encountered in daily life and classroom situations and will be able to pick up necessary information from short conversations spoken slowly.

 Who is this course for?
This course is for everyone who want to start their journey in Japanese Language.
Like company employees having business with Japanese clients, Homemakers wanting to explore career options, School/College students wanting to have a qualification in Japanese language for better career prospects, anime fans wanting to watch anime without subtitles and so on.

Course Details:

• The batch starts from: 6th June 2022 (Mon-Fri) | 11th June 2022 (Sat-Sun)
• Time: 11:00-13:00 hrs (Mon-Fri) | 11:00-14:00 hrs (Sat-Sun)
• Application: Teams / Meet
• Language known: Hindi and English
• Resources / Support provided during & after Course Completion- Lesson PDFs, Audios, Conversation Videos, Quizzes, Homework’s, Class Tests

 CONTENTS

• GENERAL FEATURES OF JAPANESE 2
• JAPANESE WRITING 2

INTRODUCTION

Ⅰ. Japanese Pronunciation 3
Ⅱ. Classroom Language 7
Ⅲ. Everyday Greetings and Expressions 7
TERMS USED FOR INSTRUCTION 8
KEY TO SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS 9

  Lesson 1

Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation: How do you do?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information Countries,
People and Languages

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. N1 wa N2 desu
2. N1 wa N2 ja (dewa) arimasen
3. N1 wa N2 desu ka
4. N mo
5. N1 no N2
6. -san

Lesson 2
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
Thank you in advance for your
kindness
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Family Names

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. kore/sore/are
2. kono N/sono N/ano N
3. sō desu
4. ～ ka, ～ ka
5. N1 no N2
6. no substituting for a noun
7. o-
8. sō desu ka

Lesson 3 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation: I’ll take it, please
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Department Store

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. koko/soko/asoko/kochira/sochira/
achira
2. N wa place desu
3. doko/dochira
4. N1 no N2
5. The ko/so/a/do
system of demonstratives
6. o-

Lesson 4 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
What time are you open to?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Telephone and Letters

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Ima -ji -fun desu
2. V-masu/V-masen/V-mashita/
V-masendeshita
3. N (time) ni V
4. N1 kara N2 made
5. N1 to N2
6. ～ ne

Lesson 5 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
Does this train go to Koshien?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
National Holidays

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. N (place) e ikimasu/kimasu/
kaerimasu
2. Doko [e] mo ikimasen/
ikimasendeshita
3. N (vehicle) de ikimasu/kimasu/
kaerimasu
4. N (person/animal) to V
5. itsu
6. ～ yo
7. sō desu ne

Lesson 6 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
Shall we go together?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Food

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. N o V (transitive)
2. N o shimasu
3. Nani o shimasu ka
4. nan and nani
5. N (place) de V
6. V-masen ka
7. V-mashō
8. ～ ka

Lesson 7 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation: Welcome
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Family

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. N (tool/means) de V
2.‘Word/Sentence’wa -go de
nan desu ka
3. N1 (person) ni N2 o agemasu, etc.
4. N1 (person) ni N2 o moraimasu, etc.
5. Mō V-mashita
6. Omission of particles

Lesson 8
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
It’s time we were going
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Colours and Tastes

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Adjectives
2. N wa na-adj [n／a] desu
N wa i-adj (～i) desu
3. na-adj na N
i-adj (～i) N
4. ～ ga, ～
5. totemo/amari
6. N wa dō desu ka
7. N1 wa donna N2 desu ka
8. sō desu ne

Lesson 9 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation: It’s a pity……
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Music, Sports and Films

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. N ga arimasu/wakarimasu
N ga suki desu/kirai desu/
jōzu desu/heta desu
2. donna N
3. yoku/daitai/takusan/sukoshi/
amari/zenzen
4. ～ kara, ～
5. dōshite

Lesson 10
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
Do you have any nam pla?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Inside the House

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. N ga arimasu/imasu
2. Place ni N ga arimasu/imasu
3. N wa place ni arimasu/imasu
4. N1 (thing/person/place) no N2 (position)
5. N1 ya N2
6. Ajia-sutoa desu ka

Lesson 11 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
[I’d like to send] this, please
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Menu

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. How to say numbers
2. How to use quantifiers
3. Quantifier (time period) ni -kai V
4. Quantifier dake/N dake

Lesson 12
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
How was the Gion Festival?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Festivals and Places of Note

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Tense and affirmative/negative
forms of noun sentences and
na-adjective sentences
2. Tense and affirmative/negative
forms of i-adjective sentences
3. N1 wa N2 yori adj desu
4. N1 to N2 to dochira ga adj desu ka
……N1/N2 no hō ga adj desu
5. N1 [no naka] de nani/doko/dare/itsu
ga ichiban adj desu ka
……N2 ga ichiban adj desu
6. Adj no (no substituting for a noun)

Lesson 13
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. N ga hoshii desu
2. V masu-form tai desu

Conversation: Separately, please
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
3.

N (place) eV masu-form ni

Townikimasu/kimasu/kaerimasu

4. dokoka/nanika
5. go-

Lesson 14
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation: To Midoricho, please
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Station

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Verb Groups
2. V te-form
3. V te-form kudasai
4. V te-form imasu
5. V masu-form mashō ka
6. N ga V
7. sumimasen ga

Lesson 15
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
What family do you have?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Occupations

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. V te-form mo ii desu ka
2. V te-form wa ikemasen
3. V te-form imasu
4. N ni V
5. N1 ni N2 o V

Lesson 16
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
Please show me how to use it
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
How to Use a Cash Machine

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. How to join two or more sentences
together
2. V1 te-form kara, V2
3. N1 wa N2 ga adj
4. N o V
5. dōyatte
6. dore/dono N

Lesson 17
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
What seems to be the matter?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Body and Illness

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. V nai-form
2. V nai-form nai de kudasai
3. V nai-form nakereba narimasen
4. V nai-form nakute mo ii desu
5. Making an object the topic of a
sentence
6. N (time) made ni V

Lesson 18 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
What do you like doing?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Actions

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Dictionary form of verbs
V-dictionary form koto ga
dekimasu
3. Watashi no shumi wa

V-dictionary form koto desu
N no mae ni, V2
Quantifier (time period)
5. nakanaka
6. zehi

Lesson 19 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
I’ll start dieting tomorrow

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. V ta-form
2. V ta-form koto ga arimasu
3. V1 ta-form ri, V2 ta-form ri
shimasu

Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information Traditional
Culture and
Entertainment
4.

i-adj (～／i ) →～ku
na-adj [n／a] →～ni
N ni

Lesson 20 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Polite style and plain style
2. Proper use of the polite style or plain
Conversation: Shall we go together?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and

Information
How to Address People

style
3. Conversation in the plain style

Lesson 21 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation: I think so, too
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Positions in Society

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Plain form to omoimasu
Plain form to iimasu
N
4. N1 (place) de N2 ga arimasu
5. N (occasion) de
6. N demo V
7. V nai-form nai to……

Lesson 22 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
What kind of flat are you
looking for?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Clothes

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Noun modification
2. V-dictionary form
jikan/yakusoku/yōji
3. V masu-form mashō ka

Lesson 23 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
How do you get there?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Roads and Traffic

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
i-adj (～i) toki, ～ (main clause)
na-adj na
N no
2. V-dictionary form

V ta-form

toki, ～ (main clause)

3. V-dictionary form to, ～ (main clause)
4. N ga adj
5. N o motionV

Lesson 24 
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
Shall I come and help?
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Exchanging Gifts

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. kuremasu
V te-form moraimasu
kuremasu
3. N1 wa N2 ga V

Lesson 25 154
Ⅰ. Vocabulary
Ⅱ. Translation
Sentence Patterns and Example Sentences
Conversation:
Thanks for everything
Ⅲ. Useful Words and
Information
Life

Ⅳ. Grammar Notes
1. Plain past form ra, ～ (main clause)
3. V te-form
V nai-form nakute
i-adj (～／i ) →～kute mo, ～ (main clause)
na-adj [n／a] →～de
N de
4. moshi
5. Subject of a subordinate clause

Article 1 : Topic and Subject 160
Article 2 : Clauses 163

APPENDICES
Ⅰ. Numerals 164
Ⅱ. Expressions of time 165
Ⅲ. Expressions of period 167
Ⅳ. Counter suffixes 168
Ⅴ. Conjugations of verbs 170

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