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 ...

Make yourself at ease with Japanese through this series of lessons. Tune in each week for a 10-minute episode or look for it online. Across 48 weeks, you'll learn the basic of the language and be ...

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 ...

When you ask somebody to do something in Japanese, you say TE-form verbs and then KUDASAI (Please, or I would ask you to). The TE-form verbs are the conjugated form of verbs that end with TE or DE.

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 ...

When we want to show respect to the listener or the person we are talking about, we say O or GO before nouns or adjectives concerning that person. For example, SHIGOTO (work) becomes OSHIGOTO. GENKI ...

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 ...

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 ...