FAST TRACK - 100 GRAMMATICAL & USEFUL PHRASE BITS
Watered-down, understandable, bite-sized grammar helps. Perhaps by knowing these basic Japanese grammar points, you will be able to communicate in Japanese limited only by vocabulary and guts! Of course this list is a simplified grammar, and is meant to be only an introduction to the grammar points presented.
Chapter One
and と、そして
Basic word order
Desu
2 Basic verb forms
Making questions か
Question words
Possessive "'s" の
But でも
Pronouns
Fillers ええと、
Particles intro
if もし
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Chapter Two
Using ～さん
Easy adjectives
Past tense
Very とても
To want ～がほしい
Want to do~ ～たい
は、が
There is / There are
To like... がすき
Why / Because なぜ、どうして、なぜなら
I think と思います
Become になります
Also も
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Chapter Three
Making the て form
to do, play する・します
more, ~er もっと
Can できます
-ing ている
For example たとえば
This これ・この
That それ・その
That over there あれ・あの
Must do なければなりません
better do... たほうがいい
better / worse than のほうが、より
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Chapter Four
How... どう
Isn't it? でしょう
said といいました
Negative verbs
Negative adjectives
Plan to 予定、つもり
Punctuation 。、「」
Should はず
Because II ので
Although のに
Using 何
Easy to... ～やすい
Hard to... ～にくい
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Chapter Five
Looks like ～みたい
I've heard ～そう
Like, as... ～ように
like, as if らしい
Let's... ～しましょう
Won't you...? ～ませんか？
Power ender "ね"
When, that time とき
Using こと
situation 場合
Etc... and... など、とか
About くらい
How about ...? どう
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Chapter Six
しまった、ちゃった
Please do... ～てください
Please give me... ～をください
on, in, above, behind...
Why don't we...? ～ませんか？
Closer look at を
Closer look at に
Closer look at で
Closer look at が
If II たら
Soft ender II ちょっと
The power ender "よ"
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Chapter Seven
The non-but でも even if
The best, -est いちばん
About... ～について
Can't, not allowed いけません
Easy kanji prefixes
Easy counters
The Explanatory "んです"
の as a pronoun
How to... ～かた
Please don't ～ないで ください
Have done... ことが あります
To decide to have... にします
Degrees ほど
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Chapter Eight
Even if たとえ、～ても
And, and, etc ～たり
While ながら
May I...? ～でもいいですか？
Not much あまり
The power "そう"
Polite Japanese 敬語
polite II お～ください、しています、になります
Giving & receiving あげる、くれる、もらう
level / degree of something ～さ
just did... たばかり
can II たべます、よめます
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When will the gray text become links
When will those gray text become blue links? :)
Not sure... It is on the
Not sure... It is on the list. But the list is pretty long :)
Thanks! I still need to do
Thanks! I still need to do a lot or editing, but I fixed a lot of errors and cleaned it up a bit from the previous site.
These chapters are a heaven
These chapters are a heaven for those studying Japanese.
Awesome work!