Japanese From Zero! Book 1: Beginner Japanese Grammar, Numbers and Everyday Phrases
A 36-video beginner sequence following the Japanese From Zero! Book 1 textbook. It covers pronunciation, numbers, first-meeting phrases and greetings, then core grammar: particles (は, が, の, を, に, で, から, まで), adjectives, past tense, dates, counters, verb basics and telling time. It suits complete beginners who want a structured, grammar-led route into spoken Japanese. Kana is used throughout the examples, but the playlist has no dedicated hiragana or katakana writing lessons.
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What You'll Learn
- Pronounce Japanese vowels, double vowels, double consonants and the single ん sound
- Count from 0 into the hundreds of millions, including the irregular readings
- Introduce yourself, ask names and ages, and use common greetings and set phrases
- Build simple sentences using the particles は, が, の, を, に, で, から and まで
- Use い-adjectives, な-adjectives and nouns, including negatives (じゃない) and past tense (でした)
- Say dates, days of the week, months, years, clock times and counters for common objects
Prerequisites
- No prior experience needed
- Watch in order, because each video assumes the earlier ones
Course Curriculum
- 1Welcome to Japanese: How to Start Learning9:41
- 2Japanese Pronunciation Basics15:31
- 3Japanese Pronunciation Basics (Updated)16:40
- 4Japanese Numbers Part 1: 1 to 9922:00
- 5Japanese Numbers Part 2: 100 to 9,99914:03
- 6Japanese Numbers Part 3: 10,000 to 99,99913:52
- 7Japanese Numbers Part 4: 100 Million and Above25:08
- 8Japanese Numbers Part 5: Zero7:11
- 9Japanese First Meeting Phrases10:51
- 10Japanese Age-Related Phrases15:30
- 11Japanese Age-Related Phrases (Updated)7:50
- 12Japanese Greetings11:58
- 13How Japanese Is Typed on a Keyboard10:26
- 14Creating Simple Japanese Sentences20:25
- 15Using SAN Properly and Missing English Pronouns8:09
- 16Working with a Topic: The Particle WA30:20
- 17KO-SO-A-DO Word Group6:39
- 18Possession and the Particle NO18:40
- 19Subject Marker GA vs WA9:20
- 20Colors and the Three Types of Adjectives15:13
- 21Liking and Disliking18:46
- 22Making Nouns and NA-Adjectives Negative with JANAI15:16
- 23The "One" Pronoun6:26
- 24Making い-Adjectives Negative23:53
- 25Locations and the DOKO Word Group9:48
- 26The BUT Connector: DEMO11:00
- 27Months and Days of the Month24:19
- 28Past Tense with DESHITA11:27
- 29Days of the Week and Years16:54
- 30This, Next and Last Dates13:24
- 31Asking for Things with the Particle を20:04
- 32Japanese Counters29:09
- 33Basic Japanese Verb Conjugation12:59
- 34Time and Location Particles21:41
- 35Telling Time in Japanese21:41
- 36From and Until Particles14:38
About the Instructor
Learn Japanese From Zero!
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