Week 1-6 course schedule overview

Day 1 

• Grammar focus on the particles ha and mo (は, も) - Lesson 1

• Particle ka to express questions and doubts (か) - Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on no (の）to specify being part of a group - Lesson 3

• Grammar focus on kore, sore, are (これ、それ、あれ） - Lesson 4

• Counting from 1 to 100 

• 10 hiragana (あ, い, う, え, お, か, き, く, け, こ)

Day 2 

• Grammar focus on no (の) to indicate possession - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on kono, sono, ano (この, その, あの) - Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on nan and dare (なん, だれ) - Lesson 3

• Counting from 101 to 1000

• 10 hiragana (さ, し, す, せ, そ, た, ち, つ, て, と)

Day 3

• Grammar focus on koko, soko, asoko (ここ, そこ、あそこ) - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on doko, ikura, ikutsu (どこ, いくら, いくつ) - Lesson 2, 3

• Grammar focus on no (の) to categorize something  - Lesson 3

• Use of nanimo＋ Verb〜masen to express "nothing"

• Counting up to 100,000, counting yen, things, and floors

• 10 hiragana (な, に, ぬ, ね, の, は, ひ, ふ, へ, ほ)

Day 4 

• Grammar focus on the particle wo (を), present tense (V-masu) and negative form (V-masen) - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the structure 「S1。+ それから、S2。」- Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on the particle de (で) and to (と) - Lesson 1, 3

• Expressing time (today, tomorrow, yesterday, etc.)

• 8 hiragana (ま, み, む, め, も, や, ゆ, よ)

Day 5

• How to tell time (What time is it?) - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the particles ni, kara, made, goro (に, から, まで, ごろ) - Lesson 2, 3

• Grammar focus on past tense (V-mashita) - Lesson 3

• 8 hiragana (ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わ, を, ん)

Day 6

• Grammar focus on negative form of past tense Verbs = V-masen deshita - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on verbs to go, to come, to go back (ikimas, kimas, kaerimas) - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the particle markers for action sentences - he (へ) as the marker of direction of an action, de (で) as the marker of the means of transport, to (と) as a marker of action with someone, and mo (も) used with negative verbs to mean not. - Lesson 1, 2

• Express time in the past (this/last/next year, this/last/next month) 

• Hiragana with voiced syllables (i.e. が, ざ, だ, ば, ぱ)

Day 7 

• Grammar focus on the particle itsu (いつ) meaning when (when an action occurs) - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the future form  - Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on extending an invitation V-masen ka? (Vませんか) - Lesson 3

• Conversation focus - Asking someone's age and replying your age (How old are you?)

• Hiragana with a double consonant (small tsu っ)

Day 8 

• Grammar focus on i-adjectives and na-adjectives in positive form - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on i-adjectives and na-adjectives in negative form - Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on the conjunction soshite (そして) - Lesson 3

• Grammar focus on the particle ga (が) as a marker to connect ideas that contrast - Lesson 3

• Express “very” and “not very” with totemo (とても) and amari (あまり)

• Hiragana with long sounds (かあ, きい, くう, けい, こう)

Day 9

• Grammar focus on how to conjugate an adjective with a noun - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the particle ne (ね) to express agreement/empathy - Lesson 1

• Ask “what kind of”, using the particle donna (どんな) - Lesson 2

• Ask “which one” using the expression dore deska (どれですか) - Lesson 3

• Hiragana with contracted sounds (i.e. きゃ、ぎゃ, しゃ, じゃ)

Day 10 

• Express existence for living and non-living things using the verbs arimas and imas, and the particles ga (が) and ni (に) - Lesson 1, 2

• Express the number of people staying in a place - Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on the particles ya (や), yo (よ), ne (ね) - Lesson 1, 4

• Hiragana with contracted sounds (i.e. ちゃ, にゃ, ひゃ, びゃ, ぴゃ, みゃ, りゃ) 

Day 11 

• Grammar focus on the particle ga (が) indicating the object - Lesson 1

• Express likes with suki des (すき) and appraise skill with jouzu (じょうず) - Lesson 3

• Express “I understand” using wakarimas (わかります) - Lesson 4

• Grammar focus on the adverbs sukoshi (すこし), daitai (だいたい), yoku (よく), zenzen (ぜんぜん)

• Food-related vocabulary

• First 10 katakana (ア, イ, ウ, エ, オ, カ, キ, ク, ケ, コ)

Day 12 

• Noun1 + Noun2 ga arimas (があります）to express having an appointment, something to do. - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the interrogative doushite (どうして) and kara (から) to explain a reason - Lesson 2, 3 

• Grammar focus on the expression mashou with a verb (Vましょう) to make a proposal - Lesson 4

• Drinks-related vocabulary

• 10 Katakana (サ, シ, ス, セ, ソ, タ, チ, ツ, テ, ト)

Day 13 

• Grammar focus on the particle de (で) + Verb to express means - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the particle ni (に) as the recipient of an action - Lesson 2, 3

• Grammar focus on the use of verbs kashimas (かします), agemas (あげます), oshiemas (おしえます) - Lesson 3

• Shops-related vocabulary

• 10 Katakana (ナ, ニ, ヌ, ネ, ノ, ハ, ヒ, フ, ヘ, ホ)

Day 14 

• Grammar focus on the expression “ni shimas” (に します) - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the use of verbs karimas (かります), moraimas (もらいます), naraimas (ならいます) - Lesson 2, 3

• Ask about quantities with ikutsu (いくつ) and use counters -mai (-まい) and -dai (-だい) - Lesson 4

• Clothes-related vocabulary

• 8 Katakana (マ, ミ, ム, メ, モ, ヤ, ユ, ヨ)

Day 15

• Noun1 wa (は) + noun2 ga (が) + adjective des（です）to express characteristics such as "that person is tall", "Australia has high prices" - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the difference/or your preference of nouns using the expressions:
  - “Noun1 wa Noun2 yori A des” (N1 は N2 より A です) - Lesson 2
  - “Noun1 to Noun2 dochira ga A deska” (N1 と N2 どちら が Aですか) - Lesson 3
  - “Noun1 no hou ga A des” (Noun1 の ほう が A です) - Lesson 3

• Electronic products-related vocabulary

• 8 Katakana (ラ, リ, ル, レ, ロ, ワ, ヲ, ン)

• Course test 1 

Day 16

• How to compare things - Lesson 1

• How to ask what is best/most etc. than something else - Lesson 1

• Using several adjectives to describe one noun in the same sentence - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on いAdjective + くて/ なAdjective + で/ Noun +で - Lesson 2

• 13 kanji: (from 一 to 十、山、月、木)

Day 17

• Grammar focus on how to use adjectives and nouns in the past - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on how to express a period of time with verbs - Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on the particles から、まで、ぐらい - Lesson 3, 4

• Express actions from a starting point to a destination - Lesson 4 

• Asking detailed questions about an interval of time (なんぷん, なんじかん, なんにち, なんしゅうかん, なんかげつ, なんねん) 

• Using classifiers to talk about a period of time ( －ぷん,－じかん,－にち,－しゅうかん,－かげつ,－ねん) 

• Sports-related katakana 

Day 18 

• Grammar focus on using adjectives in the past negative form - Lesson 1, 2 

• Grammar focus on using nouns in the past negative form - Lesson 1, 2 

• 3 kanji: (日, 本, 人）

Day 19 

• Express a need for something (ほしいです） - Lesson 1 

• Express something you would like to do - Lesson 2 

• Vehicle-related katakana 

Day 20 

•  Express movement to, from a place - Lesson 1, 2 

• Grammar focus on the particles に, なにか, だれか, どこか - Lesson 1 

• 3 kanji: (先, 生, 学)

Day 21

• How to offer and propose to do something - Lesson 1

• Verb+たいんですが to tell someone else what you want to do (such as I want to go...) - Lesson 2

• Verb in the ますform+方 (kata) to express the method (such as how to cook) - Lesson 3

• Asking how many (long objects)

• Counting long objects

• 3 kanji: 行, 来, 帰

Day 22

• How to talk about hobbies - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on Japanese verb groups - Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on dictionary form of verbs - Lesson 2

• Grammar focus on the particles や. など 

• Grammar focus on the adverb このまえ

• Country-related katakana

Day 23

• How to express events and actions happening in one place - Lesson 1

• Giving examples - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the particles とか, に - Lesson 1, 3

• How to express an action that happened just before another action - Lesson 3

• Grammar focus on the adverb ぜひ

• 3 kanji: 食, 飲, 買

Day 24

• できます to express what is possible to do - Lesson 1, 2, 3

• Grammar focus on the particles だけ

• Using interrogatives with でも

• Counting books and distance

• Stationery-related katakana

Day 25

• Grammar focus on the てform - Lesson 1

• How to express the progress of an action (-ています) - Lesson 1, 2

• Three more kanji 名, 大, 何

Day 26

• Express the result of an action (verb in て form + います) - Lesson 1, 2

• Use of に (frequency) - Lesson 1

• Focus on the expressions maitoshi, maitsuki, yoku (毎年、毎月、よく)

• 3 kanji: 会, 社, 員

Day 27

• Use て form + kudasai to express instruction/request/advise - Lesson 1

• Grammar focus on the use of は as a collector - Lesson 2

• How to express an action that happened just before another action - Lesson 3

• Grammar focus もういちど, すぐ (time), どうぞ, どうも (greeting) 

• Things in a room-related katakana 

Day 28 

• Use of the form て+もいいです (is ok to, may I?) - Lesson 1, 3 

• Use of the form て+はいけません  (must not do) - Lesson 2, 3 

• 3 kanji: 車, 百, 千 

Day 29 

• Use of the form verb1て+verb2て to express sequence in actions - Lesson 1 

• Verb1てから + verb2 to express an action after doing another action - Lesson 2 

• Grammar focus on the use of どうやって, すぐ, さきに, もうすこし 

• Desserts-related katakana 

Day 30 

• Verbs in たform - Lesson 1 

• た＋ことがあります（to have (ever) done something or have experienced of something  - Lesson 1 

• Grammar focus on と to specify the partner in an action 

• Use of  何 + classifier + も　(a number of…) 

• Counting occurrences of an action (なんかい, 〜かい ) 

• 3 kanji: 万, 円, 毎