Learning Japanese – particles, counters, forms, keigo

Material taken from the free part of the family's apps: particles, counters, verb forms, casual speech and keigo.

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  Japanese particles: は, が, を, に, で, へ

  The particles that carry an ordinary Japanese sentence, and the roles they stand in – with examples and translations.

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  Confusing pairs in Japanese: は or が, もう or まだ

  Pairs that look interchangeable and are not – each sentence comes with the situation and the reason the other form fails.

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  Japanese verb forms: masu, te, ta, nai

  The forms from the first two stages of conjugation – what each one does and when it is used.

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  Japanese counters – how to count people, things and animals

  What you use to count people, thin objects, books and animals – with readings, notes on the exceptions and example sentences.

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  Casual Japanese – the contractions in anime and conversation

  The contractions you hear every day, each next to the full form it came from.

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  Keigo – Japanese politeness in practice

  Situations from working life and the honorific and humble forms – what to say and why that one.