GUIDED PATH · PHASE 5
Guided Japanese Course
A mastery path for complete beginners and technology professionals.
HOW THIS COURSE WORKS
Follow the path. Advance by mastery.
The primary path tells you what to do next. You can still open any available lesson, but completion is based on checkpoints rather than calendar days.
FULL TARGET CURRICULUM
Tracks 0–10
TRACK 1 · 1-6
Vocabulary 2: Countries, Languages & Roles
Talk about nationality, language, and professional role with vocabulary that supports introductions.
- X は Y です and core Track 1 vocabulary.
Professional introductions often combine who you are, where you are from, what language you use, and what you do.
1. Learn words as usable components
Vocabulary is useful only when you can recognize it inside a sentence and retrieve it when you need to speak or write. Read each word aloud, notice its script, then study the example sentence instead of memorizing an isolated English pair.
Natural: Japan
Structure: Japan
Kanji place name.
Natural: United States / America
Structure: America
Common katakana country name.
Natural: Japanese person
Structure: Japan-person
人 becomes じん in nationality words.
Natural: American
Structure: America-person
Country + 人.
Natural: Japanese language
Structure: Japan-language
語（ご） marks a language in many names.
Natural: English
Structure: English-language
High-value language noun.
Natural: developer
Structure: development-person
More formal/native term than デベロッパー.
Natural: SRE
Structure: S-R-E
Acronyms are often pronounced letter by letter.
2. Put the vocabulary into a workplace scene
Picture a cross-company project kickoff. People state their name, nationality or location when relevant, language ability, and technical role.
Japan
United States / America
Japanese person
3. Pen-and-paper production
Close the word list. Recreate at least six target words from memory, then write three short Japanese phrases or sentences using the vocabulary. If a word does not come back, leave a blank first—do not immediately peek.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHEET
3. Pen-and-paper production
From memory, write six target words and three short phrases/sentences that use them. Reopen the lesson only after your first attempt; correct mistakes in a different mark.
Tip: on a foldable or tablet, use your pen directly on the page. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you work.
3. Pen-and-paper production
From memory, write six target words and three short phrases/sentences that use them. Reopen the lesson only after your first attempt; correct mistakes in a different mark.
4. Reinforce only the words worth keeping
Use Manabi Kōbō tools with a specific purpose: retrieval for durable memory and word recognition for faster reading.
Japanese Adaptive Recall
Why here: Country/language/role compounds are reusable introduction vocabulary.
How to use it for this lesson: Practice the whole compound, especially 日本人 / 日本語 / 英語, so you notice how 人 and 語 contribute meaning.
Practice compounds →Language IDE
Why here: These nouns are ideal inputs for the X は Y です pattern you just learned.
How to use it for this lesson: Build three introductions: nationality, language, and role. Swap only the noun component and watch the sentence structure remain stable.
Build an introduction →5. Retrieval pass
Cover the English and look only at the Japanese. Say the meaning. Then reverse it: look at the English concept and produce the Japanese aloud or in writing. Mark any item that takes more than a few seconds; that hesitation—not the easy words—is your review signal.
Mastery checkpoint
Answer from memory. Use the explanations after checking to debug any miss before moving on.
