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 · 1-9
Vocabulary 3: Devices, Places & Work Objects
Build a practical noun bank for identifying devices, places, documents, and technical objects.
- Track 1 noun statements and time.
The next lessons use の and demonstratives. You need concrete nouns worth linking and pointing to.
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: server
Structure: server
Technical katakana.
Natural: PC / personal computer
Structure: personal computer
Common shortened loanword.
Natural: document / materials
Structure: materials
Useful for meetings and project work.
Natural: specification document
Structure: specification-document
Useful compound noun.
Natural: office
Structure: office
Katakana workplace noun.
Natural: meeting room
Structure: meeting-room
High-value workplace place noun.
Natural: test environment
Structure: test-environment
Mixed katakana + kanji compound.
Natural: production environment
Structure: production-environment
Useful technical compound.
2. Put the vocabulary into a workplace scene
Imagine arriving at an unfamiliar office or joining a project in a new environment. You need nouns for the objects and places people point to.
server
PC / personal computer
document / materials
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: These nouns become inputs for demonstratives, possession, and location structures.
How to use it for this lesson: Practice the Japanese noun from an English/workplace prompt, then read it in a short sentence.
Practice work-object vocabulary →Tsundoku Reading Nook
Why here: A short reading lets concrete nouns appear in an actual scene instead of a word list.
How to use it for this lesson: Choose a beginner workplace/technical reading. Keep furigana on if needed and hunt specifically for object/place nouns before reading the translation.
Find nouns in context →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.
