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.

Learn→ Write by hand→ Use a tool→ Produce→ Check→ Review

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

11 tracks

TRACK 2 · 2-5

で: Where / How an Action Happens

Use で for the place where an action occurs and for the means/tool used to perform it.

25 min
Before you begin
  • Basic action sentences and を.
Why this matters

Technical Japanese uses で constantly: at the office, in the test environment, with Python, by train.

1. で marks the arena of an action

If an action occurs somewhere, that location can take で.

Action location
テスト環境place
でaction arena
確認しますaction
I work at the office. オフィスで働きます。 オフィス で はたらきます。

Natural: I work at the office.

Structure: office — at arena — work.

Action location.

I speak in the meeting room. 会議室で話します。 かいぎしつ で はなします。

Natural: I speak in the meeting room.

Structure: meeting room — at — speak.

Action location.

I check it in the test environment. テスト環境で確認します。 テストかんきょう で かくにんします。

Natural: I check it in the test environment.

Structure: test environment — in — check.

Technical execution location.