GUIDED PATH · PHASE 5

Guided Japanese Course

A mastery path for complete beginners and technology professionals.

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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.

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11 tracks

TRACK 8 · 8-7

~ほうがいい: Should / Better To

Give basic advice with Vたほうがいい and Vないほうがいい.

30 min
Before you begin
  • Plain past and negative.
Why this matters

This supports recommendations without expressing strict obligation: you should check first; you shouldn't change that yet.

1. Advice is weaker than obligation

Vたほうがいい = it is better to do V. Vないほうがいい = it is better not to do V.

Recommendation strength
てもいいpermission
たほうがいいadvice
なければならないobligation