Lesson Overview — Beginners 2 (Lessons 1–20)

These lessons cover key grammar and vocabulary from Beginners 2 along with natural expressions and real-life Japanese from the story LOST IN YOU, LOST IN TOKYO.

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Additional Learning: 150 kanji exercises, Japanese seasonal events, and practical expressions for everyday situations such as hospitals, pharmacies, train stations, schools, and workplaces.

  • Lesson 1: Asking where things and people are / Starting and finishing actions / Location words
  • Lesson 2: Going and coming / Polite existence / Shops / Weather expressions
  • Lesson 3: Order of actions / How to do things (で) / Requests / Floor numbers
  • Lesson 4: Connecting adjectives / Asking “which” / Hobbies / Recommendations
  • Lesson 5: Reason or Cause (で) / Frequency / Duration / School year vocabulary / Review
  • Lesson 6: Nobody / Nothing / Giving and receiving / Time expressions
  • Lesson 7: Completion or regret (～てしまう) / Comparisons / Only or still (まだ)
  • Lesson 8: Continuing result (てform) / The verb 知る / Trying actions / Easy & difficult verbs
  • Lesson 9: Too much (～すぎます) / Might (～かもしれません) / Asking “what kind?” / When (～のとき)
  • Lesson 10: While doing (～ながら) / Change (～になる) / Natural results (～と) / Review
  • Lesson 11: Making verbs from nouns and adjectives / Adjective review
  • Lesson 12: Transitive and intransitive verbs / Counters / Describing appearance
  • Lesson 13: Plain form (verbs) / Have done before (～たことがある) / Doing things for someone (～てくれる) / Sentence-ending particles
  • Lesson 14: Might (plain form + ～かもしれません) / Intention (つもりです) / Probability (でしょう) / Expectation (はずです) / てform + いく
  • Lesson 15: I heard (そうです) / It seems (らしいです) / It looks like (ようです) / てform + くる / Review
  • Lesson 16: Plain form (adjectives and nouns) / Explaining or giving a reason (～んです) / Why (どうして)
  • Lesson 17: When (verb + とき) / Potential form / Around (ころ／ごろ) / After actions (あとで／あとに)
  • Lesson 18: Only (だけ／しか) / Conditional (たら) / Doing various actions (～たり、 ～たりします) / Passive form
  • Lesson 19: Because (verb/noun + から) / Differences: ～から, ～ので, ～のため / During (あいだに) / Doing things for me (～てもらう) / Causative (させる)
  • Lesson 20: Emotions / Frequency / Conditional form (ば／なければ) / Differences: ～と, ～たら, ～ば / Review

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