Lessons
Your Next Lesson
Say Hello in Japanese No Matter What the Time of Day
Absolute Beginner Season 1
Learn how to greet someone both formally and informally
Study Now
Vocabulary
My Teacher
My Teacher Messenger My Assessment Test

Start Learning Japanese in the next 30 Seconds with
a Free Lifetime Account

Or sign up using Facebook
By clicking Join Now, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and to receive our email communications, which you may opt out at any time.
Lesson LibraryBeginner Season 4

Beginner Season 4

This 50-lesson linear series is a continuation of the Newbie Level Nihongo-Dojo series. You will follow the story of Haruya, a professional Japanese boxer, and his girlfriend Miu.

50 Lessons • 11hrs 56min
0%
0 / 50 Complete
Explore Curriculum
1

Meet The Parents 1

Learn the humble forms for "to speak" and "to do"

15 Minutes • Audio
2

Japanese Etiquette: Visiting a Home

Learn how to enter Japanese home respectfully and show that you're sensitive to the culture

15 Minutes • Audio
3

Tell Me More About Yourself

Learn how to talk about yourself in a polite manner

11 Minutes • Audio
4

Daddy is Home

Learn how to say what we want or want to do

15 Minutes • Audio
5

A Scheme is Hatched

Learn how to say what you don't want

18 Minutes • Audio
6

The Plot Thickens

Learn the attributive use of the particle ga

15 Minutes • Audio
7

An Opportunity Arises

Learn about talking on the phone

14 Minutes • Audio
8

A Second Chance to Make A First Impression

Learn how to extend invitations and how not to answer them when speaking with a potential mother-in-law

15 Minutes • Audio
9

Taking Orders

Learn to follow instructions in this Japanese lesson

15 Minutes • Audio
10

Bonding at Break Time

Learn how to understand more simple instructions

15 Minutes • Audio
11

Three's A Crowd

Learn about the critical Japanese phrases you need to get around

16 Minutes • Audio
12

Have You Seen Our Garden?

Learn how to ask for explanation using the Japanese phrase "Setsumei shite kudasai"

13 Minutes • Audio
13

The Perfect Japanese For a First Encounter

Learn how to discuss present continuing actions

14 Minutes • Audio
14

Using Polite Japanese: Your Key to Forming Relationships

Learn to use Japanese verbs like iku, kuru, and kaeru

11 Minutes • Audio
15

Cans and Can'ts: Asking for and Giving Permission

Learn to use these Japanese words to ask all sorts of questions and give appropriate responses

13 Minutes • Audio
16

Read, Learn and Speak: Combining Verbs in Japanese

Learn how to combine verbs

14 Minutes • Audio
17

What are you Going to Bring?

Learn about Mottekite (to bring) and Motteiku (to take)

11 Minutes • Audio
18

Japanese that Might Save Your Life!

Learn the emergency numbers you need in Japan

12 Minutes • Audio
19

How Not to Take The Wrong Train in Japan!

Learn how to ask for directions and use public transportation in Japan

13 Minutes • Audio
20

How Does Your Japanese Compare?

Learn to make comparisons

12 Minutes • Audio
21

Who are You Being Compared To?

Learn how to make affirmative comparisons

14 Minutes • Audio
22

“The Best” Japanese is Here!

Learn how to superlative sentences that compare quantity or quality

15 Minutes • Audio
23

Please Don't Do This!

Learn how to ask someone not to do something using -naide kudasai politely

14 Minutes • Audio
24

The Most Important Japanese Lesson Yet!

Learn how to change verbs into the past tense

15 Minutes • Audio
25

Japanese You Can Do Without?

Learn how to use sentences formed as "Do [clause 1] without doing [clause 2]"

13 Minutes • Audio
26

The Right Way to Sightsee in Japan

Review two verb forms, which are the dictionary form and the masu form

14 Minutes • Audio
27

Are You Ready for a Visit to Japan?

Review the counters for hours and minutes, and how to form the negative form of a verb

17 Minutes • Audio
28

One Word You Can't Speak Japanese Without!

Learn about telling someone to do something

15 Minutes • Audio
29

Formal and Informal Japanese: Do you Know the Difference?

Learn about talking about something using adjectives

13 Minutes • Audio
30

Your First Trip to Japan

Learn about talking about past actions

12 Minutes • Audio
31

My Sincerest Apologies

Learn about saying that one did not do a certain action in the past

13 Minutes • Audio
32

The Most Meaningful Japanese Lesson Yet

Learn about describing how something was

13 Minutes • Audio
33

Get in on the Volitional Verb Action!

Learn about making a suggestion (let's ～)

14 Minutes • Audio
34

Is Your Japanese Too Much?

Learn about saying that something is too [adjective]

16 Minutes • Audio
35

Japanese That's Easy to Do

Learn about saying that something is easy or hard to do

13 Minutes • Audio
36

I Think You'll Like This...

Learn about expressing your opinion

14 Minutes • Audio
37

All You Have to do is Ask!

Learn about asking the reason for something

13 Minutes • Audio
38

Too Easy Japanese!

Review of lessons 34～37

12 Minutes • Audio
39

Where's Your Japanese Headed?

Learn about stating your purpose for going somewhere

14 Minutes • Audio
40

Yes or No?

Learn about saying you haven't done a certain action yet

15 Minutes • Audio
41

Have You Started This Yet?

Learn about talking about actions that have already happened or haven't happened yet

11 Minutes • Audio
42

Your Japanese Possibilities

Learn about talking about ability and asking permission

14 Minutes • Audio
43

Your Japanese Abilities

Learn about expressing that one can do something

11 Minutes • Audio
44

"Able-Bodied" Japanese

Learn about expressing that you can do something part ii

11 Minutes • Audio
45

What's Your Japanese Potential?

Learn about conjugating the potential forms of verbs

13 Minutes • Audio
46

Don’t Quote Me in Japanese on This

Learn about reporting what someone else has said

14 Minutes • Audio
47

It's Time For a Change!

Learn about talking about change and transformation

15 Minutes • Audio
48

Transform Your Japanese

Learn more about talking about change and transformation

15 Minutes • Audio
49

Do You Talk About Other People In Japanese?

Learn about using sentences to describe someone/something

14 Minutes • Audio
50

Need a Japanese Review?

Review of past lessons

16 Minutes • Audio