Lesson 1: I'm Anna. Anna is an international student from Thailand. Today she meets her tutor Sakura at the university for the first time. Today, Anna has a health examination at her university ...

Assoc. Prof. Akane Tokunaga, who supervises and edits "Easy Japanese", explains points of the lessons in detail, by taking up one theme from the lesson contents every time.

"Easy Japanese" is a series of language lessons produced by NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN. The programs illustrate basic grammar and useful expressions through audio ...

We have a detailed explanation about the foregoing in our audio lesson. Please go to the lesson's page clicking the button below and listen to the 10-minute audio on the page.

Master basic grammar! Also－words that sound like what they describe. "Easy Japanese" is a program of Japanese language lessons produced by Japan's public broadcaster, NHK WORLD-JAPAN. You can ...

On the page, you can learn words and phrases which came up in the lessons. Look at the "Vocabulary List", and check the meaning and correct pronunciation of each word or phrase. When you think you ...

And just saying DOMO can mean a casual way of "thank you" like thanks. The name of NHK WORLD's mascot comes from this word, DOMO. Domo travels the globe to promote NHK WORLD, maybe even somewhere ...

About other ways of making TE-form verbs, we'll explain in the next lesson. TE-form verbs may be the first hurdle in learning Japanese. Let's do our best to clear this hurdle.

You learned the patterns of these conjugations of syllables before MASU with songs in Lesson 12. Please review that. "Group 2" is the verbs that have the vowel E in the syllables before MASU.

When you say you must or need to do something, you replace the NAI part at the end of the NAI-form of verbs with NAKEREBA NARIMASEN. For example, if you want to say "I must study," you first ...