Miscellaneous
Themes/Noun groups
- Basic Greetings (0-0 BTS 1)
- Moring greetings (1-6 BTS 12)
- Eating rituals (1-6 BTS 13)
- Names and Titles (1-7 BTS 14)
- Words for Self and Other (1-7 BTS 15)
- Sharing snacks (food items) (2-3 BTS 10)
- Words of self and others (1-7 BTS 15)
- Leaving (1-8 BTS 17)
- Words for home:うち、家、お宅 (2-5 BTS 21)
- Academic majors and areas of specialization 大学の専攻 (4-2 BTS 6)
- Calendar and holidays (4-4 BTS 18)
- Colors (adjective and noun forms) (6-3 BTS 11)
- Family (7-2 BTS 6)
- 都道府県 (9-4 BTS 11)
- Clothing and Verbs for wearing (11-2 BTS 5)
- Extended family and terms of address and reference (11-4 BTS 11)
- Onomatopoeia (11-5 BTS 14)
- Local promotional characters (12-1 BTS 3)
- Commuting in Japan (13-1 BTS 3)
- Describing health conditions (13-5 BTS 15)
- Japanese cuisine (14-3 BTS 8)
- Travel plans & 温泉と旅館 (15-2 BTS 3, 4)
- Weather expressions (18-1 BTS 4)
- ことわざ: Using proverbs (20-2 BTS 4)
- Physical conditions (20-4 BTS 6)
- Rules and regulations (23-1 BTS 2)
- Housing (23-5 BTS 5)
Concepts
- 遠慮 ‘restraint’ (2-3 BTS 12)
- 思いやり ‘consideration’ negotiating a time for an activity (3-4 BTS 16)
- 曖昧 Ambiguity (4-2 BTS 12)
- 甘え Dependance (5-6 BTS 15)
- More on 思いやり (7-4 BTS 11)
- More on compliments (11-3 BTS 8)
- Togetherness (10-3 BTS 7)
- Transitive and intransitive verbs (14-1 BTS 1)
- 人間関係 (18-6 BTS 14)
Word order
- Inverted Sentences (3-6 BTS 32)
- Word order (4-6 BTS 28)
kosoado
- これ、それ、あれ、どれ (2-1 BTS 2)
- The こちら series (2-4 BTS 17)
- The ここ and こっち series (2-7 BTS 28)
- The このseries (3-5 BTS 22)
- The こんなseries (8-1 BTS 2)
- The こう series (10-6 BTS 15)
Modifiers
- Adjective + Noun (2-3 BTS 13)
- Describing people: 背が高い・背が低い人 (6-3 BTS 13)
- Nouns modifying Nouns: Nの・なN (3-1 BTS 2)
- Sentence modifiers (7-5 BTS 14)
- 同じ (7-5 BTS 15)
- More on sentence modifiers (9-1 BTS 1)
- More on こと (分からないことが多くて) (10-5 BTS 9)
- Sentenceとか (10-6 BTS 11)
- Embedded yes/no questions (12-2 BTS 4)
- Description + まま (12-5 BTS 5)
- せっかく (13-1 BTS 6)
- その[Modifier] + noun (discourse strategy) (21-4 BTS 8)
- Xなり (21-2 BTS 2)
Manner expressions
- Xと一緒に ‘together with’ (3-3 BTS 17)
- Manner expressions: Adjectives –ku form + Sentence (4-1 BTS 3)
- Uses of the 〜て Forms (5-1 BTS 2)
んです
- Adjective んです (6-5 BTS 19)
- More onんです (7-1 BTS 4)
- Negative ofんです (7-6 BTS 18)
- 〜んだから ‘Because, as you must surely know’ (8-2 BTS 5)
- どうして・なぜ〜んですか・なんで〜んですか (9-3 BTS 8)
- Successive んです: 寝不足なんじゃないの? (12-4 BTS 14)
Aspect
- Verb 〜ています(6-1 BTS 2)
- もう+Sentence (already, yet, anymore) (6-1 BTS 2)
- まだ+Sentence (unchanged situation) (6-1 BTS 3)
- Verb〜てしまう・ちゃう (12-2 BTS 5)
- 〜ている間に (14-3 BTS 10)
- Past sentence + ばかり・ばっかり (22-1 BTS 1)
よう
- Verb + ようになる (15-4 BTS 9)
- Sentence + みたい(に)・(よう)に (16-3 BTS 8)
- Sentence + ように言う (17-3 BTS 6)
- Sentence + からいいようなものの (19-5 BTS 9)
こと
- Noun X + のこと (3-1 BTS 5)
- そのこと (4-4 BTS 16)
- 〜ことにする (11-3 BTS 7)
- Sentence + ことになる (12-6 BTS 19)