At the moment, this guide follows the rote-situation usage style of Minna no Nihongo; I've found that this approach is reaching a bit of a stale point, so I'd just like to preface that I'm working on something else that's more comprehensive and helpful for people who are learning to express thoughts and ideas using the language. Please note that the contemporary geopolitical influences across Japan have pushed its language-education policy to be more vocab-and-kanji intensive, which is workable with this particular current help-guide.
That's not to say that this current guide isn't workable with the other thing I'm working on, but do note that it is not as fluid as native Japanese grammar is supposed to be; nor is it a good guide for learning how to read the unintelligible kanji in manga or anime. In a sense, it's very much congruent to, say, Victorian-Edwardian-style English grammar as opposed to modern, internationalised English grammar: situation-bound, and very hard to understand nuance with.
Once the other guide's done I'll just stick it here as a sister guide, and leave this for those currently wanting to reach N3 or something.
- Introduction to Nouns
- Who, what,
- Where, when,
- Intersection A: General Nouns and Manners
- How, Why
- Basic general nouns
- Using Verbs
- Overview of verb forms
- Verb tenses
- Using verbs in combination:
- に、で、と conjunctions
- Talking about experiences and skills
- Adjectives & Descriptions
- Introduction: Using 「い」and「な」adjectives
- Overview of adjective forms
- Describing people and their capabilities:
- The use of どのひと/どんな
- and ガ じょうず/へた/すき/きらい/あります
- Making Adverbs and Nouns
- to-be-added!-> Active and passive reporting form
- Thinking to yourself: introspection (half-planned)
- Planning: hopes and plans using 置きます,つもり,予定,予約,約束
- Evaluation: purpose reasons using に、ために, usefulness with にくい、やすい
- Comparison: using 役に立つ, より, 比べる, ~すぎ
- Consolation: 構いません, 大丈夫
Basics
- Objective Voice (planned)
- Object-based sentence structures
- Facilitated actions, 自動詞+他動詞
- Emotional reactions
- Using question and non-question hypotheticals: ~か、どうか~か、や+や+など
- Personal-Objective Voice (planned)
- Object-based sentence structures
- Feelings and emotions
- Describing: opinions and biases
- Using question and non-question hypotheticals
Novice
- Writing paragraphs (not started)
- Conjunctions
- First, second, third
- Logic words
- Endings