Lessons covered in this section
- Expressing State of Being - We will learn how to express the English verb "to be" in Japanese.
- Introduction to Particles - This lesson describes how to create relationships between things by
designating a topic or identifier using 「は」、「も」、and 「が」 particles.
- Adjectives - Covers the main properties of adjectives. We will learn how to describe nouns by directly
modifying the noun or by using particles.
- Verb Basics - Covers the basic properties of verbs. This lesson will describe how verbs are categorized so that
we can easily generalize conjugation rules.
- Negative Verbs - Goes over the conjugation rules for negating verbs. We will learn how to transform the
sentence, "He will go." into "He will not go."
- Past Tense - Goes over the rules for conjugating verbs to the past tense. We will learn how to transform the
sentence, "He will go." into "He went."
- Particles used with Verbs - This lesson covers particles most often associated with verbs.
We will learn the direct object particle （を）, target particle （に）, motion target particle （へ）, and the context particle （で）.
- Transitive and Intransitive Verbs - We will learn about transitive and intransitive verbs and how
our usage of particles changes as a result.
- Descriptive Subordinate Clauses - We will learn how to modify nouns with verb and conjugated noun clauses to create more
complicated sentences.
- Noun-related Particles - We will learn particles associated with nouns （と、や、とか、の）. Generic noun substitution will
also be covered allowing us to essentially set just about anything as the topic or identifier. Its use as an implied explanation is also covered.
- Adverbs and Gobi - A short and simple section to finish off this section. It describes how to change adjectives
into adverbs. It also introduces two very common and useful sentence endings.