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Japanese Reading Practice: A Library Closure and a Return Box
Read an invented library notice and distinguish the closed day from the usual opening hours. Find the alternative place to return a book.
Japanese Reading Practice: A Café Order Slip with Quantities and a Total
Read a fictional order slip and calculate a total from stated item prices. The numbers are exercise data rather than current prices at a real café.
Japanese Reading Practice: Rain Changes a Picnic Plan
Follow a short message that changes the place and day of a plan. Distinguish the abandoned picnic from the replacement indoor meeting.
Japanese Reading Practice: A Community Event Invitation
Find the meeting point, required item, and registration deadline in a fictional event invitation. Not every time in the text describes the event itself.
Japanese Reading Practice: A Message About Swapping a Work Shift
Read a fictional exchange between two coworkers. Work out which person will cover each day after the proposed swap is accepted.
Japanese Reading Practice: A Train Notice with a Changed Departure Time
Read a short fictional station notice and distinguish the original departure from the replacement time. Use the final instruction to decide when to arrive.
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Japanese Verb Groups: Godan, Ichidan, and Irregular Verbs
The dictionary form tells you how to look up a verb; its group tells you how to change it. Learn the group with the word instead of guessing from the final る alone. Practise with 10 explained questions.
Japanese Te-Form: Conjugation Table, Uses, and Practice
Form the te-form for all verb groups, handle the 行く exception, use requests and permission, and practise with 12 explained answers.
Arimasu vs Imasu: Existence, Location, and に vs で
Choose あります or います, locate things with が and は, compare に and で, and practise negatives and past forms with eight explained answers.
Japanese Masu Form: Polite Present, Negative, and Past
The ます ending makes a verb polite. Its non-past form can describe a habit or a future action; a time expression supplies the context. Practise with 10 explained questions.
Japanese Nai Form: Verb Negatives and Exceptions
The plain negative is needed for negative statements and patterns such as ないでください. Start from the dictionary form and the verb group. Practise with 10 explained questions.
Japanese Ta Form: Plain Past Conjugation
The た form is the plain affirmative past. Its sound changes match the て form: replace final て with た and で with だ. Practise with 10 explained questions.
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