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80/20 Japanese

By Richard Webb

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10 steps to 500 sentences

Let me show you just how easy Japanese is by

teaching you to say over 500 different
sentences in just 10 steps.

sentence in the Japanese language

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Step 1: Understand word order
For basic sentences in Japanese, just remember these
three things:
1. The person doing the action comes first
2. The verb (action word) goes at the end
3. Everything else goes in between

Example:
I bread, at the supermarket bought
person everything else verb

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Japanese has these things called particles. These are
basically markers that tell you what each word does.

Particles come after the word that they are marking.

I wa bread wo bought

Person doing the action

The thing the action is done to

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Step 3: Learn some vocab
Now you know the absolute basics, you need some words.

People Verbs (past tense)

I watashi bought kaimashita
Others [name]-san ate tabemashita
watched mimashita
Things read yomimashita
bread pan
television terebi common practice to just refer to
book hon people by name.
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Step 4: Mix and match
Now that we know some vocab to go with our basic

watashi wa pan wo tabemashita

Sato-san wa pan wo kaimashita
Suzuki-san wa terebi wo mimashita
Tanaka-san wa terebi wo kaimashita
Abe-san wa hon wo yomimashita
Adachi-san wa hon wo kaimashita

person everything else verb

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Step 5: Learn more particles
A couple more particles will allow us to add more detail:
de Tells us where the action takes place, or
the mode of transport used to travel
ni Tells us the destination of a movement

watashi wa pan wo kaimashita

(supermarket) (bread) (bought)

Where it took place

watashi wa basu de hoteru ni ikimashita

(bus) (hotel) (went)
The mode of transport The destination

person everything else verb

watashi / [name]-
wa de pan wo kaimashita
netto (Internet) de terebi wo kaimashita
ie (home) de terebi wo mimashita
(school) de hon wo yomimashita
kuruma (car) de ni ikimashita
basu (bus) de ni kimashita (came)

person everything else verb

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Step 7: Learn polite verb tenses
To change tenses, all we have to do is change the ending
of the verb.

Present/future tense - ends in masu eg. tabemasu (eat)

Use this for just about anything that you or someone else
(a) does on a regular basis, or (b) will do in the future.

Past tense - ends in mashita eg. tabemashita (ate)

Use this when talking about something that you or
someone else did in the past.

Step 8: Practice using each tense
Now you can talk about actions in the past or future. Try it!

I will buy bread at the supermarket

watashi wa kaimasu
I bought bread at the supermarket
watashi wa kaimashita

Suzuki-san will watch TV at home

Suzuki-san wa ie de terebi wo mimasu
Suzuki-san watched TV at home
Suzuki-san wa ie de terebi wo mimashita

Step 9: Mix and match some more

watashi / [name]-san wa...

resutoran(restaurant) mizu (water) nomimasu (drink)
hoteru (hotel) ocha (tea) kaimasu (buy)
(supermarket) pan (bread) kaimashita (bought)
wo
ie (home) sushi (sushi) tabemasu (eat)
(park) (soccer) mimasu (watch)
de
(school) karaoke (karaoke) shimasu (do)
jitensha (bicycle) soko (there) ikimasu (go)
kuruma (car) koko (here) kimasu (come)
ni
basu (bus) (Tokyo) ikimashita (went)
(airplane) nihon (Japan) kimashita (came)
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Step 10: Turn them into questions
Turn any sentence into a question just .