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Introduction
SECTION ONE: ABSOLUTE BEGINNER
1.
Part 1: Getting Started
1.1.
Lesson 1: State of being with だ and です
1.2.
Intermission: Vowels
1.3.
Lesson 2: Nouns, pronouns
1.4.
Intermission: Long vowels and gemination
1.5.
Lesson 3: Particles and grammatical case
1.6.
Intermission: Devoicing
1.7.
Lesson 4: の means の: possession and attributes; bonus: honorifics
1.8.
Intermission: Spelling irregularities
1.9.
Lesson 5: Moving things with に, へ, and から
1.10.
Intermission: Consonant irregularity
1.11.
Lesson 6: What is a verb? Nothing but a miserable pile of conjugations!
1.12.
Intermission: "Synthetic" language
1.13.
Lesson 7: Negated verbs and using い-adjectives
1.14.
Intermission: What's subarashiki about poetry anyway?
1.15.
Lesson 8: The verb strikes back: the past tense
1.16.
Intermission: About jargon
1.17.
Lesson 9: The て particle, the て form, and the imperative
1.18.
Intermission: What even is an infinitive?
1.19.
Lesson 10: Being more with で, では, and じゃ
1.20.
Intermission: Japanese japanese grammar is bad, too, actually
1.21.
Lesson 11: Getting detailed with relative clauses and な-adjectives
1.22.
Intermission: The dreaded parse and auxiliary verbs
1.23.
Lesson 12: Irregular verbs and basic formality
1.24.
Intermission: Keigo and some archaic speech
2.
Part 2: Rest
2.1.
Lesson 13: Questions with か and の, featuring のだ
2.2.
Intermission: Two notes on の and のだ
2.3.
Lesson 14: Why, cruel world? なぜ なんで どうして
2.4.
Intermission: Notes on なぜ なんで どうして
2.5.
Lesson 15: Getting more with も and と
2.6.
Intermission: Single piece of trivia on と
2.7.
Lesson 16: Existence with いる and ある, finding である and っす
2.8.
Intermission: Notes on いる, ある, である, and っす
2.9.
Lesson 17: Enduring the pain of ている and てある
2.10.
Intermission: Notes on ている and てある
2.11.
Lesson 18: Demonstrating: これ, それ, あれ, どれ, and friends
2.12.
Intermission: Notes on demonstratives
3.
Part 3: The Gauntlet
3.1.
Lesson 19: Passive られる・あれる and so-called "transitive pairs"
3.2.
Intermission: Notes on the passive
3.3.
Lesson 20: Potential れる・える and できる
3.4.
Intermission: Notes on the potential
3.5.
Lesson 21: Wanting with おう/よう, たい, and ほしい
3.6.
Intermission: Notes on wanting
3.7.
Lesson 22: One way of saying "if" with ば
3.8.
Intermission: The Gauntlet
3.9.
Lesson 23: Verbs review
3.10.
Hidden Intermission
SECTION TWO: ABSOLUTE TERRITORY
4.
Part 4: Communicating
4.1.
Lesson 24: "Quoting" with って and と and という/っていう/つう taking note of だって
4.2.
Lesson 25: Adverbs with と-adverbs, に-adverbs, and い-adjectives even
4.3.
Lesson 26: Sentence ending particles with ね, な, よ, ぜ, ぞ, わ, さ
4.4.
Lesson 27: Asking kindly with なさい, ください; prohibition with な
4.5.
Lesson 28: Question nouns: なに, だれ, どれ, いつ
4.6.
Lesson 29: か and も as modifying question nouns (note なんと なんて なんか.md)
4.7.
Lesson 30: Saying yes and no with うん, ううん, はい, いいえ, ええ, and いや
4.8.
Lesson 31: Generic nouns and nominalization with 事, 物, ところ, and の
4.9.
Optional Lesson 1: Polarity
5.
Part 5: Getting a point across
5.1.
Lesson 32: Just with だけ, のみ, ただ, ばかり, しか
5.2.
Lesson 33: Still, already, and yet with もう まだ また
5.3.
Lesson 34: Not wanting with まい and permission with いい, ますか/ませんか
5.4.
Lesson 35: More questions with っけ/け, かい, じゃない, and じゃん
5.5.
Lesson 36: Making lists with や and とか and と and か
5.6.
Lesson 37: Getting self-conscious with より and counting with つ
5.7.
Lesson 38: なる and でできる, bonus causative せる, and reviewing the passive
5.8.
Lesson 39: Reflexes with 自分
5.9.
Optional Lesson 2: Bonus auxiliaries: 見る, とする, と思う, と決める
6.
Part 6: Putting things together
6.1.
Lesson 40: Being more negative: なくて, ないで, and ず and ずに
6.2.
Lesson 41: If and when with と たら なら
6.3.
Lesson 42: Concurrence with ながら あいだ うちに つつ
6.4.
Lesson 43: Adversatives with が けど けれど しかし ても and でも
6.5.
Lesson 44: Entailment with から そして ので で
6.6.
Lesson 45: Linking conjunctions のに ように ために せいで だって し
6.7.
Lesson 46: Aspect with てしまう, ていく, てくる, ておく, ておる
6.8.
Lesson 47: The normalization of でも and だって
6.9.
Optional Lesson 3: Formal logical conjunctions または, あるいは, 及び, and more
7.
Part 7: Relatively speaking
7.1.
Lesson 48: Expectation with わけ, はず, べき, べし, ものだ, かもしれない
7.2.
Lesson 49: Approximately ころ, くらい, たり, and limits with まで, ほど, すぎる
7.3.
Lesson 50: Doing the time with 後, 前/先, 時 (note さっき.md)
7.4.
Lesson 51: Likeness with らしい ぽい そう など
7.5.
Lesson 52: Being done for someone with やる あげる もらう くれる
7.6.
Lesson 53: Wrongness with だめ, いけない, ならない, featuring "must"
7.7.
Lesson 54: "Oh well" and "I can't help it" with "It can't be helped"
7.8.
Optional Lesson 4: Under the rug: A mess of particles and auxiliaries
The end
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Part 3: The Gauntlet
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