Lesson 1

Kana

Vol. I Kanji Romaji ano ima eego gakusee ...go kookoo gogo gozen ...sai ...san ...ji ...jin sensei senkou soo desu daigaku denwa tomodachi namae nan/nani nihon ...nensee hai han bangoo ryuugakusee watashi amerika igirisu Oosutoraria kankoku Sueeden Chuugoku kagaku ajiakenkyuu kokusaikankei konpyuutaa jinruigaku seeji bijinesu bungaku rekishi shigoto English um... now English (language) student language high school P.M. A.M. ...years old Mr./Ms.... o'clock people teacher; Professor ... major That's right. college; university telephone friend name what Japan ...year student yes half number international student I U.S.A. Britain Australia Korea Sweden China science Asian studies international relations computer anthropology politics business literature history job; work; occupation

isha kaishain kookoosei shufu daigakuinsee daigakusee bengoshi okaasan otoosan oneesan oniisan imooto otooto

doctor office worker high school student housewife graduate student college student lawyer mother father older sister older brother younger sister younger brother

Lesson 2
Kana Kanji Romaji kore sore are dore kono sono ano dono asoko doko dare oishii sakana tonkatsu niku menyuu yasai enpitsu kasa kaban kutsu saifu jiinzu jisho jitensha shinbun toire tokee nooto pen English this one that one that one (over there) which one this ... that ... that ... (over there) which ... over there where who delicious fish pork cutlet meat menu vegetable pencil umbrella bag shoes wallet jeans dictionary bicycle newspaper toilet; restroom watch; clock notebook pen

booshi hon kissaten ginkoo toshokan yuubinkyoku keezai ikura ...en takai irasshaimase (...o) onegaishimasu (...o) kudasai jaa doozo doomo

hat; cap book cafe bank library post office economics how much ...yen expensive; high Welcome (to our store) ..., please. Please give me... then...; if that is the case,... Please.; Here it is. Thank you. there here T-shirt

Lesson 3
Kana Kanji English movie music magazine sports date (romantic, not calendar) tennis TV ice cream breakfast sake; alcohol green tea coffee dinner hamburger lunch water home; house home; house; my place school morning tomorrow

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when today at about tonight weekend Saturday Sunday every day every night to go to go back; to return to listen; to hear to drink to speak; to talk to read to get up to eat to sleep; to go to sleep to see; to look at; to watch to come to do to study good early not much not at all usually a little sometimes often; much That's right.; Let me see. but How about...?; How is...?

Lesson 4
Kana Kanji English part-time job shopping class you dog souvenir child

rice; meal picture; photograph desk letter cat bread person temple park supermarket department store bus stop hospital hotel bookstore town; city restaurant yesterday a little while ago hour one hour last week when...; at the time of... Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday to meet; to see (a person) there is ... to buy to write to take (pictures) to wait to understand (a person) is in ...; stays at ... about (approximate measurement) I'm sorry. so; therefore many; a lot together with (a person) why alone right

left front back inside on under near; near place next between Monday chair e-mail

Lesson 5
Kana Kanji English sea postal stamps ticket surfing homework food birthday test weather drink postcard bus airplane room I (used by men) holiday; day off; absence travel new hot (weather) hot (objects) busy (people/days) large interesting; funny frightening cold (weather-not used for objects) fun small boring

old (thing - not used for people) difficult easy (problem); kind (person) inexpensive; cheap (thing) disgusted with; to dislike beautiful; clean healthy; energetic quiet fond of; to like to hate very fond of; to love lively not busy; to have a lot of free time to swim to ask to ride; to board to do; to perform to go out together and then It's okay.; Not to worry.; Everything is under control. very what kind of... [counter for flat objects] to (a place); as far as (a place); till (a time) extremely

Lesson 6
Kana CD Kanji English CD money bath kanji; Chinese character textbook this week

Municipal Hospital next personal computer electricity train baggage page window night next week next year tough (situation) to play; to spend time pleasantly to hurry to take a bath to return (things) to turn off; to erase to die to sit down to stand up to smoke to use to help to enter to carry; to hold to be absent (from...); to rest to open (something) to teach; to instruct to get off to borrow to close (something) to turn on to make a phone call to forget; to leave behind to bring (a person) to bring (a thing) later on (do something) late because ... That would be fine.; That wouldn't be necessary. right away Really?

slowly; leisurely; unhurriedly shower to take a shower

Lesson 7
Kana Kanji English Hello? (used on the phone) grandmother; old woman (my) older sister apartment younger sister song younger brother man older brother older sister woman company family hair brothers and sisters country; place of origin car convenience store cafeteria; dining commons (my) father eye glasses bright; smart; clever good-looking cute tall (stature) short (stature) long fast short (length) kind convenient to sing to put on (a hat) to get to know

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I know I do not know to live to put on (items below your waist) to gain weight to be on the heavy side to put on glasses to put on (clothes above your waist) to lose weight to be thin to get married but one person two people of course if you like grandfather; old man (my) mother mouth game club activity DVD

Lesson 8
Kana Kanji English That's too bad. the day after tomorrow rain office worker camera karaoke air this morning this month job; work; occupation college student to call weather forecast place tomato summer something party

barbecue chopsticks winter homestay; living with a local family every week next month skillful; good at... clumsy; poor at... famous it rains to wash to say to need to be late (for ...) to think to cut to make to take (something) to stare (at ...) to begin to drive to do laundry to clean to cook uh-uh; no uh-huh; yes Cheers! (a toast) all (of the people) together always to throw away blackboard about...; concerning...

Lesson 9
Kana Kanji English good child color boxed lunch Kabuki; traditional Japanese theatrical art guitar medicine to take medicine

concert near future essay; composition exam ski last month word; vocabulary piano illness; sickness blue red black lonely white young mean-spirited to dance (something) ends to be popular (something) begins to play (a string instrument or piano) to get (from somebody) to memorize (1) to appear; to attend (2) to exit to do physical exercises to take a walk by all means all already one two three four five six seven eight nine ten last year pizza

Lesson 10

Kana

Kanji

English Shinkansen; "Bullet Train" fall station rich person face season credit card this year soccer shirt life; living world subway gloves barber's spring pants beauty parlor flight ship; boat baseball celebrity reservation next semester apple warm slow; late cool (weather) cold (thing/people) sleepy easy; simple to take (amount of time / money) to stay (at a hotel, etc.) to become to pay to decide to practice on foot best these days how; by what means which how much; how long

(do something) early; fast cake milk sushi tempura to travel

Lesson 11
Kana Kanji English spa; hot spring snack; sweets New Year's boy toy girl foreign country singer camp this person (polite) this semester president of a company class future drive beer art museum host family lake mountain dream roommate to tell a lie to become hungry to own (a pet) to cut classes to take (a class); to get (a grade) to learn to climb to work to get tired to quit to have a fight; to quarrel to introduce

to go on a diet to be late (for an appointment) to study abroad after (an event) coming from very and then it has been a long time okay; so-so more festival river shrine fishing writer journalist police officer actor/actress actress nurse fire fighter cartoonist astronaut baseball player president of a country

Lesson 12
Kana Kanji English restroom leg; foot meaning stomach cold girlfriend boyfriend temperature (weather) cloudy weather match; game juice grade (on a test, etc.) cough throat tooth flower sunny weather

Vol. II

clothes hangover present homesickness thing (concrete object) snow business to take care of sweet hurt; painful there are many... narrow; not spacious inconvenient; to have a scheduling conflict bad nice to catch a cold to be interested (in ...) to lose to become thirsty to have a fever to cough to break up; to separate to get nervous to worry Get well soon. don't look well probably; maybe as much as possible for two to three days for the first time very soon; in a few moments/days to walk minus

Lesson 13
Kana

Kanji

English waiter adult foreign language musical instrument karate curry kimono; Japanese traditional dress

advertisement tea (black tea) language golf sweater elephant violin motorcycle (consumer) prices grammar lawyer recruitment shop; store yakuza; gangster promise; appointment (term) paper I (formal) glad sad hot and spicy; salty strict close; near various; different kinds of

happy (lasting happiness) no good to knit to lend; to rent to do one's best; to try hard to cry to brush (teeth); to polish to keep a promise to be moved/touched (by ...) (someone honorable) is present/home as a matter of fact, ... all one day two days three days four days five days six days

seven days eight days nine days ten days

Thank you (in advance) incredible; awesome

Lesson 14
Kana Kanji English sweat shirt stuffed animal (e.g., teddy bear) (my) older brother landlord; landlady return (as a token of gratitude) (your/his) wife uncle; middle-aged man aunt; middle-aged woman Christmas (your/her) husband ticket plate; dish time chocolate necktie St. Valentine's Day camcorder married couple; husband and wife "White Day" (yet another gift-giving day) winter scarf comic book multistory apartment; condominium mandarin; orange ring parents resume to want stingy; cheap to send

to look good (on somebody) to give up to give (to others) to give (me) to come into existence; to be made to consult to propose marriage same we exactly well [generic counter for smaller items] [counter for bound volumes] [counter for equipment] [counter for smaller animals] [counter for long objects] tumber; glass everyone; all of you What should one do

Lesson 15
Kana Kanji English club; student society painting; picture; drawing movie theater foreigner furniture to do sightseeing wedding earthquake deadline jacket custom tax graduation ceremony Japanese buckwheat noodle map battery

garden presentation broadcast program swimming pool pet schedule; plan inn discount coupon spacious; wide to sell to withdraw (money) to draw; to paint to look for to invite (1) to date (someone) (2) to keep company to arrive to buy insurance to be cautious/careful to look into (a matter) to be visible to decide on (an item) to graduate (from ...) to reserve all day long recently Internet night club experience insurance to chat

Lesson 16
Kana Kanji English station attendant parent garbage sugar scholarship relatives letter of recommendation graduate school typhoon day

file; portfolio way; road; directions alarm clock dirty to wake (someone) up to treat (someone) to a meal to get depressed to have difficulty to take (something) out; to hand in (something) to take (someone) to (a place) to correct; to fix to become lost; to lose one's way to translate to laugh to iron (clothes) to collect to put (something) in to miss (a train, bus, etc.) to show to oversleep to show (someone) around to explain to come to pick up (someone) well...; let me see... by the end of today the other day about this much I'm sorry. (casual) Excuse me..; Sorry to interrupt you. (do something) oneself in class; during the class other final examination to go to pick up (someone) size research to be found

from now on

Lesson 17
Kana Kanji English guest; visitor; client; customer man hot water woman key paper salary contact lenses the lowest; the worst salaryman; company employee overtime work heater lottery difference news beard secret dormitory travel agency envious a little; a few strong to choose; to select to comb one's hair to boil water to get crowded to win a lottery to take off (clothes) to shave one's beard to make tea, coffee, etc. to lock to be sufficient; to be enough to get used to... to put makeup on to get a full-time job (at...)

to wear small items (necktie, watch, etc.) to get a divorce Congratulations! oneself very I see. (casual) moreover, ... for example compared with ... according to ... before... after all fire prime minister shopping mall spoon zoo panda boots dangerous to be born to pray

Lesson 18
Kana Kanji English the rest air conditioner curtain shampoo switch skirt soy sauce outside towel diary popcorn rent evening dark answering machine refrigerator candle bright to feel sick

embarassing; to feel embarassed (something) opens to apologize to press; to push to drop (something) water boils to fall down to break (something) to bloom (something) closes to be saved; to be helped to ask (a favor) (something) turns on to make dirty (something) drops to think (about); to consider (something) goes off (something) breaks to become dirty to place an order right away thanks to ... See you. (lit., I'm leaving ahead of you.) You must be tired after working so hard. (ritualistic expression) really first of all by (time/date) What should I/we do? cushion soup sofa banana insect to tidy up

Lesson 19
Kana Kanji English to invite someone (to an event/a place) (your/his) wife (polite)

(your/their) child (polite) expression of gratitude honorific language this way (polite) business trip a kind; a sort personality junior high school student where (polite) lazy person worry shy person chat; talk department manager culture mistake be on good/close terms; to get along well serious; sober; diligent honorific expression for , , and to walk/drive (someone) to get angry honorific expression for honorific expression for to be decided honorific expression for honorific expression for to get aquainted with honorific expression for honorific expression for to move (to another place to live) honorific expression for and to call (one's name); to invite to stop by

to become late to sit down to become sunny to be popular (in terms of romantic interest) to hold back for the time being; to refrain from to treat/invite (someone) to a meal to watch out; to give warning to have a talk the day before yesterday

why (=) in fact; originally every morning still party of ... people Welcome. Please give my best regards (to ...) then; therefore

Lesson 20
Kana Kanji English this way (polite) space alien sound our person in charge corner airport letter; character branch office hobby; pastime novel traffic light sneakers fan moon high heels light heavy; serious (illness) extra-modest expression for

extra-modest expression for and humble expression for to humbly visit; to humbly ask extra-modest expression for extra-modest expression for extra-modest expression for extra-modest expression for

extra-modest expression for and to turn (right/left) extra-modest expression for to return; to come back to be audible humble expression for to convey (message) to keep (someone) waiting to exchange to lead a life to return (merchandise) Oh! ...th floor Certainly. I am not sure, ... I'm very sorry a few seconds if that is the case, ... if possible really (very polite) again You have my apologies. if it is okay (polite) animation rice ball electric dictionary

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Lesson 21
Kana Kanji English baby mosquito business meeting; conference gasoline environment police; police station factory things; matters last train speech government sexual offender; pervert burgular abbreviation of criminal poster old days; past to complain to complain absence; not at home far (away) awful safe precious; valuable messy; disorganized to put; to lay; to place to notice to kick to bite (bug bites); to sting; to stab to touch to be arrested; to be caught to wrap; to cover to strike; to hit; to punch to steal; to rob to post; to stick to step on

to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt to bake; to burn; to grill to give (to pets, plants, younger siblings, etc.) to bully to change clothes to save money to continue to praise; to say nice things to make a mistake to find preparation to insult; to make a fool of ... to be surprised to take a nap to contact while... time of...; when... a little anyhow; anyway colleague

Lesson 22
Kana Kanji English God partner reception desk English conversation (someone's) daughter (polite) household matters wind tree junior members of a group monkey freedom cram school document senior members of a group living alone

subordinate review of a lesson project ball waste (money) license preparation of lessons noisy; annoying worried about poor fluent strange; unusual easy; comfortable to win to make a photocopy to carry from one place to another; transport to run to pick up (something) to blow to leave (someone/something) alone; to neglect to be in time for to make a plan to raise; to bring up to help; to rescue to lose (a match) to pray for help to agree to fail; to be unsuccessful to stay up all night to oppose; to object to to translate in this way for a long time; all the time definitely I don't think so. ...for example many times a little more Europe the wind blows freely

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Kana Kanji English society memory trip to a foreign country body international call tuition elementary school election tire free of charge place villa; vacation home bonus Bon dance (Japanese traditional dance) interview dinner ideal looking after a house during one's absence (food is) terrible the rain stops (someone) is gone; to disappear to be in someone's care to have a stomachache to be different; wrong to be lost; to disappear to talk behind someone's back to take (an examination, interview, etc.) to change (something/someone) separates; parts from to look ...(facial expression) to be disappointed to be tolerant/patient to take care of ... to sympathize (tire) goes flat

(something/someone) comes back to win a championship no Take care of yourself. You are right. it is about time to ... such ...; that kind of ... software to find something agreeable to answer finally