Japanese Courses Designed from Over 20 Years of Teaching Experience
Built on more than 20 years of Japanese teaching experience, each course follows a clear, step-by-step curriculum designed to make Japanese easier to understand and use.
Every video lesson, textbook, exercise, PDF and audio resource has been created specifically for this curriculum.
Rather than focusing on flashy production, the lessons are designed to provide clear explanations, practical examples and step-by-step guidance, so that you can concentrate on learning Japanese effectively.
All video lessons and course materials are personally created by Keishu, based on the questions, difficulties and learning needs he has observed throughout his teaching career.
Basic-I Course
Lesson 1: Noun Sentences
- Affirmative sentences
- Negative sentences
- Question sentences
- Possessive expressions
- Online Lesson
- “A is also B”
- Past tense
- Negative past tense
- Time expressions
- Particles ne and yo
- Dialogue and summary
- Online Lesson
Lesson 2: Ko–So–A–Do — This and That
- Demonstratives
- Demonstratives followed by nouns
- Expressions for places
- Online Lesson
- Expressions for directions
- Interrogatives and question words
- Dialogue and summary
- Online Lesson
Lesson 3: Verb Sentences 1
- Subjects and verb predicates
- Basic particles
- Online Lesson
- Dialogue and summary
- Online Lesson
Lesson 4: Verb Sentences 2
- Negative sentences
- Past-tense sentences
- Negative past-tense sentences
- Online Lesson
- Question sentences
- Dialogue and summary
- Online Lesson
Lesson 5: I-Adjectives
- Affirmative sentences
- Negative sentences
- Online Lesson
- Past-tense sentences
- Negative past-tense sentences
- Dialogue and summary
- Online Lesson
Lesson 6: Na-Adjectives
- Affirmative sentences
- Negative sentences
- Past-tense sentences
- Online Lesson
- Negative past-tense sentences
- Connecting sentences with “and” and “but”
- Dialogue and summary
- Online Lesson
ABOUT THIS COURSE
The topics listed here follow the course textbook.
Please visit the course page to view the full curriculum.
COURSE FEE
My standard fee for a 90-minute private Zoom lesson is SGD 50.
Depending on the learner, covering the same course content through private lessons alone would usually take around 20 lessons—approximately SGD 1,000 in total.
This course includes 12 private Zoom sessions: two 50-minute sessions for each of the six course lessons.
You will also receive three years of unlimited access to all course videos and materials, so you can review them as often as you need.
Regular Price: SGD 460
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Basic-II Course
ABOUT THIS COURSE
The topics listed here follow the course textbook.
Please visit the course page to view the full curriculum.
COURSE FEE
My standard fee for a 90-minute private Zoom lesson is SGD 50.
Depending on the learner, covering the same course content through private lessons alone would usually take around 20 lessons—approximately SGD 1,000 in total.
This course includes 12 private Zoom sessions: two 50-minute sessions for each of the six course lessons.
You will also receive three years of unlimited access to all course videos and materials, so you can review them as often as you need.
Regular Price: SGD 460
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Lesson 7: Expressions Using Time
- Asking and saying “from what time”
- Asking and saying “until what time”
- Using “from” and “until” together
- Describing activities within a particular time period
- Saying “from where to where”
- Online Lesson
- Saying that something must be completed by a certain time
- Expressing purpose
- Other ways to ask “what” and “where”
- Inviting someone to do something
- Issho ni shimasen ka
- Issho ni shimashō
- Other invitation expressions
- Online Lesson
Lesson 8: Arimasu and Imasu — Existence
- Affirmative sentences
- Negative sentences
- Online Lesson
- Past-tense sentences
- Negative past-tense sentences
- Online Lesson
Lesson 9: Comparisons
- Comparing two things
- Asking someone to compare two things
- Comparing actions
- Online Lesson
- Saying “A is not as adjective as B”
- Superlative expressions
- Online Lesson
Lesson 10: Adverbs
- Using adverbs with affirmative and negative verbs
- Types and functions of adverbs
- Changing adjectives into adverbs
- Online Lesson
- Expressing change: “to become”
- Expressing intention: “to make something change”
- Common Japanese adverbs
- Online Lesson
Lesson 11: Wa and Ga Sentence Structures
- Subjects and adjective predicates
- Describing existence
- Describing symptoms of illness
- Expressing likes and dislikes
- Expressing what someone is good or bad at
- Online Lesson
- Expressing needs
- Expressing wants
- Expressing likes and dislikes concerning actions
- Expressing understanding
- Expressing ability
- Online Lesson
Lesson 12: Expressions with the Te-Form 1
- Making the te-form from the masu-form
- Making the te-form from the dictionary form
- Requests and instructions
- Connecting actions
- Online Lesson
- Expressing “after doing”
- Present progressive expressions
- Present perfect expressions
- Online Lesson
Intermediate-I Course
Lesson 13: Expressions with the Te-Form 2
- Giving and receiving things
- Giving and receiving actions
- Asking for and giving permission
- Expressing prohibition
- Concessive conditions
- Online Lesson
- Describing states using intransitive verbs
- Describing states using transitive verbs
- Expressing advance preparation
- Expressing completion, including regret
- Expressing “try doing”
- Online Lesson
Lesson 14: Expressions with the Ta-Form
- Making the ta-form from the te-form
- Talking about experiences
- Expressing “after doing”
- Listing actions
- Online Lesson
- Expressing “as,” “while” and “with”
- Expressing conditions with “when”
- Expressing “if” and “when”
- Expressing “in case”
- Online Lesson
Lesson 15: Expressions with the Masu-Form
- Making the masu-form from the dictionary form
- Expressing a desire to do something
- Explaining how to do something
- Saying something is easy or difficult to do
- Expressing “while doing”
- Online Lesson
- Expressing that an action begins
- Expressing that something suddenly begins
- Expressing that an action finishes
- Expressing that an action continues
- Online Lesson
Lesson 16: Expressions with the Nai-Form
- Making the nai-form
- Negative sentences
- Saying “don’t”
- Online Lesson
- Expressing obligation: “must” and “have to”
- Saying something is unnecessary
- Expressing “without doing”
- Online Lesson
Lesson 17: Expressions with the Dictionary Form
- Making the dictionary form from the masu-form
- Saying that something is done occasionally
- Potential sentences
- Expressing that someone is about to do something
- Online Lesson
- Expressing “whether” or “if”
- Expressing “before doing”
- Expressing “until doing”
- Online Lesson
Lesson 18: Other Expressions
- Giving reasons with kara and node
- Giving multiple reasons with shi
- Suggestions and advice
- Making inferences
- Expressing possibility
- Expressing “when”
- Online Lesson
- Expressing “even though”
- Expressing a desire for someone to do something
- Using the te-form with iku and kuru
- Expressing appreciation
- Apologising
- Expressing relief or gratitude
- Making requests
- Referring to someone or something by name
- Online Lesson
ABOUT THIS COURSE
The topics listed here follow the course textbook.
Please visit the course page to view the full curriculum.
COURSE FEE
My standard fee for a 90-minute private Zoom lesson is SGD 50.
Depending on the learner, covering the same course content through private lessons alone would usually take around 20 lessons—approximately SGD 1,000 in total.
This course includes 12 private Zoom sessions: two 50-minute sessions for each of the six course lessons.
You will also receive three years of unlimited access to all course videos and materials, so you can review them as often as you need.
Regular Price: SGD 460
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Intermediate-II Course
ABOUT THIS COURSE
The topics listed here follow the course textbook.
Please visit the course page to view the full curriculum.
COURSE FEE
My standard fee for a 90-minute private Zoom lesson is SGD 50.
Depending on the learner, covering the same course content through private lessons alone would usually take around 20 lessons—approximately SGD 1,000 in total.
This course includes 12 private Zoom sessions: two 50-minute sessions for each of the six course lessons.
You will also receive three years of unlimited access to all course videos and materials, so you can review them as often as you need.
Regular Price: SGD 460
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Lesson 19: Potential Form
- Making the potential form
- Affirmative potential sentences
- Negative potential sentences
- Online Lesson
- Past-tense potential sentences
- Negative past-tense potential sentences
- Dialogue
- Online Lesson
Lesson 20: Volitional Form
- Making the volitional form
- Talking to oneself
- Inviting someone to do something together
- Expressing “I think I will”
- Online Lesson
- Expressing intentions with tsumori
- Expressing plans with yotei
- Dialogue
- Online Lesson
Lesson 21: Relative Clauses and Nominalisation
- Modifying nouns
- Making noun-modifying clauses
- Online Lesson
- Nominalisation with no
- Nominalisation with koto
- Dialogue
- Online Lesson
Lesson 22: Plain Form and Expressions with “N”
- Affirmative plain-form sentences
- Negative plain-form sentences
- Past-tense plain-form sentences
- Negative past-tense plain-form sentences
- Saying “I think that…”
- Reporting what someone said
- Online Lesson
- Expressing hearsay
- Expressing “whether or not”
- Expressing probability
- Expressing possibility
- Explanatory expressions with n
- Dialogue
- Online Lesson
Lesson 23: Imperative Form
- Making the imperative form
- Online Lesson
- Different imperative expressions
- Making the prohibition form
- Online Lesson
Lesson 24: Conditional and Hypothetical Expressions
- Conditional nara
- Conditional to
- Expressing wishes with to ii
- Online Lesson
- Conditional ba
- Expressing “the more…, the more…”
- Conditional tara
- Expressing “even if” with te mo
- Verb conjugation review
- Online Lesson
Intermediate-III Course
Lesson 25: Supposition, Guessing and Hearsay
- Expressing “it looks” or “it seems” with verbs
- Expressing “it looks” or “it seems” with adjectives
- Making guesses about verb sentences
- Online Lesson
- Making guesses about adjective sentences
- Making guesses about noun sentences
- Hearsay expressions
- Reporting what another person said
- Online Lesson
Lesson 26: Passive Form
- Making the passive form
- Direct passive sentences
- Indirect passive sentences
- Online Lesson
- Non-emotional passive sentences
- Expressing “by” with ni yotte
- Passive-related expressions with morau and kureru
- Online Lesson
Lesson 27: Causative Form
- Making the causative form
- Using causative sentences
- Online Lesson
- Making requests with the causative form
- Practice exercises
- Online Lesson
Lesson 28: Causative-Passive Form
- Making the causative-passive form
- Online Lesson
- Using causative-passive sentences
- Practice exercises
- Online Lesson
Lesson 29: Honorific Expressions
- Respectful language
- Different respectful forms
- Online Lesson
- Humble language
- Different humble forms
- Online Lesson
Lesson 30: Other Expressions
- Relative clauses
- Emphasis
- Expressing “must be” and “should be”
- Expressing personal decisions
- Expressing information obtained through the five senses
- Online Lesson
- Expressing decisions made by another person
- Expressing “too much”
- Expressing actions within a particular period
- Expressing purpose
- Introduction to the JLPT
- Online Lesson
ABOUT THIS COURSE
The topics listed here follow the course textbook.
Please visit the course page to view the full curriculum.
COURSE FEE
My standard fee for a 90-minute private Zoom lesson is SGD 50.
Depending on the learner, covering the same course content through private lessons alone would usually take around 20 lessons—approximately SGD 1,000 in total.
This course includes 12 private Zoom sessions: two 50-minute sessions for each of the six course lessons.
You will also receive three years of unlimited access to all course videos and materials, so you can review them as often as you need.
Regular Price: SGD 460
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SGD 322
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