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N3 Japanese lesson catalogue
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Open full catalogueWritten vs Spoken Japanese
Learn to tell written-style Japanese from spoken-style Japanese so you can switch reading expectations quickly.
- • Recognize signals of written and spoken style.
- • Compare how the same idea is expressed in formal writing and casual dialogue.
Sentence Enders and Speaker Attitude
Use sentence-ending expressions to read confidence, softness, hesitation, and character voice in dialogue.
- • Recognize how sentence endings shape tone and attitude.
- • Distinguish agreement-seeking, emphasis, hesitation, and roughness.
Casual Contractions in Dialogue
Decode spoken shortcuts like てる, ちゃう, じゃ, and なくちゃ when they appear in dialogue.
- • Recognize common contractions in casual conversation.
- • Restore contractions to their full forms while reading.
Indirect Quotes and Reported Speech
Track who said what, how certain it is, and how the report is framed in connected text.
- • Recognize common patterns for reported speech and reported information.
- • Distinguish direct quotation from indirect report and hearsay.
Reading Nominalized Sentences
Handle の, こと, and ということ so you can read clauses that behave like nouns.
- • Recognize when actions, facts, and statements are turned into noun-like units.
- • Distinguish common uses of の, こと, and ということ.
Reading Long Relative Clauses
Learn how to unpack long noun-modifying clauses without losing the head noun or the main meaning.
- • Find the head noun that comes after a long modifier.
- • Break a relative clause into smaller chunks while keeping track of who does what.
Cause and Effect Across Sentences
Learn to track cause, result, reason, and response even when they are split across multiple sentences.
- • Identify explicit and implicit cause-effect links in connected text.
- • Recognize result markers such as そのため, そこで, and その結果.
Organizing Ideas: つまり / たとえば / 一方で
Use discourse markers to follow summary, illustration, and contrast at the paragraph level.
- • Recognize how writers summarize, illustrate, and compare ideas.
- • Use つまり, たとえば, and 一方で to map paragraph structure.
Formal Written Connectors: しかし / ところが / そのため
Read formal connectors accurately so you can follow contrast, surprise, and consequence across sentences.
- • Distinguish simple contrast, unexpected contrast, and result.
- • Read しかし, ところが, and そのため with the right discourse function.
ところ Review: About To, In Progress, Just Finished
Master ところ across three time frames so you can read actions right before, during, and right after they happen.
- • Match dictionary, ている, and た forms before ところ with the correct timing.
- • Distinguish ところ from たばかり in context.
Nothing But / Doing Nothing But: 〜ばかり
Read ばかり as imbalance, excess, or negative evaluation rather than a neutral 'only.'
- • Recognize ばかり with nouns and verbs in context.
- • Distinguish ばかり from だけ and しか〜ない.
Results and Arrangements: ことにする / ことになる Review
Review decision, result, and arrangement patterns so you can tell who decided what in context.
- • Distinguish personal decisions from external decisions and established arrangements.
- • Track agency in sentences that use ことにする, ことになる, and related patterns.