Curriculum

Journey Through Japan

Learn Japanese through everyday Japanese posters! One of the perks of recording from Tokyo is that we can bring Japan to you, through these short educational videos. This Japanese Poster Phrases series explains a number of Japanese phrases you will see on posters in Japan, breaks down their meaning and grammatical formation.

Lesson	Title	Topic	Conversation in target language	Vocabulary	Grammar
1	Learning Japanese Through Poster Phrases #1	Learning kanji and Japanese through the poster of "Lottery"	9/28(月)から！枚数限定発売今すぐ売り場へ行かなくちゃ！早くしないと売り切れちゃう！過去８年　すべて売り切れ！	億円枚数限定発売売り場早く売り切れる	Ikanakucha (行かなくちゃ): a casual way of saying ikanakutewa ikenai (行かなくてはいけない) to (と): a subordinate conjunction, which we use to create a conditional sentence
2	Learning Japanese Through Poster Phrases #2	Learning Japanese through the poster at "train station"	急がず　慌てず　ゆっくりと	急ぐ慌てるゆっくり事故つながるけが駆け込む乗車やめる	zu ni = zu (ずに=ず): the informal negative form of a verb (without nai), + zu + ni The particle to (と): a particle indicating how something is done