Loading study paths
Nisatsu Journal
Reading: Furigana.Theme: System.
JLPT study path
Build everyday sentence patterns and connect ideas with more natural flow.
Use やっと for the relief of an awaited result, a success reached through effort, or something barely managed, and choose it naturally beside ようやく and とうとう.
Use はっきり when something is easy to see or hear, when words and choices leave no ambiguity, when plans become definite, or when a memory remains distinct.
Use どんどん for changes that keep gaining ground, actions repeated one after another, invitations to act freely, and strong repeated sounds such as pounding on a door.
Use ちゃん for children and established affectionate names, keep さん as the safe default with new adults, and ask before changing how someone is addressed.
Use ちっとも with a negative predicate for a felt “not even a little,” answer naturally when someone reports no progress, and choose ぜんぜん or 少しも when context or register points elsewhere.
Use だから to turn an earlier fact into a conclusion, choice, or recommendation, and keep its everyday force distinct from それで and the softer reason framing of ので or なので.
Use そんな before a noun for a kind or situation tied to the listener’s side of the conversation, react naturally with そんな！ or そんなことない, and keep そんなに, こんな, and あんな distinct.
Use それほど〜ない for “not that much” or “not to that extent,” answer naturally with それほどでもない, and recognize the more contextual emphatic use without confusing it with それくらい.
Use それに to add another reason or detail that supports the same impression, and keep its everyday rhythm distinct from そして, しかも, and それで.
Use それで to present a result that follows from what was just said or to ask for the next relevant part of a story, and keep it distinct from simple sequence with それから.
Use stand-alone そう for “that way,” そうです to confirm, a complete plain clause plus そうです to report what you heard, and a stem plus そうです for an appearance or likely event.
Distinguish sentence-initial すると for the next event or inference from V-ると for a regular result or discovery, and use たら when the second part is a request or intended action.
Use すっと for a quick, smooth, or unobstructed motion, a clean straight line, or an immediate sense of relief, while choosing さっと for a brief action, すっきり for a clear resulting state, and まっすぐ for directions.
Use すっかり when a change, recovery, disappearance, or lapse of memory feels complete, while using 全部 for a whole set, 完全に for completeness as a condition, and さっぱり for different everyday meanings.
Use everyday さっき for something a short while ago, then choose さっきの, さっきから, or さっきまで according to whether you mean an earlier noun, an ongoing situation, or a state that recently ended.
Use これから for the next action, a change that begins now, or the future ahead, while choosing 今から for an explicit starting point and このあと for the next event after the current one.
Use このごろ for habits, conditions, and changes that characterize the recent period through now, while keeping its overlap with 最近 and its difference from a recent occasion with このあいだ clear.
Use このあいだ for the other day, last time, or a short recent period, and choose この前 or 最近 when the previous occurrence or a broader ongoing span is the better focus.
Use everyday こう to point to a way, procedure, or result, and distinguish action patterns such as こうする and こうやって from the noun pattern こういう.
Use きっと for a strong expectation, evidence-based inference, or warm reassurance, and choose たぶん or 必ず when the speaker means something weaker or more absolute.
Use お土産 for something brought back from a trip or taken on a visit, choose natural phrases for sharing it, and distinguish that idea from the broader word プレゼント.
Use お宅 politely for another person’s home or household, recognize its distance-marked second-person use, and write オタク for an enthusiast without turning the label into a stereotype.
Follow one print-fair handoff while learning the practical difference between 娘, 娘さん, お嬢さん, and お嬢様, plus safer ways to address someone whose relationship you do not know.
Use お見舞い naturally for visits, messages, and small tokens of concern, ask before visiting someone who is ill or injured, and recognize the formal disaster-sympathy sense.
Use おかげで and おかげです to credit a helpful cause, recognize おかげさまで as an everyday response, and reserve negative おかげで for unmistakably ironic contexts.
Use おいでになる for a respected person’s coming, going, or presence, then choose naturally among いらっしゃる, お越しになる, 来られる, and the command おいで.
Learn when うん naturally accepts, acknowledges, or keeps a close conversation moving, and when はい, ええ, そう, ううん, or うーん fits better.
Use いらっしゃる for someone else’s coming, going, or being somewhere when that person is the one you want to treat with respect.
Learn how あんな describes a distant or jointly remembered kind, while この, その, and あの identify exact items from matching viewpoints.
氵 is the left-side form of the water radical; use it as a classification and meaning clue, then verify the complete kanji and reading.