Minna no Nihongo 2nd Edition – Online Japanese Lessons

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 1 – はじめまして

Introduces basic sentence patterns for daily communication, focusing on greetings, self-introductions, confirmation, and learning contexts.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 2 – これから　お世話に　なります

Explains expressions for objects and surrounding nouns, introducing methods for confirming information through simple descriptions.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 3 – これを　ください

Explains expressions for locations and place-related sentence patterns with basic action verbs. Learners practice asking and answering about positions.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 4 – そちらは　何時までですか

Focuses on time expressions, schedules, and daily routines. Learners practice asking and answering about time and organizing temporal information accurately.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 5 – この電車は　甲子園へ　行きますか

Introduces expressions for movement, destinations, and transportation. Learners practice describing destinations and travel purposes in daily life.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 6 – いっしょに　行きませんか

Introduces daily activities and states, focusing on Group 1 and Group 2 verbs. Learners practice describing routines and asking about schedules.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 7 – いらっしゃい

Develops the use of giving-and-receiving verbs, requests, and offers. Learners practice actions done for others, receiving items, and offering help in interactive communication.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 8 – そろそろ　失礼します

Explains Japanese adjectives, their transformations, and descriptive usage. Learners practice simple comparisons and concise descriptive sentences to express object characteristics.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 9 – 残念ですが

Explains how to express preferences, abilities, and levels of understanding. Learners practice sentences describing skills and interests, forming natural question-and-answer exchanges.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 10 – ナンプラー、ありますか

Introduces structures for describing the relative position of objects in space. Learners practice asking and answering about locations, using directional vocabulary and simple layout descriptions to improve spatial expression skills.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 11 – これ、お願いします

Focuses on quantities, counters, and their associated particles. Learners practice asking and answering about amounts, shopping situations, and item descriptions in daily communication.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 12 – 祇園祭は　どうでしたか？

Explains how to describe sensations, physical conditions, and food preferences. Learners practice giving subjective evaluations and expressing personal feelings in familiar situations.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 13 – 別々に　お願いします

Explains expressions for simple desires and intentions. Learners practice expressing needs, near-future plans, and making suggestions.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 14 – みどり町まで　お願いします

Provides expressions for instructions, requests, and mild causatives. Learners practice guiding actions and procedures in real-life communication.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 15 – ご家族は？

Introduces expressions for experiences and long-term habits. Learners practice sharing life experiences and past activities.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 16 – 使い方を　教えて　ください

Focuses on expressing permission and prohibition. Learners practice rules, requests, and guidance in educational and public settings.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 17 – どう　しましたか？

Explains obligation, duty, and required actions. Learners practice describing responsibilities and rules in both formal and everyday communication.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 18 – 趣味は　何ですか

Explains expressions of ability and action continuity. Learners practice describing ongoing actions and processes using the te-iru form.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 19 – ダイエットは　あしたから　します

Provides sentence patterns for expressing opinions, impressions, and subjective judgments. Learners practice explaining viewpoints and engaging in personal conversations.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 20 – いっしょに　行かない？

Focuses on expressing intentions, plans, and future actions. Learners practice presenting concrete plans, future expectations, and discussing schedules clearly.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 21 – わたしも　そう　思います

Teaches how to express opinions about society, abilities, and observable phenomena. Learners practice analyzing situations, making reasonable judgments, and engaging in opinion-based conversations.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 22 – どんな　部屋を　お探しですか

Introduces sentence patterns for giving reasons, causes, and explanations. Learners practice answering why questions, expressing cause-and-effect relationships, and developing logical reasoning in everyday communication.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 23 – どうやって　行きますか

Explains how to describe directions, give guidance, and explain routes. Learners practice using directional vocabulary, detailed location descriptions, and real-world navigation skills.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 24 – 手伝いに　行きましょうか

Explains how to express emotions, evaluate others’ actions, and show gratitude. Learners practice polite expressions, compliments, and emotionally appropriate sentence patterns.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 25 – いろいろ　お世話に　なりました

Reinforces learned patterns through integrated content focusing on plans, experiences, and wishes. Learners practice extended conversations.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 26 – ごみは　どこに　出したら　いいですか

Introduces expressions describing object states and action results. Learners practice distinguishing ongoing states from completed results.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 27 – 何でも　作れるんですね

Focuses on habitual actions, repeated behavior, and characteristics. Learners practice objectively describing routines and familiar causes.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 28 – 出張も　多いし、試験も　あるし･･･

Explains expressions for ability, state changes, and progression. Learners practice describing change over time and development processes.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 29 – 忘れ物を　して　しまったです

Explains how to describe mistakes, accidents, and technical problems. Learners practice explaining issues, causes, and malfunctions in daily and work situations.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 30 – 非常袋を　準備して　おかないと

Provides expressions for group plans, forecasts, and collective intentions. Learners practice scheduling and discussing group plans in daily and work contexts.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 31 – 料理を　習おうと　思って　います

Explains how to convey others’ intentions, indirect commands, and messages. Learners practice reporting information indirectly and handling multi-party communication.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 32 – 無理を　しない　ほうが　いいですよ

Presents expressions for suggestions, advice, and careful guidance. Learners practice giving appropriate advice, adjusting politeness, and applying it flexibly in daily and formal communication.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 33 – これは　どういう　意味ですか

Guides learners in expressing rules, conditions, and basic hypothetical situations. Learners practice describing conditions, explaining conditional results, and applying them in concrete communication contexts.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 34 – わたしが　した　とおりに、して　ください

Focuses on describing work sequences, procedures, and methods. Learners practice expressing step-by-step actions, giving clear instructions, and explaining processes in a logical and coherent way.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 35 – どこか　いい　所、ありませんか

Introduces expressions for seeing, hearing, and sensory phenomena. Learners practice describing perceivable experiences and expressing sensory impressions naturally and accurately.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 36 – 毎日　運動するように　して　います

Provides sentence patterns expressing commands, prohibitions, and requests at an advanced level. Learners practice using them in formal contexts, emphasizing obligation while distinguishing levels of politeness.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 37 – 金閣寺は　14世紀に　建てられました

Explains passive voice to describe impacts and events affecting the subject. Learners practice expressing affected states and unintended situations.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 38 – 片づけるのが　好きなんです

Introduces the causative form to describe making others perform actions. Learners practice role relationships in family, school, and work contexts.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 39 – 遅れて、すみません

Guides learners in expressing objective viewpoints, quoting opinions, and reporting complex information systematically.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 40 – 友達が　できたか　どうか、心配です

Explains strong conjecture, inference, and logical evaluation. Learners practice reasoning based on observed evidence.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 41 – ご結婚　おめでとう　ございます

Focuses on advanced giving-and-receiving verbs, including politeness and social relationships. Learners practice choosing verbs appropriate to speaker–listener status.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 42 – ボーナスは　何に　使いますか

Explains cause-and-effect structures describing change. Learners practice analyzing natural and social changes and their consequences.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 43 – 毎日　楽しそうです

Guides learners in expressing reasons, purposes, and evaluative viewpoints more deeply. Learners practice explanatory dialogues and clearly presenting personal positions.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 44 – この写真みたいに　して　ください

Focuses on giving instructions, detailed guidance, and describing complex procedures. Learners practice long explanations while maintaining logical consistency.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 45 – コースを　まちがえた　場合は、どう　したら　いいですか

Introduces advanced conditional forms and hypothetical situations that are unlikely or unreal. Learners practice reasoning, comparing hypothetical outcomes, and handling complex contexts.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 46 – 先週　直して　もらった　ばかりなのに、また･･･

Guides learners in describing completed actions, results, and post-completion states. Learners practice analyzing outcomes after actions and using resultative expressions in narrative situations.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 47 – 婚約したそうです

Introduces expressions for describing group activities, extended information exchange, and task coordination. Learners practice expressing shared goals, dividing responsibilities, and discussing teamwork.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 48 – 休ませて　いただけませんか

Presents ways to describe processes, characteristics, and quantitative data in technical and academic contexts. Learners practice summarizing analytical information and presenting data systematically.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 49 – よろしく　お伝え　ください

Guides learners in describing experiences, emotions, and memories in depth. Learners practice building short narratives, linking events with feelings, and expressing inner thoughts subtly.

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 50 – 心から　感謝いたします

Reviews and integrates all learned content, emphasizing extended expression, viewpoint exchange, and coherent information delivery. Learners practice comprehensive conversations using grammar holistically.