Phase 1 · new grammar · Day 29 of 100 · ~13 min

に — place & time

You used に on Day 7 — がっこうにいきます. Here’s the full picture. English scatters “at, in, on, to” across many prepositions. Japanese pins a thing to a point in space or time with one particle — に: 7時に (at 7), 日本に (in Japan), 学校に行く (go to school). Picture に as a thumbtack that fixes something to a when or a where.

Today's words
all; entire
spirit; mind
family
body
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across
mind; heart
thank you; thanks
feeling; sensation
Write today's kanji — tap to replay
See it in real sentences
Tomorrow I'll go to his house to pick him up.
Thank you very much for coming to see me.
Come and see me tomorrow.
I often went fishing with him.
Why don't you come with me?
Oh, it's very kind of you to say so.

Practice

Spaced review — recall from earlier days (tap to flip)
however
しかし
1d ago
woman
女性(じょせい)
1d ago
to turn back (e.g. half-way)
(もど)
3d ago
marriage
結婚(けっこん)
3d ago
to enter
(はい)
7d ago
last (i.e. immediately preceding)
(まえ)
7d ago
Recall
Which word means “all”?
Which word means “to ferry across (e.g. a river)”?
Which word means “body”?
Which word means “mind”?
Listen and choose
What did you hear?
What did you hear?
What did you hear?
Your turn — say it, then check
Say: “Tomorrow I'll go to his house to pick him up.”
明日(あした)()まで(むか)えに()きます。
Say: “Thank you very much for coming to see me.”
(むか)えに()てくれてありがとう。
👀 Today’s input · ~10 min — where fluency actually comes from
Read your first real books
You can read kana now — so read. Open a Level 0 Tadoku graded reader: picture books made for absolute beginners, almost all kana. Sound each page out loud and don’t stop to look up every word; getting the gist is the goal.
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Furigana by kuroshiro · stroke order by KanjiVG · audio by your browser. Sentences are real native sentences, auto-selected for this day.