Japanese Language Lessons: Let's Learn Japanese!

These Kanji are for GCSE but they be useful for everyone who would like to learn Kanji.  You can print it out, glue it and cut them to use as flashcards.

This set includes the old specification Kanji and the Kanji which I use to explain the GCSE Kanji.

The followings are matched lessons on Quizlet.  So that you can learn them on PC or iPhone/iPod touch as well.

A sample Quizlet of Lesson 01: You can hear the sounds as well if you click the sound icon…

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When you do the tests on Quizlet, please tick “Stuff in parentheses” so that your answer should become only Hiragana parts.

• GCSE Kanji Lesson 01 (Numbers etc) Flashcard page 1-5, Booklet p.3-9
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 02 (Nature, People 1 and Time 1) Flashcard page 5-9, Booklet p. 10-14
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 03 (Time 2) Flashcard page 9-10, Booklet p.15-16
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 04  (School Life 1) Flashcard page 11-12, Booklet p. 23-26
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 05 (Positions) Flashcard page 12-13, Booklet p.27-28
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 06 (Body Parts 1) Flashcard page 14-15, Booklet 29-30
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 07 (Verbs 1) Flashcard page 15-19, Booklet p. 30-36
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 08 (Time 3  pm/am, next, last week etc) Flashcard page 22, Booklet p.17-18
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 09 (Directions) Flashcard page 23-24, Booklet p. 40-41
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 10 (Adjectives 1) Flashcard page 24-25, Booklet p. 42-44
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 11 (Adjective 2 Colours) Flashcard page 27, Booklet p. 46-50
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 12 (Verb 2) Flashcard page 19-22, Booklet p.37-39
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 13 (Adjectives 3) Flashcard page 26, Booklet p.45
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 14 (Seasons and Nature) Flashcard page 28-29, Booklet p.51-53
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 15 (Electricity, transportation etc) Flashcard page 30, Booklet p. 54
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 16 (School Subjects 1) Flashcard page 31-32, Booklet p.55-58
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 17 (School Subjects 2 and hobbies) Flashcard page 33-34, Booklet p. 59-61
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 18 (Name etc) Flashcard page 36-39,  Booklet p. 62-63
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 19 (Family and People 2) Flashcard age 36-37, Booklet p. 64-67
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 20 (Animals) Flashcard page 37-38,  Booklet p. 68-72
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 21 (Time 3 and foods) Flashcard page 39-41, Booklet p.19-22
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 22 (Traveling and geography) Flashcard page 41-43, Booklet p. 74-78
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 23 (Places) Flashcard page 44-47, Booklet p.79-84
  
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 24 (Japanese people and places names)
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 20 (All verbs)
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 21 (All adjectives)
• GCSE Kanji Lesson 22 (All Time expressions)

Revisions for the exam

GCSE Essential Kanji  in Flashcardsexchange (You can choose which Kanji to learn)

GCSE Essential Kanji (Quizlet) for

GCSE Vocabulary Kanji Possible Words Quizlet

• GCSE Essential Kanji PDF Handout
• iFlash GCSE Kanji file

For GCSE Vocabulary lists, please go to GCSE Vocabulary Lists, Quizzes and Flashcards

If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you can use various apps to use Quizlet and  flashcardexhange lists to do quizzes on your iPhone and iPod.  Or you can print out your flashcards there, too.

For in stance, I usually recommend  a free app callediReview Flashcards to my students to use my Quizlet lists  but there are many applications which can deal with Quizlet sets.

As flashcards

Type in Quiz

True or False

Multiple choices quizzes either with an image or not.

GCSE ProVoc file(Macintosh Software file)  You have to download the software at: http://www.arizona-software.ch/provoc/download.html

You also need to install the following font to see the fonts.  tasakai_lig.ttf

I recommend this Kanji book.

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Edexcel Advanced GCE in Japanese from June 2009

Specification and sample papers

GCE Japanese Specification from 2009 Download (284)

sample gce 2008 Japanese papers Download (249)

Students Guide Download (204)

Resources for Alevels Download (212)

Jp GCE Specification 2007 Download (189)

Japanese: A2 Level

All grammar and structures listed for Advanced Subsidiary, plus:

Verbs forms The causative

The passive (including によると)(including suffering passive)

Transitive and intransitive verbs (including てある、ている)

Verbs て form plus くる (eg だんだんわかってきました)

いく (eg これからも増えていくでしょう)

Verbs た form plus まま　for an unchanged state

Verb volition form plus

とする

Questions Embedded questions using か eg 中さんが来るか、知っていますか。

Using かどうか eg 間にあうかどうかわかりません。

Linking sentences Using のに for ‘despite’

Using ても for ‘even if’ (eg 雨が降っても行きます)

Conjuncture and

hearsay

Plain form plus そう (eg 山田さんは来ないそうです)

Verb or adjective stem plus そう (eg 雨が降りそうです)

Plain form plus よう (eg 山下さんは来ないようです)

する versus なる Verb + ことになる・ことにする・ことになっている・ことにしている

ようにする・になる・にしている

3rd person Use of がる (eg 子供はアイスクリームを食べたがる)

Nouns into

adjectives

Using 的

Adjectives into nouns

Using さ (eg この本の厚さをみてください）

Particles ばかり

までに

Explanatory sentence ending

の・んです。 (eg かぜをひいたんです。)

わけです (eg 道が分からなくて、遅れてしまったわけです）

Purpose of an action

Using ため（に） (eg 日本語を勉強するために来日しました)

Using ように (eg 外国へ行けるように、貯金しています)

The uses of ところ

Eg 今食べたところです。

今食べているところです。

これから食べるところです。