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Japanese printables
Twelve one-page study sheets for beginners, written in English. Every rule that matters on a single sheet, with the traps marked — read them here or print the PDF and put it somewhere you will keep seeing it.
Kana
Start here. Both syllabaries, with every mark and rule that changes how a kana is read.
Hiragana Chart
All 46 kana with romaji, dakuten, small ゃゅょ and the long-vowel rules.
Katakana Chart
All 46 kana, the foreign-word combinations, and the シツソン trap.
Verb forms
One sheet per form. The same example verbs appear on all six, so they line up when you pin them side by side.
Japanese Polite Verbs (ます Form)
The i-sound swap, the four endings, six patterns built on the stem.
Japanese Dictionary Form Chart
Going back from ます, and how to tell which group a verb is in.
Japanese て-Form Chart
Five sound changes, the 行く exception, six everyday patterns.
Japanese ない Form Chart
The a-sound swap, う → わ, and ある → ない.
Japanese た Form (Plain Past)
Plain past, built straight from the て-form.
Japanese Potential Form Chart
Saying you can, and the を → が particle change.
Grammar
The two things that decide whether a correct sentence sounds right.
Japanese Particles Chart
The ten you need first, plus は vs が and に vs で.
Japanese い and な Adjectives
All eight forms of each, side by side, plain and polite.
Everyday vocabulary
Numbers, dates and times — the parts that refuse to follow the pattern.
Japanese Counters Chart
One to ten two ways, eight counters, every sound change marked.
Japanese Dates and Time
Days of the month, months, weekdays, the clock, saying when.
Make Japanese words stick.
A sheet on the wall teaches you the rules. Oboeru keeps the words you meet — with their reading, meaning, example sentences and audio — and brings them back to you during the day.
