Learning guides
Understand readings and expressions, then put them into practice with review and mock tests.
毎度: repeated questions and a shop owner's thanks
Read 毎度 in receiving the same question every time and in a shop owner's conventional expression of thanks, without inventing visit or purchase counts.
一旦: temporarily stopping work and a once-you-leave condition
Compare temporarily stopping work because rain intensified with the condition that leaving through a door prevents returning before closing.
再現 and 再発: recreating an earlier form and recurrence
Compare a model exhibit and efforts to recreate a flavor with recurring pain and a procedure review intended to prevent another accident.
復旧 and 回復: restoring infrastructure and recovering a condition
Read the start of bridge restoration, restored power, gradual strength recovery, and ongoing sales recovery through their objects and stages.
尽きる: curiosity that lasted and water that ran out
Read the negation of exhausted curiosity against water actually running out before the mountain hut, preserving polarity and the stated time order.
当初 and 当時: an original plan and the situation then
Compare an original schedule or three-person plan with photographs and student status from a past time, identifying the time reference of each word.
緩やか: a gentle slope and gradual sales recovery
Read 緩やか as a modifier of a riverside slope or an ongoing recovery, distinguishing terrain from the pace of change.
増す: stronger wind and enhanced beauty
Identify the strength of the wind and the beauty of a vessel as what increases, preserving the past change and the polishing condition.
転換 and 移行: changing a policy or mood and moving systems
Compare production-policy and mood changes with a completed move to electronic applications and the preparation needed for a new system.
達する: reaching a summit and an expected membership threshold
Compare a climbing party reaching the summit in the evening with membership expected to reach one thousand, identifying place and quantity as targets.
兆し and 兆候: signs of weather, recovery, and a possible cold
Read storm easing, sales recovery, and a possible cold as the targets of signs, preserving possibility and slight beginnings rather than a good-versus-bad rule.
経過: the doctor's account of recovery and thirty elapsed minutes
Distinguish recovery after surgery as explained by a doctor from thirty minutes elapsing before work ended, preserving the speaker and time order.
過ぎる: passing noon and a bag that is too large
Compare time passing noon with excessive size in 大き過ぎる, retaining travel as the stated use against which the bag is assessed.
瞬間 and 一瞬: an event's instant and a brief duration
Compare opening a door or photographing takeoff with a light briefly going out or a bird being briefly visible, separating event timing from duration.
偶然: a chance meeting and an explanation of similarity
Read an unexpected meeting with an old friend against the claim that two works' similarity is mere coincidence, distinguishing event and explanation.
次々 and 一斉: successive blooming and simultaneous starts
Compare garden flowers blooming successively or all at once, with presenters appearing in succession and athletes starting together.
順次: using ready rooms and displaying completed products
Read the order of using rooms as each becomes ready and displaying completed products, keeping readiness separate from ranking or a finished display.
恒例: an annual spring cleanup and an end-of-trip custom
Identify the annual occasion for neighborhood cleanup and the trip-ending occasion for group photographs, without imposing one interval on both customs.
定期: a regular inspection and a three-month commuter pass
Compare next week's planned regular inspection with a purchased three-month commuter pass, distinguishing an occasion, a duration, and ride counts.
随時: questions during an explanation and updates as needed
Read questions welcomed during an explanation and service information updated when conditions require, without inventing a fixed interval or completed responses.
猶予 and 期限: granted grace and requested extra time
Distinguish the one-week payment grace period that was granted from extra time requested before a decision, using application and return deadlines as ending-time references.
暫定: a temporary office and a provisional plan
Read the community center's construction-period office use alongside a provisional plan the committee presented and gathered opinions on.
従来: an earlier method and the previous product model
Identify the method reviewed because it took too long and the previous model used to compare the new product's weight and portability.
逐一: item-by-item reporting and minor-change records
Read the request for item-by-item progress reporting and the narrower statement that recording every minor change is unnecessary.
重なる: overlapping schedules and repeated efforts
Distinguish the reported overlap of meeting and business-trip schedules from the condition linking accumulated small efforts to major achievements.
繰り越す: remaining work and part of an unused budget
Compare the decision to carry remaining work to the next day with the actual carryover of part of an unused budget to the following fiscal year.
延びる and 伸びる: deadlines, departure, grass and a line
Match the two spellings of のびる to four stated subjects, preserving actual grass growth and the planned extension of the new line.
遡る: three generations and five years of records
Read tracing a family tree back three generations and checking accounting records back five years, keeping the object and unit of each pastward scope.
収まる: rain subsiding and all the luggage fitting
Compare heavy rain subsiding by nightfall with all the luggage fitting on a shelf after organization, retaining both reported results.
留まる: a waiting-room stay and damage limited to one warehouse
Distinguish passengers remaining in a station waiting room because of snow from damage limited to one warehouse without reaching homes.