Reference sheet

One day, every word

Every word the course has taught — all 230 of them — walked through as a single day, in fourteen scenes. Each word appears exactly once, so a word you cannot recall has one place to go back to.

Words from lessons 4, 5, 6 and 7 · readings from Jisho.org (JMdict) · coverage checked by check_one_day.py

1.How to use it

This is not a lesson and there is nothing new in it. Every word here has already been taught, with its Arabic, on a word card in the lesson it came from. What this page adds is order.

The lessons tell you what each word means. They cannot tell you which words you know — a rule that generates どこ from ど + こ says nothing about whether つぼ is on your list. That is what a route is for. Walk it in the same order every time and the scenes start pulling each other along: the kitchen brings back the things on the table, the station brings back the ticket.

Three things worth knowing before you start:

• Every word carries its meaning in brackets, so nothing here needs looking up. Tap any word to hear it. The transliteration appears the first time a word turns up and not afterwards — by now the script is the thing being read — but the meaning stays every time, because that is what the walk is teaching rather than a crutch to be withdrawn.
• The switch above changes which language you are walking in. In Arabic the route is identical — same fourteen scenes, same English sentences carrying them, same recall mode — with the Arabic word in place of the Japanese. It is the same 230 meanings learned twice.
• The strip under each scene lists that scene's words in order, so you can check a scene against it without hunting back through the paragraphs.
• Every scene has a Hide button, and the whole page has Hide all the Japanese. Either one turns a scene into a recall test: the English stays, and the Japanese and its meaning both come out of the sentences, leaving a gap the width of the word it was holding — so you know how long the answer is but not what it is. Say it yourself, then tap the gap to check that one word without giving away the rest. Turning it off clears every reveal, so the next pass starts blank.
• Work a scene at a time. Fourteen at once is not a study session. Hide one scene, get through it, show it again, move on — the per-scene button is there so you never have to blank the whole page to test one part of it.
• The last sentence of every scene is a question, and it is what carries you into the next one. That is deliberate. The question words are the hardest part of the course to hold on to, so they are the joints rather than a list — you cannot get from the house to the street without asking どこ.

2.The walk