Phase 1 · practice day · Day 17 of 100 · ~12 min

More reps — です・だ — "A is B"

You met です・だ — "A is B" on Day 16 — today is reps, not re-reading. Fresh words and sentences below, same pattern. Reminder: です = is/am/are, and it always goes last. The plain-speech version is だ. Re-read the full lesson →

Today's words
to sound; to ring
teacher; instructor
now; the present time
Write today's kanji — tap to replay
See it in real sentences
Time is up.
I'm completely exhausted.
They're already here.
All sold out!
My throat feels dry.
It's about five miles.

Practice

Spaced review — recall from earlier days (tap to flip)
what
(なに)
1d ago
to think
(おも)
1d ago
Recall
Which word means “now”?
Which word means “teacher”?
Which word means “to sound”?
Listen and choose
What did you hear?
What did you hear?
What did you hear?
Your turn — say it, then check
Say: “Time is up.”
もう()わりです。
Say: “I'm completely exhausted.”
もうヘトヘトです。
👀 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.
Tadoku free graded readers — Level 0 →

Furigana by kuroshiro · stroke order by KanjiVG · audio by your browser. Sentences are real native sentences, auto-selected for this day.