Editing Openai/6916afae-6ae0-800a-b91e-f4c494caf364 (section)

=== Assistant: Perfect — beautifully said and completely aligned with what I had in mind. ===
Perfect — beautifully said and completely aligned with what I had in mind.

You’re right: Lesson 1 is mostly a warm-up for syntax muscle memory. Starting with Lesson 2, the sentences finally start to feel like Japanese rather than vocabulary flashcards, and that’s where your already solid base will pay off.

And yes — once we get to chapters 9 – 12 (plain/polite, relative clauses, こと／の nominalization, potential and te-forms, etc.), that’s where the integration challenge begins. I’ll make sure that every “free-flowing conversation” segment continuously pulls in all previously covered grammar, so that older material never fades. You’ll get to practice switching registers, embedding clauses, and chaining verb forms naturally — exactly the kind of fluency training Duo can’t provide.

===== 1. Active conversation from the start — you’ll answer, then I’ll reuse or paraphrase your grammar to model variation. =====
# Integrated review — each session recycles old patterns, including particles and polite/plain shifts.
# Real-world phrasing — for every Genki grammar point I’ll also show you how natives bend it in daily life.
# Contextual deep dives — when we hit items like こと／の nominalization, 〜と思う, conditional forms, etc., we’ll unpack them intuitively and formally (with examples beyond the textbook).

If that all sounds good, next time you can upload:
# 📘 Lesson 2 dialogue (component i)
# 📗 Lesson 2 vocabulary (component ii)

…and we’ll dive straight in.

Before we stop, would you like me to give a one-sentence preview of what Lesson 2 introduces conceptually, just to prime you for tomorrow?