Must-Know Japanese Sentence Structures S1 #15 - Using the Present Continuous

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

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learn how to use the present continuous grammar pattern

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0:00.0	Oh,
0:00.4	Oh,
0:00.6	go
0:00.7	go
0:00.8	go
0:00.8	God
0:02.6	101
0:03.2	is
0:03.8	Oh,
0:04.4	Oh,
0:05.6	Tokyo
0:07.4	Good
0:08.6	Good
0:09.1	Good
0:09.1	Good Good Good Hello London Thank you Thank you Thank you Hi. Hi everyone, I'm Eric.
0:26.1	And I'm Risa.
0:27.8	And welcome to must-know Japanese sentence structures, season one, lesson 15, using the present continuous.
0:35.3	In this lesson, you'll learn how to use a sentence pattern to describe what
0:38.8	someone is doing. For example, I'm watching TV.
0:43.3	I'm watching TV.
0:46.4	I'm watching TV. Wattash is TV. The pattern for describing what someone is doing has three elements.
0:55.9	First, the pronoun, I, with a topic marking particle.
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