December 2024

December 2024 update time!

As a quick summary, we...

released 16 new Phase Three Units
released a new Milestone (Milestone 42)
added 2 new Progression badges
released 1 new Japanese with Niko video
added 1 newsletter to the archive
made various content updates and fixes
added links to the study guides in several places, including the Library when logged into NativShark

New Units and badges

We released 16 new Phase Three Units in December, from Units 332 to 347

They include...

16 new lessons
68 new lesson sentences
202 new vocab sentences
16 new Dialogues
2 new Progression Badges
1 new Milestone

Milestone 42
Vacuum
You have seen many ways to say "no matter".

Phase Three Unit 337
Quite Informed
You know many ways to use いかに(も).

Phase Three Unit 344
Unbecoming
You have seen the many ways なる and its variations are used.

Japanese with Niko

We released one new Japanese with Niko video this month

Ways to ACTUALLY say “Happy New Year” in Japanese (textbooks ONLY teach #1)

Newsletter Archive

We added one newsletter to the archive:

What are those ropes at shrines for? Why are they everywhere?

Study Site updates

The "Library" now contains links to the various study guides we have available on the help site (which is where you are now!):

We also added the "Updates" button on the left which links to this update section ^^

Anyway, be sure to reference the guides whenever you want some tips or are feeling lost! The community (Discord account required) is another great place to get help when you need it

NativShark logged out site updates

Fixed the Support tier pricing being slightly covered by an image on wide resolutions
Added guide links to the footers