Adverbs often express information on the mental state and the perspective of the communicator, which makes them a difficult part of speech for teachers and learners alike. The research tests whether the learning process could be simplified by choosing adverbs that have a higher priority. Adverbs were drawn from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) and the Nagoya University Conversation Corpus and were listed in a chart. The research consulted beginner adverbs from Shimazaki (2015), Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Standards, and the survey of the correlation of the Properties of Japanese Vocabularies in order to select adverbs for intermediate and advanced learners.
