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Following his friend's suggestion, Joe heads to the Reading Practice website. The website asks him the language, textbook, and chapter in that textbook he's studied up to, and Joe specifies Joe specifies to the website that he's studying Japanese from the Genki 1 textbook, and has studied up to Chapter 10. Then, Joe gets displayed a list of the website provdes Joe with novel sentences in Japanese that use the grammar and vocab that he's learned, and he practices reading them.
After reading a few sentences, Joe encounters the sentence りんごを食べたいです。 He's unfortunately forgotten what the vocabulary word りんご meant, but he doesn't want to look it up in a dictionary, so he clicks on the word, and uses the interface tells him to determine that it means "apple". Joe then see 食, and while he knows it has something to do with eating, he doesn't know how it should be pronounced in this particular context. He therefore asks the system to romanize the sentence, and seeing "Ringo wo tabetai desu", he now knows that 食 is pronounced "ta" in this context. However, he still doesn't understand what the sentence means, hence he asks the system to show him an English translation. Seeing the translation "I want to eat an apple", it dawns on him that he's forgotten that the -tai verb conjugation is used to indicate want/desire. He wants to practice reading this sentence pattern more, hence he asks the system to show him a list of additional sentences that use the -tai verb conjugation.
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