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Archive for May 27th, 2006

Japanese Culture Class #18 - Animals and their Meanings Part II

Level: Japanese Culture Classes

Learn Japanese and about Japanese Culture with JapanesePod101.com! Today Chigusa and Yoshi join us for the second installment of animals and their Japanese meanings. In this lesson, we take our time covering many more animals and for the first time, insects! This lesson has a little bit of everything, even Yoshi singing. You don’t want to miss today’s installment of Japanese Culture Class.

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Intermediate Lesson #15 - O-AIBO no Ongaeshi

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In the not-so-distant future, in a land not so far away… Today’s lesson brings you mukashi banashi with a twist! Our professional writing team has taken a classic folk tale and turned it into subarashii banashi - or perhaps the better choice would be okashii banashi? You don’t want to miss this one! Be sure to grab the bonus tracks, as well!

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