Wanna learn 3 great ways to invite your friends out in Japanese? We’ll show you 3 easy ways to do it with natural Japanese! Next thing you know, you’ll be rocking out Shibuya-style with cute Japanese girls - or Japanese guys, as the case may be! Basic and Premium membership has its privileges, because if you want to make friends or go on a date in Japan, this is the lesson for you!
We’ll be looking at the volitional form of Japanese verbs and negative form of Japanese verbs for making invitations and suggestions in Japanese. If you want to make friends or go on a date in Japan, this is the lesson for you!
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9 Responses to “Premium Lesson #26 - SS23: Fun Stuff!”
JapanesePod101.com says:
May 19th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Mina-san, today’s lesson will open up a whole world of opportunities to have fun with your friends!
プチクレア says:
May 31st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
カラオケもビリヤードもボウリングも行ったことがありません。
The last too are not that popular here, and karaoke in France is cheesy to say the least….
Actually, the one karaoke I went to (more or less) was in a chinese retaurant on a saturday night. No private rooms, everybody sang in front of everybody else.
And all the songs were in chinese… 
ジャービジ says:
May 31st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
There are some local bars and places that have karaoke nights, but there are some places in the city where you can use your own room with a group of friends or whatever. I’d never do it though. It makes me cringe too badly when I see other people do it 
As far as I remember, the volitional has always been covered in this invitational context, so until I read the explanation in DBJG (which was shockingly recently), I was always a bit confused by sentences like「私が彼に話そう」.
Glenn says:
June 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am
I love going bowling on my days off - actually not a bad place to have a date on a rainy day. Also playing pool is fun as well.
markystar says:
June 1st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
i did Wii bowling last night.
played 3 matches and won 2 of them!! 
VGcat says:
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 am
I’ve only played wii bowling once (not any good at it.). It kinda threw off my skill in reality somehow…
Alain says:
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:38 am
(Off topic)
I have a problem understanding how to find something in the grammar bank.
I have a homework on the 2 meanings of “nantoka”.
So I looked in the grammar bank: nothing.
I typed also “nantoka” in the “Search all lessons”: nothing.
But when I went to Google and typed “nantoka grammar”, the second line was: http://www.japanesepod101.com/category/lessons-intermediate/, directly to Intermediate lesson 85 ! Where I found nantoka !
Eran says:
June 10th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Alan-san,
We’ve begun development on an advanced search functionality that integrates the various tag lists (i.e. Grammar, Topic, Politeness Level, and Function) as well as several other search fields such as Host or Voice Actor. While I don’t have a release date for the new functionality as of yet, it should be really good!
Eran
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Grammar: shiyou, volitional, yo, ~masen ka, ~nai, ~nai ka | Function: inviting someone to do something, suggestions | Topic: bowling, karaoke, Shibuya, traditions | Politeness Level: casual
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