Beginner S1
Beginner S2
Beginner S3
Beginner S4
These lessons are designed to introduce basic Japanese with the end goal of enabling the student to substantially increase his/her listening and reading comprehension skills. With over 100 lessons and dialogs, the beginner level course is designed to cover the basic grammar along with hundreds of frequently used vocabulary words.
Survival Phrases S1
Survival Phrases S2
This ongoing series is aimed at the Japan-bound traveler, and provides the listener with useful phrases, tips, and situations associated with travel in Japan. The first 10 lessons also offer an excellent starting point for anyone new to the language.
Newbie S1
Newbie S2
Newbie S3
Newbie S4
These lessons are geared towards the absolute beginner who is just coming into contact with this fascinating language. In this series we introduce essential basics of the Japanese language to give you the strong foundation you need to continue on to our beginner series. In this series we cover a large amount of vocabulary, so it could also be used as a refresher course.
Upper Intermediate S1
Upper Intermediate S2
Upper Intermediate S3
These lessons are designed for students with previous experience in learning Japanese. The situations, vocabulary, and conversations mimic those that one would encounter in real life on a daily basis when interacting with friends, acquaintances, etc.

We’ll learn about the polite copula, desu, which in Japanese approximates the English verb “to be.” We’ll also introduce the Japanese topic marking particle, wa.
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12 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #2 - S4: How To Declare Items at Customs”
Thursday at 7:13 pm
Mina-san, have you ever had problems at immigration or customs?
Sunday at 3:19 am
Surprisingly, I had no trouble. Even when I brought an entire suitcase of electronics (retro games) back with me on the plane. They didn’t even ask or search the bag. I wonder what that looked like on the x-ray image…
Sunday at 10:19 am
Kusuri desu! Nice website. Wish there was something like this when I first began learning Japanese many moons ago!
Thursday at 2:46 pm
Every time I hear Ben’s voice I think of the voice actor H. Jon Benjamin (the voice of McGurk in “Home Movies”, Ben in “Dr. Katz”, and countless other shows.) Especially with his dry humor and joke delivery.
Puts a smile on my face because it’s like I’m learning Japanese from McGurk haha.
Thursday at 2:48 pm
Err Eric’s voice. Durr. Got my names mixed up. すみません。
Thursday at 6:02 pm
I lied to customs both times I came to Japan because I didn’t want to waste my time. I’m a bad person.
Saturday at 8:06 pm
Is it just me or was there two versions of this lesson? I have both, one with morphine as a joke, and then the second one has souvenir as the 2nd item.
Saturday at 8:22 pm
Jenny-san, nice catch. Yep, you, and many others, have the limited edition version. Sure to be a collectors item one day.
Friday at 11:02 pm
Very nice lessons these newbie series 2,
I once did a few Beginners series 1, Since I can’t use the archive I’ve started with these. And I must say, very nice and understandable lessons.
Saturday at 12:16 am
Comic-san,
Glad your finding the lessons enjoyable, it’s always great to hear! Be sure to continue commenting and good luck with your studies.
Friday at 3:03 pm
this lesson it’s so much fun,asupirin desu.
Monday at 2:27 pm
ariatsuke-san,
Thank you for your nice comment! I’m sure that you can find more lessons interesting and fun!
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