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Archive for October, 2008  

Learn Japanese With JapanesePod101.com! One of the most common sentences we use talks about being “without.” Here are some examples: “I stayed up all night without going to bed,” and “She said she would marry him without even meeting him in person!” If you want to speak Japanese fluently, you must use sentences that include the word “without.”

This important lower intermediate lesson introduces you to –zu ni (without doing something). You’ll learn to use this phrase in a number of ways to form sentences that are part of almost all Japanese conversations. As an added bonus, find a number of Japanese vocabulary words and example sentences that you can weave into your own Japanese. This JapanesePod101.com lesson makes learning an especially important Japanese phrase easy and fun!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. You’re about to master an important phrase. You’re ready to talk about what used to be. You might want to say, “I used to work there,” or “She used to be my girlfriend.” Statements like these are just as common in Japanese as they are in English. Imagine trying to have a conversation without being able to talk about the past. It would be pretty awkward.

Use this upper intermediate Japanese lesson to learn to talk about the past. Mono da is the Japanese phrase that allows you to be nostalgic. You need to know its two uses and the subtle differences between them. It’s time for you to confidently incorporate this phrase into your Japanese.

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