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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You know by now that to speak Japanese correctly, you’ve got to know the conjugations of the te form front and back. Whether you want to say, “May I take a picture?” or “You cannot come in right now,” the Japanese te form is a must. It can seem a bit tricky, but all you need is practice.

That’s why this beginner Japanese lesson is so important. Not only does it delve into the all important Japanese word aruite (”on foot”); you’ll also find an indispensable review of the Japanese te form. Packed full of easy-to-read charts, you’ll be a master of the Japanese te form once you’re done with this lesson!

 

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Beginner Season 4 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

11 Responses to “Beginner Lesson S4 #28 - One Word You Can’t Speak Japanese Without!”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Konnichi wa Mina-san, How about practicing the -te form of verbs in your comments?

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spidey says:

毎日面白い日本語を教えてください。
Please teach me interesting Japanese every day.

私はいつもJapanesePod101の授業を聞いてしながらPDF読んでいます。  それからまた後で話しながら新し言葉いっぱい使っています。

While listening to JapanesePod101’s lessons I always read the PDF. The I use new words in conversations.

Did I make any mistakes?

Thank you for your help.

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Alain says:

I think nagara means “while doing something, I’m doing another different thing”, so I would rather use “toki” in the second sentence.

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JKid says:

There’s is nothing like て form review at 1am! :)

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eugene says:

yeah I’d say: ” japanesepod101 no jigyou wo kikinagara PDF wo yondeimasu. sosite hanasu TO KI ni, TA KU SA N no atarasii kotoba tukatteimasu ”

or something. because i guess you’re trying to say that you’re doing those two things simultaneously. :grin:

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Naomi says:

皆さん、こんにちは。
Mina-san konnichiwa.
いつもありがとうございます。Itsumo arigatou gozaimasu. :kokoro:

Spidy-san
面白い言葉?Omoshiroi kotoba? Funny (or interesting )word? :lol:
What’s the “omoshiroi kotoba” you recently learned? :razz:

Alian-san, eugene-san
ありがとうございます!! :dogeza:

Jkid
おもしろい!! :lol:

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Spidey says:

Alain, JKid, Eugene, and Naomi,

Thank you for your kind advice. I’m really glad you could follow my Japanese. Tow of my recent favorite words and phrases come from Peter. He was telling about his favorite 新語流行語大賞 / New Word and Buzzword-of-the-Year Grand Prix.

K-Y (kuki – yomenai) = Not understanding the situation

And

ルネサンス = Renaissance! This is said as “CHEERS” when drinking. I also use it in my English classes to wake up my students.

Try using:
K-Y or ルネサンス

You’ll get some great reactions.

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一 (ハジメ) says:

There is a small mistake in the romaji in the grammar section (the English is correct):

すみません。長谷寺に行きたいです。行き方を教えてください。
[Sumimasen. Kamakura ni ikitai desu. Ikikata o oshietekudasai.]
Excuse me. I want to go to the Hasedera temple. Can you tell me how to get there?

長谷寺 == Hasedera

Also, did you purposefully use 行きたいです instead of 行きたいんですが here? I would have used the latter form.

宜しくお願いします。

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Naomi says:

Hajime-san

Thank you so much!! :dogeza:
I’ll fix it right away.

>>did you purposefully use 行きたいです instead of 行きたいんですが here?
Yes. Because we haven’t introduced んです grammar in the Beginner Season 4 series.

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Naomi says:

Hajime-san

And of course your sentence sounds much natural!!! :wink:

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wael says:

japanese te-form
negative -te form is kute
it’s used for present and past or what

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