Archive for March, 2009 
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re almost done with the Japanese onomatopoeia series. Congratulations! Before you’re done, let’s talk about laughter. Think about all the ways we describe laughter in English: “giggling,” “tittering,” “guffawing.” Japanese is just as varied, and there are incredibly descriptive ways to talk about laughter.
This Japanese lesson is designed to teach you onomatopoeia to describe laughter. Learn to use kusukusu to describe someone’s giggling and geragera to explain someone’s roaring laughter. This lesson contains tons of example sentences and a helpful exercise to make sure you can tell a chuckle from a belly laugh.

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Keep up the awesome work with this Japanese lesson. And, learn to tell people what you think. You’ll be able to say any type of phrase that begins with “I think” or “I don’t think.” Even use the past tense to start sentences with “I thought.”
This important beginner Japanese lesson will open up a whole new world of Japanese phrases for you. Master Omou to say “I think” and “I don’t think.” You’ll be able to share your thoughts in the casual and polite forms after practicing with all the sample sentences in this JapanesePod101.com lesson. And, as a bonus, you’ll find a number of vocabulary words to include in your Japanese conversations.

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! People love to express their opinions. I’ll bet you do! Just a few opinions you might hear in English are, “That was difficult,” or “That was easy.” If you want to speak conversational Japanese like a native, you need to express your opinions clearly.
This newbie Japanese lesson is all about what you think. In fact, it’s designed to help you express your opinions in Japanese clearly and concisely. As a bonus, you’ll find all sorts of helpful Japanese phrases such as Denwa ( o ) kudasai (”please call me”). If talking about your opinions in Japanese is important to you, this is one lesson you can’t afford to miss!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve mastered kanji that means “sun.” Now it’s time to learn the kanji meaning “moon.” It’s easy because it’s shaped like a crescent moon!
This Japanese video lesson gives you easy instructions that’ll have you drawing the kanji for “moon” in no time. You’ll also discover some interesting history about the kanji as well as helpful samples to get you started.
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s time for another awesome episode of Yuri’s Audio Blog! This time, she takes you into the exciting and mysterious world of yatai, which are portable stall taverns found along Tokyo’s train lines.
Yatai might sound strange, but Yuri relates an experience with one that’s sure to make you want to find one of your own. When you visit Japan, it’s a must that you have food and drinks at one of these traditional Japanese gathering spots.

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