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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! On New Year’s Eve, you turn on the television in your Tokyo apartment, expecting to see the Japanese equivalent of Dick Clark. Instead, you get the Japanese version of American Idol-a three-hour version of women and men competing against each other in a singing competition. It’s not quite the apple dropping, but it’ll do. Just be careful not to have nightmares about bad Japanese karaoke afterwards: popular Japanese lore suggests your first dream of the New Year is a strong predictor of what will come throughout the year!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese All About lesson will clue you in about Japan’s five most important holidays. Interestingly enough, you’ll learn that the Japanese have incorporated spring cleaning into one of their most important Japanese holidays, as well as traditions involving Japanese family and food. And you won’t want to miss your three-day weekends, so put these dates on your Japanese calendar now. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Well, driving to work proved to be more trouble than it was worth. The traffic, the traffic signs, the cost of parking, not to mention the stress of trying to drive where all the street signs are in Japanese! So you decide to take the train and walk the eight blocks from the train station to your office. Now as you walk, you see the same traffic signs, but at least you have more time to study them and react. The first Japanese traffic sign you see, you cannot understand regardless of how long you look at it. You hope that if you ignore it, you won’t cause an accident or get a ticket. Another one you do understand. Your Japanese is a little uncertain, but the picture helps you to understand you can’t cross the street there. That was lucky. You did want to cross, and if you did, you would have had at least one problem. The next Japanese sign looks sort of familiar, but you’re not sure. If you walk down this road, will you be run down by cars or motorcycles? And why are people staring at you as you look at the signs? So what is you are studying them as if they were the Mona Lisa. That’s because you don’t want to get killed! Stay safe, get to work on time, and don’t be embarrassed by staring at Japanese street signs. You can do all that by studying this Everyday Kanji video about street signs with us at JapanesePod101.com BEFORE you leave the house!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Everyday Kanji Video teaches you about important traffic signs in Japan. The signs are one-hundred percent authentic; each one photographed directly on the streets of Japan. We cover several of the most important signs you will find in Japan, including Don’t Cross Here, Bicycles are Allowed, and Watch Out for Rear End Collisions. Stay safe on the streets of Japan with Everyday Kanji. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more great Japanese lessons and learning materials. Leave us a message while you are there!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! We hope that you’re enjoying learning to draw and pronounce Japanese Kanji with these awesome video lessons. It’s time to add to your knowledge with another cool Kanji. You’ll be a master of the On-yomi and Kun-yomi readings after you’re done with this lesson.
This Japanese Kanji video lesson shows the right way to draw and pronounce the Kanji that means “to look” or “to watch.” After you learn our easy to remember tricks, you’ll be a master at drawing and pronouncing this fun and versatile Japanese Kanji.
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Have you ever heard the expression “An army marches on its stomach”? If not, get ready to become familiar with it and a bunch of other phrases that incorporate the word “abdomen.”
The focus of this upper intermediate Japanese lesson is the word hara, which means “abdomen.” After this lesson, you’ll be a master of the many ways to use the Japanese word literally and figuratively. Here’s a sneak peek at what you’ll find: hara ga hette wa ikusa ga dekinu (”You can’t fight on an empty stomach”), hara no mushi ga osamaranai (”to be unable to suppress one’s feelings of anger”), hara o kimeru (”to decide”) and much more. As you can see, this is a can’t-miss lesson!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Well, it’s not always polite, but sometimes we make noises when we eat. Ever wonder how a word like “slurp” came to be? The word sounds just like the noise it describes. “Slurp” sounds like a slurp. Japanese has many onomatopoeic words too, and a number of them are about eating. Don’t get the idea that the Japanese are sloppy eaters just because we have so many words to describe eating sounds. Far from it. I’m sure these Japanese eating words came from watching so many people try to eat their Japanese food with chopsticks! It’s okay, we won’t tell!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson is all about onomatopoeic words for eating. You’ll learn how to quickly scarf down that food and lick the plate. No, wait, you already know how to do that. But you WILL learn how to talk about the noise it makes in Japanese using words that sound just like the words themselves. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
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