Archive for September, 2009 
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Do you remember what it was like before the advent of the Internet? If you were trying to study Japanese on your own in the early 1990s, you would have had to find a private Japanese tutor, travel to Japan, or read a book. But with the convenience and accessibility of Internet resources, tools to help you along your Japanese-speaking journey are right at your fingertips! Whether you’re practicing your kanji, Japanese conversational skills, or Japanese translation skills, help is just a click away!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese All About lesson will teach you about the best online resources to use to help you learn Japanese. We’ll share links to the best online Japanese dictionaries for translations and for kanji practice, and we’ll even tell you about a network where you can find native Japanese speakers to correct your work. 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! It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. You made it to Japan for the best ever vacation. And then you got sick. Or at least, you’re pretty sure you got sick. Japanese medicine is quite different from the way medicine is practiced in the United States. But you still can’t read the signs to find the right area of the clinic you were told to go to for help! You don’t want to end up in the orthodontics department when you need the general dentistry department. And you sure don’t want to find yourself in the department of psychosomatic medicine when you need the department of internal medicine. To prepare for that unfortunate chance of being sick in Japan, check out this Everyday Kanji lesson about clinic signs.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Everyday Kanji Video will help you find your way through the maze of kanji at a Japanese hospital or clinic. You’ll learn to recognize signs for places to treat tooth problems, eye problems, internal problems, surgical problems, even psychosomatic problems. We at JapanesePod101.com can help you out of trouble even when we’re not there. 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 “mouth” or “gate.” 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! Will the Japanese starve? Could such a wealthy country go more than hungry? Some think the doomsday scenario is more likely than many believe possible. An author and noted expert on the subject, when interviewed for television, said any sort of disruption to Japan’s food imports would create real problems. According to him, Japan would lose sixty per cent of its food supply, the proportion Japan imports now. That’s scary stuff. Imagine losing sixty per cent of your food! What do you think about Professor Kusayanagi’s comments? Do you think he’s right? Do you think he missed something? Or do you think the chances of such a catastrophe are too remote to worry about?
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson is all about how you express certain ideas of likelihood in Japanese. “It might rain tomorrow.” That’s possible, unless you live in the Sahara Desert. “We might starve tomorrow.” That probably won’t happen, but it might. In Japan, they don’t grow all their food, especially flour. When you make a statement, you can say it’s possible and reasonably likely or you can say it’s possible and not very likely at all. So you can tell how likely a speaker believes a statement to be by listening carefully. 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! Do you make a sound when you fix your gaze on someone? Do looks have sounds? Can you hear the difference between a withering stare and a coquettish glance over the shoulder? You can in Japanese. In Japanese, some of the words that refer to looking at someone are onomatopoeic. Should you use chirachira or jirojiro to talk about that pretty girl in the store? Used properly, one can mean glancing repeatedly at someone and the other a very disapproving glare! Why take the risk and guess when the right Japanese words are right here!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson is all about onomatopoetic words of sight. Yes, in Japanese, some words referring to looking at things sound like the word. Words for stare, glancing repeatedly, gazing with contempt and disapproval, and looking around nervously all have sounds that sound like the look. It’s another of those interesting things you pick up when you learn a new language. 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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