Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! After your ramen meal, you and your friends think a little dessert would be just the right thing. You see a shop nearby that has a KitKat sign in the window, and you all say, “Chocolate!” at the same time. Your friends start whispering to one another and giving you sly looks and smiling. You know they’re up to something, but you’re not sure what. But you know you can’t be fooled by chocolate the way the signs in the ramen shop confused you. In the chocolate shop, you see all sorts of signs for different flavors of chocolate. You love chocolate so you point to several signs, and your friends all start smirking and chuckling. You can’t figure out what they’re so amused at. Your first bite of chocolate should have been a hint. You’ve never tasted plum soda flavored chocolate, but it’s really good. You just smile back at them and chew as they watch with anticipation as you take another chocolate. Vegetable juice?!? You taste vegetable juice in your chocolate. Your friends watch you and start to laugh, but you’re not going to let them have the last laugh. You just keep chewing as if you eat vegetable juice flavored chocolate every day. But you wish you’d watched the Everyday Kanji videos more carefully.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Everyday Kanji Video shows you an unusual side of Japanese cuisine. The Japanese chocolate flavors are most unusual. Be prepared to order the types you like and avoid the types you don’t by watching this lesson. You’ll be surprised at the rare, fantastic flavors of chocolate you can find in Japan. 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!












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9 Responses to “Everyday Kanji #11 - Japanese Chocolate”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san! Did the chocolate featured in this video look good to you?
Which one do you want to try?
Saturday at 9:55 pm
I went to Japan this summer, but I didn’t know they have such kind of chocolate. I really love chocolate, but I don’t think I would like chocolate with vegetable. But, next time I will definly search for this chocolate and try it, I’m really curious. Thank you for let us know about this.
Sunday at 3:07 am
Saw all but the vegetable Kitkat in Tokyo in August. I don’t think I tried any of the chocolate in the video, but there was a apple vinegar flavored KitKat that was とてもおいしい!
Sunday at 9:40 am
Funnily enough I just dropped off to some friends bags of suppai orange, lemon vinegar, lemonade and mango purin flavour kit-kats as souvenirs from my latest trip to Tokyo. The shop didn’t have bags of candied taro flavour so i didn’t bring any of those back.
Sunday at 8:52 pm
how can i watch the video??
Sunday at 11:22 pm
During the video plum soda flavour appears. The text says “ume soda shitate” but the voice-over clearly says “ume soda jitate”. Which is right?
Monday at 7:13 am
ume soda jitate. Desu. Yo.
Monday at 6:37 pm
Regarding teaching & learning of Kanji from/to somebody, any difference in meaning between the 3 sentences below??
1. わたしはふくださんにかんじをならいました。
2. ふくださんはわたしにかんじをならいました。
3. わたしはふくださんにかんじをおしえました。
Thank you in advance
Tuesday at 2:10 pm
AkKH-san,
Here is the difference.
1. teacher: ふくださん learner: わたし
2. teacher: わたし learner: ふくださん
3. teacher: わたし learner: ふくださん
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