Archive for December, 2009 
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve just gotten your paycheck in Japan, and you can’t wait to put it in the Japanese bank. You tell your roommate in Japanese, “I’m rich, I’m rich!” He says to you in Japanese, “Congratulations. How long is it going to take you to go through that check? Three days?” You respond in Japanese, “Come on now, I’m not that bad!” Your roommate replies in Japanese, “Are you kidding me? The last time you deposited a check, you had withdrawn all the money within a week. You spent it frivolously on some fancy new boots, if I remember correctly.” You tell your roommate in Japanese, “Those boots were necessities. I wear them all the time!” Your roommate responds in Japanese, “Well, that may be true, but don’t come whining to me when you can’t pay your rent!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Everyday Kanji lesson will teach you how to say common Japanese phrases you’ll need to know when you go to a bank in Japan. We’ll even throw in a bonus piece of Japanese financial advice: invest in yourself before you blow all that cash singlehandedly trying to revive the world’s consumer markets! 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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Gestures are all around us. We make many gestures every day. So many gestures do we make that we are often unaware that we’re making them. They’ve become second nature to us. Just the same for the folk in Japan. Japanese use many gestures, but they’re not the same ones we use. Do you know that some Japanese gestures are thousands of years old? Of course, they may not mean the same thing as they did a thousand years ago. That gesture meaning, “Your donkey is sitting in my cabbage patch making bad smells,” probably isn’t used any more. Learning the gestures of Japanese culture is even more fun than learning the language itself.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson teaches you one of the everyday gestures used in Japan. You will learn how to say and gesture, “No way,” or “Never happen.” 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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s your birthday, and you’re spending it in Tokyo with some of your Japanese friends. To celebrate, they buy you a birthday cake, decorate it with candles, and wish you “Happy birthday” in Japanese. You close your eyes, pause for a moment to make a wish in Japanese, and then blow your candles out. When you open your eyes, your Japanese friends are staring at you like you have three heads. You ask them in Japanese, “Is something wrong?” They inquire in Japanese, “Why did you close your eyes before you blew out your candles?” You tell them in Japanese, “Oh, I was just making my traditional birthday wish.” Nodding their heads, one of your friends suggests in Japanese, “If you really want to make a wish, we need to go to a nearby shrine. There, you can make a wish, and it definitely will come true.” You look at your friends and tell them in Japanese, “I’m ready to go! Let’s do it!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Audio Blog lesson will discuss a famous Japanese shrine located near Tokyo, Japan. We’ll tell you the sights you’ll see while you’re there, and we’ll even share with you the ancient Japanese wishing ritual associated with the shrine. If your wish doesn’t come true after following this Japanese ritual, try depositing more coins next time! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find Japanese lesson notes (remember-this lesson is spoken entirely in Japanese!) as well as 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! You’re on your way to meet your new host family in Japan, and you’re nervous about meeting them. In fact, you’re fidgeting so much your taxi driver asks you in Japanese, “Are you feeling okay?” You assure him in Japanese, “Yes, I’m fine, just let me decompress from my travels,” but really, your mind is going a million miles a minute. You’ve heard other positive stories about staying in Japan from your friends who have done it before, and they all tell you they learned a ton of Japanese and made some great Japanese friends. You’re definitely looking forward to those two things-especially since your Japanese grade could use a little bit of help. However, you’re also worried about some cultural differences with the Japanese. You’re wondering whether your host family is going to take you to one of the Japanese public baths. It’s not like anything you’ve ever been to back home and the idea kind of creeps you out even though you know the Japanese are very meticulous and polite people. Oh well, you’re here at your Japanese host family’s house! You pay the cab driver, spring out of the cab, and knock on the front door…
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will describe several ways you can construct causative sentences in Japanese. We’ll also give you tips on which Japanese particle you should use depending on the sentence construction. 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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