Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your airplane has landed at Narita, and you’ve made it through Japanese customs. As you exit the airport, you see a person holding a sign with your name on it. He greets you in Japanese, and you answer. Then he says something in Japanese you don’t understand. It sounds familiar, but not quite. You’re not sure, so you answer in Japanese, “Once again, please.” This time, as you walk to the car, he again speaks to you in Japanese, but this time he’s just too fast for you. You know you can’t keep up with that yet. So, you flex your Japanese again and ask your companion, “Slowly, please.” He smiles and speaks the same Japanese words again, but this time, he says them carefully and apologizes for speaking too quickly. You think you might be able to handle this after all; this time you understood everything. He gives you a ride to your hotel and bids you a good day. Exhausted as the jetlag sets in, you collapse onto your hotel room bed, thankful for the useful Japanese phrases that got you here today.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson provides you with three of the most valuable Japanese phrases you can learn either in the classroom or out. In Japanese, or any other language, you should be able to ask people to repeat themselves, ask them to speak slowly, and ask them to write down the information you need. That’s why this Japanese lesson is so vital. 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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27 Responses to “Basic Japanese #6 - 3 Useful Classroom Expressions”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san! These 3 expressions should always be in the back of your brain when speaking Japanese!
Friday at 10:05 pm
No lesson notes anymore for basic members ?
Saturday at 4:48 pm
Louさん,
That was caused by a mistake in the settings - our apologies! They are now under Basic access again
Sunday at 12:49 am
Everyone knows that if I’ve bothered to learn a statement in a foreign language then they need to listen up. I’m going to learn these three so I can use at work!
Sunday at 2:29 am
I’m going to use them ALL the time. My japanese teacher will never hear the end of it…
Thanks!
Monday at 3:00 am
Yeah, even if they are, or spongebob is.
Monday at 9:23 am
Rachael Kvapilさん & sarahさん,
Yes, please try these new phrases out!!
Billy Bishopさん,
Wait, what about Spongebob?
Monday at 6:57 pm
LOL!
This was really s great lesson, it’s also good because I usually hear the first two lines, at the end of a conversation during the newbie series lessons. I kind of knew what it meant but to get this lesson and know really helps.
Arigatou gozaimasu Hiroko-Sensei!
Tuesday at 12:26 pm
Cherish san- Glad it helped!
Tuesday at 11:56 am
im too useful for this
Saturday at 8:09 pm
Arigatou! These visual lessons are a great help!
Friday at 4:09 am
If you listen to the podcast you will regularly hear this. いい説明はありがとうございました。
Friday at 10:00 am
I am wondering could the last two interpretations for “please” be switched? Could you say “mou ichido kudasai?” or “kaite onegai shimasu?”
I also found on another site that other ways to say these are “mouichido itte kuremasuka?” and “yukkuri shabette kuremasuka?” what is different between these and the ones you explained?
Sunday at 12:21 am
i love this site, soon i am going to japan so it will help me so much now…
Friday at 1:01 pm
I have taken Japanese one, and finished my exam yesterday, after putting in 9 hours a week in homework, I still only earned 60%-70% on all my quizzes and exams. My class did not speak to the teacher in Japanese. I belive you can also say “Mou iichi do TO youkkuri onegaishimasu” (TO = and in Japanese) Im just not sure if this is a proper grammar structure.
Wednesday at 6:10 pm
Sunday at 3:54 am
LOVE IT!!!!
Monday at 3:05 am
Excuse me, but I’ve always wondered why the 「う」 in words like 「おねがいします」 or 「です」 is left off? And thanks for the video, it was very helpful
Monday at 9:39 am
McKinnley-san,
When a “u” comes at the end of a word, it is not pronounced - this is just a characteristic of Japanese pronunciation
Saturday at 9:31 am
Okay, that has been bugging me for a while now, thank you Jessi-san
Monday at 12:40 pm
What is the nice music at the end of the video?
Thursday at 7:45 pm
thanks….for lesson!
Thursday at 7:49 pm
I LOVE JAPANESE!!!
Friday at 6:16 pm
Japanese is hard too learn, but this is a fun
Wednesday at 2:39 am
whats the deference between Onegai shimasu and kurasai ?
Thanks ^^
Wednesday at 3:23 pm
thanks for a great lesson… hope i’ll be fluent in japanese soon…
arigatou gozaimasu…
Thursday at 10:33 am
Is っ the only character used for short pauses? Are there other purposes for っ, as well?
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