Archive for February, 2010 
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You always find yourself in the stickiest of social situations-and now that you find yourself in Japan, the social situations are three times as tricky! You’re very worried about offending your new Japanese friends by saying the wrong thing, so you’ve been saying as little as possible. Finally, you see an advertisement on television that says in Japanese, “If you’re having trouble handling your social obligations in Japan, you won’t want to miss this.” You respond to the announcer on TV in Japanese, “No, no I don’t! Tell me more!” The television announcer continues in Japanese, “Tune in this afternoon when we have an interview with Japan’s equivalent of Miss Manners, and she’ll tell you how to handle almost any social situation with grace and dignity.” You tell the television in Japanese, “This couldn’t come at a better time! If I had to wait one more day, I’d be lost!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will show you how to form the conditional using Japanese sentence structure. With this Japanese construction, you’ll be able to form sentences in Japanese that explain one action happens when another action occurs. Here’s an example: if you study this Japanese lesson, you’ll be a brilliant Japanese speaker! 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! You carefully inspect the pile of Japanese food on your plate, and you contemplate your options. Your roommate knows you’re a picky eater, but you don’t want to offend his parents, who have taken you to dinner in a nice Japanese restaurant. You think to yourself in Japanese, “I could make a sculpture out of this mound of noodles, or maybe I could mash that stuff over there down so it looks like I’ve eaten more.” Your roommate, who has been watching you out of the corner of his eye, whispers to you in Japanese, “If you don’t like something, just leave it on your plate. It’s not a big deal.” You respond in Japanese, “Just tell me what stuff is that’s near the edge of my plate.” Your roommate responds in Japanese, “That’s just a special kind of Japanese noodle. It won’t bite you. Try it.” You put some of the Japanese food in your mouth, and while your roommate is correct that it’s not biting you, it’s doing all sorts of other things to your mouth. Thank goodness some Japanese sake is close at hand!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will show you how to use demonstrative words that mean “this” and “that” in Japanese. We’ll also teach you how to express agreement in Japanese, so you can tell your dinner hosts when you find a Japanese dish you really enjoy. 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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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! If you’re like most people, this is just about the time you begin to panic, in search of that one truly romantic, unique gift to express just how much you love your significant other. Chocolates? Flowers? A really sappy card? An eight-carat diamond anniversary ring? All those things are nice, but if you’re looking for something really special, something that says you spent some time actually thinking about your special someone, JapanesePod101.com has something BREATHTAKING for you!! JapanesePod101.com has put together an extraordinary Valentine’s Day YouTube Video! Imagine eating dinner on Valentine’s Day with the one you love, you reach across the table, take his or her hand in yours, and you whisper ‘I love you’, first in French, then Korean, then Japanese, then Italian… You get the picture. Suddenly, your love is swooning at the romantic gesture. Does it get more romantic than that?? And with JapanesePod101.com’s new Valentine’s Day YouTube Video, it couldn’t get any easier to impress the one you love either!
Impress that special someone in your life with a one-of-a-kind Valentine’s Day gift this year! And JapanesePod101.com has tons of great videos on YouTube as an added resource for our listeners, so be sure to check them out while you are there! You can leave us a comment on YouTube or JapanesePod101.com to let us know what you think of our Valentine’s Day YouTube Video lesson…or, how it worked out for you! Happy Valentine’s Day from JapanesePod101.com!
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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! There are many things we do to keep a conversation going strong without even realizing it. For example, you might say “Right?” at the end of a statement to get the listener to respond. There are plenty of Japanese secrets to keeping conversations going, and you’ll find them here!
In this newbie Japanese lesson, discover how ka, yo, and ne can work for you. From evoking a response to speaking emphatically, these three little words are the key to a successful Japanese conversation. And, don’t worry about using them at the wrong time; this Japanese lesson is packed with examples that will show you the right time to use each one.

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