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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Why is it that people always want to sing in closed confined spaces? Since you’ve been visiting Japan, you have heard your friend singing in the shower (which echoes throughout your friend’s apartment) and now your friend is singing in the car in Japanese. There is utterly no escape from this form of Japanese torture! It would be one thing if your friend could sing well, but all your friend knows how to do is sing Japanese words in every key but the right one. This morning your friend is singing something in Japanese about hands…moving hands one way, then clapping, and then raising them. You decide to intervene and ask your friend in Japanese, “Can’t you decide what to do with your hands already?” Your friend responds in Japanese, “It’s a song I learned as a child. I love this song!” You reply in Japanese, “Well, here’s what your singing makes me want to do with my hands…” and you put your hands over your ears!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Songs lesson will teach you the verses of a popular Japanese song that has traveled around the world to Japan. We’ll share the history of this Japanese song and tell you what its lyrics mean in Japanese. Unfortunately, we cannot provide singing lessons, so make the best of it and move your hands with the Japanese music! 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! “What’s your lucky number? You don’t have a lucky number? Why not?” Your friends have been talking to you about Japanese culture and numbers. “Everyone needs a lucky number,” they exclaim in Japanese! “How about forty-two?” you ask in Japanese; you’ve always liked the way forty-two sounds in Japanese. They look at you as if you’re working with an odd number of chopsticks. “You know…,” you say, “The number forty-two, like in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; the answer to life, the universe, and everything.” Now they’re sure you’ve got a screw loose. “Japanese numbers have meaning,” they explain in Japanese, “Some Japanese numbers are unlucky, and some are very lucky. Some are lucky depending on when you were born. Haven’t you picked out your lucky and unlucky Japanese numbers?” You confess this is all news to you and you haven’t the slightest notion of what’s lucky and unlucky in Japanese numbers. “What about a number between eleven and nineteen?” you ask, because those are the numbers you just learned in Japanese. “Well, it’s time you began your introduction to the symbols of Japanese numbers,” they say, and they lead you off to the computer, the modern-day numerologist to find your lucky and unlucky Japanese numbers.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson continues the explanation of Japanese numbers; this time, you’ll learn the Japanese numbers from eleven to nineteen. You’ll do great. Once you learn the Japanese number ten, the next nine are easy. 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! Today, join Honda-san, Yamada-san, and Jun-san in the classroom during the final countdown before the day’s shiken begins. A couple of the students forgot their enpitsu, but Honda-san has plenty! Today is part four of a series of lessons introducing Japanese verbs of giving and receiving. This lesson’s grammar point covers the -te morau construction.
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! What’s this section of the Japanese proficiency test? You’re puzzled at the series of weird Japanese words strung together. They don’t look like a sentence. In fact, they seem to be a jumble of Japanese words you have to sort out. No one told you that you’d have to solve puzzles in order to pass this Japanese exam! As you continue looking through the section, you think to yourself in Japanese, “This isn’t as hard as it seems…maybe I just need to apply what I’ve learned about Japanese grammar and sort it out. Aha!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese JLPT lesson will tell you about the next part of the language knowledge and reading comprehension section on the Japanese proficiency exam. We’ll teach you the most important Japanese grammar constructions you’ll need to know in order to pass this part of the exam with flying colors. 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! You’re attempting to train your Japanese co-workers on some new software they’ll need to create reports, but their eyes are glazing over. Maybe it’s just that it’s Monday morning, but you’re pretty sure they aren’t paying attention to a thing you’re saying in Japanese. To wake them up, you decide to engage them in Japanese conversation rather than just talk to them for the next hour. You ask one of your colleagues in Japanese, “Can you tell me how we would generate a sales report from this software?” Your colleague replies in Japanese, “No, not really. Can you tell me how to do it?” You ask the rest of the class in Japanese, “Do any of you know how to run the report?” No one speaks up in Japanese; instead, they all just look down. You inquire further in Japanese, “So that means none of you know how to run the report? Do any of you understand what I’m telling you?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will show you how to use certain phrases that you’ll find handy in business situations. These phrases will help you confirm that you and your business partners have the same understanding of the Japanese you’re speaking. We’ll help you make sure you’re on the same Japanese page! 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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