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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friends have agreed to come over tonight to study your Japanese with you – since last week they all ditched you to go out on the town while you remained loyal to your studies! You hear a knock at the door and call out for your friends to come in. One friend holds out a bottle of wine and proudly exclaims in Japanese, “I bring party favors.” Laughing, you grab the bottle and retreat to the kitchen for some glasses. Upon your return, you tell your friends in Japanese, “I brought some glasses for the wine; who wants a drink?” Your friends all chime in, “It will be nice to relax while we teach you Japanese tonight!” Blushing, you thank them, saying in Japanese, “I appreciate what you are doing for me…but I think we just covered most of question two!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese JLPT lesson will teach you how to prepare for Question 2 of the listening comprehension section of the JLPT N4. We will review Japanese giving and receiving verbs you will encounter on the test. 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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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You are in the middle of a heated negotiation in Japanese, and you are struggling to reach an agreement. You turn to your sparring partner and say in Japanese, “Honey, what if I just buy the couch this week, and then next week I won’t shop at all?” Your spouse responds in Japanese, “But you want to buy something at the antique auction EVERY week. Our budget just cannot handle your shopping habits. Maybe we could agree to one purchase per month?” You tell your spouse in Japanese, “The problem is that’s just not fair. You never know how much the things will go for at auction. Perhaps we could set a reasonable spending limit, and I can buy as many things as I want within that limit?” Your spouse hems and haws a bit, but finally says in Japanese, “Okay…I’ll agree to your terms, if for no other reason than our dinner is getting cold!” You smile and tell your spouse in Japanese, “Great. It’s a pleasure doing business with you!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson describes the ways you can make a formal proposal in Japanese. We will teach you the common Japanese phrases you’ll use during proposal phases and we’ll also teach you the Japanese words you can use to tell someone (hopefully not your spouse!) that he or she is “impossible” to deal with. 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! Ahhh! It’s three o’clock in the morning, and you’re staring at the ceiling of your Japanese bedroom. You’ve tried everything you know of, but no matter what you do, you can’t stop replaying the events of your Japanese workday in your head. You need to fall asleep, or you’ll surely be less than bright eyed and bushy tailed for your meeting with the Japanese boss in the morning. It’s too late to take a sleeping pill, or you’ll sleep through your alarm, so you decide to try to sing yourself to sleep with a Japanese lullaby. Two Japanese verses in, you quit and tell yourself in Japanese, “This is ridiculous. I need to find something that works.” You decide to go to the fridge and drink some warm milk and eat a piece of cake. You tell yourself in Japanese, “If this doesn’t do the trick, nothing will. If I can’t sleep anymore, I’ll just go to work in two hours and come home early.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Beginner lesson will teach you the Japanese words that mean “something” and “anything.” We’ll also review what we’ve covered so far in this fifth season of Japanese Beginner lessons. 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! Innovative Language Learning has big plans that will help you make those ever-important decisions about where you will vacation this year! The beautiful beaches of Thailand…Brazil…how about a romantic getaway to Greece? We can help you make the most out of these exotic escapes! This summer, we’re welcoming 5 new languages to our 101.com family! Beginning in July, Innovative Language Learning will be launching sites for Thai, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, and Greek!
These language-learning sites have become very popular on our sister site SurvivalPhrases.com. And now, our incredible listeners have been asking for lessons in these languages that go beyond survival phrases – and we are delivering!! Thanks to your support, we got some unbelievably talented people to hit the studio and record complete language courses in Thai, Polish, Portuguese, Cantonese, and Greek! And as always, the lessons are just like Japanese101.com with cultural insights, pronunciation help, and basic grammar tips. So you’ll want to be on alert in June - if you or anyone you know is interested in learning Thai, Polish, Portuguese, Cantonese, or Greek, we’ll have an exclusive invitation for existing JapanesePod101.com students like you! In the meantime, you can stop by InnovativeLanguage.com to learn more about our awesome new sister sites!!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! This is turning into a lot of fun. Your Japanese friends are trying to teach you how to cook Japanese foods. But you don’t trust your friends entirely. They like foods so spicy hot they make you perspire for hours. You have to ask more questions about this food. “What is that?” you ask in Japanese. Rolling their eyes, they tell you to relax. Still not convinced, you question again in Japanese, “What is that you’re putting in now?” Laughing at your persistence and paranoia, they explain in Japanese, “Just a little dry Japanese horseradish…a special kind.” Hmm… So you press on in Japanese, “So what’s this going to be once it’s done?” “Wasabi, relax, you’re going to love it.” your Japanese friends all say. You are not the patient type, asking again in Japanese, “What’s that over there?” They explain, “That’s the sashimi. It goes with the wasabi.” If they could just tell you as you go you wouldn’t have to keep asking questions! But…you ask again in Japanese, “What’s sashimi?” Now they’re giving each other looks as if to say, “Okay, who’s going to tell him what ’sashimi’ means in Japanese.” One of them starts to talk, hesitates, and then mumbles something. “Well,” he says, “Sashimi is slices of raw fish.” “So how do we cook it?” you ask in Japanese. They’re giving each other those looks again… Oh…you’ve just found a terrific appetite suppressant.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson will teach you how to form questions in Japanese. With this new sentence pattern, you can become just like that three-year old nephew who’s always asking, “What is this?” and “What is that?” But you can do it in Japanese. 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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