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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Welcome to JapanesePod101.com’s Kantan Kana. Japanese has three writing systems: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. In this series of twenty-five lessons, you will learn both Hiragana and Katakana, collectively known as Kana. Over twenty-five lessons, we will teach you Japanese Kana using simple steps, showing you the correct stroke order, helpful tricks for memorization, and proper usage in common Japanese words. If you want to get started reading and writing Japanese, this is THE place to start. You’ll learn Japanese in mere minutes with these audio and video lessons, so join us for Kantan Kana from JapanesePod101.com!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! In our fourth hiragana lesson, we’ll move on to the set of hiragana characters that start with “t”: た、ち、つ、て、と、 and we’ll teach you a few words you can write with these characters. Are you ready to learn more Japanese characters and words? Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find other language-learning content, including other great Japanese videos like this one, audio podcasts, review materials, blogs, iPhone applications, and more Japanese learning resources. Leave us a message while you are there!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friend asks in Japanese, “What are you studying?” You answer in Japanese, “I’m studying this information from my new company. They have a good plan for employees. Everyone who works for the company can buy company stock at a discount. What do you think I should do?” Your Japanese friend ponders and you can see conflicting emotions cross his face as he answers in Japanese, “Well, I don’t know, sometimes that has worked out really well. My friend made a lot of money with the company employee-stock purchase plan, but for a couple of my other friends it wasn’t so good. The company kept losing money and the stock kept going down so they lost money. I don’t know if it makes a difference whether it’s a Japanese company or not. What sort of a deal do you get?” You look at the papers and answer him in Japanese, “Well, the money is deducted directly from the paycheck, and we get the stock at fifteen percent off the stock exchange price at the beginning of the month.” Nodding in approval, your friend answers, “Wow, that’s a great deal. If the stock just holds even for the month, you can make fifteen percent on your money. You should do this.” Your friend tends to speak Japanese too rapidly for you when he’s excited. “Could you repeat that? A bit more slowly?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson reviews several of the previous lessons to fix the ideas in your mind firmly. You’ll review the Japanese grammar of lessons three through eighteen. 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! Try though you might, you simply cannot find anything in your Japanese kitchen! You wonder whether your spouse deliberately hides things from you to make your job of preparing a Japanese dinner harder. You call out to her in Japanese and ask, “Honey, these kitchen drawers are an absolute mess. I can’t find anything I need to make a Japanese meal in here!” Your spouse responds in Japanese, “Seriously, everything is in order. You just don’t understand my order for things. What are you looking for?” You reply in Japanese, “Well, I need a special knife to clean the fish for this dish.” Within five seconds, your spouse opens the proper drawer (which you already looked in) and pulls out the knife you’ve been looking for. You look at your spouse with wonder and say in Japanese, “Thanks, dear. How did you do that?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will teach you the particles that explain that something is a means of doing something. We’ll also teach you how to say in Japanese that an item or ingredient is a part of something else. You’ll definitely want to be a part of the Japanese learning in this lesson! 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 are so jealous of your Japanese roommate! Every day, you eagerly await the arrival of your Japanese mailman. However, every day he disappoints you: without fail, your Japanese roommate always receives more mail than you do. No matter what, the mail you receive in Japan has been almost exclusively junk mail, while she receives letters and packages regularly. You’re starting to feel a bit neglected, so when you bring the mail to your roommate, you tell her in Japanese, “I don’t get why you receive so much mail. Let’s compare my piece of mail with the pile of mail you received today. I received an advertisement for a Japanese magazine. This letter is from a friend in the United States. This letter is from someone in Canada. And this is a package from someone…in France? Just how do you know people around the world?” Your roommate responds in Japanese, “They’re just people I studied with abroad. But do you want to know the secret to receiving more mail?” You eagerly lean in and tell her in Japanese, “Yes, of course!” She whispers to you in Japanese, “You have to actually send mail to get mail! Write your friends, and they’ll write you back.”
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 use Japanese verbs and sentences to modify nouns. We’ll tell you how the Japanese sentence structure for these phrases differs from English, and we’ll also teach you the proper Japanese particle to use in putting these phrases together. 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! Your sister is visiting you in Japan for the weekend, and while you’re happy to see her, you’re starting to dread her high energy level. When she bounds into your apartment, the first thing she asks you in Japanese is, “What have you planned for us to do?” You reply in Japanese, “Nothing yet…” Instead of telling her the truth in Japanese, which is that you were too exhausted from your work week to think of anything, you cover and tell her in Japanese, “I wanted to wait until you arrived so that we could plan our weekend together.” She gives you a hug and tells you how nice you are in Japanese. Then she launches into a list of everything she wants to do during her visit in Japanese. She says in Japanese, “The last time I visited we went to a fantastic restaurant. Will you take me there again tomorrow?” Before you can even respond, she continues in Japanese, “I also just heard about this great new store that I want to go to. I’m sure you’ll take me there tomorrow too, right?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will show you how to form the future tense of Japanese verbs. We’ll also show you how to form questions from sentences in Japanese, and finally we’ll talk a bit about Japanese sentence structure. 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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