Archive for October, 2010 
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You look at the clock, and you exclaim in Japanese, “Oh, no!” Just to confirm what you’re seeing, you turn on the television and tune to the Japanese news station. You listen to the newscaster prattle on in Japanese and notice the time stamp in the corner of the screen: seven-thirty. You’re late! You shake your alarm and ask it in Japanese, “Why didn’t you wake me up?” You then call the front desk of the hotel and complain in Japanese, “I asked for a six-thirty wake-up call, and now it’s seven-thirty and no one has awakened me!” The hotel clerk says in Japanese, “Let me check…oh, I’m sorry, we have you down for a six-thirty call this evening. Is that not right?” You reply in Japanese, “Who needs a wake-up call at night? Now I’m going to be late to meet the author on the book tour that I signed up for!”
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 a Japanese expression that you can use to indicates the result of something. We’ll teach you the two forms of this Japanese expression that you will use with transitive and intransitive Japanese verbs. 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 love your sister to death…but man, does she like to talk in Japanese! And even more than just talking, she loves to ask tons of questions in Japanese! You are starting to feel like every family dinner is a Japanese inquisition. When you visit your parents for your weekly family get-together, your sister immediately starts firing questions at you in Japanese. She asks in Japanese, “So what’s been going on with you this week?” As you relay to her in Japanese what you did from Monday through Friday, she continues to inquire in Japanese. She asks in Japanese for the details of who, what, when, and where for everything you did! Finally, you look at her and decide to ask a Japanese question of your own. You say in Japanese, “Why are you asking me so many questions? Do you not want anyone else to ask YOU a question? Are you hiding something?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will teach you how to form the six most popular question words in Japanese: who, what, when, where, why, and how. We’ll focus on the Japanese word meaning “when” in this lesson. We’ll also tell you some common Japanese expressions, including how people shorten the names of the days of the week 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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Let’s face it, office life can be pretty boring. Never ending meetings, excel spreadsheets and bottomless cups of bland company coffee. Other than your daily water cooler talk and the occasional office romance gossip, there’s just not that much excitement going around. Ever wonder what life’s like at a start-up? Sleeping bags in the office, all-nighters fueled by processed junk food and midnight runs to McDonald’s. It’s all in a day’s work here at Innovative Language.
In today’s news, we’re sharing a few of our secrets with you! Go behind the scenes with us as we show you what we do and who we are! Your typical day at Innovative Language isn’t so typical. We’re constantly moving, writing, editing and recording so that we can deliver fun lessons that you’ll enjoy on your ride home from work. Get to know our team in today’s news lesson and find out how you can be featured in part 2 of our Behind the Scenes news!
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 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 this lesson, we move on to the second set of katakana - カ、キ、ク、ケ、and コ, 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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve hear of spring cleaning, but today we’re here to tell you about the fuyu version here in Japan. In this Holiday Special, we talk about ousouji - literally meaning big clean-up, and that’s just what it is! We also talk a bit about bounenkai, a year-end party that you won’t want to miss! Tune in and then stop by JapanesePod101.com to leave us a post!











