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Archive for January, 2011  

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re about to attend your first Japanese birthday party, and it’s for a new friend you’ve met in Japan. You know you’ll need to be on your best behavior so you can make as many new acquaintances as possible, so you bring a souvenir with you to give the birthday girl as a gift, and you begin preparing to pepper your Japanese conversations with all kinds of polite phrases.

In this lesson, you will learn how to say “thank you” and “you’re welcome” in Japanese from a conversation between two people who are acquaintances. Therefore, they will be speaking formal Japanese. Armed with these Japanese phrases, you’ll be ready to give and receive gifts politely with any new friends you meet in Japan! 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’re at a loss: you’ve read everything you brought with you to Japan, and now you think your Japanese language skills are ready for some true Japanese literature. The books you’re studying in your Japanese class are helpful, but not fun, so you want to find something you can enjoy reading while practicing your Japanese comprehension skills. Where do you turn for inspiration? To JapanesePod101.com, of course!

In this lesson, you will learn about a famous Japanese author whose books you’ll want to add to your bookshelves. We’ll tell you about the peculiar, yet endearing point of view in this Japanese author’s first book and explain the more serious themes underlying some of his other works. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com, where you will find Japanese lesson notes (remember-this Advanced Audio Blog lesson is spoken entirely in Japanese!) and many more fantastic lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

 


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You are on your way to Japan and are so excited to use your new Japanese language skills. You have learned a lot of vocabulary, and you are learning more Japanese every step of the way. Waiting to get there is more nerve-racking than wanting to speak the Japanese language! In this lesson you will learn more common Japanese verbs, which will help increase your Japanese vocabulary. 

This Japanese video series is a brand new way to learn Japanese. Learn every-day vocabulary and key verbs in this Japanese video lesson. Read the lesson notes to learn about the Japanese present tense, present progressive tense and simple past tense. Join us, and see what you’ve been missing! 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. Each year in early February, after the Lunar New Year, there is a Japanese tradition to hurl beans at evil spirits to drive them away. It is a fun festival. Well actually, it all depends on what side of the bean you’re on. Before you throw you’re next bean, please watch this touching piece. It may change your outlook on the so-called fun festival.

Please see our previous lesson Japanese Culture Lesson #4 for more details about Setsubun.

p.s. No monsters we’re actually hurt filming this.



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You’re textbook shopping for the perfect Japanese language course. You finally pick one out, feeling confident that this is the one. But now that you’re a few chapters in, you’re starting to realize that while the grammar is okay, the vocabulary is from another world. Are these words you’re ever going to use?!

In this Cheat Sheet lesson, we’re going to tell you about a new vocabulary resource for you to study from. What’s the point of studying vocabulary words you’re never going to use in conversation? Every self-studier knows that when it comes to vocabulary, high frequency and versatile words are the ones that will carry you through a conversation. So click play and find out where you can find these lists and how much they’re going to cost you. (Spoiler Alert - They’re free!)

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