Archive for January, 2011 
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When your Japanese friends introduce you to their other friends from Japan, most of them have been able to speak in your native language. However, today you met someone who speaks only Japanese. The person greets you politely and looks expectantly at you, awaiting your response. You look to your friend, who prompts you to bow and repeat after him in Japanese, but you don’t want to rely on your friend’s translation skills throughout your travels. To avoid further awkwardness, you decide to master the art of Japanese self-introduction! In this lesson, you will learn how to greet someone for the first time and say your name in Japanese. In the conversation, two strangers meet, and from them you will learn how to use formal Japanese to introduce yourself. 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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Since you’ve moved to Japan to study Japanese, you’ve worked non-stop! The only time you have to yourself is when you go home in the evening, and this is the perfect time to study Japanese. Work, study and no time to relax…how unfair is that! But you’ve figured out a way to do both. You’ve started to borrow CDs with Japanese speakers from the library. Now you can study your Japanese while you’re cooking, eating, or taking a bath. This is what you call relaxing in the evening with Japanese!
This Japanese video series is a brand new way to learn Japanese. Learn everyday vocabulary and key verbs in this Japanese video lesson. Read the Japanese 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! Food! Food! Your girlfriend’s taunting descriptions of the Japanese udon you would enjoy are what helped you make it up the exhausting Konpirasan stairs. So, now that you’re at the top, where’s the food? Completely exhausted from the long climb, you ask in Japanese, “Listen honey, I’m tired, so where’s the food? And what type of food did you say we are having again?” She replies in Japanese, “We are going to eat some of the best udon without fail.” Getting impatient from your long walk and completely empty stomach, you ask again in Japanese, “Okay, but where is it?” Getting worried again, she replies in Japanese, “It is in the restaurant over there.” Oh, no! It can’t be! The line to get into the restaurant looks like it’s fifteen miles long. Exasperated, you ask her in Japanese, “Are you sure that is where we’re supposed to eat?” Trying to be patient and reassuring, she replies in Japanese, “Of course, the line is long because it’s the best udon without fail!” You feel weak with hunger already and now you have to stand in line forever before you can eat. Offering another option, you ask in Japanese, “Can’t we go get something else to eat first and come back when the line’s shorter?” Adamantly, she replies in Japanese, “No, we have to eat this udon because it’s so incredible.” So you stand with her in the line, and as you wait, you look around and see something that makes you really miserable. Walking off the Konpirasen stairs is a tiny, little, old Japanese grandmother who must be truly ancient, but she looks fresh as a new daisy. Worse, you hear her stop to talk to someone she knows in Japanese, “That was fun, but the view is not as good as from the top of Mount Fuji. I climbed that yesterday.” You just don’t understand…
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson shows you a comparison of casual Japanese speech and polite Japanese speech, which is something you must have in your knowledge of Japanese. We will also compare and review class one, two, and three Japanese verbs. Finally, we will learn two very useful words for Japanese conversation! 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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Your boss is breathing down your back about that missed deadline. Your mom’s birthday is tomorrow and you still don’t have a present! Doctor’s appointments! Late-night meetings! Hitting the gym to get ready for bikini season! It’s not that you don’t want to study Japanese everyday but as every self-studier knows, sometimes it’s just not possible to fit it into your hectic schedule. Well our professional cheaters are here to help! They’re going to share their self-study secrets with you to help you master Japanese fast and easy. In this lesson, you’ll learn about the easiest way to learn vocabulary every single day. Not only is it easy, but it’s free too! Now that we’ve gotten your attention with the words “free” and “easy”, click play to find out what we’re talking about.
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! As you walk to a New Year’s Eve celebration in Japan, someone calls out to you in Japanese, “Congratulations!” You wonder why he would tell you that in Japanese-it’s not like you caused the new year to come. You use kenjō-go, the most polite form of Japanese, to say “Excuse me” to the person who congratulated you, and then you proceed to quiz him about what he meant. In this lesson, you will learn about New Year’s customs and greetings while reviewing humble expressions. While at home, a family and an exchange student converse using both informal and formal Japanese, respectively, and they watch a television journalist report the news using formal Japanese. You’ll also learn several useful humble Japanese expressions. 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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