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Archive for May, 2011  

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s getting late at night, and you’re struggling to finish your Japanese paper. Your roommate has begged you in Japanese to hurry up so you stop clicking the keys on your laptop so he can sleep, but you still need to write fifty more Japanese words to meet your quota. Your roommate suggests that you add as many Japanese adverbs and adjectives as possible, and that if that doesn’t work, to switch your verbs to passive voice to expand the construction. You wonder to yourself, what’s passive voice in Japanese?

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the passive voice in Japanese. Today’s Japanese conversation takes place between a tour guide, a teacher, and students; the guide and teacher are both speaking formal 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!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You want to give your family a tour of Japan when they come to visit, but to do so, you need to learn some additional Japanese grammar. In particular, you’ll need to be able to explain what something is and who it belongs to. Whether you’re pointing out a neat example of Japanese architecture or pointing out which car is yours in a parking lot, you need to be able to specify the owner of the item. In this lesson, you will learn how to say that something belongs to someone. The conversation takes place in an unknown location between three distant family members; therefore, they will be speaking formal Japanese. This lesson will build on your Japanese knowledge from the last few lessons, working toward more complex Japanese sentences! 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!


Having your own place in Japan has been amazing! You have so much freedom, and it’s quiet when you need peace to study Japanese. The worst thing about having your own place is keeping it nice and tidy. Deciding that a little clutter doesn’t interrupt your Japanese practice, you’ve put the dusting and the dishes on the back burner until you send out invitations in Japanese. Too bad your friends showed up unannounced yesterday! You have to act fast, and so ask them in Japanese to wait five minutes. Meanwhile, you quickly start making the bed and doing the laundry, but you can’t keep the secret for long. You’ve forgotten how to clean the house and so you have to ask your friends for help in Japanese. In this lesson you’ll learn even more Japanese expressions that will help with housework.

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 verb tenses.. 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 at JapanesePod101.com! Now for the exciting conclusion of our K-1 Grand Prix match! In the first the commentators were doing a little pre-game discussion about the impending fight to the end. Today the bell will ring and the fighters will go at it! Who will win? Well, of course, you WILL! With grammar like the passive voice (ukemi) how can you not win? Of particular interest is the idiomatic use of the passive voice to express an undesirable or unfortunate turn of events. You don’t want to miss this one, folks. And, of course, after listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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We know, we know - if you wanted to take tests and quizzes, you’d go enroll in your local community college’s foreign language classes. But did you know that even as a self-studier, quizzing yourself will really bring out the best in your language abilities? And the best part about our quizzes is that the grades are for your eyes only. And did we mention that they’re pretty fun too?

Keep listening to this Cheat Sheet to Mastering a Language Lesson to find out more about the fun and easy ways you can quiz yourself on JapanesePod101.com!

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