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Learn Japanese on Your Own Terms at JapanesePod101.com! The gang of friends find the place where they buried their time capsule and are excited about opening it up. What goodies could possibly be inside it? You’ll have to listen to find out! Our grammar is ~te aru, which will compare to last week’s lesson on ~te iru. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Missed the last train home? Not enough cash for a hotel? What do you do? In this lesson you’ll find out what these two Japanese salary men did! A stop over at a manga kissa (manga cafe), one of the most popular ways to enjoy manga, anime, the internet or avoid expensive Japanese hotels. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Stranded without a ride home in Tokyo? No problem, you can stay at a mankitsu. What’s that? Why, it’s a manga cafe, of course! You can read manga, play video games, watch Japanese anime and movies and get unlimited free soft drinks. There are massage chairs and showers! Premium listeners, don’t miss out on on the hilarious bonus track featuring 2 Japanese dialect accents: Ibaraki Dialect and Aomori Dialect! Our grammar point is an important one. We’ll look at how to use the Japanese suffix -nikui to change words into the meaning “it’s difficult to do…”

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You’re stranded in Tokyo. Not enough cash for a hotel. Where do you stay? Two Japanese businessmen decide to stay at a mankitsu, a manga cafe. Similar to an internet cafe, but you have access to Japanese anime, manga, magazines and even massage chairs! Gomi-san recommends Nana, a famous Japanese manga. We’ll learn how to say “easy to do” in Japanese using the -masu stem + yasui. We’ll also show how to use this versatile grammatical construction to express ideas of “prone to do” and that things “tend to happen” in Japanese. This grammar point is the opposite of the -masu + nikui, which we learned in another Japanese lesson.

Go to a manga cafe in Tokyo, Japan.


You’re stranded in Tokyo. Not enough cash for a hotel. Where do you stay? Two Japanese businessmen decide to stay at a manga kissa, a manga cafe. Similar to an internet cafe, but you can Japanese anime, manga, magazines and even massage chairs! Gomi-san recommends Nana and “Nekomura-san”, two famous Japanese manga. We’ll review our Japanese grammatical expressions using the -masu stem + yasui, -masu stem + nikui, -masu stem + sugiru.

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