Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When your roommate finishes work on Friday night, she comes home to your Japanese apartment and flops down on the couch. She asks you in Japanese, “What do you want to do tonight? We could see a movie or go to dinner.” You respond in Japanese, “Well, we could go to the gym first, then pick up some takeout, come back here, and watch a movie.” Your roommate responds in Japanese, “That’s awfully ambitious for a Friday night!” You reply in Japanese, “And it’s cost-effective. I want to save money for a new car, so every penny counts!” Your roommate says in Japanese, “You’re always thinking ahead. I wish I were more like that, but all I want to do is spend, spend, spend.” You sigh and say in Japanese, “Yeah, but I wish I had as nice a wardrobe as you. That’s another reason to stay in…until I lose a couple pounds, I don’t have anything fun to wear to go out!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review the usage of the Japanese particles ka and mo. We’ll even throw in a few new ways to use these Japanese particles in suggestions and questions-for free! See, our Japanese lessons even help you stay within your budget! 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! While you’re in the Japanese bar, you lean over to your friend and say in Japanese, “I’m getting tired. It’s been a long day. How much longer do you want to stay out tonight?” Your friend responds in Japanese, “Maybe another hour…till eleven o’clock?” You nod in assent and tell your friend, “That sounds good because I have to get up early for class tomorrow morning.” You go back to enjoying your Japanese sake. At eleven o’clock, you gesture to your friend, who is engrossed in conversation with the Japanese bartender. She pretends not to notice, so you hold up your arm, point to your watch, and mouth the Japanese words “It’s time to go!” She shakes her head and mouths “no” back to you in Japanese, then turns her attention back to the bartender. You can’t leave your friend behind, so you settle in to the bar and check out the Japanese baseball game on the television. It’s the eighth inning now, and the Japanese team is winning by five runs. You’ll give her one more inning, and if she hasn’t struck out with the Japanese bartender by the time the game’s over, you’re outta there!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review the many ways you can use the Japanese particles kara and made. Among the many other uses of these Japanese particles, you can use them to set boundaries, which may come in handy when your Japanese friends try to push your limits. 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 amidst a big pile of Japanese paper when your roommate walks in. She asks you in Japanese, “What are you doing with all that clutter?” Defiantly, you say in Japanese, “It’s not clutter. This is my new project for our apartment.” Your roommate responds in Japanese, “Oh really? You’ve got another project? What are you working on now?” You reply in Japanese, “I’m making some origami to hang on our wall. I can’t decide whether to make cranes or something else, though. She says in Japanese, “I vote for something else…like maybe nothing!” You respond in Japanese, “That’s not very nice.” She defensively replies in Japanese, “Well, I just know the last project didn’t turn out so well. I don’t care, so long as you clean up the mess. Remember that we are having a bunch of our Japanese friends over in an hour for drinks!” You had totally forgotten, but you decide to play it cool and say in Japanese, “Oh, of course. I’ll be done in half an hour, and then I’ll clean it up.” Looking around you at the paper on the floor, you better start cleaning now. You haven’t even finished one of the ten cranes you were planning to fold tonight!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will teach you even more ways to use the Japanese particles no and to. For instance, we’ll show you how to use these Japanese particles as quotation markers and as pronouns. You’ll have no choice but to sound well-educated when you use these Japanese particles! 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 watching the Japanese soccer team on television, and the Japanese players are sprinting up and down the field, but they can’t score. The goalie is just too good. With just one minute left in the first half, the referee calls a foul and awards the Japanese team a direct kick. With fifteen yards to the goal, this might be the Japanese team’s best shot. You and your friends perch on the edge of your seats, willing the Japanese player to score. His shot ricochets off the wall of Korean players, but a Japanese player picks up the rebound and flicks it to his Japanese teammate. Your friend says in Japanese, “He’s five feet away. He better get this one in!” At that very moment, he scores, and your Japanese friends go wild. Now that it’s halftime, they want to keep the excitement going, so your friend changes the channel to the Japanese version of a price-guessing game show. Your friends call out in Japanese, “Seven hundred,” “Five hundred,” and “One thousand.” The retail price of the Japanese item was only three hundred yen, so your friends all lose. Let’s hope the Japanese soccer team doesn’t follow suit in the second half!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review three more important Japanese particles: e, ni, and de. We’ll give you some extra ways you can use the Japanese particle de, and as a special parting gift, you’ll also receive a lesson about a new way to construct Japanese sentences using particles. Even if your team loses, you’ll never walk away from a Japanese lesson empty-handed! 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! Your grandson looks up at you with big eyes and asks in Japanese, “What’s a golden anniversary?” You reply in Japanese, “It means that you’ve been married to someone for a very long time. Fifty years, in fact!” Your grandson says in Japanese, “That is a long time. I’m only six years old!” You chuckle and say in Japanese, “I know. You have a long way to go before you get to fifty years.” Your grandson tells you in Japanese, “Nah, I’m going to stay young forever.” At that point, you put your grandson on your knee and say in Japanese, “Son, you have a lot to learn, and there’s nothing wrong with getting old. That’s why they call it a golden anniversary… if there were something bad about it, they’d call it something negative, like a coal anniversary.” Your grandson looks up at you with big eyes and asks in Japanese, “Grandpa, what’s coal?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review three of the major Japanese particles: wa, ga, and o. By the end of this lesson, you’ll know so much that you’ll feel like you’ve entered the golden age of your Japanese knowledge! 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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