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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friends are coming over to visit, and they’ve asked you to make an authentic Japanese meal. You say to yourself in Japanese, “I don’t have time to go to the store, but I do have a lot of things in my cupboards. Let me see what I can throw together.” For the next two hours, you busy yourself in your kitchen, throwing all kinds of ingredients together into one big pot of Japanese stew. When the doorbell rings, you answer your door and your friends greet you by saying in Japanese, “Something definitely smells good in here!” Another friend asks you in Japanese, “What’s cooking?” You tell them in Japanese, “A little bit of this and a little bit of that.” You serve them the stew and one of your friends comments in Japanese, “I’m not sure what’s in here, but I’m having another helping.” Your other friend tells him in Japanese, “It’s not like you to eat so much.” He replies in Japanese, “I can’t help it. It’s so delicious that I’m going to eat it all up!”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson reviews several points from other Upper Intermediate Japanese lessons. In this lesson, we’ll discuss a hodgepodge of many key Japanese phrases that you can use when cooking. So don’t wait any longer: dig in to this heaping helping of Japanese phrases! 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 friend asks in Japanese, “What are you studying?” You answer in Japanese, “I’m studying this information from my new company. They have a good plan for employees. Everyone who works for the company can buy company stock at a discount. What do you think I should do?” Your Japanese friend ponders and you can see conflicting emotions cross his face as he answers in Japanese, “Well, I don’t know, sometimes that has worked out really well. My friend made a lot of money with the company employee-stock purchase plan, but for a couple of my other friends it wasn’t so good. The company kept losing money and the stock kept going down so they lost money. I don’t know if it makes a difference whether it’s a Japanese company or not. What sort of a deal do you get?” You look at the papers and answer him in Japanese, “Well, the money is deducted directly from the paycheck, and we get the stock at fifteen percent off the stock exchange price at the beginning of the month.” Nodding in approval, your friend answers, “Wow, that’s a great deal. If the stock just holds even for the month, you can make fifteen percent on your money. You should do this.” Your friend tends to speak Japanese too rapidly for you when he’s excited. “Could you repeat that? A bit more slowly?”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson reviews several of the previous lessons to fix the ideas in your mind firmly. You’ll review the Japanese grammar of lessons three through eighteen. 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! The essential question is “Were you taken advantage of or not?” The Japanese salesman talked you into buying a motorcycle! A Japanese motorcycle. You had gone to the showroom to look at them, but not because you were really serious about buying one. You just thought they looked great. Japanese motorcycles are known for their unusual, ground-breaking designs. The salesman was so nice, and he didn’t insult your ignorance of motorcycles, and he was patient. And he told you that story about being worried about his job if he didn’t sell another motorcycle this month. You didn’t want him to lose his job, and you really liked the Japanese designs. So you felt a little sorry for him…and you went the full distance. You got all the gear. Now, you’re going to surprise your friend by arriving for lunch by motorcycle. You call out to your girlfriend in Japanese, “You still have three blocks to walk to the restaurant. Wouldn’t you like to ride?” Puzzled, she asks in Japanese, “Do I know you?” Remembering your helmet, you yell out over the roaring engine in Japanese, “Wait, let me take this helmet off. There.” Shocked, she yells back in Japanese, “What are you doing on this motorcycle?” Proudly, you reply, “I bought it? How do you like it?” Attempting to be supportive, your girlfriend stammers and finally offers in Japanese, “But how can a girl ride a motorcycle?”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson teaches you how to talk about emotions in Japanese. We will show you the words used to express various emotions in Japanese, even complex ones. You’ll learn how to express such ideas in Japanese as, feeling sorry for a person, being easily swayed by one’s emotion, and much more. 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 made it to Japan. You learned to speak Japanese. You made a lot of friends there. Now one of them is getting married, and she asked you to give one of the traditional speeches at her wedding. OH, THE HORROR! At a traditional, formal, Japanese wedding, you must stand up in front of hundreds of people and give a speech, in Japanese, no less. So you confide in your friend, the sister of the bride, that you’re terrified of giving speeches in any language, but in Japanese! You may go blind from the tension of public speaking in Japanese. Come to think of it, that won’t help. Blind people can give speeches just as well as anyone else. Your friend comforts you and helps you with the problem. She explains the format of the ceremony and the structure of the speech, and she promises to help you write your speech in proper Japanese fashion. She’ll even help you to practice - and she says it all start with JapanesePod101.com. Now that’s what good friends are for.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson presents a special, formalistic speech you just might be called upon to give if you make really good friends in Japan. Japanese wedding speeches are a tradition, and each Japanese wedding speech should follow a special pattern and grammar. That’s why you come to us at JapanesePod101.com. You won’t find this good stuff anywhere else. 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 could not turn her down. She’s so nice, and she deserves it so much, but now you have to give a speech. In Japanese! And you have to give a speech at an important Japanese wedding, no less. You have to get some help. You tell your husband in Japanese, “How am I going to do this? I had to accept. Now I’m committed to delivering the principle speech in Japanese on behalf of the bride’s friends. I’m terrified of giving a speech in any language, much less Japanese. What am I going to do?” Thank goodness for the calm demeanor of a good husband, especially one who has given hundreds of speeches. “Don’t worry,” he says, “We’ll start tonight. You can outline your speech, fill in the outline, and then we’ll make sure the Japanese is correct and polite. Then I’ll help you practice giving your speech in Japanese. We’ll practice your Japanese speech until you have it down perfectly. Yes, it’s work, but in the end, you’ll see it will be worth it.”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson presents a special construction for you. You’ll be able to build Japanese sentences that say that your hard work at something paid off. It’s a self-fulfilling Japanese lesson. If you learn it, you’ll be able to say that all your hard work studying Japanese finally paid off. 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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