Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You open the door to the balcony of your Pacific resort and soak in the morning sunshine and salt air. Unfortunately, during this vacation from your Japanese job, your cell phone has been ringing off the hook, and e-mails have been pouring in every minute. As you look through your messages, your spouse tells you in Japanese, “It’s only six o’clock. We’re supposed to be on vacation. Come back to bed.” You tell your spouse in Japanese, “I can’t sleep.” Your spouse tells you in Japanese, “That’s not true…you’re just worrying about work. What is the office telling you now?” You respond in Japanese, “Don’t worry about it…just go back to bed and I’ll take care of it.” Your spouse sneaks up behind you and reads your e-mails over your shoulder. Your spouse exclaims in Japanese, “Seriously? Your boss said to come back to Japan early from your vacation and everything will be all right? Let me tell him a few things about that idea!”
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friend drops by your office and she chats for a while in Japanese. You know this is not a good thing, since she rarely ever stops by except for when she needs something from you, so you ask her point-blank in Japanese, “What do you need?” She responds in Japanese, “I’m going out of the office on appointments for the next few days, and I need you to cover some accounts for me.” You reply in Japanese, “Well, I’m very busy, but I will help you out if you’ll agree to do the same for me later this year.” She replies in Japanese, “Of course, of course. Just let me know when.” Relieved to get rid of her, you turn back to the pile of work on your desk. An hour later, your boss comes in and tells you in Japanese, “I have a special project for you that will take a few days. But wow…look at your desk! So full of papers! Do you have time to do it?” You tell your boss in Japanese, “Sure…but you have to take something off my plate. There’s no way I can fit any more work into the day!” Learning Japanese with
JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will teach you how to say that something is not possible due to a bad situation in Japanese. In other words, you’ll learn how to tell someone that something is “out of the question” in Japanese. Of course, telling someone no in Japanese is always easier said than done, but you’re on your own to solve that problem! 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 and your family are long overdue for a vacation, so you call a family meeting and ask them in Japanese, “Where do you want to go on vacation this year?” You hear a chorus of responses in Japanese, and all of them agree that the beach is the place to be. You tell them in Japanese, “Okay, that was easier than I expected. Now what about when to go?” Your spouse tells you in Japanese, “Well, we have to wait for the kids to finish school, and then I have a ton of papers I’ll have to grade. So we cannot go earlier than June.” One of your children speaks up and tells you in Japanese, “And I signed up for a two-week camp in July.” Another one replies in Japanese, “I have swimming lessons every week in July.” Writing all this down, you ask in Japanese, “Is there anything else to think about?” Your spouse flips through the calendar and says in Japanese, “Right now the first two weeks of August look good, but you know how things are. Even if we plan as well as we can, something always comes up! Let’s just pick a date so we can know not to plan other things.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will teach you the Japanese phrase that means “even if.” We will show you two forms of this Japanese phrase, the formal and informal versions, and we’ll show you how to put together a sentence using this phrase. 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! After a bunch of layoffs in your office in Japan, everyone is on edge…everyone but you, that is. That’s because the company hired you and a colleague as contractors to help the company streamline its Japanese operations. You’ve been traveling from office to office, cutting costs and people. You tell your friends in Japanese, “It’s not a glamorous job, but it pays the bills.” After a particularly nasty response from one employee, your colleague remarks in Japanese, “Do you think we should tell the rest of the office about the cuts to their benefits?” You reply in Japanese, “No…it’s certainly not our place to do that. We need to give the manager the instructions, and he can tell them when he is ready.” Your colleague tells you in Japanese, “Well, he’s finally calmed down from learning about the layoffs, but he still seems to be in a bad mood. Maybe we should let that sleeping dog lie a bit longer before we rile him up again!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will teach you several expressions that use the Japanese word meaning “bug.” In this lesson, you’ll learn that these creative Japanese expressions refer to a belief that imaginary bugs influence our moods. 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’s thirtieth birthday is coming up, and you want to do something special for her. Of course, she has told you in Japanese many times, “I hate surprise parties. I don’t like to celebrate my birthday. If you want to do something, let’s just have a quiet dinner.” However, you and your other friends vow this year is going to be different, after years of her plotting surprise parties for all of you. One of your friends tells you in Japanese, “We need to come up with a good plan to throw her off. What if we have the party at your house?” You respond in Japanese, “Well, that’s not a good idea. There’s no place to hide all the cars. She’ll know something is up before she even walks in the door.” You continue in Japanese, “What if I pretend to host an open house for my new house the week before her birthday? That way I can invite everyone, and when she shows up she won’t be surprised to see a bunch of other people there. Then we can really surprise her when she walks into the house.” Your friends respond in Japanese, “That’s a good idea! She won’t suspect a thing! You hide your true colors well: who knew you were so devious!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will teach you many expressions that use the Japanese word for “cat.” As you are learning, Japanese is a language full of colorful expressions, and you’ll learn quite a few useful ones in this Japanese lesson. 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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