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These lessons are designed to introduce basic Japanese with the end goal of enabling the student to substantially increase his/her listening and reading comprehension skills. With over 100 lessons and dialogs, the beginner level course is designed to cover the basic grammar along with hundreds of frequently used vocabulary words.

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First impressions are everything! And in this episode we show you how to do it right. We cover self introduction and certain nationalities. We are slowly building up your base, and by week’s end, we plan to have you conversational! Don’t miss this episode.

Learn how to introduce yourself in Japanese.

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Guess who finally showed up? Yep, today meet the third member of our team, as Kazunori finally makes it to the show! In addition his introduction, we tweak the phrases we showed you last time to give you some really impress things to say. Don’t miss this addition.

Learn self introduction in Japanese

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We know that you are fed up with talking about yourself, watashi this and watashi that, so today we introduce the words for other people! Sorry it took so long, but today we give you the tools to talk to someone else! The world just got a whole lot bigger as you’ll now be able to address 129 million people.

Learn how to talk about others in Japanese

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Today we take a gigantic step towards having a conversation, as we introduce how to ask questions. We follow this up with some important adjectives; and finally, we show you how to react to the avalanche of complements you should expect to receive just by coming to Japan. Don’t miss today’s lesson.

Learn how to ask questions in Japanese

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Well, New York is not the only one with strike trouble. Today my faithful staff bailed on me, so we had to go the pinch DJ, who may I say, is a natural. Sakura and I work through the Emperor’s Birthday to bring you another great lesson. Today we review this weeks work by incorporating it into lesson form, so don’t miss this unique lesson. It is the last one before the weekend, so itune in.

Learn how to ask who a person is in Japanese

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