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Intermediate

Intermediate Season 1

Follow the story of four graduate students in Japan and learn intermediate Japanese.

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85 Audio Lessons

1

Meet Sayuri Suzuki

Learn about greeting someone for the first time in a while

2

Meet Yoko!

Learn about expressing that one is doing something or has just done something

3

Graduation Trip

Learn about expressing that one wants to do something

4

Meet Hideo and Mel!

Learn about making small talk

5

Okinawa

Learn about expressing giving something a try to see what will happen

6

Welcome Home!

Learn about expressing that one wants someone to do something

7

Once Upon a Time!

Learn about expressing one's plans or intentions

8

Retaining Counsel!

Learn about expressing volition of oneself and others

9

A Chance Meeting!

Learn about expressing simultaneous actions

10

A Call to the Cavalry!

Learn about expressing uncertainty or wondering

11

Lawyer meets Lawyer

Learn about expressing passive actions with class 2 verbs

12

Letter From Mel

Learn about expressing "all one can -", "all one wants to -"

13

To the Airport at Any Cost

Learn about expressing conditionals

14

Ramen for Two

Learn about giving an incomplete listing of actions or states

15

O-AIBO no Ongaeshi

Learn about forming passive forms of class 1 verbs

16

Finally Heading Home

Learn about asking a question to confirm something you knew previously but can't recall and expressing envy or longing

17

Catching the Plane

Learn about expressing resemblance

18

Touching Down

Learn about expressing "furthermore" and expressing the extent to which something happens

19

Can I Take a Vacation?

Learn about expressing means by which a desirable state is achieved: "so that" and "if then"

20

Sayuri's Back

Learn about expressing regret, saying "it would have been better to…"

21

Tanabata

Learn about using an archaic grammatical construction to express "you should [verb]" or "then, [verb]!"

22

Having Doubts

Learn about expressing that a state/situation remains unchanged

23

Urashimataro

Hear an Urashimataro story

24

Old Places, Familiar Faces

Learn about urging someone of lower social status (eg, a child) to try doing something

25

Interruption!

Hear a bonus lesson

26

Breakfast for One

Learn about expressing an opinion or forecast about the future which you are pretty sure will come true

27

Home Sweet Home

Learn about expressing "know" using respectful language towards others and humble language about yourself

28

Pieces of the Puzzle

Learn about expressing that an action/state occurs before the other(s) using the -tara conditional

29

Riddling Ruffians

Learn a classic folk tale with a modern twist

30

Saying Goodbye

Learn about requesting something or for someone of higher status to do something

31

iLove is Back!

Hear a special story

32

Parting Ways

Learn about expressing the idea that "the more something (happens), the more something else (happens)"

33

Pulp Fixation

Learn about apologies

34

Karma!?

Learn about expressing "there is no way that…", "it is impossible to…", "there is no basis for…"

35

Deja vu

Learn about quoting information from a given source using the phrase "according to…"

36

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 1

Learn about introducing oneself in further ways using humble language expressing the idea of "can't very well do something"

37

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 2

Learn about expressing "having someone let one do something" using humble language

38

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 3

Learn about forming negative questions with nouns to ask "isn't there [noun]?" or "aren't there [noun]?"

39

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 4

Learn about expressing the idea of being "so [adjective]" or "very [adjective]"

40

Tengu no Kakuremino I

Hear a Japanese folk tale titled Tengu no Kakuremino, The Goblin's Invisible Cloak

41

Tengu no Kakuremino II

Hear a Japanese folk tale titled Tengu no Kakuremino, The Goblin's Invisible Cloak

42

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 5

Learn about using conditional sentences to express "when…" or "if…"

43

The Red Monster that Cried

Hear an old folk tale of monsters

44

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 6

Learn about using a double negative to express the idea of "must" or "have to"

45

Warashibe Choja

Learn a tale of Warashibe Choja, or the Straw Millionaire

46

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 7

Learn about using the direct passive to express the passive as in English using the indirect passive to express annoyance or misfortune

47

Kintaro - Tarzan of the Japanese Jungle

Hear Kintaro, mukashi-banashi

48

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 8

Learn about expressing the idea of "being far from [doing something / being something]", when the actual outcome is very different from what one expected

49

Sannen Netaro

Hear Netaro mukashi-banashi

50

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 9

Learn about expressing the idea that something happens while something else is going on during a given period

51

Amanojaku

Hear Amanojaku mukashi banashi

52

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 10

Learn about indicating an occasion of doing something or having done something in formal spoken or written Japanese

53

Komedonya no Orei

Hear komedonya-no-orei, mukashi-banashi, fishing

54

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 11

Learn about referring to a company in a polite way using a very polite expression to mean various things

55

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 12

Learn about expressing the concept of "looks like," "-ish," "-like," "easy to," or "apt to"

56

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 13

Learn about expressing "if you don't mind" using a very polite expression before asking a favor etc

57

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 14

Learn about expressing that something/someone "looks…"

58

My Tokyo Travelblogue - Day 15

Learn about switching from polite to casual language

59

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 16

Learn about polite expressions for business Japanese

60

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 17

Learn about expressing "should" or "supposed to"

61

Destruction Of Nature

Learn about expressing that "every time something happens…" expressing an action that is ongoing

62

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 18

Learn about expressing the potential or passive with the same verb form

63

Parent's Day

Learn about asking "anything else?"

64

Invitation to a Ball Game

Learn about asking humbly to be allowed to do something

65

My Favorite Manga!! 1

Learn about expressing that something is "soooo [adjective]!" with a sense of excitement referring to previously mentioned things, or to "things like this"

66

My Favorite Manga!! 2

Learn about using casual form of "to iu" to quote or to refer to people; also to express one's certainty about something

67

The Typhoon Cometh

Learn about casually expressing reasons for things expressing dissatisfaction or surprise at an unexpected situation

68

My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 19

Learn about expressing that something cannot help but happen, or that one has no choice but to do something

69

Otaku Hunting

Learn about expressing annoyance or a complaint referring to something/someone casually

70

Travel Agency

Learn about booking air tickets

71

Food Bank

Learn about talking about social issues

72

My Tokyo Travelblogue - Day 20

Learn about making excuses, calling in sick

73

Traffic Jam

Learn about talking about traffic using contracted forms in casual Japanese

74

Monkey Business 1

Learn about talking to animals using very casual language

75

Monkey Business 2

Learn about talking to animals using very casual language

76

Overweight Luggage 1

Learn about checking in for a flight

77

Overweight Luggage 2

Learn about taking a plane journey

78

Birthday Bash at Himeji Castle

Learn about having a party

79

My Tokyo Travelblogue - Day 21

Learn about making and attending a doctor's appointment

80

My Tokyo Travelblogue - Day 22

Learn about talking on the phone, giving reasons

81

My Tokyo Travelblogue - Day 23

Learn about using idioms in daily conversation

82

My Tokyo Travelblogue - Day 24

Learn about giving opinions, discussing work

83

My Tokyo Travelblogue - Day 25

Learn about nagging, talking about having a family

84

Oshōgatsu with Grandma and Grandpa

Learn about talking about Japanese new year customs

85

A Very Bōsōzoku New Years

Learn about talking about the tradition of going to see the first sunrise of the new year