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Learn more about Japanese culture with JapanesePod101.com! Ever wondered what the most important Japanese holidays are, and how they are celebrated? Then this 25-lesson video series is for you! With this series, you’ll learn the what, why, when and how of 25 well-known holidays in Japan.

In this video, you’ll learn all about Autumnal Equinox Day and Higan in Japan and how it’s celebrated, from food to decorations, while building your Japanese vocabulary. Join Risa for a dose of Japanese culture! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com, where you will find many more fantastic Japanese audio and video lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you’re there!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! “C’mon, why don’cha wanna get sum’in t’eat wi’ me?” What was that? Did that sentence make any sense to you? It’s American dialect. Sometimes people from one area of the country, such as New England, move to other very different places, such as the deep South. When they do, they sound odd to the natives, and the natives sound odd to them. They often long to hear the words and phrases of home. So it’s the same in Japan. Our author moved from her hometown in the Kansai district to Tokyo, and she often chuckles with her family about the differences in the Kansai and Tokyo dialects. The Kansai dialect abbreviates a lot of words just as in the sentence that starts this paragraph. Have you moved? Do you live in a place with a different dialect from yours? Have people with strange dialects moved into your neighborhood? Makes for some interesting conversations, doesn’t it?

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Audio Blog lesson tells you how to shorten some words and phrases so that you can understand people from the Kansai district of Japan. If you go to Japan, you surely don’t want to spend all your time in Tokyo. You’ll want to be able to understand people from other areas, and one of the most common dialects in Japan is the Kansai dialect. It’s called Kansai-ben. Check out 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’ve never been in a cave before, so when your traveling companions suggest it in Japanese, you are excited to join them! But as you venture further into the cave, you start to worry about being underground in Japan. Your friends reassure you in Japanese that millions of tourists have been there before you, and nothing has ever happened. So, even though you are far underground, you have nothing to worry about! Yeah, right!

In this lesson, you will learn about Akiyoshido in the Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan. We will tell you about this Japanese national treasure and what makes it so special (and why you should go even if you are afraid of caves)! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com, where you will find Japanese lesson notes (remember—this Advanced Audio Blog lesson is spoken entirely in Japanese!) and many more fantastic lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re at a pet shop in Japan with your roommate, and you’re arguing about which pet to adopt. You want a cat, while your roommate insists on a dog. You complain in Japanese that dogs are too much work between walking and housebreaking. Your Japanese roommate, however, is adamant that cats are not friendly enough. Maybe you should get one of each!

In this lesson, you will learn how to use negative Japanese adjectives to say things like “not fun” or “not expensive.” Our Japanese conversation takes place in a park in Japan between a girl and a boy with a dog. Because the speakers don’t know each other, they’re speaking formal Japanese. We will also teach you the different forms you should use to apologize in Japanese. 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!


Learn more about Japanese culture with JapanesePod101.com! Ever wondered what the most important Japanese holidays are, and how they are celebrated? Then this 25-lesson video series is for you! With this series, you’ll learn the what, why, when and how of 25 well-known holidays in Japan.

In this video, you’ll learn all about Respect for the Aged Day in Japan and how it’s celebrated, from food to decorations, while building your Japanese vocabulary. Join Risa for a dose of Japanese culture! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com, where you will find many more fantastic Japanese audio and video lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you’re there!