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Your Japanese progress depends on one thing. Your willingness to spring into action and go after it. All the Japanese conversation lessons to get you speaking, all the words you’ll ever need to know, and all the tools to help you master the language faster. It’s all here at JapanesePod101.com, but you must go after it. Similarly, JapanesePod101.com doesn’t get better by itself. We’re springing into action too and are redesigning a very important part of our learning system. Tune in to this Sunday News to learn more!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your mother always told you to mind your manners, especially at the table. Well, she was right, and the tradition is especially true for the Japanese table. Don’t be gross when you eat, in Japan, or anywhere else. You sit with your new Japanese friends and prepare to enjoy real Japanese food. “Let’s eat,” your friend says in Japanese. Your first mouthful has you hooked. It’s wonderful. “It’s delicious,” you exclaim in Japanese. Your friends are impressed with your proper use of Japanese in the proper situation, and they congratulate you on it. You’re glad you’ve been paying attention to your Japanese language lessons. Only a few lessons and you’re able to say so many things, including, “It’s delicious” in Japanese! You all have a wonderful time, and at the end, you are also able use your impressive polite Japanese to say “thank you” to your host for the wonderful meal. You’re having a great first day in Japan, and can’t wait to explore the country, the Japanese language, and the culture.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson focuses on your table manners. It’s important to say the right thing at the right time in Japanese when you’re eating. This lesson will teach you some of the proper Japanese phrases to use while you’re dining with friends or associates in Japan. 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! “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! Welcome to JapanesePod101.com’s Learn Japanese Grammar Video Series-Absolute Beginner. Over twenty-five video lessons, we will teach you the absolute essentials of Japanese grammar using a powerful combination of audio and video. Each audio grammar explanation is enhanced with motion graphics so you can follow along visually every step of the way. Are you ready for an all-new way to learn Japanese grammar and expressions? Join us for our Learn Japanese Grammar Video Series at JapanesePod101.com!

JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese. In this video lesson, you’ll learn how to say you like and don’t like something in Japanese using the adjectives suki and kirai. Are you ready to learn even more Japanese? Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources, including other great videos like this one, audio podcasts, review materials, applications, and more. Leave us a message while you are there!