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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! After Japanese class, your friends invite you to join them for dinner. Eager to make some new acquaintances while you’re studying in Japan, you happily go along. Little do you know that their regular hangout is a Japanese sushi restaurant near campus. When you arrive and see the Japanese word for sushi on the restaurant’s door, you start to panic: you can’t eat sushi because you’re allergic to seafood! Hopefully this Japanese restaurant’s menu will offer something vegetarian that you can eat!

In this lesson, you will learn how to talk about doing an action in Japanese. The conversation takes place between three family members at one family member’s home. Because they are distant family members, they are speaking formal 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!


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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You haven’t been studying for your upcoming Japanese test, so while your friends are going out to dinner, you stay home and start cramming. After they eat, they call you to tell you that they’re going out to a Japanese bar for drinks. You try to decline, but they insist that you join them. They promise to help you practice your Japanese while you’re out. This sounds like a recipe for disaster! 

In this lesson, you will learn how to use te kuru to indicate the beginning or the continuation of an action in Japanese. The conversation takes place between two high school students and also features a Japanese television newscaster. The speakers are friends, so they are speaking informal Japanese; the newscaster is speaking formal 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 Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Ah, money! It comes and it goes, as people say, but you are determined to find a way to keep all of your Japanese yen in your pocket while still enjoying all Japan has to offer. Maybe if your Japanese friends and relatives keep coming to visit you during your trip, they’ll treat you to many Japanese meals and tourist attractions before you leave! In this lesson, you’ll learn about the usage of -te iku and -te kuru in Japanese. Our Japanese conversation consists of a news report. The conversation features a newscaster as well as a shop assistant and a girl, who are both being interviewed in Japanese. The speakers are on television; therefore, they will be speaking formal 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 Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You are the master of multitasking. While you read books, you have a Japanese television show on in the background. When you’re on the Internet, you chat on the phone in Japanese. Of course, you’re just so busy that you have to do two things at once all the time just to fit everything into your day. So naturally, you need to text in Japanese while you’re driving, right? Maybe not, since you can text your way to jail or an accident!

In this lesson, you will learn how to say “do something while doing another action” in Japanese. We’ll also show you how to give priority to one Japanese action over another. Today’s conversation takes place on the street between a police officer and a driver; therefore, the speakers are using formal 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!

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