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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You call up your good friend on Friday night and ask him in Japanese, “Hey buddy, what are your plans for tonight?” He responds in Japanese, “Um, nothing…I just want to stay in and catch up on house chores and watch some television.” You reply in Japanese, “You’ve got to be kidding me. Are you twenty-five or fifty-five years old?” He laughs and tells you in Japanese, “I just don’t feel like hitting the bar scene tonight. It’s always the same old thing, the same old drinks, the same old girls, and the same old lines. I’m tired of it.” You tease him in Japanese, “You ARE fifty-five years old. You know, I just heard a new Japanese word people are using for people like you.” He responds in Japanese, “Oh yeah? What’s that?”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Culture Class lesson will teach you the latest Japanese buzzwords that won awards last year in Japan. One of those Japanese expressions applies to our friend who likes to stay home rather than go out and pick up women. Tune in to see what this Japanese expression is! 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’re watching the Japanese soccer team on television, and the Japanese players are sprinting up and down the field, but they can’t score. The goalie is just too good. With just one minute left in the first half, the referee calls a foul and awards the Japanese team a direct kick. With fifteen yards to the goal, this might be the Japanese team’s best shot. You and your friends perch on the edge of your seats, willing the Japanese player to score. His shot ricochets off the wall of Korean players, but a Japanese player picks up the rebound and flicks it to his Japanese teammate. Your friend says in Japanese, “He’s five feet away. He better get this one in!” At that very moment, he scores, and your Japanese friends go wild. Now that it’s halftime, they want to keep the excitement going, so your friend changes the channel to the Japanese version of a price-guessing game show. Your friends call out in Japanese, “Seven hundred,” “Five hundred,” and “One thousand.” The retail price of the Japanese item was only three hundred yen, so your friends all lose. Let’s hope the Japanese soccer team doesn’t follow suit in the second half!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review three more important Japanese particles: e, ni, and de. We’ll give you some extra ways you can use the Japanese particle de, and as a special parting gift, you’ll also receive a lesson about a new way to construct Japanese sentences using particles. Even if your team loses, you’ll never walk away from a Japanese lesson empty-handed! 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! Your friend asks in Japanese, “How are we going to get through our new class? That teacher seems really tough. What do you think of her?” Your Japanese answer hides your real thoughts, “I don’t know; it shouldn’t be too difficult. I think our teacher really wants us to succeed, and if she wants us to succeed, she’ll do what’s necessary to help us learn. She really knows all about the material and the subject. She has an advanced degree. Her previous classes really like her. Sure, she looks like she’ll be harsh, but I’m sure she has our best interests at heart. She’s available after hours for extra work if you need it. Some of the exercises she uses in the classroom she devised herself and they have won awards for innovation in education. Her Japanese is perfect, so there’s no problem understanding what she’s saying. She has even arranged special field trips so we can see how the things she teaches are applied out in the world. I think her class will be really good.” Your friend looks at you with suspicion and asks in Japanese, “Say, how do you know so much about this teacher? She’s new this year. How can you know all that stuff about her and her teaching methods?” Quietly, you reply in Japanese, “Because she’s my Mom.”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson explains some of the uses of the Japanese particles wa, no, and o. These Japanese particles have many uses, and this lesson will show you some of the most valuable ways to apply them to your 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 call up your good friend on Friday night and ask him in Japanese, “Hey buddy, what are your plans for tonight?” He responds in Japanese, “Um, nothing…I just want to stay in and catch up on house chores and watch some television.” You reply in Japanese, “You’ve got to be kidding me. Are you twenty-five or fifty-five years old?” He laughs and tells you in Japanese, “I just don’t feel like hitting the bar scene tonight. It’s always the same old thing, the same old drinks, the same old girls, and the same old lines. I’m tired of it.” You tease him in Japanese, “You ARE fifty-five years old. You know, I just heard a new Japanese word people are using for people like you.” He responds in Japanese, “Oh yeah? What’s that?”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Culture Class lesson will teach you the latest Japanese buzzwords that won awards last year in Japan. One of those Japanese expressions applies to our friend who likes to stay home rather than go out and pick up women. Tune in to see what this Japanese expression is! 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! We released episode one of iLove, a new j-drama from JapanesePod101.com, put out a call for listener submissions, and you, the listeners, definitely came through! The videos have been rolling in, and they are awesome! Today we talk about these, the Podcast Awards, the upcoming JLPT, and some big news about a new addition to the JapanesePod101.com lineup. Be sure to tune in!

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