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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Join Miki today as she shares her thoughts about the upcoming Christmas season. Miki also gives us some insight into how many Japanese spend their time during the Christmas holiday, and inquires as to how you spend the time in your country. Tune in, and then stop by JapanesePod101.com to leave Miki a comment!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friends want to go away for the weekend to relax, and they suggest that you visit a resort with hot springs. You’ve never been to a hot spring, and you don’t even know what a hot spring is, but it sounds like fun. When you meet up, your friend hands you a sticker and says you’ll need to wear it over your tattoo. Puzzled, you wonder why you have to do this.

In this lesson, you will learn about using extra-formal language in Japanese as we review sonkei-go, or “honorific language.” Our conversation takes place in a travel agent’s office in Japan between a staff member and a customer. Since the speakers do not know each other, they are speaking formal Japanese. You’ll also find out about tattoos in Japanese culture. 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! On Thursday, a 4.8-magnitude jishin, or earthquake, shook our Tokyo-based office - a great reminder that the following day would be Disaster Prevention Day! Today we bring you a Japanese culture class about this day, why it exists, what happens, and some good information about disaster preparation. Tune in and then drop by JapanesePod101.com for accompanying PDFs, and be sure to leave us a post!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Everyone here at JapanesePod101.com wants to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays! As the holidays come into full swing, things get busy here in Japan, which is why we’re here to tell all about what’s going on! (Not to mention we’ve got a few plans ourselves!) Tune in to find out more about that, as well as what Christmas is all about here in Japan. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Gestures are all around us. We make many gestures every day. So many gestures do we make that we are often unaware that we’re making them. They’ve become second nature to us. Just the same for the folk in Japan. Japanese use many gestures, but they’re not the same ones we use. Do you know that some Japanese gestures are thousands of years old? Of course, they may not mean the same thing as they did a thousand years ago. That gesture meaning, “Your donkey is sitting in my cabbage patch making bad smells,” probably isn’t used any more. Learning the gestures of Japanese culture is even more fun than learning the language itself.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson teaches you one of the everyday gestures used in Japan. You will learn how to say and gesture, “No way,” or “Never happen.” 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!