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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! When you first meet someone in Japan, what are the first things you want to learn about that person? To get to know that Japanese person, what might you ask him or her in Japanese? You might break the ice by asking questions in Japanese about the person’s work history-that’s general background information that will tell you a lot about a person, right? And then you’d probably ask next in Japanese about where the person is from and inquire about his or her interests in Japanese to find some common ground so you can keep the conversation going in Japanese. By asking questions such as these, you’ll likely develop a new Japanese friendship. Well, get ready to make a new Japanese friend today!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Audio Blog lesson will introduce you to the new author of our Japanese blog. Our blogger will tell you about his background in event planning, about what you can expect in upcoming lessons from this Audio Blog, and about his experiences working with clients in Japan. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find Japanese Lesson notes (remember-this lesson is spoken entirely in Japanese!) as well as 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! Today we bring you another classic Japanese children’s story, Urashimataro! Learn about Taro and his trip to an underwater kingdom on the back of a kame. Such a beautiful story with valuable morals brought to you by Chigusa-san and Yoshi-san - what better way to learn the Japanese language! Stop by JapanesePod101.com and leave us a post!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com!” Ohio goes,” your Japanese friend says to you. ” At least that’s what you thought you heard; so you answer, “No, that’s ‘Go Buckeyes.’” Your friend laughs and says, “I’m telling you, ‘Good morning,’ in Japanese. I thought you were learning Japanese.” Now it’s your turn to laugh. “I am learning Japanese, but it’s football season, and that greeting sounds almost exactly like ‘Ohio goes.’” Your Japanese friend is amused and says, “I wonder how many other greetings for the day sound familiar like that one?” And the two of you start running through the standard greetings of the day in Japanese. “Good morning,” “good afternoon,” “good evening,” and “good night,” all come in for your careful scrutiny of the Japanese to see if any of them sound familiar. “The closest you come to another phrase is, “Oh yea, Sue needs a seat,” but nothing is as close as that “Ohio” phrase. You and your friend share a good laugh over the peculiar similarity between the Japanese phrase for “Good morning,” and your favorite football place. You won’t have a hard time remembering that Japanese greeting anymore!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson covers the important Japanese greetings everyone must have for saying, “good morning,” “good evening,” and so on in polite Japanese. You’ll be able to use the right Japanese phrase at the right time of day, no matter what time of day it is. And you’ll learn the difference between the casual and more polite forms of the phrases. These are just the phrases you need to begin most any conversation 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 intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Ryuta and Satoko have reached Hokkaido and the clear, starry Sapporo night sky provides the perfect setting for a telling of the Tanabata legend. Tune in to hear about Orihime and Hikoboshi, the love they shared, and almost lost. In today’s grammar point, we introduce the ~ga yoi/ii Japanese grammar construction. Be sure to tune in, and leave us a post at JapanesePod101.com!
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