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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! After two days of staying home from work because you’re sick, you’re even more sick of watching Japanese television all day. It’s not the Japanese shows that are putting you over the edge: you’re just annoyed that the Japanese characters on television aren’t engaging in conversation with you. You need human contact, so as a last resort, you call your mom and ask her in Japanese, “I want you to do me a favor. Can you come over here and talk to me for a while? I’m very lonely.” Your mom tells you in Japanese, “Sure, honey, I’ll be over. I’ll bring you some chicken soup. But I can’t stay long…I don’t want to get sick!” You whine in Japanese, “But mom…!” She cuts you off and says in Japanese, “It will do us no good if we’re both sick. I’ll bring some medicine too so you can feel better soon. Now rest and I’ll see you in a few hours.”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Beginner lesson will show you how to describe your desires and thoughts in Japanese. We’ll also show you how to use Japanese conjunctions to bolster your arguments for what you want with reasons 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!

 


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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Now you really feel like you’ve become a part of Japan. The father of your Japanese friend owns a store that sells artificial silk flowers and he has asked you to help her take inventory at his store. “What are we going to do?” you ask her on the way. “We’re going to count each separate inventory item in the store,” she explains in Japanese. Then we will give the information to my father who will match the information with that in the computer. If the numbers match, fine; if not, we have to recount to make sure we have an exact count of each inventory item.” “So this is an important part of business in Japan?” you ask. She replies in Japanese, “It’s an important part of business everywhere. My father’s silk flowers come from all over Japan, and some are very expensive. We must know the inventory.” Well, they must trust your ability to count in Japanese if they’re going to trust you with something as important as inventory. Arriving at the store, you are suddenly overwhelmed. You tell your friend in Japanese, “You did not tell me your father’s flower store was this HUGE!” Hesitant, your friend shyly replies in Japanese, “Well, you will get plenty of practice counting in Japanese. And once we’re finished with the inventory, my father will take us out for a big, wonderful, Japanese dinner with lots of food and sake.”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson continues your trek through the Japanese number system, this time all the way to one-hundred. A few little tricks of combining what you’ve already learned already and in no time, you’ll be counting sheep in your sleep 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 Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Rainy season is starting in Japan and nobody wants to stick around! It’s time for a getaway, but where to? Okinawa? Hokkaido? Today we introduce the -tai form of verbs. Take your Japanese to the next level as you learn how to express a desire to do something! Be sure to tune in!


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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Walking back to your apartment in Japan, you suddenly remember you must make a doctor’s appointment for a physical. Your new employer requires that you take a physical to qualify for the company health and life insurance programs, and you have to get your physical this week. Using your new Japanese cell phone, you call the doctor’s office. You hear the receptionist say in Japanese, “This is the doctor’s office. How can I help you?” You hope your answer is understandable Japanese, “I’d like to make an appointment for a physical. I can come in from eleven to two in the afternoon.” Her answer comes immediately, “Of course, we do many physicals for company insurance programs. In fact, we have one doctor who dedicates half of his day just to giving physicals for school and work starting at twelve in the afternoon and continuing until six in the evening to accommodate people that can’t get off work to get them.” In Japanese, you answer, “Can I come in tomorrow sometime from four to six o’clock?” The helpful receptionist answers in Japanese, “I’m sorry; we’re all booked for tomorrow, but we’re not booked from Monday to Wednesday at that time. Could you come in on one of those days?” “Sure,” you answer in Japanese, “I’ll come in on Monday at six o’clock.”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson discusses the Japanese particles of time. For this lesson, it’s the Japanese particles kara, made, and ni, that you’ll learn about. 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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