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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! No matter the language, people love to express their opinions. I’ll bet you love to tell other people what you think about a range of subjects and people. From, “I think this is easy” to “I think he’s nice,” it’s all about what you think!

In this lower intermediate Japanese lesson, learn to express your opinion using omou (”to think”). This phrase can be used in so many ways, and you’ll have fun learning how dynamic it really is. Don’t miss all the helpful sentences in this must-have Japanese lesson.

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re not sure how it happened, but you’ve become separated from your friends in Japan. The shopping area where you’ve been doing some shopping is huge. You can’t hope to find them in this enormous crowd. You decide to make your way back to the car and wait for them there. But just because it’s sensible, doesn’t make it easy. All the signs are in Japanese. You’ll have to ask for help. So preparing to use your best Japanese, you ask a lady standing nearby, “Excuse me, where is the exit?” She replies in Japanese, “It’s over there.” So you make your way to the exit, and as you get outside, you realize it’s not the same exit where you entered. Now you need more help. Well, at least you’ve had some practice now. So you ask in Japanese again, “Excuse me, where is the parking lot?” A man standing nearby answers in Japanese, “I don’t know, I came by train.” You try again with another person. “Excuse me, where is the parking lot?” “It’s over there,” he answers. Hopefully, once you get to the parking lot, you can find your friend’s car. You don’t think asking a stranger in Japanese, “Where is my friend’s car?” is going to get you far!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson is about not getting lost. It’s easy to get lost, even in your own home city. But in Japan, it’s even easier. So you must know how to ask where things are 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 at JapanesePod101.com! Recently Miki visited one of Japan’s most treasured World Heritage sites, the famous Shirokawa Village (also known as Shirokawago). Today she’ll tell us about the unique gassho-zukkuri homes there. It’s a really interesting place for people who want to see a bit of old Japan. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave Miki a post!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Airports! If you don’t travel a lot by airplane, airports can be very confusing. Especially if everything is in Japanese. Your friend told you in Japanese, “I am at the spa. It is near the ticket counter and the exit.” A spa in an airport? Does that make any sense? Wouldn’t the ticket counter be near the entrance, not the exit? What confusion! How are you going to be able to find her in this crowd? And you’ll probably get some really strange looks if you start asking people in Japanese, “Where can I find the spa in this airport?” You really begin to wonder about a spa in a Japanese airport. What’s it like? Do they have announcements in Japanese about plane departures and arrivals in the spa? Wouldn’t that disrupt the serenity? Isn’t a spa a place to get away from all the noise and bustle of life? After all this hassle, you’ll need some peace and quiet yourself. Hmmm…maybe you should come back to the Japanese airport spa after you get your work done for the day.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is about location. Where are things? This is an essential part of any language, and Japanese is no different. This lesson shows you how to construct sentences that tell people where things are 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!


Do you feel overworked? Think you might be working yourself to death? In Japan, people really do, quite literally, work themselves to death (karōshi). In this lesson, we talk about the contributing factors in Japanese society that cause karōshi. It may seem unimaginable, but it’s a serious reality of the Japanese lifestyle. If you’re studying for JLPT1 or JLPT2, you’ll need to know how to use naninani wo ii koto ni… suru, which is used to describe “taking advantage of a situation by underhanded means.” Also we’ll take a look at words useful for describing statistical relationships. These are must-know phrases if you plan to do business in Japanese (and subsequently work yourself to death, lol).

Doing Business in Japan? Learn to describe data and statistics in Japanese.  Awwwwww yeah!