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Learn Japanese on your own terms at JapanesePod101.com! Today’s story is about a high school student named Wasabi-chan. She came to her part-time job at the sushi shop only to find out that all the wasabi (Japanese horseradish) is missing!! Oh no! But that’s OK, because Wasabi-chan is secretly a ku-no-ichi (female ninja), so she might be able to get to the bottom of this. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You would like to impress your Japanese friends with your new-found skills in the kitchen. After all, they did introduce you to wasabi and sashimi. Okay, it was difficult to start to eat the sashimi, but once you tasted it, you liked it. Now you’re going to buy some groceries and supplies so you can do a little Japanese cooking. You’re at the grocer’s, but the array of Japanese foods has you flummoxed; you don’t recognize hardly any of them. “What is that?” you ask the grocery clerk in Japanese. “This is miso,” he replies. “How much is it?” you ask in Japanese. “It is 137 yen per kilogram,” he answers. That seems like a good price, but you’re not sure. “And what is this?” you ask in Japanese, pointing to some meat. “That’s Kobe beef,” he says. “How much is it?” you inquire. “14,960 yen per kilogram,” he replies in Japanese. Ouch! You love your friends, but…you reply in Japanese, “I’ll take the miso.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson will teach you how to ask about prices in Japanese. Asking the price in Japanese is simple if you start with JapanesePod101.com! 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! This is turning into a lot of fun. Your Japanese friends are trying to teach you how to cook Japanese foods. But you don’t trust your friends entirely. They like foods so spicy hot they make you perspire for hours. You have to ask more questions about this food. “What is that?” you ask in Japanese. Rolling their eyes, they tell you to relax. Still not convinced, you question again in Japanese, “What is that you’re putting in now?” Laughing at your persistence and paranoia, they explain in Japanese, “Just a little dry Japanese horseradish…a special kind.” Hmm… So you press on in Japanese, “So what’s this going to be once it’s done?” “Wasabi, relax, you’re going to love it.” your Japanese friends all say. You are not the patient type, asking again in Japanese, “What’s that over there?” They explain, “That’s the sashimi. It goes with the wasabi.” If they could just tell you as you go you wouldn’t have to keep asking questions! But…you ask again in Japanese, “What’s sashimi?” Now they’re giving each other looks as if to say, “Okay, who’s going to tell him what ’sashimi’ means in Japanese.” One of them starts to talk, hesitates, and then mumbles something. “Well,” he says, “Sashimi is slices of raw fish.” “So how do we cook it?” you ask in Japanese. They’re giving each other those looks again… Oh…you’ve just found a terrific appetite suppressant.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson will teach you how to form questions in Japanese. With this new sentence pattern, you can become just like that three-year old nephew who’s always asking, “What is this?” and “What is that?” But you can do it 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! The apartment in Japan is very much to your liking. All the little touches that are so clearly and endearingly Japanese make you very pleased with all the arrangements. Even your Japanese roommate is a terrific guy who is very considerate of your unfamiliarity with Japanese ways. Now, for the first time, the two of you are going grocery shopping. Time to make a list. He poses questions to you in Japanese. “Do you cook?” You answer in Japanese, “Some but I’m not familiar with Japanese cooking.” So he ask in Japanese, “What do you like to eat?” Pondering for a moment, you answer in Japanese, “Well, I like a lot of things. I like fish, and chicken, and pork, and beef, and duck, among other things.” Scribbling some notes on paper, he asks in Japanese, “How about vegetables?” Watching intently, you reply in Japanese, “Oh, I like a lot of vegetables, but I don’t’ like eggplant or rhubarb.” Looking confused, he asks in Japanese, “What’s rhubarb? I don’t think we have that here in Japan.” Laughing, you answer in Japanese, “Well, that’s okay because I don’t like it anyway!” He continues to ask you questions in Japanese, “What about daikon and wasabi and things like that?” You answer all of his questions in Japanese, “I like daikon and wasabi, but I don’t like cold soup.” “Cold soup!” he answers, “That sounds awful. Well, you don’t have to worry. In Japanese cooking, the soup is hot. Looks like you really lucked out in Japan,” he says, “The things you don’t like we don’t have.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson explains the ways you use Japanese particles to make lists. In Japanese, the particles you use to make the list tell your listener whether the list is complete or not. Isn’t that handy? 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! Eating out in Japan is fun! But, you might find some items you’re not very fond of. Maybe wasabi is a bit too hot for your liking, for example! It’s important that you know how to ask the wait staff for recommendations and say, “Hold the ….”
This newbie Japanese lesson ensures that you’re Japanese restaurant order will be perfect. You’ll learn how to ask for recommendations and say, “Hold that hot stuff!” This Japanese lesson is full of helpful information that you’ll start using right away.
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