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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friends say they are going to introduce you to one of the great Japanese cultural events. But they won’t tell you where you’re going until you get there. You trust your Japanese friends, so you know it won’t be awful. But still, you’re getting a little nervous. What if they’ve arranged for a trip to a traditional Japanese bathhouse. You don’t think you could do that. However, as you get off the train, you see lots of people streaming into a building, so it looks to be okay. There couldn’t be that many people taking a bath all at once. Your friends hand you a ticket and announce you’re going to see a Japanese sumo wrestling match. “No way,” you exclaim in Japanese. At least you had the presence to say it in Japanese. “Yes,” they tell you in Japanese, “You’ll love it.” After you get to your seat, you see two enormous Japanese men staring at one another and you notice a small ring between them. You think the ring can’t be big enough to hold the two of them at once, much less allow them to wrestle. The gigantic Japanese men stretch and limber up. They each toss something—you know not what—over a shoulder and start to place themselves in the ring. The official checks each man. The two fighters tense and grimace. The official suddenly signals the start of the match. The giants catapult themselves at each other on thighs thicker than telephone poles. And it’s over in less than three seconds. “Wow, amazing!” you say in Japanese! But your friends stare in amazement at you because you have gotten the Japanese phrases correct all night!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson introduces you to three of the informal or casual Japanese phrases you will likely hear native Japanese speakers use frequently. It’s important to be formal and polite on the correct occasions in Japan, but it’s also important to know when to be informal or casual. 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! You’re meeting your new friends in Japan for dinner, and they’re bringing someone for you to meet. They said that they think you will both get along really well because you’re both learning Japanese. So you try hard to remember how to introduce yourself in Japanese. “I’m Natalia-san,” you say as you stretch your hand out to meet your new friend. As you do that, faces all around you grimace, and you realize immediately what you have done. Luckily, your friends realize you are still learning Japanese as your new friend stretches his hand back, grasps yours firmly, smiles, and replies in Japanese, “Nice to meet you, I’m Eric-san.” Everyone laughs and you are off to a great start. You have a great dinner, practicing your Japanese after correcting your horrible name-mistakes. As everyone makes plans to meet at a Japanese bar later, you exclaim in Japanese, “Sayōnara.” Everyone stops talking abruptly, and looks at you in shock! “Just kidding!” you laugh in Japanese!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson covers the three most common mistakes made by beginners learning Japanese. These are easy mistakes to make, but just as easy to avoid if you use JapanesePod101.com. Not only are the lessons the most fun way to learn Japanese, but they help you avoid social faux pas, too. 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!” 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 Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Do you get tongue tied when meeting new people? Are you at a loss for words when you see your acquaintances every day? Maybe not, but what about meeting people who speak a foreign language such as Japanese? To be polite, you will want to say, “Hello,” In Japanese. Maybe you want to impress that really cute Japanese girl in the next office. Then you’ll want to spend just three minutes with this JapanesePod101.com lesson, and you’ll be able to have a complete conversation. “Hello, how are you?” “I’m fine, how are you?” That’s a big payback for three minutes. Good luck with the Japanese girl.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Video lesson will teach you how to meet new people and say hello to friends and acquaintances in polite Japanese. And you’ll learn how to answer the question, “How are you?” All in three minutes! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more great Japanese lessons and learning materials. Leave us a message while you are there!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You just arrived in Japan ready for a great adventure! Of course, that will include meeting many wonderful people while you are here. However, with all of your preparations for your travels, you forgot one little detail. The very first person you meet smiles, bows, and says something to you in Japanese. What? You smile back and bow…but what did he say? He smiles and repeats what he said before in Japanese, “Pleased to meet you. My name is….” That would be your cue to say something in return, but you just keep bowing and smiling because you don’t know how to introduce yourself in Japanese. How many people did you think you would meet in Japan without knowing basic Japanese introductions?
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Video lesson will teach you how to introduce yourself in Japanese. Hiroko will take you step-by-step through the pronunciations of each Japanese word and have you introducing yourself in Japanese in just three minutes! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more great Japanese lesson and learning materials. Leave us a message while you are there!
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