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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friend is checking the weather on the Japanese news website at least once an hour, and you’re starting to worry a bit. You ask him whether there’s a tsunami warning or something else going on that might affect the islands of Japan. He tells you in Japanese to relax: he just doesn’t want it to rain today—after all, it is a special day! In this lesson, you’ll learn about Tanabata, which is the Japanese word for the Star Festival. We’ll explain when this Japanese festival takes place and how it came about. We’ll also tell you how you can make a wish for something that might come true on this day in Japan. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com, where you will find Japanese lesson notes (remember—this Advanced Audio Blog lesson is spoken entirely in Japanese!) and many more fantastic lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re not sure how you managed to accomplish anything in your life before you got your iPhone 4S—it’s with you every minute of the day! It wakes you up, you use it to look up the Japanese words you don’t know, it entertains you with games when you’re bored…you even use it as a flashlight when it’s dark! But just when you thought it couldn’t do any more than it already does, JapanesePod101.com comes along with a handy new way to learn English using your iPhone 4S!

In this special English lesson, you will learn how to use one of the greatest features of the iPhone 4S, Siri, to help you perfect your language skills. Right now, Siri is only available in language skills, French, and German, but Apple will be bringing more languages to you soon. Make friends with your portable conversation partner! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com, where you will find Japanese lesson notes and many more fantastic lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! The senior year at Japanese universities is the toughest, especially for students who have to write a sotsuron. That’s short for sotsugyo rombun and means “senior thesis” and it’s definitely not a short paper. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave Miki a comment!

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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!


Now that you have lived in Japan for awhile, you want to travel out of the city and see things. You notice that the people that live even in the next city have different Japanese accents and words for things. You are glad that you know some Japanese words that make sense no matter what city you are in – words that everyone is sure to know, even you! This lesson looks at 5 more must-know Japanese words that should help you, especially in your travels. In this Japanese video lesson you’ll learn about 5 Japanese words that you need to be sure to know in addition to the Japanese words from the previous lesson for everyday life. These words combined will be sure to help you wherever you are going.

This Japanese video series is brand new way to learn Japanese. Learn every-day vocabulary and key verbs in this Japanese video lesson. Read the lesson notes to learn about the Japanese present tense, present progressive tense and simple past tense. Join us, and see what you’ve been missing! 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!