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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When you don’t want to answer your parents’ questions about your grades during your study in Japan, you tell them that you’re doing well in certain aspects of your Japanese courses. Of course, your parents pick up on the fact that you’re hedging the question, and they ask you about how you’re doing in terms of the rest of your Japanese courses. After a while, you admit in Japanese that you’re finding it difficult but doing the best you can!

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the Japanese words ten and men, meaning “in terms of.” Our Japanese conversation takes place on a television program between a reporter and a specialist. Since the teachers do not know each other and are broadcasting on television, they will be speaking formal 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! You have always had a tendency to procrastinate, especially when it comes to chores that you don’t want to do. So now that you moved into a new apartment in Japan, you’ve promised yourself that you’re going to be more diligent about housework. You wrote up a chore chart in Japanese and bought gold stars to give yourself when you complete your tasks. You figure that if this system works for kids in Japan, maybe it will work for you.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the Japanese suffixes -gachi and -gimi, which both indicate tendency. Our Japanese conversation takes place on television, and an announcer is reading the news in Japanese. The announcer is speaking both formal and informal 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! You made it to Japan. You learned to speak Japanese. You made a lot of friends there. Now one of them is getting married, and she asked you to give one of the traditional speeches at her wedding. OH, THE HORROR! At a traditional, formal, Japanese wedding, you must stand up in front of hundreds of people and give a speech, in Japanese, no less. So you confide in your friend, the sister of the bride, that you’re terrified of giving speeches in any language, but in Japanese! You may go blind from the tension of public speaking in Japanese. Come to think of it, that won’t help. Blind people can give speeches just as well as anyone else. Your friend comforts you and helps you with the problem. She explains the format of the ceremony and the structure of the speech, and she promises to help you write your speech in proper Japanese fashion. She’ll even help you to practice - and she says it all start with JapanesePod101.com. Now that’s what good friends are for.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson presents a special, formalistic speech you just might be called upon to give if you make really good friends in Japan. Japanese wedding speeches are a tradition, and each Japanese wedding speech should follow a special pattern and grammar. That’s why you come to us at JapanesePod101.com. You won’t find this good stuff anywhere else. 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! 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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