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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!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Isn’t it always the same? When the girls get together, the talk always comes around to guys. “Who do you like?” “Why do you like him?” It’s hard enough to keep up with the conversation when just two of you are talking, but with three and more girls talking in Japanese, you better make sure you can keep up. What was that? No, she couldn’t have said that. Your Japanese must be faulty or your ears are going bad. You thought for sure you heard her say in Japanese, “I like dull Japanese guys who mumble.” Doesn’t anybody else think that’s really odd? Well, the next girl isn’t any better. She claims in Japanese, “I like American guys who are loud and obnoxious!” Are they serious? You chime in quietly in Japanese, “I just like guys who are tall, quiet, and very patient better.” They both look at you as if you are crazy. Maybe your Japanese is just very very bad, but you have to know. “Excuse me,” you ask in Japanese, “What kind of guys did you say you liked?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is all about describing the characteristics you like in a person and your preferences for personal characteristics in Japanese. You’ll be able to chat with your friends in Japanese to tell them those qualities you like in the opposite sex. 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! Traveling is always so confusing. Going places is fun, but it’s so easy to get lost. And with all the confusion, hustle, and bustle going on around you - it’s enough to drive one to distraction. You ask a clerk at the airport in Tokyo in Japanese, “Where can I find my gate?” However, as you make your way through the crowd, you’ve already forgotten the new Japanese words the Japanese clerk said about the gate. Did he say the clock “is” the gate in Japanese? Or did he say the clock is to the “left of the gate” in Japanese? Maybe he said it is to the “right of the gate” in Japanese. You’ve got to find the correct gate because you’ve already given the clerk your luggage; your luggage will get on board, but that’s no good if you’re not. Is there time to go back and ask directions again? Will the clerk think you’re a fool for asking directions after he told you already? What to do? What to do? Wait, there’s a sign for your gate. Whew! That’s a relief. You might just be able to do this traveling thing after all.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is all about placement. You have to be able to tell others where things are in Japanese and understand others when they tell you where things are in Japanese as well. That’s why you’ll want to check out this Japanese lesson that will help you with those tricky Japanese constructions for “above” and “below,” “in” and “out,” “left and right,” and more. 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! Food! Food! Your girlfriend’s taunting descriptions of the Japanese udon you would enjoy are what helped you make it up the exhausting Konpirasan stairs. So, now that you’re at the top, where’s the food? Completely exhausted from the long climb, you ask in Japanese, “Listen honey, I’m tired, so where’s the food? And what type of food did you say we are having again?” She replies in Japanese, “We are going to eat some of the best udon without fail.” Getting impatient from your long walk and completely empty stomach, you ask again in Japanese, “Okay, but where is it?” Getting worried again, she replies in Japanese, “It is in the restaurant over there.” Oh, no! It can’t be! The line to get into the restaurant looks like it’s fifteen miles long. Exasperated, you ask her in Japanese, “Are you sure that is where we’re supposed to eat?” Trying to be patient and reassuring, she replies in Japanese, “Of course, the line is long because it’s the best udon without fail!” You feel weak with hunger already and now you have to stand in line forever before you can eat. Offering another option, you ask in Japanese, “Can’t we go get something else to eat first and come back when the line’s shorter?” Adamantly, she replies in Japanese, “No, we have to eat this udon because it’s so incredible.” So you stand with her in the line, and as you wait, you look around and see something that makes you really miserable. Walking off the Konpirasen stairs is a tiny, little, old Japanese grandmother who must be truly ancient, but she looks fresh as a new daisy. Worse, you hear her stop to talk to someone she knows in Japanese, “That was fun, but the view is not as good as from the top of Mount Fuji. I climbed that yesterday.” You just don’t understand…
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson shows you a comparison of casual Japanese speech and polite Japanese speech, which is something you must have in your knowledge of Japanese. We will also compare and review class one, two, and three Japanese verbs. Finally, we will learn two very useful words for Japanese conversation! 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! That was close. Well, not that close, but close enough to make you wonder. She isn’t much of a driver, but at least she avoided an accident. Maybe you distract her. Your Japanese was probably so bad she couldn’t understand you! So you ask her in Japanese – since it is all she speaks – “Do you like to drive very much? I mean…I could drive if you like.” Oh, you really like her a lot; you hope that didn’t sound condescending. You should definitely practice speaking Japanese more. It wouldn’t be fair to criticize her driving if you are the one distracting her, too. She smiles (good sign) and replies sweetly in Japanese, “I don’t know much about cars, and I really don’t like to drive very much. If you like to drive, you are more than welcome!” Her Japanese is so pretty. She has a lovely way of speaking. Maybe she was distracted from her driving because she likes you. That would be very nice…wait, you mean, it would be great if she liked you, not if she lost concentration while driving. Finding yourself distracted by her again, you reply in Japanese, “I don’t like Japanese cars very much, but I do like to drive a lot. I would be happy to drive…I have my license.” Drifting away in your thoughts again, you wonder if you can tell from her Japanese how much she likes you. You really like her a lot, even if she doesn’t know much about cars. You have to find something you both like. So far, everything she likes, you don’t like, and everything you like she hates! You have to have something in common…you know - Japanese! You have the love of the Japanese language in common.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is about different degrees of likes and dislikes in Japanese. Some things we really like, some we really dislike - even hate - but everything else is somewhere in between. You will need to know how to express them all 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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