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You’re stranded in Tokyo. Not enough cash for a hotel. Where do you stay? Two Japanese businessmen decide to stay at a manga kissa, a manga cafe. Similar to an internet cafe, but you can Japanese anime, manga, magazines and even massage chairs! Gomi-san recommends Nana and “Nekomura-san”, two famous Japanese manga. We’ll review our Japanese grammatical expressions using the -masu stem + yasui, -masu stem + nikui, -masu stem + sugiru.

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You’re stranded in Tokyo. Not enough cash for a hotel. Where do you stay? Two Japanese businessmen decide to stay at a mankitsu, a manga cafe. Similar to an internet cafe, but you have access to Japanese anime, manga, magazines and even massage chairs! Gomi-san recommends Nana, a famous Japanese manga. We’ll learn how to say “easy to do” in Japanese using the -masu stem + yasui. We’ll also show how to use this versatile grammatical construction to express ideas of “prone to do” and that things “tend to happen” in Japanese. This grammar point is the opposite of the -masu + nikui, which we learned in another Japanese lesson.

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Stranded without a ride home in Tokyo? No problem, you can stay at a mankitsu. What’s that? Why, it’s a manga cafe, of course! You can read manga, play video games, watch Japanese anime and movies and get unlimited free soft drinks. There are massage chairs and showers! Premium listeners, don’t miss out on on the hilarious bonus track featuring 2 Japanese dialect accents: Ibaraki Dialect and Aomori Dialect! Our grammar point is an important one. We’ll look at how to use the Japanese suffix -nikui to change words into the meaning “it’s difficult to do…”

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Learn Japanese Cooking at JapanesePod101.com! Japanese food is famous for being healthy and delicious! So today we’re going to learn how to make one of Japan’s most beloved homestyle dishes, Niku Jaga. It’s a kind of beef stew and is traditionally associated with a loving mother or devoted wife. Like last week’s lesson, the grammar is quite easy, but there is a lot of vocabulary. So please check out the PDF while you listen to this one. Also, Naomi sensei has a quick and funny tip on how to make instant mash potatoes with just a little bit of hot water and crunchy snack called Jagariko. There’s a lot going on here, but if you want to eat in Japan, this lesson is for you. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Convenience stores all over Japan keep warm Chinese hot buns called nikuman. There are a variety of flavors out there, many of which have nothing to do with Chinese cuisine. Today Miki is going to talk about some of the delicious choices she sometimes has to make. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave her a post!
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