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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re up early today—and it’s not because you’re excited to go to your Japanese class. You’re eagerly watching the weather on the Japanese television station. Your roommate hears the television and asks you why you’re up so early. You tell him in Japanese that you’re hoping class is canceled due to the weather. It happens back home, so you’re hoping it happens in Japan too!
In this lesson, you will learn how to make the passive form of a verb in Japanese. Our Japanese conversation takes place in a Japanese town. Part of it is an announcement in formal Japanese warning of a natural disaster. The other speakers are a Japanese father and daughter. Since they are related to each other, they will be speaking 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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Well, this is a little awkward. We’ve been coming into your home and teaching you Japanese for awhile now, and yet we’ve never even met! It’s a little bit like online dating if you think about it. We don’t know about you, but maybe it’s time we properly introduced ourselves this year. You’ll finally be able to match a face and story to the voice and maybe you’ll find that you have more in common with us than just your love of Japanese!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve fallen ill since you’ve been in Japan. You’ve spent most of the past week in bed, missing your Japanese classes. It’s one thing to miss school, but this weekend you’re missing a fun camping trip to another part of Japan with friends. Your Japanese host parents have tried everything to cheer you up, to no avail. Finally, they tell you it’s a good thing that you’re not feeling well, since the rainy weather would have ruined your trip. It’s better to be dry than wet!
In this lesson, you will learn about the sentence expressions ni, sa, and wa. Our Japanese conversation takes place at home between a father, mother, and their son. Since the speakers are family members, they will be speaking 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’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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When you get to the golf course at the Japanese country club, you’re about to drive your ball off the first tee when you notice a few menacing clouds rolling in. It looks like it’s going to start storming within the hour. Your golf partner mentions in Japanese that he thinks you have enough time to at least get a few holes in, so you better hurry up and swing!
In this lesson, you will learn how to say “looks like” in Japanese. Our Japanese conversation takes place at an office in Japan between two colleagues. One is speaking informal Japanese, and the other is speaking formal Japanese. We’ll also fill you in on some social graces you’ll need to know about in Japan. 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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