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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. Each year in early February, after the Lunar New Year, there is a Japanese tradition to hurl beans at evil spirits to drive them away. It is a fun festival. Well actually, it all depends on what side of the bean you’re on. Before you throw you’re next bean, please watch this touching piece. It may change your outlook on the so-called fun festival.
Please see our previous lesson Japanese Culture Lesson #4 for more details about Setsubun.
p.s. No monsters we’re actually hurt filming this.
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Finally! You’ve been waiting for a chance to talk to the cute girl who sits behind you in Japanese class, and today is the day! Apparently, you both enjoy the local Japanese teashop that’s near your campus. You decide to make your approach and get her attention after she orders her Japanese teal. You ask her in Japanese, “Hello there! How’s class going?” The object of your affection responds in Japanese, “Oh, I love the class. Our professor is great, and the material is interesting. From the moment we get in class until we leave, I enjoy every minute.” You tell her in Japanese, “Absolutely…our professor is great, but sometimes she speeds through the material too quickly for me to pick it up.” You hope she picks up on the opportunity to help you with your Japanese…but you worry you were too subtle. She replies in Japanese, “I’m used to fast talkers. If there’s ever anything you need help with, we could form a study group. I’m usually free on Friday nights.” Hmm. Either this Japanese student is really studious and likes to stay in on Friday night, or you just scored yourself a date! It’s too soon to tell!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Mystical things have always fascinated you, even though you don’t put much stock in what your Magic 8 ball tells you that your fortune will be. So now that you’re in Japan, you’re surprised to find that lots of Japanese people are interested in tarot card reading and fortune telling. Your friend tells you in Japanese, “Let’s go and have our fortunes told tomorrow at the Japanese market.” You look at her skeptically and say in Japanese, “Are you serious? That seems like a waste of money.” Your roommate puts her hands to her head, appears to concentrate very hard, and says in Japanese, “I predict that you will come with me…and that you will meet someone special while we are there!” You laugh and tell her in Japanese, “You’re off your rocker.” She says in Japanese, “Well, come with me anyway and I’ll buy you lunch.” Now we’re talking!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will review how to use three very important Japanese conjunctions that we touched on in earlier Japanese lessons. With these Japanese conjunctions, you can set up conditional statements, make requests, and issue orders, among many other things. You won’t want to miss this review of these critical Japanese words! 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! Suppose you are learning Japanese so you can conduct business with Japanese companies. Of course, you will want to be able to have polite conversations with them, but you will also want to communicate to them in Japanese what your company will do for them and what you expect their company to do for yours. That’s why you need the Japanese Indirect Imperative. You already know what that is, even if you don’t know the name of it. You might say in Japanese, “I will tell my employee to write the report,” …or if you are living in Japan, “I told my son to clean his room.” These are examples of the Indirect Imperative. In English, we express this idea through the word order and the verb and the infinitive. Japanese has its own way of expressing the same idea. At JapanesePod101.com, you’ll learn how to communicate orders and expectations to everyone in Japanese. Hopefully, you won’t need it to explain how something went terribly wrong in your chain of command In Japan!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese lesson shows you how to communicate orders and directions that are indirect in Japanese. Japanese is as flexible as English in this regard. Present, past, and future tenses, active and passive voices all have their own means of expression in Japanese. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more great Japanese lessons and learning materials. Leave us a message while you are there!

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