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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve had a blissful first few dates with an exchange student you met at your Japanese university. Now, if only the feeling could last! You want to keep on seeing him, but you know he will be leaving Japan at the end of the semester. Maybe you need to look into leaving Japan to do a study abroad next semester so you can continue to date your Prince Charming!

In this lesson, you will learn how to use te iku to express continuation in Japanese. The conversation takes place on a television news program and features a newscaster and the president of a hamburger chain. The newscaster is speaking formal Japanese, while the chain president speaks informal Japanese. We will also explain the Japanese concept of wabi sabi. 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! During a road trip to Tokyo, you decide to teach your Japanese friends how to play twenty questions. Once your friends understand the game, they are able to dominate play, since they are native Japanese speakers and have a much wider vocabulary. Of course, it would help if you knew more Japanese adjectives, but you try to guess what they are thinking of with just the Japanese words you know. When you start to run out of Japanese words to describe things, your friends teach you new ones. Who knew learning Japanese adjectives could be so much fun! In this lesson, you will learn how to describe what something is like in Japanese. The conversation takes place outdoors between three distant family members ; therefore, 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!


You have just arrived in Japan to learn Japanese, and it’s everything you thought it would be and more. People are speaking Japanese in shops and on the streets. Living abroad is not so different from home, only everywhere you go, you meet native Japanese speakers. Thank goodness you have picked up even more Japanese, so you can understand and talk in Japanese with all these people around you!

This Japanese video series is a brand new way to learn Japanese. Learn everyday vocabulary and key verbs in this Japanese video lesson. Read the Japanese lesson notes to learn about the Japanese present tense, present progressive tense, and simple past tense. Join us, and see what you’ve been missing! 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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This is it! Lucky 2011 is the year you stop procrastinating and finally learn Japanese and not just a few lines like “Hello” and “Sorry, I don’t speak Japanese” but REAL Japanese. You’re going to learn how the locals speak, perfect your pronunciation, grow your vocabulary and learn about Japanese culture so you’re totally ready for that trip to Japan you’ve been planning all these years. And you’re going to do all that in just one year, right? Well, if the thought of committing yourself to 12-months of self-study overwhelms you, might we suggest taking a different approach to New Year’s resolutions? Instead of buying every textbook on the market and spending all your Christmas money on expensive computer language programs, why not just take it one step at a time? Day-by-day, month-by-month. And hey, we just so happen to have the perfect solution that will get you started on the road to fluency and won’t break the bank either!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re having the time of your life in your study abroad program in Japan…so much so that you don’t want to leave! You are starting to miss your family, and you know they are missing you, so you call your parents and tell them in Japanese, “Why don’t you come and visit when I have my spring break?” Your parents respond in English, “Well, we would like to see you, but it’s such a long flight.” You plead with your parents in Japanese, “You guys haven’t been to Japan in years. When is the next time you’ll have a reason to come here? This is the perfect time to visit because I can show you around and you can show me what’s changed since you left.” Your parents hem and haw a bit, but they finally agree in Japanese, “We’ll come visit you for a week, but we expect you to slow down and entertain us while we’re there. You invited us to visit, after all!” Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will teach you how to use the Japanese conjunction kara to provide a reason or cause for something. We’ll also show you how to form an invitation or suggestion using this versatile Japanese conjunction. Don’t forget to put JapanesePod101.com on your list of invitees for your next party! 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!