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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re on your way to meet your new host family in Japan, and you’re nervous about meeting them. In fact, you’re fidgeting so much your taxi driver asks you in Japanese, “Are you feeling okay?” You assure him in Japanese, “Yes, I’m fine, just let me decompress from my travels,” but really, your mind is going a million miles a minute. You’ve heard other positive stories about staying in Japan from your friends who have done it before, and they all tell you they learned a ton of Japanese and made some great Japanese friends. You’re definitely looking forward to those two things-especially since your Japanese grade could use a little bit of help. However, you’re also worried about some cultural differences with the Japanese. You’re wondering whether your host family is going to take you to one of the Japanese public baths. It’s not like anything you’ve ever been to back home and the idea kind of creeps you out even though you know the Japanese are very meticulous and polite people. Oh well, you’re here at your Japanese host family’s house! You pay the cab driver, spring out of the cab, and knock on the front door…
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will describe several ways you can construct causative sentences in Japanese. We’ll also give you tips on which Japanese particle you should use depending on the sentence construction. 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! On New Year’s Eve, you turn on the television in your Tokyo apartment, expecting to see the Japanese equivalent of Dick Clark. Instead, you get the Japanese version of American Idol-a three-hour version of women and men competing against each other in a singing competition. It’s not quite the apple dropping, but it’ll do. Just be careful not to have nightmares about bad Japanese karaoke afterwards-popular Japanese lore suggests your first dream of the New Year is a strong predictor of what will come throughout the year!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese All About lesson will clue you in about Japan’s five most important holidays. Interestingly enough, you’ll learn that the Japanese have incorporated spring cleaning into one of their most important Japanese holidays-as well as traditions involving Japanese family and food. And you won’t want to miss your three-day weekends, so put these dates on your Japanese calendar now. 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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re ready to learn the kanji that means “spring.” It might look hard at first glance. But, you’ve already learned the kanji components you need to get it just right.
This Japanese video lesson shows you step-by-step how to draw the kanji that means “spring.” You’ll be surprised at how simple it really is! As always, don’t miss the helpful sample words and phrases that utilize today’s kanji.
Going to a hot spring or public bath? You’ll need to know the proper etiquette if you want to be comfortable and get the most of your time there. In this series we’ll walk you through step by step, so you can bathe like a pro and impress everyone with your knowledge of Japanese culture! Today we’ll learn how to make commands and negative commands in Japanese. This is done with imperatives in Japanese. We’ll also learn the Japanese phrase -te wa ikenai to make prohibitions.
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Going to a hot spring or public bath? You’ll need to know the proper etiquette if you want to be comfortable and get the most of your time there. In this series we’ll walk you through step by step, so you can bathe like a pro and impress everyone with your knowledge of Japanese culture! Our grammar point is how to use tame ni to express purpose in Japanese. Be sure to get the PDF, because we explain a couple of other uses of tame ni that you’ll need to know to master Japanese!
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