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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When your mother offers you some vegetables with your dinner, you decline, explaining in Japanese that you would prefer not to eat them. When she presses you about your health and the importance of eating a balanced diet, you insist that you cannot eat them. You tell her in Japanese that your mouth is hurting and you can’t crunch on the vegetables right now. When she replies that you shouldn’t make excuses, you remind her that you just had a cavity filled at the dentist! In this lesson, you will learn about the negative markers -zu and -nu. Our Japanese conversation takes place on the phone between a mother and her son. Since the speakers 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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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Recently Miki visited one of Japan’s most treasured World Heritage sites, the famous Shirokawa Village (also known as Shirokawago). Today she’ll tell us about the unique gassho-zukkuri homes there. It’s a really interesting place for people who want to see a bit of old Japan. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave Miki a post!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! After an intense session on the dance floor at a Japanese nightclub, you rejoin your friends at the bar. You ask your Japanese friends how you looked while you were dancing, and they seem to not know what to say. Finally, one person pipes up and explains that you might be better off with the other animals at the Japanese zoo. You’re surprised at the criticism, but that would explain why everyone else exited the dance floor!
In this lesson, you will learn how to talk about animate objects in Japanese using imasu. You’ll also learn how to form tag questions in Japanese. The conversation takes place at the zoo in Japan between three distant family members; therefore, they are 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!
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Do you feel overworked? Think you might be working yourself to death? In Japan, people really do, quite literally, work themselves to death (karōshi). In this lesson, we talk about the contributing factors in Japanese society that cause karōshi. It may seem unimaginable, but it’s a serious reality of the Japanese lifestyle. If you’re studying for JLPT1 or JLPT2, you’ll need to know how to use naninani wo ii koto ni… suru, which is used to describe “taking advantage of a situation by underhanded means.” Also we’ll take a look at words useful for describing statistical relationships. These are must-know phrases if you plan to do business in Japanese (and subsequently work yourself to death, lol).

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! While you’re at the mall in Japan, you spy a bunch of things that you want, but the price tags make you think twice about buying them. You decide that when your parents come to Japan, you’ll give them the opportunity to help you shop—you’re sure they’ll enjoy helping you, and you’ll benefit from their generosity. Hopefully they’ll go along with your plan! In this lesson, you will learn how to say that someone is going to do something for you in Japanese. Today, our conversation takes place between the emcee of a cooking show and a chef on televised cooking show. The speakers are talking to the audience; therefore, they are speaking in formal Japanese. We’ll also review how to use three Japanese helping verbs. 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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