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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friends say they are going to introduce you to one of the great Japanese cultural events. But they won’t tell you where you’re going until you get there. You trust your Japanese friends, so you know it won’t be awful. But still, you’re getting a little nervous. What if they’ve arranged for a trip to a traditional Japanese bathhouse. You don’t think you could do that. However, as you get off the train, you see lots of people streaming into a building, so it looks to be okay. There couldn’t be that many people taking a bath all at once. Your friends hand you a ticket and announce you’re going to see a Japanese sumo wrestling match. “No way,” you exclaim in Japanese. At least you had the presence to say it in Japanese. “Yes,” they tell you in Japanese, “You’ll love it.” After you get to your seat, you see two enormous Japanese men staring at one another and you notice a small ring between them. You think the ring can’t be big enough to hold the two of them at once, much less allow them to wrestle. The gigantic Japanese men stretch and limber up. They each toss something—you know not what—over a shoulder and start to place themselves in the ring. The official checks each man. The two fighters tense and grimace. The official suddenly signals the start of the match. The giants catapult themselves at each other on thighs thicker than telephone poles. And it’s over in less than three seconds. “Wow, amazing!” you say in Japanese! But your friends stare in amazement at you because you have gotten the Japanese phrases correct all night!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson introduces you to three of the informal or casual Japanese phrases you will likely hear native Japanese speakers use frequently. It’s important to be formal and polite on the correct occasions in Japan, but it’s also important to know when to be informal or casual. 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! Have you heard the stories about the unbelievable size of apartments in Japan? In this Japanese lesson, we’re going to find out if Japanese apartments are really as small as rumor leads many to believe. In addition, we’ll learn what’s in a typical Japanese apartment and how to talk about the location of things in Japanese. We’ll also look at Japanese numbers. The Japanese grammar we’ll look at is Japanese demonstratives, often called ko-, so-, a-, do- words.
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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! If you’re like most people, this is just about the time you begin to panic, in search of that one truly romantic, unique gift to express just how much you love your significant other. Chocolates? Flowers? A really sappy card? An eight-carat diamond anniversary ring? All those things are nice, but if you’re looking for something really special, something that says you spent some time actually thinking about your special someone, JapanesePod101.com has something BREATHTAKING for you!! JapanesePod101.com has put together an extraordinary Valentine’s Day YouTube Video! Imagine eating dinner on Valentine’s Day with the one you love, you reach across the table, take his or her hand in yours, and you whisper ‘I love you’, first in French, then Korean, then Japanese, then Italian… You get the picture. Suddenly, your love is swooning at the romantic gesture. Does it get more romantic than that?? And with JapanesePod101.com’s new Valentine’s Day YouTube Video, it couldn’t get any easier to impress the one you love either!
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Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Ryuta and Satoko have reached Hokkaido and the clear, starry Sapporo night sky provides the perfect setting for a telling of the Tanabata legend. Tune in to hear about Orihime and Hikoboshi, the love they shared, and almost lost. In today’s grammar point, we introduce the ~ga yoi/ii Japanese grammar construction. Be sure to tune in, and leave us a post at JapanesePod101.com!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You just arrived in Japan ready for a great adventure! Of course, that will include meeting many wonderful people while you are here. However, with all of your preparations for your travels, you forgot one little detail. The very first person you meet smiles, bows, and says something to you in Japanese. What? You smile back and bow…but what did he say? He smiles and repeats what he said before in Japanese, “Pleased to meet you. My name is….” That would be your cue to say something in return, but you just keep bowing and smiling because you don’t know how to introduce yourself in Japanese. How many people did you think you would meet in Japan without knowing basic Japanese introductions?
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Video lesson will teach you how to introduce yourself in Japanese. Hiroko will take you step-by-step through the pronunciations of each Japanese word and have you introducing yourself in Japanese in just three minutes! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more great Japanese lesson and learning materials. Leave us a message while you are there!
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