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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Walking back to your apartment in Japan, you suddenly remember you must make a doctor’s appointment for a physical. Your new employer requires that you take a physical to qualify for the company health and life insurance programs, and you have to get your physical this week. Using your new Japanese cell phone, you call the doctor’s office. You hear the receptionist say in Japanese, “This is the doctor’s office. How can I help you?” You hope your answer is understandable Japanese, “I’d like to make an appointment for a physical. I can come in from eleven to two in the afternoon.” Her answer comes immediately, “Of course, we do many physicals for company insurance programs. In fact, we have one doctor who dedicates half of his day just to giving physicals for school and work starting at twelve in the afternoon and continuing until six in the evening to accommodate people that can’t get off work to get them.” In Japanese, you answer, “Can I come in tomorrow sometime from four to six o’clock?” The helpful receptionist answers in Japanese, “I’m sorry; we’re all booked for tomorrow, but we’re not booked from Monday to Wednesday at that time. Could you come in on one of those days?” “Sure,” you answer in Japanese, “I’ll come in on Monday at six o’clock.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson discusses the Japanese particles of time. For this lesson, it’s the Japanese particles kara, made, and ni, that you’ll learn about. 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! You are boarding the plane to go to Japan for your vacation. The pilot comes on and welcomes you to your twelve-hour flight to Japan. You turn to your friend and say in Japanese, “Are you kidding me? I have to sit on here for twelve hours?” Your friend responds in Japanese, “You didn’t know this already?” You reply in Japanese, “No, I didn’t really think about it.” Your friend tells you in Japanese, “Well, Japan really isn’t that far away. We’ll be there before you know it.” You say to your friend in Japanese, “I can’t sleep the whole way. What am I going to do?” Your friend hands you a book, a magazine, and an iPod and tells you in Japanese, “The flight is not that long. Anyway, I am prepared for the trip…I’ll take care of you. Just sit back and relax.” You tell your friend in Japanese, “It’s impossible!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will teach you how to form the negative of certain Japanese adjectives. We’ll also teach you how to convince someone to agree with you in Japanese. That sounds like an easy Japanese task, doesn’t it? We thought you’d see it our way! 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! “Come watch the television with us,” your friends tell you in Japanese. Since they spoke in Japanese, you answer in the same, “Why, what’s so important to watch?” “The launch,” they reply in Japanese. “Don’t you know about the launch?” “What launch? Is it a boat? A ship? A new vacation cruise ship?” They all look at you as if you were a little off. Of course, your friends are all very savvy in technology, but you’re not, so you get those kinds of looks often. “The rocket launch,” they say, “Don’t you know the Japanese Space Agency is launching a rocket today?” You didn’t even know Japan had a space agency. “They’re televising the launch, and we all want to watch it. Come with us. It’ll be great.” Well, they are your friends, so you decide to go along. At least the picture on the television is a really good one. You can see every detail of the rocket as you watch the final moments before countdown. Countdown! Now you can hear the announcer countdown in Japanese, “Ten, nine,…” Amazing! You can understand every word of the Japanese countdown!!!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson teaches you the numbers in Japanese from one to ten. Obviously, these are some of the most important things to know in Japanese. You can’t do much shopping in Japan unless you know the Japanese numbers. You can’t talk to an operator to get a number in Japanese. You can’t do much of anything without knowing the Japanese numbers. 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 picked up two Japanese boxed lunches on your way to work for yourself and your friend. When you picked up the lunches, you told the caterer in Japanese, “Just give me your best dishes.” You’ve always had good food from this place, so you figure it’s safe to offer to your Japanese friend. When you arrive at work, you join your friend in the conference room and tell him in Japanese, “Wait till you try this food! It’s always delicious.” Your friend opens the box and says in Japanese, “Well, I’m sure you’re right, but what is this?” You respond in Japanese, “What do you think it is?” Your colleague tells you in Japanese, “It looks like vegetables, but it smells like something else entirely. What do you have?” You reply in Japanese, “I don’t think I have the same thing…this looks entirely different. I guess we’ll have to try each other’s to find out what these things are and decide what tastes best.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will teach you how to ask what something is in informal Japanese. We’ll also teach you the proper responses in Japanese, including how to say whether something is good or bad. 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! 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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