Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s almost the one-year anniversary of your first date in Japan, and you’re sure your boyfriend is about to pop the question. You’ve been dropping subtle hints in Japanese, but you’re wondering whether your boyfriend is deliberately ignoring them or is just clueless. One day, you ask him in Japanese, “Have you been doing any shopping lately?” He responds, “No, you know I hate to shop. Why do you ask?” You reply in Japanese, “I just thought with our anniversary around the corner that you might have been thinking about what to buy me.” Surprised, he asks you in Japanese, “Our what?” You tell him in Japanese, “Um…our one-year anniversary?” He responds in Japanese, “I’m sorry. That wasn’t on my radar. When is it?” You tell him in Japanese, “It’s in a couple of weeks, just before we go on our vacation. I guess this means you haven’t thought about getting me a present, doesn’t it!”
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Learn Japanese With JapanesePod101.com! One of the most common sentences we use talks about being “without.” Here are some examples: “I stayed up all night without going to bed,” and “She said she would marry him without even meeting him in person!” If you want to speak Japanese fluently, you must use sentences that include the word “without.”
This important lower intermediate lesson introduces you to –zu ni (without doing something). You’ll learn to use this phrase in a number of ways to form sentences that are part of almost all Japanese conversations. As an added bonus, find a number of Japanese vocabulary words and example sentences that you can weave into your own Japanese. This JapanesePod101.com lesson makes learning an especially important Japanese phrase easy and fun!

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