Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re trying to tell your friend a story in Japanese over the phone, but you have so many interruptions that you keep losing your place in the story. The noise from the bustling Japanese market is distracting. As you negotiate the price over something in Japanese, you ask your friend to tell you where you were in the story. She is about to respond when you interrupt to explain that the vendor just started to yell at you in Japanese, so you need to call her later!
In this lesson, you will learn how to say “something has just happened” or “someone has just done something” in Japanese. Today’s conversation takes place on a rocky cliff in Japan between two strangers, who are both 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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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! After a solid few weeks of studying for the Japanese proficiency exam, you think you’re ready to check in and see how much you’ve progressed. You work hard on the Japanese practice test, and you even finish with time to spare, so you’re feeling pretty confident. Of course, your friend was in the room taking the practice test too, and you inevitably discuss the test in Japanese while you’re walking out of the library where the exam was administered. Your friend asks you in Japanese, “How did the test go?” You respond in Japanese, “Well, some parts were harder than I expected, but I thought a lot of it was easy. How about you?” Your friend replies in Japanese, “Well, about the same, I guess. That one question about the Japanese ships was pretty difficult.” You inquire in Japanese, “What ships? There was a question about ships?” Your friend tells you in Japanese, “Were we taking the same test? Yes, it’s true that ships were on the test…it was part of a reading comprehension question.” You reply in Japanese, “That’s troubling. Maybe I’m not as prepared as I thought!” Your friend says in Japanese, “Don’t worry yet! I might be mistaken.” You sigh and tell your friend in Japanese, “You’ve been outdoing me on tests since elementary school. Why will this one be any different?
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese JLPT lesson will tell you what you’ll find in question two of the reading comprehension section of the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam. In this lesson, we’ll review the some of the Japanese expressions that appear most frequently on this exam. Investing some time in this Japanese lesson is sure to pay off! 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! What’s this about the passive voice? You have always heard from all your teachers of English that you shouldn’t use the passive voice, and now here your Japanese instructor is telling you to use it! In fact, your instructor tells you in Japanese, “You should be prepared to see the passive voice a lot on the Japanese proficiency exam! Because of that, we’ll be practicing using the passive voice often in this class!” You tell your teacher in Japanese, “Wow, it almost feels like Christmas since we’ll be able to use this voice. It feels like we’re getting away with something! I’ve never used the passive voice before!” Your instructor corrects you in Japanese, “You mean ‘The passive voice has never been used by you before!’”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese JLPT lesson will teach you about the third part of the grammar and reading comprehension section on the Japanese proficiency exam. We’ll teach you how to form the passive and causative forms of Japanese verbs. We’ll also teach you some very important Japanese particles used with these Japanese verb forms that differ in usage from their English counterparts. 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 at JapanesePod101.com! Finally we made it to the exciting conclusion of “The Meet Up” series. Taro and Taro’s father and Kumi are all eating dinner together and it seems like things are starting to fall apart. We’ll be reviewing all three limitation particles; dake, shika, and bakari. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! This week Kumi is still waiting for her (human) boyfriend, Taro. The friendly security guard tries to cheer her up, but maybe it’s too late. Our grammar point is bakari, used to mean “nothing but” or “only.” We’ll also cover a few adverbs of probability, very useful in spoken Japanese. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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