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SurvivalPhrases.com - Learn essential travel phrases, cultural insights and travel tips in 12 languages.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!
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!
Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Two offices buddies are talking about some of their bad habits. Even thought they don’t share habits, they share something much deeper: izonshō ni nariyasui (they’re easily addicted to things). We’ll look at 2 ways to use bakari, as well as a few colloquial variations. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Last week the children learned about Oasis and what to do in an emergency. But today, two students’ disagreement turns into a disaster of its own! Today we’ll look at using the particle bakari (nothing but/only) and the phrase kuse ni (in spite of). After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today we meet Yoko Yamaguchi, the final key player in soon to be award winning mini-series.(lol) Today she meets with the Dean of the school, so it must be something important! Also in the edition, guest appearances by Eri and the “Dean”. You don’t want to miss part 3 of this on going soap!
Category: Beginner Lessons (S3) | 19 Comments »
Grammar: bakari, dake, shika | Function: comparing shika and dake and bakari, complaining | Topic: dinner, suki yaki | Politeness Level: casual
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