Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s your first day of your summer job at the Japanese radio station, and you’re walking around greeting the people you’ll be working with. When you meet the host of a popular Japanese radio show, you’re surprised at how humble he is and taken aback when he kindly allows you to sit in his studio during an interview with a famous guest. You love your job already!
In this lesson, you will learn how to how to use the causative to say “someone kindly let me/allowed me to do something” in Japanese. The conversation takes place on a radio program between a radio host and an etiquette teacher. Because they are speaking in a professional capacity to their audience, they are using formal Japanese. We’ll also share some insight into Japanese funeral rituals. 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 Japanese host family’s dog passed away unexpectedly, and everyone is distraught. The parents tell you they’re hosting a funeral for the dog, believing it will give their children closure, and they ask you to attend it. You come out of your room at the appointed time and find the family in black suits and school uniforms. You, however, are in your gym clothes!
In this lesson, you’ll learn more about Japanese causative verbs. Specifically, you’ll find out how to use the causative to ask for permission to do something in Japanese. Our conversation takes place between a radio show host and an etiquette teacher, who are both speaking professionally to a radio audience, so they both use formal Japanese. We will also teach you about Japanese funeral traditions. 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’re finishing up at the hair salon—you have an important event tonight, and you promised your date in Japanese that you’d look your best. The hairdresser seems pleased with herself, and she tells you in Japanese that she’s done her best work. When she hands you a mirror so you can admire yourself, you gasp. This isn’t what you asked her to do in Japanese! How will you explain this to your date in Japanese!
In this lesson, you’ll continue learning about Japanese causative verbs. Specifically, you’ll learn about Japanese causative verbs involving emotion, particularly making someone laugh and cry. Today’s Japanese conversation takes place at school between high school students who are classmates; therefore, they will be speaking informal 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! When you attend your school reunion in Japan, you spot a classmate who tormented you as a child. She used to bully you, but you’d try to stand up to her in Japanese. Whenever you told her “make me” in Japanese, she’d call your bluff and pull your hair, steal your homework, or do something to make you comply with her wishes. Maybe you should walk over to the food table rather than talk to her! In this lesson, you’ll learn how to say “to let/to make someone go somewhere” or “to let/to make someone do something” in Japanese. Today’s Japanese conversation takes place at school between a high school student’s mother and his teacher; since the speakers do not know each other well, they 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! 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!











