This feature requires an Active Premium subscription. Sign in or register for a 7-Day Free Trial today. Click link for more info.
This feature requires an Active Basic subscription. Sign in or register for a 7-Day Free Trial today. Click link for more info.
Welcome! Sign in below or start free trial.
Login
Remember?
Password
 sign-in
menu_leftlearn japanese with daily japanese lessonslearningcenterJapanesePod101 ForumsJapanesePod101 Blogdownloadsstoreaccountmenu_left

Latest News

Knocking on 101 Million Downloads! Sign up for a free lifetime account and be entered to win an upgr... Click Here For More News!
New Kanji Stroke Order Database! We have added a new section to JapanesePod101.com, an online kanji database with animated stroke order! Our database has thousands of kanji with their meaning and readings, and stroke order animations. The animations will show you the strokes drawn out step-by-step. Go to japanesepod101.com/learnkanji. Try it out, and let us know what you think!
BONUS Audio Lesson in February's Monthly Newsletter! The JapanesePod101.com Team hit the sound booth to record a special bonus audio lesson just for you but you can only download it in this month's February Newsletter. Keep an eye on your inbox for all the latest news, top blog posts and audio lessons - and this month, a FREE bonus audio lesson!
Say "I Love You" in any language! Valentine's Day is near and we want to help you impress the one your love with your language skills! Check out our Valentine's Day video brought to you by all of us at Innovative Language Learning. Head over to the JapanesePod101.com YouTube Channel to check it out!

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Click…click…click. You can’t sleep in your Japanese hotel bed. Something’s just not right…maybe the Japanese don’t like their pillows fluffed as much as you do. You’re not sure what’s going on with your sleep patterns since you’ve been in Japan, but since you can’t sleep, you’re watching late-night Japanese television. On one channel, the weatherman predicts in Japanese, “If you’re outside tomorrow, you better take an umbrella. We have a ninety percent chance of rain.” Click! You land on a news channel, where the news anchor reports in Japanese, “If the United States President doesn’t take swift action, the stock market will continue to suffer.” Click! What’s this? It looks like a Japanese infomercial…you decide to tune in to see whether you can get a deal!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will review how to use the Japanese conditional structures involving to and tara. We’ll tell you when you should use one or the other of these Japanese structures and the restrictions on one of these Japanese words. So get ready to make a deal and review these important Japanese grammar points! 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, tv shopping,
Grammar: , , | Topic: | Politeness Level:

Feeling the cash crunch in Tokyo? It’s easy to spend to much money in Tokyo. But in this series, we’ll give you the tips and language skills you need to save money in Japan! In today’s episode, two Japanese hosts are talking about how to save (or the case of the guy with a sugar mommy, how to spend!) their hard earned yen.

In today’s Japanese lesson, we’ll review useful vocabulary for discussing finances. Then we’ll learn how to use the -ba conditional with yokatta, the past tense of the Japanese adjective ii, which means good. This is how you say “I wish” in Japanese. This useful expression is often used in everyday Japanese conversation, so it’s an important grammar point to learn if you want to master Japanese.

Save Money in Japan at a Japanese Bank


Learning How to Give Directions in Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! The directions Hajime gave Yasumi sent him in a circle around the town of Kawagoe. Nearly at the same place he began he arrives at his friend’s house. He’s probably worked up quite an appetite, good thing it’s a pizza party! Our grammar point is the -ba conditional, used to express counter-factual states. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!


Start Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Tokyo’s a big city, so it’s good to be armed with a few helpful phrases to help you out if you get lost. Today’s grammar point is the to conditional which is used to link a one condition to a resulting state or action. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

NTT Building Viewed From Shinjuku


Have Fun Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! We’re continuing to take a look at asking and giving directions in Japanese. Yasumi has started his journey and is going to change trains at Ikebukuro station (one of the 3 busiest train stations in the world!). There are a lot of different types of trains, including local and express. So he’ll have to ask which is the right train to take. Our grammar point is nara, a conditional form of the copula. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!