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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re in the middle of your Japanese homework when you hear the dryer beep. You could use a break, so you start folding your laundry. Before you can finish, the oven beeps, so you grab the cookies you were baking, leaving the laundry strewn about. Next, the doorbell buzzes, and your Japanese friend is at the door. She observes the mess and tells you she’ll visit when things calm down! In this lesson, you will learn how to use hajimeru, tuzukeru, and -owaru in Japanese. The conversation takes place in a home economics class at school between a Japanese teacher and some students. The teacher is speaking formal Japanese to her students. The students are speaking formal Japanese with their teacher and informal Japanese to each other. We will also discuss Japanese cooking teriyaki style. 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!


You never really got into cooking until you moved to Japan. Now that you live here, you seem to be cooking all the time because Japanese food is so different than what you’re used to. This can sometimes be a problem — especially when you don’t know the Japanese how to express what you need. Looks like you not only need to work on how to read recipes in Japanese, but your Japanese fluency and vocabulary. In this lesson you’ll learn Japanese recipes for fluency that are sure to help you cook up some great Japanese conversation!

This Japanese video series is a brand new way to learn Japanese. Learn everyday vocabulary and key verbs in this Japanese video lesson. Read the Japanese lesson notes to learn about the Japanese verb tenses.. Join us, and see what you’ve been missing! 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! While you’re at the mall in Japan, you spy a bunch of things that you want, but the price tags make you think twice about buying them. You decide that when your parents come to Japan, you’ll give them the opportunity to help you shop—you’re sure they’ll enjoy helping you, and you’ll benefit from their generosity. Hopefully they’ll go along with your plan! In this lesson, you will learn how to say that someone is going to do something for you in Japanese. Today, our conversation takes place between the emcee of a cooking show and a chef on televised cooking show. The speakers are talking to the audience; therefore, they are speaking in formal Japanese. We’ll also review how to use three Japanese helping verbs. 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! You told some friends you’d make dinner for them this weekend, but now you’re thinking to yourself in Japanese, “What have I done? I’ve never cooked for anyone before!” You call your mother in a panic and ask her in Japanese, “What can I make for dinner for a group of friends?” Your mother responds in Japanese, “You can make something easy like pasta, or maybe you can order takeout so you don’t have to cook?” You whine in Japanese, “But Mom, I promised them I would cook for them!” Your mother tells you in Japanese, “You only have a few days before dinner, but you could watch a few cooking shows on television and the Internet. Maybe you can pick up some tricks and learn some new dishes.” You tell your mother in Japanese, “Those are great suggestions! I knew you’d know what to do!”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Beginner lesson will teach you how to use two Japanese words that mean “only” - dake and shika. We’ll also teach you some Japanese expressions that you can use to explain the order of something. 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! It’s after midnight, and since you are having trouble sleeping, you decide to turn on the Japanese television station that you usually watch, hoping to catch up on some news. Instead of the usual entertainment news program that airs during this time slot, you find a Japanese infomercial. The Japanese salesperson is pretty excited about this product—some kind of special hangers. You wonder to yourself in Japanese, “What is so special about hangers? There are only so many different ways to make them, and some are plastic, wood, and metal. You put clothes on them and forget about them, right?” Your interest piqued, you decide to tune in to find out what makes these Japanese hangers so special. When the salesperson exclaims in Japanese, “Look at how much room was saved in this tiny closet. Just by using these special hangers, we gained enough space to hang fifteen more garments!” After viewing the before and after photos of this closet, you’re hooked. You and your significant other have been fighting about closet space in your cramped Japanese apartment for months, and this seems like just the ticket to earn yourself a few more inches!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will teach you the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs in Japanese. Before you wind up in a panic about learning more Japanese grammar, let us assure you that our handy charts will make learning these Japanese verbs as easy as pie! 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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