Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Ugh. First day at your new job, and your friend is working alongside you to help you practice those pesky Japanese counters. You ask your friend in Japanese, “How many of these pencils should there be?” You hear the answer, but it doesn’t sound right to you. “You call back, “How many pencils?” Once again, your Japanese friend answers, and once again you don’t understand. You studied your numbers all the way up to more than ten-thousand, and you went over the Japanese counters all night last night. You thought you knew them well. Your friend cannot have more pencils in inventory than ten-thousand. You’re beginning to have doubts as to your sanity. You know your Japanese well enough to ask in Japanese, “How many? That doesn’t sound right.” Why can’t she tell you how many pencils there are supposed to be…or why can’t you understand her?! “I can’t understand you,” you repeat in Japanese, completely frustrated. Excitedly, she replies in Japanese, “You are right! I was saying the Japanese counter wrong on purpose to test you! Your Japanese lessons are REALLY paying off!” Phew!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson introduces more Japanese counters. There are a couple of tricks to counting in Japanese. It’s easy: long, short or round, and flat. Add these Japanese counters a to your Japanese numbers and you’re on your way. You’ll be Japanese counting whiz. 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 have decided to take the job your friend’s father has offered you in his Japanese shop. After you and your friend helped him take inventory in his silk flower shop, he offered you the job as a clerk. And you are excited because you can certainly use some extra spending money in Japan, but mostly, you can use the time to practice your counting in Japanese. Now, the day before you’re supposed to start, your Japanese friend asks you, “Oh, in your Japanese lessons, did you get to the part about the Japanese counting counters?” “What Japanese counting counters?” you ask. “Well,” she hesitates, “maybe we should take a look at your next Japanese lesson. You’ve learned to count, so the next thing you learn should be about Japanese counters.” A little confused, you answer in Japanese, “It might be. Let’s take a look now. I have the next Japanese lesson right here on my computer.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson introduces the Japanese general counter. There are a couple of tricks to counting in Japanese, and this lesson shows you the tricks to get around these tricks. 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! Taking inventory in a Japanese silk flower shop is harder than you thought. Your friend’s father owns the place and they both asked you to join them in taking inventory. You thought it would be an easy way to spend an hour or two counting silk flowers. You have learned how to count in Japanese, so how difficult could it be, right? Little did you realize the scope. You’re friend’s father has many thousands of silk flowers and hundreds of different types. He buys them from all over Japan and other parts of the Far East, and he sells them all over Japan by mail order. You’ve been counting in Japanese for so long that you have lost track of the time. His warehouse is huge, and all the labels for everything are in Japanese. What did you expect? Did you think he’d keep all his records, inventory, and labels in the warehouse in Russian? At least they promised you a wonderful Japanese dinner after the inventory is done. Well, you’re definitely getting lots of practice with your Japanese numbers. By the time this is over, you’ll be counting in Japanese like a native.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson extends your knowledge of Japanese numbers to one-thousand. For money, distances, and many other purposes, you’ll need to count in Japanese to at least one-thousand. There is nothing tricky about these numbers. You’ll be counting to one-thousand in Japanese overnight, but let’s hope you don’t have to count that many sheep in Japanese to fall asleep. 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! Now you really feel like you’ve become a part of Japan. The father of your Japanese friend owns a store that sells artificial silk flowers and he has asked you to help her take inventory at his store. “What are we going to do?” you ask her on the way. “We’re going to count each separate inventory item in the store,” she explains in Japanese. Then we will give the information to my father who will match the information with that in the computer. If the numbers match, fine; if not, we have to recount to make sure we have an exact count of each inventory item.” “So this is an important part of business in Japan?” you ask. She replies in Japanese, “It’s an important part of business everywhere. My father’s silk flowers come from all over Japan, and some are very expensive. We must know the inventory.” Well, they must trust your ability to count in Japanese if they’re going to trust you with something as important as inventory. Arriving at the store, you are suddenly overwhelmed. You tell your friend in Japanese, “You did not tell me your father’s flower store was this HUGE!” Hesitant, your friend shyly replies in Japanese, “Well, you will get plenty of practice counting in Japanese. And once we’re finished with the inventory, my father will take us out for a big, wonderful, Japanese dinner with lots of food and sake.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson continues your trek through the Japanese number system, this time all the way to one-hundred. A few little tricks of combining what you’ve already learned already and in no time, you’ll be counting sheep in your sleep in 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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! “Why are you telling me to “shush?” you ask your friend in Japanese? “I’m just observing what’s going on. Why do I have to be quiet? What’s going on here?” Your friend has been shushing you ever since you started counting the waiters in Japanese in the little ramen shop where you’ve come to eat. It just does not make much sense. You can see only a very few tables and chairs, but lots of waiters. Why would a ramen shop have more waiters than chairs for customers? And your friend just keeps repeating, “shush” to make you keep still. You couldn’t have counted wrong. You know how to count in Japanese very well. Maybe the words you used to count weren’t right in Japanese. Maybe your friend was trying to save you the embarrassment of using the wrong Japanese counting words. Yeah, that must be it. How embarrassing!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson helps you through a special section of Japanese, using one of the suffixes used so often in Japanese. You’ll learn a lot about ga and how to use this little, but important, part of 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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