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!
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!
Have Fun Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Hajime and Yasumi are old friends but Hajime just recently moved to the suburban town of Kawagoe. Most Tokyoites aren’t too familiar with the ins & outs of Saitama Prefecture, so this lesson is, naturally, about asking and giving directions. We’ll focus on public transportation functions in this lesson, so this will be important for your day-to-day survival in Japan. Our grammar point is using the so-called to conditional. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Fabrizio went salsa dancing with Fuyuka in Roppongi, then he popped into a friend’s bar for drinks. He rushed to the station to catch a train home. But there might be a small problem. He’s going to ask the eki’in (station attendant) what’s going on. Let’s hope he makes it home tonight! We’ll continue our particle review and time review as well as work on a little bit of pronunciation. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today is the birthday of a certain daimyō (feudal lord) who intends to rent out one of Japan’s most famous and beautiful castles for a crazy all night party. The party will even be attended by one of the most famous foreigners in all of Japanese History, Commodore Matthew Perry. We’ll be looking at some archaic grammatical structures commonly associated with the samurai class. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S2) | 13 Comments »
Grammar: ba, ba conditional, be, conditional, counter factual conditional | Function: expressing how things could have been, starting a fight | Topic: crazy party, Dasaitama, dialect, Ikebukuro, Kawagoe, male speech, pizza, Saitama, suburbs | Politeness Level: casual, Informal
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