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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! As a relative newcomer to the country of Japan, you are learning your way around the Japanese city where you live, enjoying sampling Japanese cuisine, and making some Japanese friends. Your Japanese language skills are far from perfect, but you are so thankful that your Japanese aunt taught you a very important lesson before you moved to Japan: how to introduce yourself in the Japanese tradition. These skills have helped your transition immensely!

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to introduce yourself in Japanese. Our Japanese conversation is a monologue, and the speaker is speaking formal Japanese. You’ll also learn how the order of names in Japanese introductions differs from what we are used to in Western society. 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! Welcome to JapanesePod101.com’s Learn Japanese Grammar Video Series-Absolute Beginner. Over twenty-five video lessons, we will teach you the absolute essentials of Japanese grammar using a powerful combination of audio and video. Each audio grammar explanation is enhanced with motion graphics so you can follow along visually every step of the way. Are you ready for an all-new way to learn Japanese grammar and expressions? Join us for our Learn Japanese Grammar Video Series at JapanesePod101.com!

JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese. In this video lesson, you’ll learn how to ask where something is in Japanese, and you’ll also learn the important words for “here”, “there”, and “over there”. Are you ready to learn even more Japanese? Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources, including other great videos like this one, audio podcasts, review materials, applications, and more. Leave us a message while you are there!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When your Japanese friends introduce you to their other friends from Japan, most of them have been able to speak in your native language. However, today you met someone who speaks only Japanese. The person greets you politely and looks expectantly at you, awaiting your response. You look to your friend, who prompts you to bow and repeat after him in Japanese, but you don’t want to rely on your friend’s translation skills throughout your travels. To avoid further awkwardness, you decide to master the art of Japanese self-introduction! In this lesson, you will learn how to greet someone for the first time and say your name in Japanese. In the conversation, two strangers meet, and from them you will learn how to use formal Japanese to introduce yourself. 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’re about to meet a bunch of Japanese people for the first time, so you’re a bit nervous. You wonder whether they’ll be able to understand your Japanese. Maybe they’ll send you back for remedial Japanese lessons after they hear you! Your friend tells you in Japanese, “You should relax.” You respond in Japanese, “That’s easy for you to say…you’re not the one meeting a bunch of people who don’t speak your language.” Your friend replies in Japanese, “Are you seriously nervous? All you have to do is be on your best behavior, and you’ll be fine. Since you don’t know this group of people, err on the side of being extremely polite and a little more formal with your Japanese. If you do that, you won’t have any problems.” You tell your friend in Japanese, “In other words, now you’re telling me I can’t relax!”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will show you how to introduce yourself and others in Japanese in a polite, formal way. You’ll also learn how to express your nationality 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!

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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today our Hello Kitty-obsessed yakuza are continuing their conversation about their favorite kyarakutā shōhin (character goods). Again, we’re looking at male speech patterns and social hierarchy. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!