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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve been in Japan for an exchange program for two months, and the time has flown by. It seems like you just arrived in Japan yesterday! You can’t believe you only have a few more weeks before you’ll be leaving Japan to return home—in no time you’ll board the plane. So when people tell you that you can get together “whenever” in Japanese, you correct them in Japanese and pin them down on your schedule immediately!

In this lesson, you’ll learn about three different Japanese time expressions: tabi (”whenever”), irai (”since”), and totan (”in no time”) Today’s Japanese conversations take place at school between several classmates; therefore, they will be speaking informal 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 with JapanesePod101.com! Your grandson looks up at you with big eyes and asks in Japanese, “What’s a golden anniversary?” You reply in Japanese, “It means that you’ve been married to someone for a very long time. Fifty years, in fact!” Your grandson says in Japanese, “That is a long time. I’m only six years old!” You chuckle and say in Japanese, “I know. You have a long way to go before you get to fifty years.” Your grandson tells you in Japanese, “Nah, I’m going to stay young forever.” At that point, you put your grandson on your knee and say in Japanese, “Son, you have a lot to learn, and there’s nothing wrong with getting old. That’s why they call it a golden anniversary… if there were something bad about it, they’d call it something negative, like a coal anniversary.” Your grandson looks up at you with big eyes and asks in Japanese, “Grandpa, what’s coal?”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review three of the major Japanese particles: wa, ga, and o. By the end of this lesson, you’ll know so much that you’ll feel like you’ve entered the golden age of your Japanese knowledge! 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! The scary Japanese ninja men are back, and this time they’re chasing you with a vengeance. This time, you’re still wearing your bathrobe, but at least you grabbed your running shoes from your Japanese closet before you took off. You take a turn down a one-way Japanese alley, and suddenly you realize you’re stuck in a corner without any escape. You frantically look around you in all directions for a door or a window in the Japanese buildings surrounding the alley, but all you can see are the Japanese ninjas quickly converging on you. With nowhere to hide, you crouch into a ball and say in Japanese, “Please don’t hurt me. I don’t have any money. Please leave me alone!” The lead ninja responds in Japanese, “Lady, we don’t want to hurt you. We just wanted to bring you this red velvet cupcake, which you left behind at the store.” You respond in Japanese, “This doesn’t make any sense. But I do like red velvet cupcakes.” Suddenly, someone is shaking you, and you scream in Japanese, “I thought you said you were going to leave me alone!” A voice cuts through the fog in your head and says in Japanese, “I’m tired of you being late for work and making excuses, so I’m here to fetch you. I don’t have any cupcakes, but here’s a muffin. Now get up!”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will teach you how to use form relative clauses in Japanese. You can use relative clauses to add information about Japanese nouns and adjectives to your sentences. 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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Having trouble sleeping?

You will after listening to this!

Some lucid dreamers can watch their dreams like television, but if you board the Nightmare Express (悪夢エクスプレス), there’s a chance, you’ll never get off. Lucky for you, it’s the last day of O-Bon and you’ll have nothing to worry about until next year….

Or will you?

Celebrate Bon Festival the way the ancient Japanese did!  With Kaidan (Japanese ghost stories)

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! How could you lose your wallet? You could swear it was in your pocket just a few moments ago. You didn’t stop once on the drive between her parents’ home in Japan and here except for gasoline and even then, you never left the car. But when you reached into your pocket to pay for dinner, you realized frighteningly that there’s nothing there. You ask your girlfriend in Japanese, “What happened to my wallet?” She looks at you, dumbstruck and asks in Japanese, “How would I know where your wallet is?” Panicked, you reply in Japanese, “I think I lost my wallet!!” She asks in Japanese, “Is it in your bag?” Remembering your bag, you frantically grab it from the backseat and tear it open searching for the missing wallet with no success. Of course it’s not there though, why would you have put it back in your bag after you stopped for gas? Things are just not making sense… The helpful waitress alerts a policeman to help you report your missing wallet. But as you begin to describe the missing wallet in Japanese, the policeman tells you in Japanese, “We need your name, telephone number, and add…” The policeman is suddenly cut off by a screeching sound! What is that noise?!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson teaches an important topic that we hope you never need to use in this situation, but it’s better to be safe than sorry. In this Japanese lesson, we teach you how to talk with the people at Japanese lost and found offices. It’s always distressing to lose something in Japan, such as a wallet, but to be unable to communicate in Japanese with those who might be able to help you would be worse. We will also introduce you to two important Japanese honorific prefixes and review Japanese verb conjugation. Study this lesson carefully and feel confident knowing you are able to talk lost and found 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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