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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You picked up two Japanese boxed lunches on your way to work for yourself and your friend. When you picked up the lunches, you told the caterer in Japanese, “Just give me your best dishes.” You’ve always had good food from this place, so you figure it’s safe to offer to your Japanese friend. When you arrive at work, you join your friend in the conference room and tell him in Japanese, “Wait till you try this food! It’s always delicious.” Your friend opens the box and says in Japanese, “Well, I’m sure you’re right, but what is this?” You respond in Japanese, “What do you think it is?” Your colleague tells you in Japanese, “It looks like vegetables, but it smells like something else entirely. What do you have?” You reply in Japanese, “I don’t think I have the same thing…this looks entirely different. I guess we’ll have to try each other’s to find out what these things are and decide what tastes best.”
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You carefully inspect the pile of Japanese food on your plate, and you contemplate your options. Your roommate knows you’re a picky eater, but you don’t want to offend his parents, who have taken you to dinner in a nice Japanese restaurant. You think to yourself in Japanese, “I could make a sculpture out of this mound of noodles, or maybe I could mash that stuff over there down so it looks like I’ve eaten more.” Your roommate, who has been watching you out of the corner of his eye, whispers to you in Japanese, “If you don’t like something, just leave it on your plate. It’s not a big deal.” You respond in Japanese, “Just tell me what stuff is that’s near the edge of my plate.” Your roommate responds in Japanese, “That’s just a special kind of Japanese noodle. It won’t bite you. Try it.” You put some of the Japanese food in your mouth, and while your roommate is correct that it’s not biting you, it’s doing all sorts of other things to your mouth. Thank goodness some Japanese sake is close at hand!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will show you how to use demonstrative words that mean “this” and “that” in Japanese. We’ll also teach you how to express agreement in Japanese, so you can tell your dinner hosts when you find a Japanese dish you really enjoy. 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! Now you’re in deep yogurt. Your boss has invited you out to lunch, and he’s taken you to a fancy restaurant that caters to native persons. Everything on the menu is in Kanji! Even the prices! You can’t insult your boss by ordering something silly like Coca-Cola for lunch with water on the side. You certainly can’t insult him by ordering the most expensive thing on the menu. Worse, you could order something and find out it’s something you really, really, really don’t like. Coming from the mid-west, ocean fish are not your favorites. You shudder at the thought of raw tuna, and even the smell of fish eggs can make you gag. Ordering something that you can’t eat would be terrible! What if you ordered something you don’t like and it’s terribly expensive, too? That would be the worst. You need your Kanji right now.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Everyday Kanji Video lesson will help you to find food you like and at prices you can afford. You’ll be able to recognize various types of food on Japanese menus. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more great Japanese lessons and learning materials. Leave us a message while you are there!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Apparently, in addition to Japanese beer, your Japanese girlfriend’s father is also a lover of udon and tempura. He stops at the udon shop most every week. So when you returned from your long walk up the stairs and lunch at the Japanese restaurant, he asked in Japanese, “Was the udon okay? Did you have the tempura, too?” STILL stuffed from the late lunch, you reply in Japanese, “No, I just ate my weight in udon.” Shocked, he replies in Japanese, “What do you mean you didn’t eat the tempura?! Oh, I guess you were just very hungry and starving…from what our daughter told us anyway. Some places are much better than others are. Since you didn’t eat any today, maybe you can get some next week.” Great! So now, the family thinks you’re a wimp. Nice. However, not able to imagine another day as mentally or physically exhausting as today (and trying to save face at the same time), you reply in Japanese, “The Japanese restaurant we ate at today was supposed to be very popular. The udon was very delicious. I wouldn’t mind going there again.” Your girlfriend’s father replies in Japanese, “That sounds fantastic! We’ll go tomorrow!” Oh, no…
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson continues the previous lesson about the Japanese polite past tense. We’ll also learn how to make the past tense of Japanese i-adjectives. 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 waited in the interminable line for the udon your girlfriend swore was definitely the best, and she was right, it was the best you’ve ever had. So with the crisp Japanese air, the long stairs, and the long wait, you ate. And you ate. And you ate. After forty-five minutes of steadily shoveling food into your mouth, you finally stop to take a breath and your girlfriend says in Japanese, “Wow, I didn’t think you were ever going to stop eating! I don’t think I’ve ever seen you eat so much. You must have been starving!” You never talk with your mouth full. That would be very rude. Sometimes it’s hard to understand Japanese with your mouth full. So you swallow, and ask in Japanese, “I’m sorry; I didn’t hear what you said, honey.” She gives you a strange look and repeats what she said, adding in Japanese, “Did the Japanese food interfere with your ears or did you forget all your Japanese?” If she only knew. Then she says in Japanese, “I was going to ask if you wanted some tempura to go with the udon, but after seeing you eat everything in sight and then some, I don’t think you should have any more. Besides, it’s late, and we have to get back to my parents’ house.” Reluctantly, you leave the table and waddle towards the car. A full stomach does not interfere with your Japanese, just a full mouth. Learning Japanese with
JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson helps you to understand the polite past form in Japanese. You can’t talk only in the present; remember all of your life is in the past. So check out this Japanese lesson for a walk down the stairway of the past 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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