Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Adjectives are descriptive words that add color to language. Check out the difference between these two sentences: “The flower is red” and “The sweet smelling flower is a deep blood red.” Do you see how adding adjectives to your language can make it clearer and more striking?

This newbie Japanese lesson shows you the right way to add adjectives to your Japanese. As you can imagine, making your Japanese more descriptive is a major plus. From kantan (”easy”) to suteki (”great”, “gorgeous”), you’ll find some of the most commonly-used Japanese adjectives here. Don’t miss this fun and informative lesson!

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Learn to speak Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! With the last two lessons, you’ve learned to speak Japanese in the passive voice. This final lesson of the three part series puts the finishing touches on your excellent new abilities! Quite often, passive Japanese sentences are formed from active sentences. For example, “Kenji stole Daichi’s bag” becomes “Daichi had his bag stolen by Kenjo.” It’s critical that you understand how to take an active sentence and turn it into the passive voice. The good news is, it’s easy to do!

That’s exactly what you’ll learn in this lower intermediate Japanese lesson. Discover how o –suru becomes o–sareru when you speak in the passive voice. And, you’ll find so many helpful examples that you’re sure to feel completely comfortable speaking Japanese in the passive voice thanks to this JapanesePod101.com lesson!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Without even realizing it, you speak in the passive voice all the time. Instead of saying, “My mother yelled at me,” you might say, “I was yelled at by my mother.” The passive voice is even more common in Japanese. So, it’s a necessary part of speaking Japanese like a natural.

In this lower intermediate Japanese lesson, learn to form Japanese sentences in the passive voice by simply making the direct object the subject. Using simple charts, this Japanese lesson shows you how to switch word orders in common sentence patterns to form the passive voice. You’ll also discover the right times to speak this way and how the Japanese word reru fits in. The passive voice is an easy way to speak politely in Japanese, so this JapanesePod101.com lesson is one you don’t want to miss!

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100 cellphone e-mails in one day? From the same person.
Is it too much?

Probably. But if you’re having fun, who’s counting? Many Japanese have merutomo (e-mail friends) and write back and forth all day long. They may never meet in real life. But some merutomo become really good friends and hang out all the time.

Today we’ll study 3 basic Japanese grammar points. We’ll look at the difference between sou da and you da. And review the correct usage of no ni.

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Best friends with a person you’ve never met in real life?

The arrival of social networks and e-mail enabled cellphones brought a new phenomenon to Japan, the merutomo (e-mail friend). People find new friends, but sometimes you can even find your soulmate! Find out what kind of friendship is developing in this story!

We’re learning an important grammar point, both which involve the particle no being used as a nominalizer. We’ll take a look at how to nominalize Japanese verbs (similar to a gerund in English), and we’ll look at the construction noun + particle + no.

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