Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Isn’t it always the same? When the girls get together, the talk always comes around to guys. “Who do you like?” “Why do you like him?” It’s hard enough to keep up with the conversation when just two of you are talking, but with three and more girls talking in Japanese, you better make sure you can keep up. What was that? No, she couldn’t have said that. Your Japanese must be faulty or your ears are going bad. You thought for sure you heard her say in Japanese, “I like dull Japanese guys who mumble.” Doesn’t anybody else think that’s really odd? Well, the next girl isn’t any better. She claims in Japanese, “I like American guys who are loud and obnoxious!” Are they serious? You chime in quietly in Japanese, “I just like guys who are tall, quiet, and very patient better.” They both look at you as if you are crazy. Maybe your Japanese is just very very bad, but you have to know. “Excuse me,” you ask in Japanese, “What kind of guys did you say you liked?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is all about describing the characteristics you like in a person and your preferences for personal characteristics in Japanese. You’ll be able to chat with your friends in Japanese to tell them those qualities you like in the opposite sex. 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! Why do you do that to yourself? You know you should have eaten something this morning, but you didn’t. Now you have to explain to your friends why you have to eat before you can visit the Japanese hot spring everyone has been dying to see. They seem pretty good-natured about it, maybe their anxious stomachs didn’t allow them to eat this morning either! Arriving at the Japanese restaurant, you realize this is a really nice place. The head-waiter begins speaking to you in Japanese. Now is not the time to forget the Japanese you’ve learned. You think you understand, he asked in Japanese, “Are you well, Sir?” You must look awful…why didn’t you eat breakfast? You reply in Japanese, “Thank you, I’m fine. My stomach hurts a little. I just need to eat.” At least that’s what you hope you said in Japanese. All these pains and aches are messing up your head. Now your friends look concerned, too. Now everyone is asking in Japanese, “What hurts?” One friend asks in Japanese, “Does your head hurt?” Another questions in Japanese, “Is it your throat? I have a cough drop.” Great, now you have to remember the Japanese names for all your body parts. Your head is starting to spin! Why didn’t you just eat breakfast?
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is about the Japanese names for parts of the body and how to describe pains in them in Japanese. No matter where you are, even in Japan, you can get sick or hurt. Make sure you know how to tell people where you hurt, as well as inform them that “it’s just hunger pangs!” 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 with JapanesePod101.com! That was close. Well, not that close, but close enough to make you wonder. She isn’t much of a driver, but at least she avoided an accident. Maybe you distract her. Your Japanese was probably so bad she couldn’t understand you! So you ask her in Japanese – since it is all she speaks – “Do you like to drive very much? I mean…I could drive if you like.” Oh, you really like her a lot; you hope that didn’t sound condescending. You should definitely practice speaking Japanese more. It wouldn’t be fair to criticize her driving if you are the one distracting her, too. She smiles (good sign) and replies sweetly in Japanese, “I don’t know much about cars, and I really don’t like to drive very much. If you like to drive, you are more than welcome!” Her Japanese is so pretty. She has a lovely way of speaking. Maybe she was distracted from her driving because she likes you. That would be very nice…wait, you mean, it would be great if she liked you, not if she lost concentration while driving. Finding yourself distracted by her again, you reply in Japanese, “I don’t like Japanese cars very much, but I do like to drive a lot. I would be happy to drive…I have my license.” Drifting away in your thoughts again, you wonder if you can tell from her Japanese how much she likes you. You really like her a lot, even if she doesn’t know much about cars. You have to find something you both like. So far, everything she likes, you don’t like, and everything you like she hates! You have to have something in common…you know - Japanese! You have the love of the Japanese language in common.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is about different degrees of likes and dislikes in Japanese. Some things we really like, some we really dislike - even hate - but everything else is somewhere in between. You will need to know how to express them all 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 with JapanesePod101.com! “Why are you telling me to “shush?” you ask your friend in Japanese? “I’m just observing what’s going on. Why do I have to be quiet? What’s going on here?” Your friend has been shushing you ever since you started counting the waiters in Japanese in the little ramen shop where you’ve come to eat. It just does not make much sense. You can see only a very few tables and chairs, but lots of waiters. Why would a ramen shop have more waiters than chairs for customers? And your friend just keeps repeating, “shush” to make you keep still. You couldn’t have counted wrong. You know how to count in Japanese very well. Maybe the words you used to count weren’t right in Japanese. Maybe your friend was trying to save you the embarrassment of using the wrong Japanese counting words. Yeah, that must be it. How embarrassing!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson helps you through a special section of Japanese, using one of the suffixes used so often in Japanese. You’ll learn a lot about ga and how to use this little, but important, part of 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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