







First impressions are important! Especially when you’re meeting your fiancée’s father for the first time! You don’t want to make the same mistake Haruya makes in today’s episode. We’ll learn how to say what we want or want to do in Japanese. Using the construction naninani ga hoshii is a useful Japanese phrase the expresses desire. Whereas attaching the adjectival suffix -tai to the -masu stem of a verb can be used to say “i want to do something” in Japanese.

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