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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.

How to meet your Japanese fiancee's parents.

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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today our Hello Kitty-obsessed yakuza are continuing their conversation about their favorite kyarakutā shōhin (character goods). Again, we’re looking at male speech patterns and social hierarchy. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! So what exactly happened in Okinawa? This week we find out what exactly happened! You don’t want to miss this week’s edition of intermediate Japanese.

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