Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re on your way to meet your new host family in Japan, and you’re nervous about meeting them. In fact, you’re fidgeting so much your taxi driver asks you in Japanese, “Are you feeling okay?” You assure him in Japanese, “Yes, I’m fine, just let me decompress from my travels,” but really, your mind is going a million miles a minute. You’ve heard other positive stories about staying in Japan from your friends who have done it before, and they all tell you they learned a ton of Japanese and made some great Japanese friends. You’re definitely looking forward to those two things-especially since your Japanese grade could use a little bit of help. However, you’re also worried about some cultural differences with the Japanese. You’re wondering whether your host family is going to take you to one of the Japanese public baths. It’s not like anything you’ve ever been to back home and the idea kind of creeps you out even though you know the Japanese are very meticulous and polite people. Oh well, you’re here at your Japanese host family’s house! You pay the cab driver, spring out of the cab, and knock on the front door…
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will describe several ways you can construct causative sentences in Japanese. We’ll also give you tips on which Japanese particle you should use depending on the sentence construction. 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! Your friends are coming over to visit, and they’ve asked you to make an authentic Japanese meal. You say to yourself in Japanese, “I don’t have time to go to the store, but I do have a lot of things in my cupboards. Let me see what I can throw together.” For the next two hours, you busy yourself in your kitchen, throwing all kinds of ingredients together into one big pot of Japanese stew. When the doorbell rings, you answer your door and your friends greet you by saying in Japanese, “Something definitely smells good in here!” Another friend asks you in Japanese, “What’s cooking?” You tell them in Japanese, “A little bit of this and a little bit of that.” You serve them the stew and one of your friends comments in Japanese, “I’m not sure what’s in here, but I’m having another helping.” Your other friend tells him in Japanese, “It’s not like you to eat so much.” He replies in Japanese, “I can’t help it. It’s so delicious that I’m going to eat it all up!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson reviews several points from other Upper Intermediate Japanese lessons. In this lesson, we’ll discuss a hodgepodge of many key Japanese phrases that you can use when cooking. So don’t wait any longer: dig in to this heaping helping of Japanese phrases! 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! As you walk over to meet your colleagues after work at the Japanese steakhouse, you hear them whisper in Japanese, “She’s always willing to share her opinions of people. Let’s ask her what she thinks.” You say in Japanese, “Ask me what I think about who?” Your friend tells you in Japanese, “We were just talking about this new person at the office. We’re not sure what to make of her. What do you think?” You respond in Japanese, “Do you want to know what I really think?” Your friends all say in Japanese, “Yes, definitely! Tell us!” You reply in Japanese, “Well, I haven’t spoken to her much, but her hair’s always a mess and she’s never very put together.” You continue in Japanese, “Her desk is never organized, and she seems to spend a lot of time dillydallying around other people’s desks…usually men. But she’s…” Your friends cut you off in Japanese, “Wow, you’re straightforward. Why don’t you tell us how you really feel!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Onomatopoeia lesson will teach you how to use many Japanese words and expressions that have to do with people’s personalities. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to describe people’s positive and negative attributes using Japanese onomatopoeia. 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! Your friend asks in Japanese, “What are you studying?” You answer in Japanese, “I’m studying this information from my new company. They have a good plan for employees. Everyone who works for the company can buy company stock at a discount. What do you think I should do?” Your Japanese friend ponders and you can see conflicting emotions cross his face as he answers in Japanese, “Well, I don’t know, sometimes that has worked out really well. My friend made a lot of money with the company employee-stock purchase plan, but for a couple of my other friends it wasn’t so good. The company kept losing money and the stock kept going down so they lost money. I don’t know if it makes a difference whether it’s a Japanese company or not. What sort of a deal do you get?” You look at the papers and answer him in Japanese, “Well, the money is deducted directly from the paycheck, and we get the stock at fifteen percent off the stock exchange price at the beginning of the month.” Nodding in approval, your friend answers, “Wow, that’s a great deal. If the stock just holds even for the month, you can make fifteen percent on your money. You should do this.” Your friend tends to speak Japanese too rapidly for you when he’s excited. “Could you repeat that? A bit more slowly?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson reviews several of the previous lessons to fix the ideas in your mind firmly. You’ll review the Japanese grammar of lessons three through eighteen. 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! Your Japanese friends all seemed very interested in the videos they hand on their iPods, and you weren’t sure why. You tried to phrase your Japanese very politely as you asked them what held them in such rapt attention. You friends respond in Japanese, “We’re, um, listening to some music, Japanese music.” You question more in depth in Japanese, “Is it traditional Japanese music? Can I listen?” You notice your friends exchanging nervous glances, but they finally answer in Japanese, “It’s more like rock, but with some unusual styles, but you can listen.” Your Japanese friends plug in an ear bud for you, and you give a listen to the music. Something isn’t quite right, but you can’t quite tell what’s wrong. The music isn’t it. Then you figure it out…your Japanese friends are carefully hiding the screens on their iPods. Curiosity piqued, you want to see what they are hiding! You tell them in Japanese, “Let me see the video!” They still try to avoid showing it, but you insist, and finally, they relent. Shocked, you reply in Japanese, “Wow, not bad music for an all girl band, and a couple of them are pretty cute. I like the lead singer’s long, silky hair. And the drummer is really tall and thin!” Your Japanese friends all look a bit sheepish and keep quiet, but finally one of them speaks up in Japanese. “This band is all guys.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Onomatopoeia lesson shows you how to use various Japanese onomatopoetic words to describe people and surfaces in Japanese. Thin, fat, slim, chubby, and slick are just some of the words you’ll learn to say in Japanese. It’s a perfect lesson to improve your ability to gossip 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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