Gonna sneeze? Run out to the street! In Tokyo, people give away free tissue to promote businesses. This means you can always keep a handy bunch of tissues for any emergency.

Our Japanese grammar point is -te iru, which you can use to express states of being. In conversational Japanese, written Japanese, formal or informal Japanese, this is one grammatical construction you must know to master Japanese.

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Learning Practical Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! You’re in Japan. You lose your wallet. There’s ￥15,000 and your ID in it. What do you do? Panic? Of course not, because you studied this lesson! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! “Look, it’s over there. No wait, I see it over here. Oh my goodness, they’re EVERYWHERE!” Do you have this conversation with people whenever you see some creepy, crawly insects in the house? You can sure lose your appetite in a hurry when you see bugs and such scurrying about. They’re fast, too, and they can hide in the most remarkably small places. Well, you can’t escape the bugs by going to Japan. And if you want help wrangling that critter into a corner, or better – out the door – you had better know how to tell someone ELSE where that nasty little thing is in Japanese! Because standing there with your mouth open screaming and pointing frantically all over the room isn’t getting you anywhere!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is about this and that. Really, it’s about the words “this” and “that,” which in Japanese identify the location of an object relative to the speaker. Much as we say, “this here” and “that there.” 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! This girl has a pasokon (computer), a terebi (TV) and all the things normal little girls have. But there’s something else lurking in her room, and we’re gonna find out what they are!

In this newbie Japanese lesson, we’ll be reviewing the differences between iru and aru, which are used to say where things are, as well as the conjunction to used for listing things. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and let us know what’s in your room!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Last time Michiko called Kenji, it turned out that he happened to be in a different time zone! We stopped in the middle of the conversation, but in this lesson we get into the other half.

Tune in to find out how Michiko handles the situation, and then stop by JapanesePod101.com to leave us a post! Today’s grammar point covers the verb of existence for animate and (usually) living things - iru.

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