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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve tried calling and calling your daughter since she went on the study abroad program in Japan, but every time you call the house of her host family, the response is the same. The family member always says in Japanese, “I’m sorry, but your daughter isn’t here right now. She’s still at school.” After weeks of playing phone tag with her, you finally ask the host family in Japanese, “She’s never at home when I call. Is she in school twenty-four hours a day?” The host responds in Japanese, “No, but she’s doing a lot of after-school activities with our kids. They seem to be having a good time. She joined the soccer team and is also tutoring some students in English. Oh, here she is now.” She comes to the phone and says in Japanese, “Hi, long time no talk.” You lecture her in Japanese, “I want to make sure you are safe and enjoying yourself while you’re visiting Japan. Is everything okay?” Your daughter replies in Japanese, “It would be worse if I sat home alone without any friends and anything to do all the time, wouldn’t it! At least you know you’re getting your money’s worth!”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will teach you the Japanese verb that means “to be” or “to exist” when referring to a person or other animate object. We’ll also show you how to create the negative form of this Japanese verb, and we’ll teach you some helpful Japanese vocabulary for the wireless age. 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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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.

Cheap places and free stuff in Japan

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Can a time capsule survive the demolition of a park? A group of Japanese friends is about to find out! The ginko tree landmark survived all these years, so there might be a chance they can find their time capsule and we can learn what mysteries are contained within! Our Japanese grammar point is ~te iru, used to express states of being. Whether you live in Japan or not, this grammatical construction is used hundreds of times a day in conversational Japanese, so you really want to master this to become fluent quickly.

Japanese Ginko Tree


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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!

Shibuya Station Police Box


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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