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April 5th, 2007 | help Need help?

Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! We’re back again with another mukashi banashi - the perfect way to study more advanced Japanese while getting exposure to the culture! This is the story of an old man and his son who went out fishing and came home with a lot more than just dinner! Tune in to find out more, and then stop by JapanesePod101.com to leave us a post!

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March 23rd, 2007 | help Need help?

Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! We’re back again with another mukashi banashi - the perfect way to study more advanced Japanese while getting exposure to the culture! Today we feature Amanojaku, a tale about a man that had the power to build mountains - but only at night. Tune in to find out more, and then stop by JapanesePod101.com to leave us a post!

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March 9th, 2007 | help Need help?

Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Do you like to sleep? One of our recent lessons featured a couple who loved to sleep - they turned out to be bears! Today’s mukashi banashi features their human counterpart, Netaro. In fact, his name even means the sleeping boy! Netaro’s village suffered from drought - was it because he slept so much? Tune in to find out! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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February 16th, 2007 | help Need help?

Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today we are back with another mukashi banashi, or folk tale. In this lesson, we introduce a classic that pretty much every native Japanese person will know - Kintaro. In many ways similar to the Tarzan of the west, this is a tale that many of us can find something familiar in. Tune in to listen, and then stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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February 2nd, 2007 | help Need help?

Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today we bring you the tale of Warashibe Choja, or the Straw Millionaire. This mukashi banashi tells the story of a man who just had no luck at all. But one day this all changed, and it started with a single stalk of wara, or straw. Tune in to find out how, and then stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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