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Best friends with a person you’ve never met in real life?

The arrival of social networks and e-mail enabled cellphones brought a new phenomenon to Japan, the merutomo (e-mail friend). People find new friends, but sometimes you can even find your soulmate! Find out what kind of friendship is developing in this story!

We’re learning an important grammar point, both which involve the particle no being used as a nominalizer. We’ll take a look at how to nominalize Japanese verbs (similar to a gerund in English), and we’ll look at the construction noun + particle + no.

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What do you like? Saying what you like and don’t like is critical to your survival in a foreign country. Japan is no different. But did you know that we can use the same grammatical pattern to express things that you are good at and bad at doing? It’s true. And it couldn’t be easier! Today we will learn the attributive use of the particle ga in Japanese. It sounds like a mouthful, but you’ll be surprised how useful it is. We’ll learn to express likes, dislikes and abilities. It’s a very important Japanese grammatical construction, so you don’t want to miss this Beginner Japanese lesson!

Playing golf in Japan

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! “Do you know your password?” you ask the secretary in Japanese as you fumble with the lock on your desk. Whispering, she replies in Japanese, “It’s the same as your PINs.” You think to yourself…”I have nine.” You buzz her again to ask in Japanese, “Can you just give me the password, please?” She replies with another hint in Japanese, “It’s the same as the company telephone numbers.” You have four - home, office, fax, and cell. Do you have trouble remembering all these numbers? How do you keep them all straight? Well numbers are everywhere, and people have some really strange ways of remembering them. There are a couple things that your phone number, password, and PIN all have in common – they are strings of numbers this Japanese lesson will teach you, and you don’t remember any of them!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will teach you to count in Japanese and much more. You’ll learn how to ask for numbers and passwords in Japanese. And you’ll learn about a very important word in Japanese, no, but don’t skip this lesson because it doesn’t mean what you think it does. 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! If it weren’t for your fans, you wouldn’t be famous in the first place, right? So when you wanna show a little love to your fans, try out some of these gems for maximum impact! You’ll probably even pick up a few more by showing you try harder than the average celebrity. You’re not just jōzu, you’re o-jōzu, baby! After listening, grace JapanesePod101.com with your awesome presence and be sure to leave your adoring fans a post!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In today’s lesson, we have a formal conversation in the workplace between two shain, or company employees. The boss is angry and we’re going to find out why. We will practice using no as a nominalizer. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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