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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When your roommate gets home from work in Japan, she calls out in Japanese, “Hey, buddy, are you home?” From the couch in front of your video games, you reply in Japanese, “Mmmm, barely. I’m pretty tired.” As chipper as ever, she says in Japanese, “You know, it’s your week to take out the trash and recycling. Today is the day. Are you going to take care of it?” You respond in Japanese, “Yes, I’ll get to it, but right now I’m busy.” She comes over to the couch, inspects the pile of junk food around you, and notices that you are playing a Japanese video game. She tells you in Japanese, “You can shoot the aliens later. Right now, you need to take out the trash!” You reply in Japanese, “Gee, I didn’t know I had another mom…” Seeing the glare on her face, you wonder whether you’ve taken it too far. You say in Japanese, “I didn’t mean to be snappish; I’m just cranky because I’m so tired.” But it’s too late…your roommate has already stomped off and slammed the door to her room, muttering “Excuses, excuses!” in Japanese.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will teach you how to use particles to make excuses for your behavior (or perhaps for your failure to behave!). 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! We interrupt our Postcards series to bring you a quick 2 parter about life in a Japanese company (kaisha). Their company ace, Kinoshita, is MIA!  We’ll look at some important business phrases as well new terms like maternity neurosis (whatever that may be)!  And we’ll practice expressing causal relationships using no de, which is our exciting grammar point for the day.  After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!