Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Ethel the Intrepid Gaijin is asking her Japanese friend, Suzuki-san, about the prices of food in Japan. We’ll take a look at using the combined particles de and wa to ask about the location where actions take place.
In this newbie Japanese lesson, we’ll also take a look at numbers above 10. Lots of critical information in this lesson today, so after listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You took the job. Your Japanese friend’s father hired you after you did such a good job with his inventory. You now have a real job in a real Japanese business. But the worries are starting to creep in. You know you must, as a part of your job, record many things in Japanese, including the time. People will be telling you the times that events took place in Japanese all day long. You must once again talk to your Japanese friend. “What time can you come over?” you ask in Japanese, “I’ve got some more questions.” She tells you, but she tells you the time in Japanese. “Umm…that’s part of the problem. I don’t know how to tell time in Japanese. What time are you coming by? Will you help me to tell time in Japanese?” “Sure,” she says, “Nothing to it.” That’s encouraging. Interested, you question her in Japanese, “Why is it so easy to tell time in Japanese?” Sensing your anxiety, she laughs and replies in Japanese, “Because silly, you already know how to count in Japanese. If you know how to count, you just add a couple more words, and then you can tell time in Japanese, too.” You feel better, encouraged. You might be able to do this after all!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson teaches you how to tell time in Japanese. If you’ve been following along with these Japanese lessons, you already know how to count. Add a couple more words and you’re telling time in Japanese. It’s a piece of cake. 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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Ugh. First day at your new job, and your friend is working alongside you to help you practice those pesky Japanese counters. You ask your friend in Japanese, “How many of these pencils should there be?” You hear the answer, but it doesn’t sound right to you. “You call back, “How many pencils?” Once again, your Japanese friend answers, and once again you don’t understand. You studied your numbers all the way up to more than ten-thousand, and you went over the Japanese counters all night last night. You thought you knew them well. Your friend cannot have more pencils in inventory than ten-thousand. You’re beginning to have doubts as to your sanity. You know your Japanese well enough to ask in Japanese, “How many? That doesn’t sound right.” Why can’t she tell you how many pencils there are supposed to be…or why can’t you understand her?! “I can’t understand you,” you repeat in Japanese, completely frustrated. Excitedly, she replies in Japanese, “You are right! I was saying the Japanese counter wrong on purpose to test you! Your Japanese lessons are REALLY paying off!” Phew!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson introduces more Japanese counters. There are a couple of tricks to counting in Japanese. It’s easy: long, short or round, and flat. Add these Japanese counters a to your Japanese numbers and you’re on your way. You’ll be Japanese counting whiz. 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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You have decided to take the job your friend’s father has offered you in his Japanese shop. After you and your friend helped him take inventory in his silk flower shop, he offered you the job as a clerk. And you are excited because you can certainly use some extra spending money in Japan, but mostly, you can use the time to practice your counting in Japanese. Now, the day before you’re supposed to start, your Japanese friend asks you, “Oh, in your Japanese lessons, did you get to the part about the Japanese counting counters?” “What Japanese counting counters?” you ask. “Well,” she hesitates, “maybe we should take a look at your next Japanese lesson. You’ve learned to count, so the next thing you learn should be about Japanese counters.” A little confused, you answer in Japanese, “It might be. Let’s take a look now. I have the next Japanese lesson right here on my computer.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson introduces the Japanese general counter. There are a couple of tricks to counting in Japanese, and this lesson shows you the tricks to get around these tricks. 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!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re not sure if the happenings of the past few days are due to luck, conscientiousness, or some combination. Your friend’s father has offered you a part-time job in his Japanese flower shop. Your friend and you had helped him take inventory in his silk flower shop. You used the time to practice your counting in Japanese, and now, it seems as if that has paid off. He liked your work, and now he would like to hire you. Good timing, too. You were in need of some spending money in Japan and now, he wants you to be a clerk in the store. Your Japanese will really get a work-out if you do that! He says mostly it would be working the cash register. So, in Japanese, how high do you have to be able to count to be able to use the cash register? At least ten-thousand or more, you think. You decide you must ask your Japanese friend some questions before you take the job, “Say, how big are the Japanese numbers I need to know if I take this job.” Your friend thinks for a while and replies in Japanese, “Better to learn to count in Japanese as high as you can. You could be looking at the books, too, and those numbers get big.” Excellent!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson takes counting in Japanese to an even higher level! Because you already know Japanese numbers from one to one-thousand, the next nine-thousand-nine-hundred are easy. Only two little tricks to learn in all those Japanese numbers. 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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