Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! After Japanese class, your friends invite you to join them for dinner. Eager to make some new acquaintances while you’re studying in Japan, you happily go along. Little do you know that their regular hangout is a Japanese sushi restaurant near campus. When you arrive and see the Japanese word for sushi on the restaurant’s door, you start to panic: you can’t eat sushi because you’re allergic to seafood! Hopefully this Japanese restaurant’s menu will offer something vegetarian that you can eat!
In this lesson, you will learn how to talk about doing an action in Japanese. The conversation takes place between three family members at one family member’s home. Because they are distant family members, they are speaking formal 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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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your grandson looks up at you with big eyes and asks in Japanese, “What’s a golden anniversary?” You reply in Japanese, “It means that you’ve been married to someone for a very long time. Fifty years, in fact!” Your grandson says in Japanese, “That is a long time. I’m only six years old!” You chuckle and say in Japanese, “I know. You have a long way to go before you get to fifty years.” Your grandson tells you in Japanese, “Nah, I’m going to stay young forever.” At that point, you put your grandson on your knee and say in Japanese, “Son, you have a lot to learn, and there’s nothing wrong with getting old. That’s why they call it a golden anniversary… if there were something bad about it, they’d call it something negative, like a coal anniversary.” Your grandson looks up at you with big eyes and asks in Japanese, “Grandpa, what’s coal?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review three of the major Japanese particles: wa, ga, and o. By the end of this lesson, you’ll know so much that you’ll feel like you’ve entered the golden age of your Japanese knowledge! 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! Whenever you decide to go somewhere new in Japan, it always becomes a hassle. Your spouse won’t go anywhere in Japan unless you’ve printed out the correct Japanese map as well as directions for the most direct route to your destination. Even so, half the time you end up lost, because your spouse just seems to prefer to ignore the directions and travel the back roads through Japan. This time, though, your spouse vows it will be different, saying in Japanese, “We’re all set to go to this new place that just opened on the other side of town. I know exactly where it is!” You reply in Japanese, “Great, dear. I printed the directions from the website anyway just in case.” Your spouse says in Japanese, “Wonderful, but we won’t need them. This time I’m confident about where we’re headed.” You’ve heard similar sentiments in Japanese from your spouse before, but you smile and nod confidently. Sure enough, thirty minutes later, you still haven’t arrived at your Japanese destination (though the Japanese directions say you should have been there within fifteen minutes). Still, you stay mum, just waiting for the inevitable Japanese expletives to come spilling from your spouse’s mouth…
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 give directions in Japanese. Even though this lesson will help you tell someone precisely where to go in Japanese, consider adding some extra time to your schedule just in case! 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! “Hello, I thought you were coming to work today?” “No, sorry, boss. I’m taking the day off. I’m sick.” “Are you sure you’re sick? You don’t sound sick to me.” “I am. I have the flu.” Have you been making excuses for not coming in to work? Does your telephone suddenly develop mysterious problems whenever you talk to your boss? You need better excuses. You need a list of diseases and ailments that sound really bad but don’t last long. Maybe twenty-four hour typhoid, or acute intermittent leprosy, which only occurs on Mondays, or anaphylactic malaria, which can be cured only by taking Friday afternoon off. No, this Japanese lesson won’t help you to find better excuses to get out of working while you’re in Japan. However, you’ll be able to explain them on the phone, coughing and hacking of course, to your boss in much better Japanese when they do occur.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is about Japanese conversations on the telephone as well as a review of past Japanese Newbie lessons. You need certain, special Japanese words and phrases to use on the telephone in Japan. You’ll find them here. You can practice your Japanese telephone conversations without ever leaving home, assuming you and your family don’t mind expensive, long-distance telephone calls to Japan. Or you can practice your Japanese telephone conversations with us in the comment section for free! 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! “What are you doing tonight? Would you like to see a Japanese avant-garde country and western band with me?” “No thanks, I’m going to see a Japanese movie tonight.” “How about you?” “Nope, I’m going to a Japanese restaurant with a friend.” Seven more times you ask and get the same answer, “Sorry, busy.” And so it goes. Are all your acquaintances in Japan busy or? Or could it be that you are the only one who likes Japanese country and western music. Nah. How could anyone not be fascinated by the complex mixture of the Japanese musical scale combined with the foot-stomping patterns of country western rhythms and the heart-rending poetry of the lyrics? Well, some people just have no taste. The important thing is that everyone seems to be “going” in Japan…and that means you too – thanks to Japaneseod101.com!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson really extends and polishes your Japanese sentences. The power of a couple of Japanese particles and some Japanese verbs and nouns will have you saying things in Japanese that you would never have guessed just a short time ago. How did you learn so quickly. It’s the sophisticated learning methods of JapanesePod101.com, of course. 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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