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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your airplane has landed at Narita, and you’ve made it through Japanese customs. As you exit the airport, you see a person holding a sign with your name on it. He greets you in Japanese, and you answer. Then he says something in Japanese you don’t understand. It sounds familiar, but not quite. You’re not sure, so you answer in Japanese, “Once again, please.” This time, as you walk to the car, he again speaks to you in Japanese, but this time he’s just too fast for you. You know you can’t keep up with that yet. So, you flex your Japanese again and ask your companion, “Slowly, please.” He smiles and speaks the same Japanese words again, but this time, he says them carefully and apologizes for speaking too quickly. You think you might be able to handle this after all; this time you understood everything. He gives you a ride to your hotel and bids you a good day. Exhausted as the jetlag sets in, you collapse onto your hotel room bed, thankful for the useful Japanese phrases that got you here today.
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson provides you with three of the most valuable Japanese phrases you can learn either in the classroom or out. In Japanese, or any other language, you should be able to ask people to repeat themselves, ask them to speak slowly, and ask them to write down the information you need. That’s why this Japanese lesson is so vital. 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 friend asks in Japanese, “How are we going to get through our new class? That teacher seems really tough. What do you think of her?” Your Japanese answer hides your real thoughts, “I don’t know; it shouldn’t be too difficult. I think our teacher really wants us to succeed, and if she wants us to succeed, she’ll do what’s necessary to help us learn. She really knows all about the material and the subject. She has an advanced degree. Her previous classes really like her. Sure, she looks like she’ll be harsh, but I’m sure she has our best interests at heart. She’s available after hours for extra work if you need it. Some of the exercises she uses in the classroom she devised herself and they have won awards for innovation in education. Her Japanese is perfect, so there’s no problem understanding what she’s saying. She has even arranged special field trips so we can see how the things she teaches are applied out in the world. I think her class will be really good.” Your friend looks at you with suspicion and asks in Japanese, “Say, how do you know so much about this teacher? She’s new this year. How can you know all that stuff about her and her teaching methods?” Quietly, you reply in Japanese, “Because she’s my Mom.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson explains some of the uses of the Japanese particles wa, no, and o. These Japanese particles have many uses, and this lesson will show you some of the most valuable ways to apply them to your 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! Click…click…click. You can’t sleep in your Japanese hotel bed. Something’s just not right…maybe the Japanese don’t like their pillows fluffed as much as you do. You’re not sure what’s going on with your sleep patterns since you’ve been in Japan, but since you can’t sleep, you’re watching late-night Japanese television. On one channel, the weatherman predicts in Japanese, “If you’re outside tomorrow, you better take an umbrella. We have a ninety percent chance of rain.” Click! You land on a news channel, where the news anchor reports in Japanese, “If the United States President doesn’t take swift action, the stock market will continue to suffer.” Click! What’s this? It looks like a Japanese infomercial…you decide to tune in to see whether you can get a deal!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will review how to use the Japanese conditional structures involving to and tara. We’ll tell you when you should use one or the other of these Japanese structures and the restrictions on one of these Japanese words. So get ready to make a deal and review these important Japanese grammar points! 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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“Does this bus go to Nagano Station?” Sounds like a pretty common question, huh? You might just need to ask something similar to get around in Japan. Also, you will need to understand how to talk about the existence of animate and inanimate objects. If it sounds tough, you just need to gain some basic skills to understand how to discuss existence in Japanese.
This newbie Japanese lesson is designed to help you further understand how to ask questions about your destination and get where you are going. In addition, you will learn how to talk about arimasu and imasu in Japanese. These two words mean “to exist.” This Japanese lesson will teach you which one is used for animate objects and which one is used to describe inanimate objects. This lesson exists to help you speak Japanese like a pro!
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In case you missed them, Yasu and Momo are back! And, they’re here to teach you phrases like “speaking of which,” “that reminds me” and “that’s not good” using the Okayama dialect. Think of how many times you say, “Speaking of which…” when a conversation shifts, and you’ll see why this lesson is so important. This Japanese culture class presents some of the most commonly used words and phrases in the Okayama dialect. As a bonus, you’ll learn “hot,” “let’s eat,” “too much,” “overwhelming” and much more. As always, the English translations are accompanied by both the standard Japanese and Okayama forms, so you can use both with confidence.
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