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SurvivalPhrases.com - Learn essential travel phrases, cultural insights and travel tips in 12 languages.Learn How to Nanpa at JapanesePod101.com! Today we begin a much requested series about dating. This story is told from the female perspective. But we also have the guy’s version available too! Be sure to check them both out! Our grammar point is using demo to soften requests and offers. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese Dialects at JapanesePod101.com! Today Rie, Yuuki and Marky return for the final installment of our look at the Niigata Dialect. We have an interesting conversation between Rie’s sister and a monk about a dog… well, you’ll just have to listen to see what we mean. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! The holidays are a time for reflection. So this week, Naomi and Yuki and Marky slowed things down a bit and took a look at some of the intros that were aired this summer. This is one of our most requested topics, so it seemed like a good time to run it now. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today we continue our story with our young couple begging for permission to marry. Last week things didn’t go so well for them. Hopefully they’ll have better luck this time! We’re continuing our look at the causative and we’ll also cover using -nakereba nai or -nakereba ikenai to express necessity. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! You asked for it, so here it is! Our first stab at looking at unravelling the mystery of the short intro gags at the beginning of each podcast. We’ve recorded more than 100 different intros to date and people have been asking us about them ever since. Naomi and Marky and Yūki sit down to talk about 11 hand picked intros and talk about what’s going on in there. You’ll be surprised how much cultural background goes into a 30 second (or less clip). After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S2) | 20 Comments »
Grammar: demo | Function: inviting someone to do something | Topic: date, dating, Murakami Haruki, nampa | Politeness Level: casual, Polite, rude
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