Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You know it’s a trend, and a growing one, when the newscasters spend time in their segments talking about it or interviewing people about it. In this case, it’s a phenomenon sweeping Japanese office workers; instead of buying coffee, soda, or tea at the office or on the way, they’re bringing their own drinks to work. This is a considerable change to the mores of Japanese office workers, and changes to the established custom never come easily or without some friction. Would you do something radically different from the rest of your friends and colleagues in the office or classroom? Or would you wait until a large proportion of those around you were changing their habits? Your friends all tell you they’re bringing their own drinks to work to save money; after all, it’s much cheaper to bring your own home-brewed coffee or tea than it is to buy it. Not to mention that you will probably make much better coffee at home at a much more reasonable price, especially if you’re a regular of those fancy coffee houses. Will you be the next Japanese trendsetter? Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson reviews an important part of Japanese that was covered in the previous two lessons, expressing hearsay and conjecture. When you talk to your friends and colleagues in Japan, you want to be able to express the difference between hearing something is true, and that based on your experience you think something is true. 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! Do you work in an office? Many people do. Do you eat lunch? Silly question; of course you eat lunch. Where? How do you get your food at lunch time? Do you go to a restaurant? That can take more time than you have for lunch, and you can’t be late returning. How about a fast food place? Quick, but often times the fast food is almost as expensive as a restaurant. In Japan, a new trend is growing among office workers. Many office workers are now bringing their own lunch from home. In the US, we’d say they were “brown-bagging.” In Japanese, they’re “bento-men,” that is, men who bring bento from home for lunch. Don’t think bento means just a sandwich and fruit in a box. Not at all; bento is an art. The food is supposed to be as good to the eye as to the tongue. Good bento starts your mouth to watering as soon as you see it. Japanese admire those who have mastered the art of bento. Best of all, bento saves lots of money. You can eat really well and cheaply if you to become a “bento man.”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson discusses the grammar of conjecture. You know about conjecture. You’re not sure about something, but you think it’s so, so you say, “It looks like…” Or, you might say, “Apparently…” You see things or hear things that appear to be true, but you’re not one-hundred percent sure. It’s the same idea in Japanese, but you must construct the words properly. You’ll be conjecturing right and left in Japanese at the end of this Lower Intermediate lesson. 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 on Your Own Terms at JapanesePod101.com! Today we’re continuing our restaurant saga. Last week our customer placed his ordered but today he will be served. Will everything go as planned? Well, this is JapanesePod101, of course not. We’ll cover expressions to use when you get the wrong dish or there’s something amiss with your meal. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! This week we return to the hair salon and this time our customer is looking for a hairstyle that is a little out of the ordinary. It’s a request the stylist literally attacks - and with relish! (and by relish I mean “gusto,” not cranberry relish). This lesson is indispensable for the next time you find yourself in Harajuku looking for a crazy haircut. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Two girls are talking about their friend Mami’s new boyfriend. Is he a nice guy or not? We’ll learn a few adjectives to describe people and review using sō da to talk about how things seem. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com to leave us a post!

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