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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Airports! If you don’t travel a lot by airplane, airports can be very confusing. Especially if everything is in Japanese. Your friend told you in Japanese, “I am at the spa. It is near the ticket counter and the exit.” A spa in an airport? Does that make any sense? Wouldn’t the ticket counter be near the entrance, not the exit? What confusion! How are you going to be able to find her in this crowd? And you’ll probably get some really strange looks if you start asking people in Japanese, “Where can I find the spa in this airport?” You really begin to wonder about a spa in a Japanese airport. What’s it like? Do they have announcements in Japanese about plane departures and arrivals in the spa? Wouldn’t that disrupt the serenity? Isn’t a spa a place to get away from all the noise and bustle of life? After all this hassle, you’ll need some peace and quiet yourself. Hmmm…maybe you should come back to the Japanese airport spa after you get your work done for the day.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is about location. Where are things? This is an essential part of any language, and Japanese is no different. This lesson shows you how to construct sentences that tell people where things are in 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!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Some words and phrases in Japanese, or any language for that matter, are just so vital, so central to daily conversation, you just can’t be without them. Can you imagine being in Japan, or any foreign country, and not being able to ask, “What is this?” “What is that?” “Is this medicine?” These are just some of the enormously useful things you’ll learn in this Japanese lesson. You’ll learn how to answer these questions, too. So learn how to put your Japanese skills to work to learn more Japanese – NOW!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will have you talking like a three-year-old. Not really. You’ll be speaking excellent Japanese, but have you noticed that everything is new and exciting to a three-year-old. They constantly ask, “What’s this?” and “What’s that?” Well, that’s just what you’ll be doing, but in Japanese. Actually, you might find it fun to act like a three-year-old again. 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! This girl has a pasokon (computer), a terebi (TV) and all the things normal little girls have. But there’s something else lurking in her room, and we’re gonna find out what they are!

In this newbie Japanese lesson, we’ll be reviewing the differences between iru and aru, which are used to say where things are, as well as the conjunction to used for listing things. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and let us know what’s in your room!

 

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