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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! A trip to the gym in Japan isn’t in the cards for you today: you just got your workout by lifting box after box of heavy produce at the Japanese greengrocer. You pause to add up the various weights you’ve lifted, and your calculations come to more than a thousand pounds! Just wait until you get home to brag in Japanese: no one in your family has worked even half that hard today! In this lesson, you will learn how to use conversational Japanese and how to read calculation formulas in Japanese. The conversation in this Japanese lesson takes place at the greengrocer’s, where a student, one of our Japanese speakers, works. The other speaker is her teacher, so the student speaks formally and the teacher speaks informally 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! As you walk by the rows of shops on the streets of Japan, you tug at your boyfriend’s sleeve and say in Japanese, “Ooh, look at that one!” Your boyfriend responds in Japanese, “It looks like a necklace. What about it?” You explain in Japanese, “Don’t you like it? It would look great on me, don’t you think?” When your boyfriend shrugs, you tell him in Japanese, “Well, let’s go inside to take a closer look.” After the salesperson brings it to you and you try it on, you again drop a hint in Japanese to your boyfriend and ask him, “What do you think now?” Your boyfriend tells you in Japanese, “It’s nice. But don’t you already have three other ones like it?” You punch him in the arm and look at him expectantly, so he continues in Japanese, “If you like it that much, you should buy it.” You reply in Japanese, “I’m trying to help you pick out my birthday present. Are you that clueless?”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson will show you how to ask for something politely in Japanese. We’ll also teach you how to use counters for objects 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!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You would like to impress your Japanese friends with your new-found skills in the kitchen. After all, they did introduce you to wasabi and sashimi. Okay, it was difficult to start to eat the sashimi, but once you tasted it, you liked it. Now you’re going to buy some groceries and supplies so you can do a little Japanese cooking. You’re at the grocer’s, but the array of Japanese foods has you flummoxed; you don’t recognize hardly any of them. “What is that?” you ask the grocery clerk in Japanese. “This is miso,” he replies. “How much is it?” you ask in Japanese. “It is 137 yen per kilogram,” he answers. That seems like a good price, but you’re not sure. “And what is this?” you ask in Japanese, pointing to some meat. “That’s Kobe beef,” he says. “How much is it?” you inquire. “14,960 yen per kilogram,” he replies in Japanese. Ouch! You love your friends, but…you reply in Japanese, “I’ll take the miso.”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson will teach you how to ask about prices in Japanese. Asking the price in Japanese is simple if you start with JapanesePod101.com! 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! As you wait in line at the florist, you listen to the conversation in Japanese between the clerk and the customer in front of you in line. The customer says in Japanese, “I need to take some flowers to the hospital.” You think to yourself in Japanese, “Great! I can learn something from what this customer picks out.” The clerk says in Japanese, “Do you know which flowers you want?” The customer responds in Japanese, “Well, the person is very, very sick, so I want to spend a little more money and get something nice.” The clerk asks in Japanese, “What is your relationship to the person in the hospital?” You wonder out loud in Japanese, “What difference does that make?” The customer in front of you turns around, glares at you, and says in Japanese, “Different flowers have different meanings…for example, white flowers mean friendship. Don’t you know anything?”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Beginner lesson will show you how to form some basic Japanese expressions you can use while shopping. We’ll also review how to use modifying clauses 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!

 

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Learn Japanese travel phrases with Japanese Survival Phrases! A little Japanese can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling to Japan for business or pleasure, these phrases will help make your trip much more pleasant and meaningful!

Today, we’ll go over how to bargain for a better price in Japanese! But first, you have to know when and where that’s appropriate. Bargaining is unacceptable at department stores and high-end stores, for example. But it would be okay at flea markets or electronic stores. With this in mind, let’s learn how to get the most out of your money! And be sure to comb through Japanese Survival Phrases before setting out on your trip to Japan!

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