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SurvivalPhrases.com - Learn essential travel phrases, cultural insights and travel tips in 12 languages.Learn Practical Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today we’re taking a trip to the kiosuku (kiosk). Our intrepid shopper, the legendary samurai Ōishi Kuranosuke, is buying some food for his trip to Ōsaka and needs to receive his change. So we’ll hear the phrases the kiosk clerks use. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

Start Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Fuyuka and Fabrizio are still hanging out in Dogo Onsen, and today they’re doing some shopping when suddenly a celebrity walks into the shopping center! Then much zaniness ensues. We’ll talk about describing body parts and people using wa and ga. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn to Shop in Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Ameyoko is a famous Showa Era market place in Taito-ku, Tokyo. The sales staff there are famous for being agressive and noisy as they try to entice would be shoppers into their store. We’ll look at some extremely polite Japanese constructions that you’ll hear in any shop or restaurant you enter in Japan. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

Learn the Japanese Language at JapanesePod101.com! Today is the conclusion of Kinoshita’s shopping saga. The shop clerk has been pretty aggressive, so let’s see if he can make the sale! In our grammar point we’ll learn how to make superlatives in Japanese. Also we’ll study how to use the adjective jozu (skillful, savvy) in a few idiomatic set phrases and much, much more. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! This week we return to take a look at Kinoshita’s little adventure in the electronics department store. Today the salesman is suggesting many items for him and trying very hard to close the deal. Will he make the sale this week or not? We’ll take a look at the very useful construction ~tara dō desu ka and its honorific cousin ~tara ikaga deshō ka for making suggestions. Even better than that will get into some other honorific phrases that will really blow away your Japanese friends. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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Grammar: naru, ni naru | Function: giving change | Topic: conbini, convenience store, money, shopping | Politeness Level: Polite
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