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You’re stranded in Tokyo. Not enough cash for a hotel. Where do you stay? Two Japanese businessmen decide to stay at a mankitsu, a manga cafe. Similar to an internet cafe, but you have access to Japanese anime, manga, magazines and even massage chairs! Gomi-san recommends Nana, a famous Japanese manga.
We’ll learn how to say “easy to do” in Japanese using the -masu stem + yasui. We’ll also show how to use this versatile grammatical construction to express ideas of “prone to do” and that things “tend to happen” in Japanese. This grammar point is the opposite of the -masu + nikui, which we learned in another Japanese lesson.
Learn Japanese on Your Own Terms at JapanesePod101.com! We’re going on a date tonight! First it’s to the cafe to talk about Murakami Haruki books, then we’ll fast forward to next weekend for a samurai movie. Our grammar point is nara, used to offset topics and is a great way to make a suggestion to that special someone! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S2) | 12 Comments »
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Start Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Fabrizio and Fuyuka are driving through Shikoku discussing cars. As we all know, Fabrizio has expensive taste, so we’ll learn what kind of cars he loves and what kind of cars he thinks are dasai (lame). Our function is talking about likes and dislikes using suki and kirai. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today is a bit of a flash from the past as we bring you a conversation reminiscent of early JapanesePod101.com. And no, that doesn’t mean Peter is in the conversation… you’ll have to tune in to find out more, but you can probably get a pretty good idea from the title. Today’s lesson reinforces some key words used when talking about likes and dislikes, so don’t miss this one!
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Category: Beginner Lessons (S3) | 15 Comments »
Grammar: masu stem, yasui | Function: suggestions, talking about likes and dislikes, talking about things | Topic: anime, cafe, internet cafe, manga, manga cafe | Politeness Level: casual, Polite
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