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Best friends with a person you’ve never met in real life? The arrival of social networks and e-mail enabled cellphones brought a new phenomenon to Japan, the merutomo (e-mail friend). People find new friends, but sometimes you can even find your soulmate! Find out what kind of friendship is developing in this story! We’re learning an important grammar point, both which involve the particle no being used as a nominalizer. We’ll take a look at how to nominalize Japanese verbs (similar to a gerund in English), and we’ll look at the construction noun + particle + no.

Make friends with Japanese people!

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What do you like? Saying what you like and don’t like is critical to your survival in a foreign country. Japan is no different. But did you know that we can use the same grammatical pattern to express things that you are good at and bad at doing? It’s true. And it couldn’t be easier! Today we will learn the attributive use of the particle ga in Japanese. It sounds like a mouthful, but you’ll be surprised how useful it is. We’ll learn to express likes, dislikes and abilities. It’s a very important Japanese grammatical construction, so you don’t want to miss this Beginner Japanese lesson!

Playing golf in Japan

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Going to a hot spring or public bath? You’ll need to know the proper etiquette if you want to be comfortable and get the most of your time there. In this series we’ll walk you through step by step, so you can bathe like a pro and impress everyone with your knowledge of Japanese culture! Will introduce the basic use of the volitional forum of Japanese verbs, used to indicate willingness or desire or suggestions. We’ll also learn how to make grammatical constructions using the Japanese auxiliary verb garu, which connotes that something “shows signs of something” and is a useful way of stating observations in the Japanese language.

It's not the Shinkansen, it's the Romance Car!


Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You return from a wonderful trip to Japan, and coming home is as good as the trip. Isn’t that the way it always is. Travel is great, but coming home is even better. Especially when the trip was to see some of the best sights of Japan with your Japanese girlfriend. Can’t beat that. It’s also fun to talk about your Japanese adventure with your friends. They get to enjoy your trip to Japan vicariously. They ask in Japanese, “Tell us all about your trip. Where did you go? How was the weather?” Happily, you reply in Japanese, “Oh, we went all over the area where her parents live. It’s very scenic and the weather was very good.” You hear a question from behind you and you know who’s asking it before you turn around. Your friend asks in Japanese, “What did you eat…and did you bring everyone, um, souvenirs?” Yeah, he’s always interested in the food. He knows every food term in Japanese. Sometimes he forgets easy words, but never if it has to do with food. You explain in Japanese, “We had great Japanese food at several places. We had udon and tempura and this fabulous Ichiroku-tart I brought back with me. Everyone must try it.” Everyone chimes in as they grab a portion of the Japanese delicacy, “Thank you very much. I can’t wait. It is fabulous.” The wonders of Japanese food.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson is about the language of Japanese travel. Learn casual Japanese conversation words such as “weather,” “souvenir,” and “everyone.” Your friends, whether Japanese or not, will want to hear all about your Japanese travels. We will also review the adjectival te-form, i-adjectives, na-adjectives, and the polite past and non-past Japanese verbs. After this lesson, you will be ready to move on to our Japanese Beginner lessons! 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!

Delicious Japanese Sweets: Ichiroku Tart
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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.

Go to a manga cafe in Tokyo, Japan.