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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! “Where are you staying tonight?” your friend asks in Japanese. “I’m staying with my college roommate in his old, small country house.” “Really,” your friend asks in Japanese. “Are you sure you want to do that? It’s way out in the countryside, and I hear some of the smaller, old places out there are haunted.” This is too much. Does your friend believe in ghosts and such? “Well, I’m not worried,” you reply in Japanese, “The place is warm, dry, and actually very quaint.” “What about you?” you ask in Japanese, “Where are you staying tonight?” He replies in Japanese, “I’m staying in town. I like the big, crowded city. It’s too quiet and spooky out in the countryside.” Now you’re getting to the center of the matter. You suspect your friend just likes to feel a lot of people around him. Or maybe it’s the night life and the women. He does have a reputation as a ladies’ man. “Are you going to see anyone tonight?” you ask in Japanese. “Oh, I thought I might grab some cheap and tasty udon with my sister’s college roommate.” Yes, now you know.

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson teaches you a bit about combining Japanese adjectives. Japanese language, as all others, would be really dull without adjectives. Just try to write something without Japanese adjectives; it’s likely to be dreadful. When describing something in Japanese, you’re likely to want to use more than one Japanese adjective at a time so you have to know how to combine them. 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 at JapanesePod101.com! In today’s lesson, two friends are visiting Meiji Shrine, one of Tokyo’s most popular sightseeing spots! They’ve come all this way, so they decide to take a photograph in front of the big torī (gate) at the entrance of the shrine grounds. We have three grammar points today. One is the extremely useful sekkaku, which is used to express going to a lot of effort to do something (very Japanese). The others are -te ageru and nanta tte, which are covered in detail in the PDF. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Learn Japanese & Have Fun at JapanesePod101.com! Today is the exciting conclusion of our Wasabi Kunoichi series. Last week Wasabi-chan discovered her kōchō-sensei (highschool principal) was behind all the missing wasabi. But now that she learned his secret, he has to eliminate her. What will happen to poor Wasabi-chan? Tune in to find out! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!


Eat Wasabi and Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Last week our intrepid ku-no-ichi went to a far away wasabi-batake (wasabi field) on a hunch that whoever was stealing the wasabi in Izu would probably go there. Strangely enough, her highschool principal eventually showed up in the field. What could he have come there for? You don’t want to miss this episode! Last week we covered -te iku, and this week we will look at a different use of -te iku. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!


Learn to Speak Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today we continue our story about Wasabi-chan. All the wasabi in Izu is missing and our intrepid heroine sets out for a wasabi-batake (wasabi field) to see if she can spot the culprit. Our grammar point is the construction -te kuru, used in this case to show doing an action and then coming back (last week was -te iku). After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!