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Learning Practical Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! You’re in Japan. You lose your wallet. There’s ￥15,000 and your ID in it. What do you do? Panic? Of course not, because you studied this lesson! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese on Your Own Terms at JapanesePod101.com! Today is our final chapter in the unagi story. It seems that having arrived in Japan, our slimy friends have found nothing better to do than play pachinko (what else would unagi do in Japan?). As we already introduced how to use shi hajimeru and shi oeru to describe beginning and finishing actions, we will now look at -te shimau, which is used to describe actions which are fully completely - often with a tinge of disappointment. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Have Fun & Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! In today’s lesson, Maki-chan stepped in something outside of Harajuku Station. What was it? You’ll just have to listen to find out. Our grammar point is useful when expressing unfortunate situations, it’s none other than -te shimau. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Last week Inoue-san invited Yamada-san to a Seiji Ozawa concert. As we said before these tickets are quite expensive and hard to get. This week Inoue runs into a little trouble and we’ll find out why. Our grammar point is te shimau which is used to show completion of a past action or state, but often can be used to express disappointment or an undesired outcome. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and leave us a post!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Last week Agnes got a phone call from Hashimoto Yūsuke, who set a time to meet and discuss a business opportunity. Tonight she is going to meet him face to face. We’re introducing a lot of vocabulary in this lesson and talking about switching from formal to informal Japanese. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com to leave us a post!
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Grammar: iru, shimau, te iru, te shimau | Function: asking about lost items | Topic: lost & found, police, Shibuya, wallet | Politeness Level: casual, Polite
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