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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re practicing for your big day on the Japanese game show by watching the show at home and competing with your family members. Your son isn’t too much of a contender: after all, he is only ten years old, but your spouse has proven surprisingly adept at this Japanese game. Each of you takes turns at calling out the answers in Japanese to the questions, and after the first round, your scores are neck in neck. By the end of the second “speed” round of the Japanese show, your spouse has pulled slightly ahead. Your spouse starts to gloat, saying in Japanese, “Since I’m beating you, maybe I should be the one to go on the show! Maybe I’m the best at trivia in this household.” While your spouse struts around the house, you say in Japanese, “It’s not over till it’s over, and we have one more round of questions! We’ll see who is the best at this game yet!”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will teach you how to use certain Japanese particles to make comparisons using the Japanese equivalent of the word “than.” Of course, feel free to compare whatever you want in Japanese…just don’t send us your bills for couple’s therapy! 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 with JapanesePod101.com! When you come out of your bedroom to get take a short study break, you find your roommate lounging on the couch watching Japanese variety shows. You tell your roommate in Japanese, “I am so sick of studying while you relax that I could throw my Japanese books out the window!” Your roommate tells you in Japanese, “Please don’t…if you do that, then we’ll lose our lease!” You respond in Japanese, “I just don’t know what else to do…I am at the end of my rope!” Your roommate tells you in Japanese, “Well, if you want to relax like me, then you need to study for this Japanese exam the same way I am with these amazing online lessons from JapanesePod101.com!”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese JLPT lesson will tell you about the fourth and fifth parts of the grammar and reading comprehension section on the Japanese proficiency exam. We’ll teach you how to use the conditional in Japanese to give instructions or directions, and we’ll also show you how to form and use embedded questions in Japanese. 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 with JapanesePod101.com! Mystical things have always fascinated you, even though you don’t put much stock in what your Magic 8 ball tells you that your fortune will be. So now that you’re in Japan, you’re surprised to find that lots of Japanese people are interested in tarot card reading and fortune telling. Your friend tells you in Japanese, “Let’s go and have our fortunes told tomorrow at the Japanese market.” You look at her skeptically and say in Japanese, “Are you serious? That seems like a waste of money.” Your roommate puts her hands to her head, appears to concentrate very hard, and says in Japanese, “I predict that you will come with me…and that you will meet someone special while we are there!” You laugh and tell her in Japanese, “You’re off your rocker.” She says in Japanese, “Well, come with me anyway and I’ll buy you lunch.” Now we’re talking!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will review how to use three very important Japanese conjunctions that we touched on in earlier Japanese lessons. With these Japanese conjunctions, you can set up conditional statements, make requests, and issue orders, among many other things. You won’t want to miss this review of these critical Japanese words! 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 with JapanesePod101.com! Click…click…click. You can’t sleep in your Japanese hotel bed. Something’s just not right…maybe the Japanese don’t like their pillows fluffed as much as you do. You’re not sure what’s going on with your sleep patterns since you’ve been in Japan, but since you can’t sleep, you’re watching late-night Japanese television. On one channel, the weatherman predicts in Japanese, “If you’re outside tomorrow, you better take an umbrella. We have a ninety percent chance of rain.” Click! You land on a news channel, where the news anchor reports in Japanese, “If the United States President doesn’t take swift action, the stock market will continue to suffer.” Click! What’s this? It looks like a Japanese infomercial…you decide to tune in to see whether you can get a deal!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Lower Intermediate lesson will review how to use the Japanese conditional structures involving to and tara. We’ll tell you when you should use one or the other of these Japanese structures and the restrictions on one of these Japanese words. So get ready to make a deal and review these important Japanese grammar points! 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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Start Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Tokyo’s a big city, so it’s good to be armed with a few helpful phrases to help you out if you get lost. Today’s grammar point is the to conditional which is used to link a one condition to a resulting state or action. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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