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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friend tells you that she’s about to come visit you at your apartment in Japan, so you decide to start the clock. Although she’s a ten-minute Japanese subway ride away, she always takes four times as long to get to your house. To you, “about to” means immediate, but apparently these Japanese words mean something different to her!

In this lesson, you’ll learn about the usages of the Japanese word tokoro. Today’s two Japanese conversations take place on the phone and at a pizza place; the first is between a customer and a store clerk who are strangers; thus, they speak in formal Japanese. The second takes place between the store manager and a clerk, who speak informal and formal Japanese, respectively. You’ll learn how to use today’s Japanese word to say you’re “just about to” do something. 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! You’re in the middle of a restaurant, and you’re with your girlfriend’s family having dinner. Her parents know, but little does your girlfriend know, that you are about to ask her a very important question in Japanese. After you enjoy your entrée but before dessert arrives, you tell your girlfriend in Japanese, “Come and dance with me.” Your girlfriend looks all around and says, “But no one else here is dancing.” You implore your girlfriend in Japanese, “Come on…I need to get away from your family for a minute, and the band is playing my favorite song.” She reluctantly agrees after you tell her in Japanese, “It’s just one song…two minutes…you can do it.” At the end of the song, the leader of the band passes you a microphone, and you get down on your knees and tell the other diners in Japanese, “Tonight, I’m going to tell you about the love of my life. When she first smiled at me, I fell in love with her.” After you spend another minute declaring your love in Japanese, you bend to your knee and propose. As she accepts the ring and applause breaks out, your girlfriend whispers in your ear in Japanese, “I’m glad you convinced me to dance!”

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will show you how you can say something happened in Japanese when someone else did something. We’ll also teach you some Japanese business lingo and tell you how to explain that someone recommended something to you 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 Fun Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Our daring and intrepid unagi made the long and dangerous journey to Japan. Now they’re hanging out in a river near Naomi’s house. If you ever wondered what unagi do in the their spare time, well… then this is the story for you. Our grammar point is shite iru tokoro da, used to describe actions which are in progress. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Heros stand up for what is right. They protect the innocent and serve as role models for everyone to emulate. Sometimes you can become a hero just by being in the right place at the right time and doing the right thing. That’s what happened to Ryu-kun the other day… sort of. Our grammar point, tokoro, is one of the most useful tools for specifying tense in Japanese! Very useful considering the simple verb structure of this language. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Satoshi woke up with amnesia from a year long coma and is slowly discovering things about himself, including the shocking fact that he is a spy in Japan’s elite PSIA. Today, the hospital director tries to contact the Shushō (Prime Minister) about this delicate situation. The mystery is getting more interesting.

In this newbie Japanese lesson, discover the polite past tense of class II verbs, which you’ll use all the time. There are plenty of samples sentences that you’ll you in your own Japanese speech. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

 

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