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SurvivalPhrases.com - Learn essential travel phrases, cultural insights and travel tips in 12 languages.Learn About Japanese Cuisine at JapanesePod101.com! Most people are familiar with bentō, Japanese-style boxed lunches. With the advent of the shinkansen (high speed “bullet trains”), people can travel to another prefecture and try a local eki-ben (boxed lunch you buy at the station and eat on the train). Today Miki will tell us about a very interesting ekiben event! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave her a post!

Have Fun Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! We’re continuing to take a look at asking and giving directions in Japanese. Yasumi has started his journey and is going to change trains at Ikebukuro station (one of the 3 busiest train stations in the world!). There are a lot of different types of trains, including local and express. So he’ll have to ask which is the right train to take. Our grammar point is nara, a conditional form of the copula. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Have Fun Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Hajime and Yasumi are old friends but Hajime just recently moved to the suburban town of Kawagoe. Most Tokyoites aren’t too familiar with the ins & outs of Saitama Prefecture, so this lesson is, naturally, about asking and giving directions. We’ll focus on public transportation functions in this lesson, so this will be important for your day-to-day survival in Japan. Our grammar point is using the so-called to conditional. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
Kick Back and Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today we’re looking at a picture of a sign inside Harajuku Jingumae Station. Two friends, Masaru and Mamoru are trying to find the famous Meiji Jingu (The Meiji Shrine). But the exit they want is closed! Will they be able to see the shrine today? Our grammar point is tte a colloquial contraction of to iu which is used to quote things or establish a topic of conversation. It’s quite a tricky part of Japanese Grammar, but mastering this will make your Japanese flow very naturally, so you definitely don’t want to miss 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! In Tokyo there a plenty of transportation options available. To friends need to go from Shibuya to Ebisu. What might be the fastest way might not be the cheapest way. Or the cheapest way might not be the most pleasant way. Let’s have a look at their conversation. Our grammar point is using dō-yatte to ask about how to do something. Don’t miss the bonus track where you can hear Takauji’s lines delivered samurai style. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Topic: ekiben, food, trains | Politeness Level: Polite
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