Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your grandson looks up at you with big eyes and asks in Japanese, “What’s a golden anniversary?” You reply in Japanese, “It means that you’ve been married to someone for a very long time. Fifty years, in fact!” Your grandson says in Japanese, “That is a long time. I’m only six years old!” You chuckle and say in Japanese, “I know. You have a long way to go before you get to fifty years.” Your grandson tells you in Japanese, “Nah, I’m going to stay young forever.” At that point, you put your grandson on your knee and say in Japanese, “Son, you have a lot to learn, and there’s nothing wrong with getting old. That’s why they call it a golden anniversary… if there were something bad about it, they’d call it something negative, like a coal anniversary.” Your grandson looks up at you with big eyes and asks in Japanese, “Grandpa, what’s coal?”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review three of the major Japanese particles: wa, ga, and o. By the end of this lesson, you’ll know so much that you’ll feel like you’ve entered the golden age of your Japanese knowledge! 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! Some angry Japanese ninjas are chasing you through the streets of Japan. The ninjas are wearing all black with a Japanese flag emblazoned on their shirts. While the Japanese men look fierce, for some reason, you’re wearing your pink terrycloth night robe and fuzzy bunny slippers. Just as the ninjas are about to grab you, you wake up safe and sound in your Japanese hotel room. Pinching yourself to make sure you’re awake, you look at the alarm clock and realize you’re going to be late for your work appointment with your Japanese clients. That wouldn’t be so terrible, but you were already late earlier this week to meet the representatives of this very important Japanese account. In a panic, you call your office and tell your assistant in Japanese, “Hey, I’m running a few minutes late again today. I’ll be in there as soon as I can, but you’ll need to stall.” He asks you in Japanese, “Okay, boss, but what do you want me to say?” You instruct him in Japanese, “Tell them I wasn’t feeling well and had to stop by the doctor’s office on my way in, but that they are so important I wanted to come in anyway.” He replies in Japanese, “Okay, but what if they ask what it is you have?” You respond in Japanese, “Don’t tell them it’s anything contagious…just say it’s a “personal” issue, and that should take care of it. People don’t like to probe when you say that.” Your assistant says in Japanese, “I’m on it. Now get off the phone and get in here!”
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 particles to tell someone how you’re feeling. You’ll also learn how to use Japanese particles to demonstrate that you’ve witnessed something unexpected. Perhaps your client will use that type of Japanese particle the day you actually show up on time for a meeting! 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 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! Where the heck is that son of yours hiding in Japan? You go to your son’s usual Japanese haunts, including the park around the corner from your apartment and the playground down the street that all the Japanese kids seem to love. But no matter how hard you look, your son is nowhere to be found! You run around the streets of your Japanese neighborhood like a madwoman, calling out in Japanese, “Here’s a picture. Has anyone seen my boy?” Finally, you run into one of your son’s friends from school. You frantically ask him in Japanese, “Have you seen my son?” When the boy tells you in Japanese that he has seen him, you grab him by the shoulders and yell in Japanese, “Tell me where he is!” The boy says in Japanese, “He went to the airport to watch the planes land.” More calmly, you ask him in Japanese, “You mean he went to the public airport and not the private one, don’t you?” When he nods affirmatively, your husband exclaims in Japanese, “Let’s go!”
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 sentence-ending particles. We’ll show you how to use these particles to express, among other things, commands, requests, and emotions. 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’ve heard this jibe so many times before, but never in Japanese. Your friend taunts in Japanese, “Why do you call it ‘football’ when everyone handles the ball with his hands?” No matter, it’s always the same effort to get your goat, regardless if it’s in Japanese or not. So you give the standard answer in Japanese, “Not true, actually. The kickers kick the ball on punts, kickoffs, field goals, and points after. And there are ways to kick the ball you’ve never even heard of. Besides, why do you call it football when players can touch the ball with their legs, backs, butts, chests, even their heads, and the goalie grabs the ball with his hands almost every time?” Said in Japanese or not, that generally slows them down for a while as they take it all in. Then you continue the onslaught, and to their surprise, in Japanese, “And don’t get me started on difficulty. How hard can it be to kick a round ball. You know exactly where it’s going to go, exactly how it will roll. The only thing you can do is put some spin on it. Try kicking a prolate spheroid and see if you can tell where it’s going to go, but guys in college can kick an American football for fifty meters and put it within vertical poles only four meters apart and three meters off the ground. I haven’t even mentioned the brutal tackling that’s a normal part of every play. Where is that in soccer?” Your Japanese friends look at you in wonder. How could you get all that out in Japanese? They admit defeat, sort of, with their rebuttal in Japanese, “Let’s talk baseball.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson is about wa, one of the most common Japanese particles, and its various uses. Learn how its use conveys a subtle interest in something other than the subject at hand. 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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