Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You open the door to the balcony of your Pacific resort and soak in the morning sunshine and salt air. Unfortunately, during this vacation from your Japanese job, your cell phone has been ringing off the hook, and e-mails have been pouring in every minute. As you look through your messages, your spouse tells you in Japanese, “It’s only six o’clock. We’re supposed to be on vacation. Come back to bed.” You tell your spouse in Japanese, “I can’t sleep.” Your spouse tells you in Japanese, “That’s not true…you’re just worrying about work. What is the office telling you now?” You respond in Japanese, “Don’t worry about it…just go back to bed and I’ll take care of it.” Your spouse sneaks up behind you and reads your e-mails over your shoulder. Your spouse exclaims in Japanese, “Seriously? Your boss said to come back to Japan early from your vacation and everything will be all right? Let me tell him a few things about that idea!”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will teach you how to solve a problem in Japanese. At least, we’ll give you the Japanese words so you can tell someone how to fix it. 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! While you’re in the Japanese bar, you lean over to your friend and say in Japanese, “I’m getting tired. It’s been a long day. How much longer do you want to stay out tonight?” Your friend responds in Japanese, “Maybe another hour…till eleven o’clock?” You nod in assent and tell your friend, “That sounds good because I have to get up early for class tomorrow morning.” You go back to enjoying your Japanese sake. At eleven o’clock, you gesture to your friend, who is engrossed in conversation with the Japanese bartender. She pretends not to notice, so you hold up your arm, point to your watch, and mouth the Japanese words “It’s time to go!” She shakes her head and mouths “no” back to you in Japanese, then turns her attention back to the bartender. You can’t leave your friend behind, so you settle in to the bar and check out the Japanese baseball game on the television. It’s the eighth inning now, and the Japanese team is winning by five runs. You’ll give her one more inning, and if she hasn’t struck out with the Japanese bartender by the time the game’s over, you’re outta there!
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Particle lesson will review the many ways you can use the Japanese particles kara and made. Among the many other uses of these Japanese particles, you can use them to set boundaries, which may come in handy when your Japanese friends try to push your limits. 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! Your friend drops by your office and she chats for a while in Japanese. You know this is not a good thing, since she rarely ever stops by except for when she needs something from you, so you ask her point-blank in Japanese, “What do you need?” She responds in Japanese, “I’m going out of the office on appointments for the next few days, and I need you to cover some accounts for me.” You reply in Japanese, “Well, I’m very busy, but I will help you out if you’ll agree to do the same for me later this year.” She replies in Japanese, “Of course, of course. Just let me know when.” Relieved to get rid of her, you turn back to the pile of work on your desk. An hour later, your boss comes in and tells you in Japanese, “I have a special project for you that will take a few days. But wow…look at your desk! So full of papers! Do you have time to do it?” You tell your boss in Japanese, “Sure…but you have to take something off my plate. There’s no way I can fit any more work into the day!” Learning Japanese with
JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will teach you how to say that something is not possible due to a bad situation in Japanese. In other words, you’ll learn how to tell someone that something is “out of the question” in Japanese. Of course, telling someone no in Japanese is always easier said than done, but you’re on your own to solve that problem! 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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Kid doctors, kid lawyers, kid chefs and kid bankers! There’s a place in Japan where kids can get jobs like grown ups and even earn money and open bank accounts. Where is this magical and mysterious place? Well, you’ll just have to ask Miki!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You and your family are long overdue for a vacation, so you call a family meeting and ask them in Japanese, “Where do you want to go on vacation this year?” You hear a chorus of responses in Japanese, and all of them agree that the beach is the place to be. You tell them in Japanese, “Okay, that was easier than I expected. Now what about when to go?” Your spouse tells you in Japanese, “Well, we have to wait for the kids to finish school, and then I have a ton of papers I’ll have to grade. So we cannot go earlier than June.” One of your children speaks up and tells you in Japanese, “And I signed up for a two-week camp in July.” Another one replies in Japanese, “I have swimming lessons every week in July.” Writing all this down, you ask in Japanese, “Is there anything else to think about?” Your spouse flips through the calendar and says in Japanese, “Right now the first two weeks of August look good, but you know how things are. Even if we plan as well as we can, something always comes up! Let’s just pick a date so we can know not to plan other things.”
Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Upper Intermediate lesson will teach you the Japanese phrase that means “even if.” We will show you two forms of this Japanese phrase, the formal and informal versions, and we’ll show you how to put together a sentence using this phrase. 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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