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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When your mother offers you some vegetables with your dinner, you decline, explaining in Japanese that you would prefer not to eat them. When she presses you about your health and the importance of eating a balanced diet, you insist that you cannot eat them. You tell her in Japanese that your mouth is hurting and you can’t crunch on the vegetables right now. When she replies that you shouldn’t make excuses, you remind her that you just had a cavity filled at the dentist! In this lesson, you will learn about the negative markers -zu and -nu. Our Japanese conversation takes place on the phone between a mother and her son. Since the speakers are related to each other, they will be speaking informal 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!


Learn Japanese With JapanesePod101.com! One of the most common sentences we use talks about being “without.” Here are some examples: “I stayed up all night without going to bed,” and “She said she would marry him without even meeting him in person!” If you want to speak Japanese fluently, you must use sentences that include the word “without.”

This important lower intermediate lesson introduces you to –zu ni (without doing something). You’ll learn to use this phrase in a number of ways to form sentences that are part of almost all Japanese conversations. As an added bonus, find a number of Japanese vocabulary words and example sentences that you can weave into your own Japanese. This JapanesePod101.com lesson makes learning an especially important Japanese phrase easy and fun!

a weird person

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