Beginner Season 4 - JapanesePod101

Beginner

Beginner Season 4

This 50-lesson linear series is a continuation of the Newbie Level Nihongo-Dojo series. You will follow the story of Haruya, a professional Japanese boxer, and his girlfriend Miu.

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50 Audio Lessons

Meet The Parents 1

Learn how to introduce yourself in polite Japanese

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• 15 Minutes

Japanese Etiquette: Visiting a Home

Learn how to enter Japanese home respectfully and show that you're sensitive to the culture

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• 15 Minutes

Tell Me More About Yourself

Learn how to talk about yourself in a polite manner

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• 11 Minutes

Daddy is Home

Learn how to say what we want or want to do

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• 15 Minutes

A Scheme is Hatched

Learn how to say what you don't want

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• 18 Minutes

The Plot Thickens

Learn the attributive use of the particle ga

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• 15 Minutes

An Opportunity Arises

Learn about talking on the phone

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• 14 Minutes

A Second Chance to Make A First Impression

Learn how to extend invitations and how not to answer them when speaking with a potential mother-in-law

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• 15 Minutes

Taking Orders

Learn to follow instructions in this Japanese lesson

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• 15 Minutes

Bonding at Break Time

Learn how to understand more simple instructions

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• 15 Minutes

Three's A Crowd

Learn about the critical Japanese phrases you need to get around

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• 16 Minutes

Have You Seen Our Garden?

Learn how to ask for explanation using the Japanese phrase "Setsumei shite kudasai"

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• 13 Minutes

The Perfect Japanese For a First Encounter

Learn how to discuss present continuing actions

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• 14 Minutes

Using Polite Japanese: Your Key to Forming Relationships

Learn to use Japanese verbs like iku, kuru, and kaeru

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• 11 Minutes

Cans and Can'ts: Asking for and Giving Permission

Learn to use these Japanese words to ask all sorts of questions and give appropriate responses

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• 13 Minutes

Read, Learn and Speak: Combining Verbs in Japanese

Learn how to combine verbs

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• 14 Minutes

What are you Going to Bring?

Learn about Mottekite (to bring) and Motteiku (to take)

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• 11 Minutes

Japanese that Might Save Your Life!

Learn the emergency numbers you need in Japan

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• 12 Minutes

How Not to Take The Wrong Train in Japan!

Learn how to ask for directions and use public transportation in Japan

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• 13 Minutes

How Does Your Japanese Compare?

Learn to make comparisons

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• 12 Minutes

Who are You Being Compared To?

Learn how to make affirmative comparisons

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• 14 Minutes

“The Best” Japanese is Here!

Learn how to superlative sentences that compare quantity or quality

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• 15 Minutes

Please Don't Do This!

Learn how to ask someone not to do something using -naide kudasai politely

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• 14 Minutes

The Most Important Japanese Lesson Yet!

Learn how to change verbs into the past tense

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• 15 Minutes

Japanese You Can Do Without?

Learn how to use sentences formed as "Do [clause 1] without doing [clause 2]"

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• 13 Minutes

The Right Way to Sightsee in Japan

Review two verb forms, which are the dictionary form and the masu form

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• 14 Minutes

Are You Ready for a Visit to Japan?

Review the counters for hours and minutes, and how to form the negative form of a verb

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• 17 Minutes

One Word You Can't Speak Japanese Without!

Learn about telling someone to do something

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• 15 Minutes

Formal and Informal Japanese: Do you Know the Difference?

Learn about talking about something using adjectives

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• 13 Minutes

Your First Trip to Japan

Learn about talking about past actions

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• 12 Minutes

My Sincerest Apologies

Learn about saying that one did not do a certain action in the past

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• 13 Minutes

The Most Meaningful Japanese Lesson Yet

Learn about describing how something was

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• 13 Minutes

Get in on the Volitional Verb Action!

Learn about making a suggestion (let's ～)

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• 14 Minutes

Is Your Japanese Too Much?

Learn about saying that something is too [adjective]

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• 16 Minutes

Japanese That's Easy to Do

Learn about saying that something is easy or hard to do

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• 13 Minutes

I Think You'll Like This...

Learn about expressing your opinion

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• 14 Minutes

All You Have to do is Ask!

Learn about asking the reason for something

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• 13 Minutes

Too Easy Japanese!

Review of lessons 34～37

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• 12 Minutes

Where's Your Japanese Headed?

Learn about stating your purpose for going somewhere

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• 14 Minutes

Yes or No?

Learn about saying you haven't done a certain action yet

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• 15 Minutes

Have You Started This Yet?

Learn about talking about actions that have already happened or haven't happened yet

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• 11 Minutes

Your Japanese Possibilities

Learn about talking about ability and asking permission

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• 14 Minutes

Your Japanese Abilities

Learn about expressing that one can do something

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• 11 Minutes

"Able-Bodied" Japanese

Learn about expressing that you can do something part ii

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• 11 Minutes

What's Your Japanese Potential?

Learn about conjugating the potential forms of verbs

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• 13 Minutes

Don’t Quote Me in Japanese on This

Learn about reporting what someone else has said

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• 14 Minutes

It's Time For a Change!

Learn about talking about change and transformation

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• 15 Minutes

Transform Your Japanese

Learn more about talking about change and transformation

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• 15 Minutes

Do You Talk About Other People In Japanese?

Learn about using sentences to describe someone/something

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• 14 Minutes

Need a Japanese Review?

Review of past lessons

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• 16 Minutes