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Say Hello in Japanese No Matter What the Time of Day
Absolute Beginner Season 1
Learn how to greet someone both formally and informally
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Lesson LibraryConversational Japanese for Absolute Beginners

Conversational Japanese for Absolute Beginners

Friends, family, colleagues or strangers. Learn to speak with all of them with this collection.

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1

Say Hello in Japanese No Matter What the Time of Day

Learn how to greet someone both formally and informally

7 Minutes • Audio
2

Introducing Yourself in Japanese

Learn how to greet someone for the first time and say your name

6 Minutes • Audio
3

Show Your Appreciation in Japanese

Learn how to say "Thank you" and "You're welcome" in Japanese

6 Minutes • Audio
4

Being Sorry in Japan

Learn how to apologize

6 Minutes • Audio
5

Can You Take My Japanese Order?

Learn how to ask for something

7 Minutes • Audio
6

Catching Up With an Old Friend in Japan

Learn how to greet someone you haven't seen in a long time

5 Minutes • Audio
7

Can You Tell Me What This is in Japanese?

Learn how to say what something is ("A is B")

8 Minutes • Audio
8

This is a Japanese Gift For You

Learn how to identify things, give someone things, and say some polite Japanese phrases

8 Minutes • Audio
9

Asking a Japanese Question

Learn how to ask questions

6 Minutes • Audio
10

Is This Your Japanese House?

Learn how to say that something belongs to someone

8 Minutes • Audio
11

What is This Delicious Japanese Dish?

Learn how to ask what something is

7 Minutes • Audio
12

Can You Eat This Japanese Meatloaf?

Learn how to ask whether something or someone is okay

9 Minutes • Audio
13

Where's the Party in Japan?

Learn how to ask where something is

9 Minutes • Audio
14

Being Really Clumsy in Japan

Learn how to add emphasis to Japanese phrases that you have already learned

8 Minutes • Audio
15

A Long, Hot Japanese Summer

Learn how to describe what something is like

9 Minutes • Audio
16

These Japanese Interjections Aren't Impolite!

Learn how to respond to someone in a conversation

9 Minutes • Audio
17

Asking Somebody's Age in Japanese

Learn how to use numbers to ask someone's age or tell someone your age

11 Minutes • Audio
18

Loving and Hating in Japanese

Learn how to say that you like or don't like something

9 Minutes • Audio
19

Is There Any Japanese Fried Chicken Left?

Learn how to talk about inanimate objects in Japanese using arimasu

9 Minutes • Audio
20

A Trip to the Japanese Zoo

Learn how to talk about animate objects in Japanese using imasu

9 Minutes • Audio
21

Do You Eat Sushi in Japan?

Learn how to talk about doing an action

11 Minutes • Audio
22

Do You Drink Japanese Beer?

Learn how to ask questions in Japanese using -masu ka

9 Minutes • Audio
23

Hoping for a Lucky Streak in Japan

Learn how to talk about going places

10 Minutes • Audio
24

What's the Japanese Word for This?

Learn how to ask what something is in the Japanese language

10 Minutes • Audio
25

Do You Remember the Japanese Grammar You've Learned in this Series?

Review some of the different grammar points we have learned throughout this series

12 Minutes • Audio
26

Counting Down to the New Year in Japan

Learn how to say the numbers from zero to ten

11 Minutes • Audio
27

Best Wishes for the Japanese New Year

Learn how to say "Mr" and "Ms"

9 Minutes • Audio
28

A Japanese Introduction

Learn how to introduce yourself

11 Minutes • Audio
29

Talking About the Japanese Weather

Learn how to talk about the weather and the air temperature

9 Minutes • Audio
30

There's a 6 A.M. in Japan?

Learn how to ask for and tell what time it is

11 Minutes • Audio
31

How is Everyone Feeling in Japan?

Learn how to ask "How are you?"

9 Minutes • Audio
32

How Much Do Things Cost in Japan?

Learn how to ask the price of something

9 Minutes • Audio
33

Going to Japan by Way of Mexico

Learn how to ask when someone will go or come to a place

9 Minutes • Audio
34

One of These Things is Not Like the Other One in Japan

Learn how to ask what something is

9 Minutes • Audio
35

Missing the Japanese Train

Learn how to ask about timetables

8 Minutes • Audio
36

Can I Get Some Ketchup for my Japanese Dinner?

Learn how to ask whether someone has something

10 Minutes • Audio
37

I'm Having a Taxi Emergency in Japan

Learn how to express that you have and don't have something

11 Minutes • Audio
38

Where in Japan Are You Now?

Learn how to ask where someone is

9 Minutes • Audio
39

Finding Your Friends in Japan

Learn how to ask and say the location of something

10 Minutes • Audio
40

Are You Missing Your Japanese Dog?

Learn how to describe that someone or something is not in a place

9 Minutes • Audio
41

Spending Time on Japanese Public Transportation

Learn how to say a means of transportation

10 Minutes • Audio
42

Visiting a Japanese Home

Learn how to use Japanese verbs in their non-past affirmative and interrogative forms

10 Minutes • Audio
43

Being a Vegetarian is a Bit Difficult in Japan

Learn how to use Japanese verbs in the non-past negative form

9 Minutes • Audio
44

How Long Ago Did you Arrive in Japan?

Learn how to use Japanese verbs in the past affirmative form

8 Minutes • Audio
45

Visiting the Tokyo Game Show

Learn how to use Japanese verbs in the past negative form

8 Minutes • Audio
46

Getting Enthusiastic about Japanese Games

Learn how to invite someone to do something in using the Japanese phrase -masen ka

10 Minutes • Audio
47

Let's Drink to Learning Japanese!

Learn how to make a suggestion

8 Minutes • Audio
48

Beware of Japanese Monkeys

Learn how to explain your emergency

9 Minutes • Audio
49

Going on a Strange Hike in Japan

Learn how to use adjectives in the past affirmative and interrogative forms

10 Minutes • Audio
50

Review the Japanese You've Learned this Season

Review the series so far

10 Minutes • Audio