Conversational Japanese for Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginner

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

Contents

50 Audio Lessons

Say Hello in Japanese No Matter What the Time of Day

Learn how to greet someone both formally and informally

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• 7 Minutes

Introducing Yourself in Japanese

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

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• 6 Minutes

Show Your Appreciation in Japanese

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

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• 6 Minutes

Being Sorry in Japan

Learn how to apologize

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• 6 Minutes

Can You Take My Japanese Order?

Learn how to ask for something

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• 7 Minutes

Catching Up With an Old Friend in Japan

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

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• 5 Minutes

Can You Tell Me What This is in Japanese?

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

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• 8 Minutes

This is a Japanese Gift For You

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

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• 8 Minutes

Asking a Japanese Question

Learn how to ask questions

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• 6 Minutes

Is This Your Japanese House?

Learn how to say that something belongs to someone

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• 8 Minutes

What is This Delicious Japanese Dish?

Learn how to ask what something is

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• 7 Minutes

Can You Eat This Japanese Meatloaf?

Learn how to ask whether something or someone is okay

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• 9 Minutes

Where's the Party in Japan?

Learn how to ask where something is

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• 9 Minutes

Being Really Clumsy in Japan

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

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• 8 Minutes

A Long, Hot Japanese Summer

Learn how to describe what something is like

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• 9 Minutes

These Japanese Interjections Aren't Impolite!

Learn how to respond to someone in a conversation

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• 9 Minutes

Asking Somebody's Age in Japanese

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

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• 11 Minutes

Loving and Hating in Japanese

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

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• 9 Minutes

Is There Any Japanese Fried Chicken Left?

Learn how to talk about inanimate objects in Japanese using arimasu

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• 9 Minutes

A Trip to the Japanese Zoo

Learn how to talk about animate objects in Japanese using imasu

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• 9 Minutes

Do You Eat Sushi in Japan?

Learn how to talk about doing an action

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• 11 Minutes

Do You Drink Japanese Beer?

Learn how to ask questions in Japanese using -masu ka

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• 9 Minutes

Hoping for a Lucky Streak in Japan

Learn how to talk about going places

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• 10 Minutes

What's the Japanese Word for This?

Learn how to ask what something is in the Japanese language

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• 10 Minutes

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

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• 12 Minutes

Counting Down to the New Year in Japan

Learn how to say the numbers from zero to ten

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• 11 Minutes

Best Wishes for the Japanese New Year

Learn how to say "Mr" and "Ms"

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• 9 Minutes

A Japanese Introduction

Learn how to introduce yourself

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• 11 Minutes

Talking About the Japanese Weather

Learn how to talk about the weather and the air temperature

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• 9 Minutes

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

Learn how to ask for and tell what time it is

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• 11 Minutes

How is Everyone Feeling in Japan?

Learn how to ask "How are you?"

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• 9 Minutes

How Much Do Things Cost in Japan?

Learn how to ask the price of something

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• 9 Minutes

Going to Japan by Way of Mexico

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

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• 9 Minutes

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

Learn how to ask what something is

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• 9 Minutes

Missing the Japanese Train

Learn how to ask about timetables

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• 8 Minutes

Can I Get Some Ketchup for my Japanese Dinner?

Learn how to ask whether someone has something

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• 10 Minutes

I'm Having a Taxi Emergency in Japan

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

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• 11 Minutes

Where in Japan Are You Now?

Learn how to ask where someone is

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• 9 Minutes

Finding Your Friends in Japan

Learn how to ask and say the location of something

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• 10 Minutes

Are You Missing Your Japanese Dog?

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

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• 9 Minutes

Spending Time on Japanese Public Transportation

Learn how to say a means of transportation

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• 10 Minutes

Visiting a Japanese Home

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

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• 10 Minutes

Being a Vegetarian is a Bit Difficult in Japan

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

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• 9 Minutes

How Long Ago Did you Arrive in Japan?

Learn how to use Japanese verbs in the past affirmative form

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• 8 Minutes

Visiting the Tokyo Game Show

Learn how to use Japanese verbs in the past negative form

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• 8 Minutes

Getting Enthusiastic about Japanese Games

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

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• 10 Minutes

Let's Drink to Learning Japanese!

Learn how to make a suggestion

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• 8 Minutes

Beware of Japanese Monkeys

Learn how to explain your emergency

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• 9 Minutes

Going on a Strange Hike in Japan

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

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• 10 Minutes

Review the Japanese You've Learned this Season

Review the series so far

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• 10 Minutes