Upper Beginner Season 1

Be Sure to Listen for Japanese Tsunami Warnings

Learn how to make the passive form of a verb in Japanese

Be Careful Not to Start Fires in Japan

Learn how to make an extra-formal request and how to use -te orimasu

Leave a Japanese Message and We'll Get Back to You

Learn how we use the words itadaku and itasu, which are part of Japanese humble language

Listen Out for Japanese Earthquake Announcements

Learn how to make the humble form of a Japanese verb

Catch Japanese Buses Like a Pro

Learn how to use gozaimasu and kudasai

Finding a Lost Child in Japan

Learn how to use the Japanese honorific verbs irassharu and -te irassharu

What is Allowed in a Japanese Theater?

Learn how to give a warning using the Japanese phrase o-kotowari itashimasu

What Time is Curfew at the Japanese Game Arcade?

Learn how to ask someone to do something in an extra formal situation, using the Japanese phrase -te kudasaimasu yō onegai itashimasu

Last-Minute Gate Change at the Japanese Airport

Learn about a new usage of the verb naru and the usage of the honorific verb nasaru

This is Your Captain, Pikachu Speaking

Learn about the usage of koto in -koto o owabi itashimasu and -koto ga aru

A Scenic Japanese Flight Over the International Date Line

Learn how to form the honorific form of a Japanese verb and about the usage of goran ni naru

The Bargains are Yours if You Listen to this Japanese Announcement

Learn about the usage of the Japanese word kudasaru, which you can use to extend an extra-formal thank you in Japanese

Snakes and Supermarkets Don't Mix in Japan

Learn about the usage of a humble verb mōshiageru

Always Carry Your ID in Japan

Learn about the humble verb of ukagau and the usage of v-te iru in the extra-formal way

Getting Played Out of the Store in Japan

Learn how to express gratitude in an extra-formal way using itadaku

Announcements at the Japanese Train Station

Learn how to use the humble verb mairu

Be Careful Which Train You Get On in Japan

Learn how to use Japanese intransitive verbs

Give Up Your Seat on the Japanese Train

Learn how to tell someone to refrain from doing something in an extra-formal manner

Be Careful During Emergency Train Stops in Japan

Learn about the usage of -o miawaseru/toriyameru and -to iu in Japanese

A Japanese Train Accident

Learn about the usage of -shidai and a humble verb, -itasu, in Japanese

You Don't Want to End up in the Wrong Japanese Bullet Train Car

Learn how to say "Please refrain from" in Japanese as well as how to use the humble Japanese verb -mōshiageru

A Japanese Bullet Train Delay

Learn about the usage of the humble verb haiken suru, and you'll review extra-formal expressions in Japanese

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Feasting on the Bullet Train in Japan

Learn about the usage of ukagau in Japanese

See Mt. Fuji from the Japanese Bullet Train

Learn about the polite expression to use when describing people using extra-formal manners in Japanese