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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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33 Audio Lessons
1

O-Bon Kaidan: The Abandoned School House

Learn about talking about decisions

Audio
 • 12 Minutes
2

O-Bon Kaidan: The Highway Hag

Learn about talking about things

Audio
 • 9 Minutes
3

O-Bon Kaidan: A Blue Crayon

Learn about talking about things

Audio
 • 8 Minutes
4

O-Bon Kaidan: Her Doll

Learn about complaining about stepping in gum

Audio
 • 23 Minutes
5

SS1: Queued Up For a Crêpe

Learn about talking about public transportation

Audio
 • 19 Minutes
6

SS2: Shiny Happy Idols

Learn about wondering about things, talking like an o-ba-san

Audio
 • 22 Minutes
7

SS3: Train Ticket

Learn about buying a train ticket

Audio
 • 14 Minutes
8

SS4: Sticky Situation

Learn about asking about things in Japan

Audio
 • 14 Minutes
9

SS5: Taxi... Bus... or...?

Learn about deciding to take a picture

Audio
 • 17 Minutes
10

SS6: Waiting For Goto

Learn about talking about sake barrels

Audio
 • 17 Minutes
11

SS7: Lunchtime

Learn about talking about sales

Audio
 • 16 Minutes
12

SS8: Which Way to Meiji Jingu?

Learn about asking for food

Audio
 • 21 Minutes
13

SS9: Taking a Photograph

Learn about inviting someone to do something

Audio
 • 24 Minutes
14

SS10: Sake Barrel

Learn about making decision, asking things

Audio
 • 20 Minutes
15

SS11: Sale, Sale, Sale!

Learn about giving change

Audio
 • 17 Minutes
16

SS12: Delicious Crepe

Learn about asking direction, giving direction asking about things

Audio
 • 14 Minutes
17

SS13: The Pasta Viking!

Learn about asking about lost items

Audio
 • 12 Minutes
18

SS14: A Really Long Line

Learn about describing things, visiting a pharmacy, describing pain

Audio
 • 13 Minutes
19

SS15: Kiosk

Learn about phrases kiosk clerks use

Audio
 • 13 Minutes
20

SS16: Asking for Directions

Learn about talking about streets

Audio
 • 15 Minutes
21

SS17: Lost Property

Learn about talking about shrine maidens

Audio
 • 20 Minutes
22

SS18: Fever

Learn about some great vocab for talking about symptoms

Audio
 • 15 Minutes
23

SS19: Meeting up with my Friend

Learn about -te miru, which is used to express things you are trying

Audio
 • 19 Minutes
24

SS20: Below the Bamboo Boulevard

Learn about offering things, asking things

Audio
 • 14 Minutes
25

SS21: Practicing Priestess

Learn about asking questions, asking how to do something

Audio
 • 14 Minutes
26

SS22: Fun stuff!

Learn about the volitional form of Japanese verbs and negative form of Japanese verbs for making invitations and suggestions

Audio
 • 16 Minutes
27

SS23: Escalator Etiquette

Learn about the rules of Japanese escalator etiquette in Kanto and Kansai so you can fit in like a native

Audio
 • 18 Minutes
28

SS24: Tissue Time!

Learn about -te iru, which you can use to express states of being

Audio
 • 16 Minutes
29

SS25: Do Not Drink the Water!

Learn about chōzuya, the place where you purify yourself before entering a Japanese shrine or temple

Audio
 • 15 Minutes
30

O-Bon Kaidan: The Accident

Learn about O-bon

Audio
 • 9 Minutes
31

O-Bon Kaidan: The Man in the Other Room

Learn about O-bon

Audio
 • 22 Minutes
32

O-Bon Kaidan: Nightmare Express

Learn about O-bon

Audio
 • 13 Minutes
33

O-bon Kaidan: Stairway In The Middle Of The Night

Learn about O-bon

Audio
 • 22 Minutes