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The Path to Advanced Japanese

Get from Intermediate to Advanced! Formally Lower Intermediate season 2 - 6.

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Contents

125 Audio Lessons

1

Who is That Japanese Person?

Learn how to use clauses to modify nouns

2

Would You Like a Japanese Gift or Not?

Learn how to form embedded questions

3

I Don't Know Why This is Happening in Japan

Learn how to form embedded yes/no questions that begin with a Japanese form of a "wh-" word

4

How Does Your Japanese Friend Feel?

Learn how to describe others' feelings using -garu, and you'll also learn set Japanese phrases to use when visiting someone's home

5

Japanese Calculations and Good Conversation

Learn how to use conversational Japanese and how to read calculation formulas

6

Review Your Japanese Grammar to Get it Right

Review the Japanese grammar points you've learned so far in this series of lessons

7

When Did That Happen in Japan?

Learn about the usage of toki, meaning "at the time when"

8

You're Just About to Learn More Japanese!

Learn about the usages of the Japanese word tokoro

9

Take the Time to Learn More Japanese

Learn about three different Japanese time expressions: tabi ("whenever"), irai ("since"), and totan ("in no time")

10

These Passive Sentences Will Actively Improve Your Japanese

Learn how to use the passive voice

11

Express Your Annoyance in Japanese

Learn about the Japanese indirect passive voice

12

Are There Monster Parents at This Japanese School?

Learn how to say "to let/to make someone go somewhere" or "to let/to make someone do something"

13

Having a Bad Hair Day in Japan

Learn continue learning about Japanese causative verbs

14

You May Not Wear a Miniskirt to a Japanese Funeral

Learn how to use the causative to ask for permission to do something

15

An Offer of Kindness in Japan

Learn how to how to use the causative to say "someone kindly let me/allowed me to do something"

16

You Won't Need to be Made to Listen to This Japanese Lesson!

Learn how to say "I was forced to do something" in Japanese using the causative passive

17

The Case of the Missing Japanese Diamond

Learn about the usage of -te iku and -te kuru

18

Cloudy with a Chance of Tadpoles in Japan

Learn how to use te kuru to indicate the beginning or the continuation of an action

19

Continue Studying to Improve Your Japanese

Learn how to use te iku to express continuation

20

Learn to Make Japanese Teriyaki Chicken

Learn how to use hajimeru, tuzukeru, and -owaru

21

Improve Your Formal Japanese Writing

Learn about the usage of the de aru expository copula, which we often use in formal Japanese writing

22

Tips for Improving your Formal Written Japanese

Learn about the conjugation of the de aru copula

23

Making Extra Formal Japanese Requests

Learn about using extra-formal language as we review sonkei-go, or "honorific language"

24

Using Humble Language in Elegant Japanese Surroundings

Learn how to be extra formal in Japanese using kenjō-go, or "humble language"

25

Showing Respect with Formal Japanese Language

Learn the basic dos and don'ts for using extra formal Japanese

26

In Japan, What Does Your Blood Type Say About You?

Learn about talking about conditional situations

27

When You Study This Japanese Lesson, Many Things Will Fall into Place!

Learn about talking about conditional situations

28

If You Watch Late-Night Japanese TV, You Might Get a Deal!

Learn about talking about conditional situations

29

If You Follow Her Japanese Advice, You Won't Make a Mistake!

Learn about talking about conditional situations

30

When You Look into the Crystal Ball, You Will See Your Future in Japan

Learn about talking about conditional situations

31

If You're Smart, You'll Follow My Japanese Advice!

Learn about talking about conditional situations

32

Even If You Book Your Japanese Travel at the Last Minute, You May Still Get a Deal

Learn about saying "a even though b"

33

Even Though You're in Japan, You Can't Expect to Learn Japanese by Osmosis!

Learn about saying "despite a, b"

34

Despite My Laziness, I Still Want to Work in Japan

Learn about comparing "temo" and "noni"

35

Why Do Japanese People Often Feel Sickly in May?

Learn about giving and requesting an explanation

36

A Match Made in a Japanese Kitchen!

Learn about confirming or requesting confirmation of a previous situation or sentence

37

I'm Really Sorry, but My Dog Doesn't Understand Japanese

Learn about making opening remarks

38

Why Are You Being So Critical of Everything I Say in Japanese?

Learn about reviewing the different usages of "no da"

39

Pushing Yourself to Your Limit in Japan

Learn about turning verbs into nouns

40

Is That the Thing You Got in the Japanese Mail?

Learn about modifying nouns

41

You Can't Believe Everything You Hear in Japanese!

Learn about modifying nouns

42

Flattery Will Get You Everywhere in Japan...Almost!

Learn about talking about change

43

Please Listen to My Japanese Sales Pitch!

Learn about using transitive and intransitive verbs

44

I Love When They Say 'I Want to Work for World Peace' in Japanese

Learn about talking about one's purpose

45

I'm Going on an All-Ramen Japanese Diet to Lose Weight!

Learn about comparing "tame ni" and "you ni"

46

Why Didn't You Wake Me Up for the Japanese Tour?

Learn about using "te iru" and "te aru"

47

I Am Already Prepared for Our Japanese Adventure

Learn about talking about how an action is done in preparation for something

48

Tell Me What Your Japanese Crystal Ball Says

Learn about talking about how something appears

49

Did You Hear the Latest Gossip in Japan? I Heard That...

Learn about talking about what you have heard

50

Tell Me about Your Past in Japanese

Learn about talking about something you have just remembered

51

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Introduction

Learn about talking about giving and receiving

52

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Kureru

Learn about expressing that someone does something for the speaker

53

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Ageru

Learn about expressing that someone does something for someone else

54

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Morau

Learn about talking about benefiting from someone else's actions

55

Journey to Japan 1

Learn about making polite requests

56

Journey to Japan 2

Learn about asking for a favor

57

Journey to Japan 3

Learn about expressing requests in a casual way

58

Journey to Japan 4

Learn about making polite requests

59

A Slight Possibility

Learn about expressing possibility

60

What do you Really Think?

Learn about expressing one's opinion

61

What's Your Probability of Success?

Learn about expressing possibility

62

What Did You Expect?

Learn about expressing expectations

63

Tell Someone Else in Japan to Do This!

Learn about making indirect requests and commands

64

Japanese Embedded Questions: I Don't Know WHO will come!

Learn about asking about plans, making questions inside another statement or question

65

Japanese Embedded Questions Part 2: I Don't Know if I'll Go!

Learn about asking whether or not questions

66

Do You Know Where Your Japanese Will Take You?

Learn about making a question in another question or statement

67

How Did YOU Learn Kanji?

Learn about reporting something one has heard

68

Students Always Know the Language of Food

Learn about reporting hearsay

69

A Popular Japanese Trend You Can't Afford to Miss!

Learn about expressing the speaker's conjecture or guess

70

I Hear It's Not Just for Japanese Men Anymore!

Learn about indicating hearsay or conjecture

71

A Japanese Discussion Gone to the Dogs

Learn about expression the idea of making someone do something

72

My Japanese Father's Lament

Learn about expressing the idea of letting someone do something

73

Radio Advice for the Socially Inept in Japan

Learn about describing the idea that one person makes another feel a certain emotion or emotionally react in a certain way

74

Munch on the Idea of Japanese Lunchbox Day!

Learn about expressing the idea of letting someone do something and making someone do something

75

International Student Exchange in Japan

Learn about expressing the idea of "to let someone do something"

76

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about expressing one's volition or inviting someone to do something

77

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about telling someone that you want or intend to do something

78

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about talking about the purpose of something

79

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about making rough commands

80

Happy International Katakana Day!

Learn about Getting used to katakana

81

How to Meet People Online 1

Learn about using the nominalizer "no"

82

How to Meet People Online 2

Learn about indicating your assumption or judgment based on what you can see

83

How to Meet People Online 3

Learn about using the nominalizer "no"

84

Exotic Pets! 1

Learn about expressing one's decision

85

Exotic Pets! 2 - What's What in Japanese

Learn about how to ask questions beginning with the word "what"

86

Exotic Pets! 3 - So, What's It Going to Be? Have You Decided?

Learn about talking about one's decision

87

Box Karaoke for One Part 1 - You Don't Have to Read this, but you Should!

Learn about talking about what you don't have to do

88

Box Karaoke for One Part 2 - Try This, and See What Happens Next!

Learn about talk about what will happen if a certain thing takes place

89

Box Karaoke for One Part 3 - Do You Mind?

Learn about asking for permission

90

Are you Overreacting?

Learn about expressing unchanged conditions

91

Try Talking your Way out of This One!

Learn about questioning someone about something

92

Passive Voice Part 1 - Learn to Speak Polite Japanese

Learn about talking about an action being done by someone

93

Passive Voice Part 2 - Learn to Speak Japanese, Naturally

Learn about talking about an action being done by someone

94

Passive Voice Part 3 – Learn to Speak Japanese, Politely and Naturally

Learn about indicating that someone has something done to them

95

The Easy Way to Make Your Japanese Sound Natural

Learn about indicating that someone has something done to them

96

Say What You Really Mean in Japanese

Learn about telling others how you feel

97

The Right Way to Form Japanese Sentences

Learn about using the passive voice in a clause modifying the following noun

98

Japanese that Gets You in on the Action!

Learn about using the passive voice to indicate that something is sent or presented by someone

99

Can Japanese Make you More Organized? Find out Here!

Learn about using the "troubled passive"

100

Recipe - Fried Chicken

Learn about talking about how to cook something

101

Recipe - Niku Jaga

Learn about talking about how to cook something

102

Making the Rugrats Read 1

Learn about getting someone motivated to do something

103

Making the Rugrats Read 2

Learn about expressing the coercive idea of "being made to do something"

104

Wasabi Kunoichi 1

Learn about expressing that someone goes away from the speaker after or while doing some action

105

Wasabi Kunoichi 2

Learn about expressing that the speaker will return after doing something

106

Wasabi Kunoichi 3

Learn about expressing that some action continues, or a state continues changing

107

Wasabi Kunoichi 4

Learn about expressing that senses like smell, sound or emotion reach someone

108

Getting to Know You 1

Learn about expressing that someone/something comes to be in a state different than before

109

Getting to Know You 2

Learn about expressing that someone tries to do something habitually or tries to do something

110

Getting to Know You 3

Learn about getting someone's contact informationstating purpose

111

Getting to Know You 4

Learn about asking someone to do something

112

Getting to Know You 5

Learn about stating purpose

113

Party in the 'Burbs! 1

Learn about giving directions on how to get to a destination by train

114

Party in the 'Burbs! 2

Learn about asking for directions at a train station

115

Party in the 'Burbs! 3

Learn about giving directions

116

Party in the 'Burbs! 4

Learn about talking about how things could have been

117

Going on a Date 1

Learn about inviting someone to do something

118

Going on a Date 2

Learn about talking about likes and dislikes

119

Going on a Date 3

Learn about describing events

120

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 1

Learn about asking to open a bank account

121

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 2

Learn about asking to open a bank account

122

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 3

Learn about talking about money and finances

123

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 4

Learn about asking to change coins into bills

124

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 5

Learn about talking about money and finances

125

Cheerleaders and Lost Kids

Learn about helping out lost children