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Lesson LibraryThe Path to Advanced Japanese

The Path to Advanced Japanese

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

125 Lessons • 32hrs 31min
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1

Who is That Japanese Person?

Learn how to use clauses to modify nouns

16 Minutes • Audio
2

Would You Like a Japanese Gift or Not?

Learn how to form embedded questions

16 Minutes • Audio
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

13 Minutes • Audio
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

14 Minutes • Audio
5

Japanese Calculations and Good Conversation

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

16 Minutes • Audio
6

Review Your Japanese Grammar to Get it Right

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

13 Minutes • Audio
7

When Did That Happen in Japan?

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

16 Minutes • Audio
8

You're Just About to Learn More Japanese!

Learn about the usages of the Japanese word tokoro

16 Minutes • Audio
9

Take the Time to Learn More Japanese

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

15 Minutes • Audio
10

These Passive Sentences Will Actively Improve Your Japanese

Learn how to use the passive voice

15 Minutes • Audio
11

Express Your Annoyance in Japanese

Learn about the Japanese indirect passive voice

14 Minutes • Audio
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"

17 Minutes • Audio
13

Having a Bad Hair Day in Japan

Learn continue learning about Japanese causative verbs

15 Minutes • Audio
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 Minutes • Audio
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"

15 Minutes • Audio
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

15 Minutes • Audio
17

The Case of the Missing Japanese Diamond

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

17 Minutes • Audio
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

14 Minutes • Audio
19

Continue Studying to Improve Your Japanese

Learn how to use te iku to express continuation

14 Minutes • Audio
20

Learn to Make Japanese Teriyaki Chicken

Learn how to use hajimeru, tuzukeru, and -owaru

17 Minutes • Audio
21

Improve Your Formal Japanese Writing

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

15 Minutes • Audio
22

Tips for Improving your Formal Written Japanese

Learn about the conjugation of the de aru copula

17 Minutes • Audio
23

Making Extra Formal Japanese Requests

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

17 Minutes • Audio
24

Using Humble Language in Elegant Japanese Surroundings

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

17 Minutes • Audio
25

Showing Respect with Formal Japanese Language

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

19 Minutes • Audio
26

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

Learn about talking about conditional situations

20 Minutes • Audio
27

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

Learn about talking about conditional situations

18 Minutes • Audio
28

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

Learn about talking about conditional situations

17 Minutes • Audio
29

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

Learn about talking about conditional situations

18 Minutes • Audio
30

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

Learn about talking about conditional situations

16 Minutes • Audio
31

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

Learn about talking about conditional situations

18 Minutes • Audio
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"

17 Minutes • Audio
33

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

Learn about saying "despite a, b"

18 Minutes • Audio
34

Despite My Laziness, I Still Want to Work in Japan

Learn about comparing "temo" and "noni"

17 Minutes • Audio
35

Why Do Japanese People Often Feel Sickly in May?

Learn about giving and requesting an explanation

16 Minutes • Audio
36

A Match Made in a Japanese Kitchen!

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

13 Minutes • Audio
37

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

Learn about making opening remarks

15 Minutes • Audio
38

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

Learn about reviewing the different usages of "no da"

14 Minutes • Audio
39

Pushing Yourself to Your Limit in Japan

Learn about turning verbs into nouns

16 Minutes • Audio
40

Is That the Thing You Got in the Japanese Mail?

Learn about modifying nouns

15 Minutes • Audio
41

You Can't Believe Everything You Hear in Japanese!

Learn about modifying nouns

13 Minutes • Audio
42

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

Learn about talking about change

17 Minutes • Audio
43

Please Listen to My Japanese Sales Pitch!

Learn about using transitive and intransitive verbs

14 Minutes • Audio
44

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

Learn about talking about one's purpose

16 Minutes • Audio
45

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

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

17 Minutes • Audio
46

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

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

15 Minutes • Audio
47

I Am Already Prepared for Our Japanese Adventure

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

15 Minutes • Audio
48

Tell Me What Your Japanese Crystal Ball Says

Learn about talking about how something appears

15 Minutes • Audio
49

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

Learn about talking about what you have heard

15 Minutes • Audio
50

Tell Me about Your Past in Japanese

Learn about talking about something you have just remembered

16 Minutes • Audio
51

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Introduction

Learn about talking about giving and receiving

18 Minutes • Audio
52

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Kureru

Learn about expressing that someone does something for the speaker

14 Minutes • Audio
53

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Ageru

Learn about expressing that someone does something for someone else

14 Minutes • Audio
54

Giving and Receiving in Japanese-Morau

Learn about talking about benefiting from someone else's actions

16 Minutes • Audio
55

Journey to Japan 1

Learn about making polite requests

13 Minutes • Audio
56

Journey to Japan 2

Learn about asking for a favor

13 Minutes • Audio
57

Journey to Japan 3

Learn about expressing requests in a casual way

12 Minutes • Audio
58

Journey to Japan 4

Learn about making polite requests

12 Minutes • Audio
59

A Slight Possibility

Learn about expressing possibility

14 Minutes • Audio
60

What do you Really Think?

Learn about expressing one's opinion

15 Minutes • Audio
61

What's Your Probability of Success?

Learn about expressing possibility

14 Minutes • Audio
62

What Did You Expect?

Learn about expressing expectations

15 Minutes • Audio
63

Tell Someone Else in Japan to Do This!

Learn about making indirect requests and commands

16 Minutes • Audio
64

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

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

16 Minutes • Audio
65

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

Learn about asking whether or not questions

16 Minutes • Audio
66

Do You Know Where Your Japanese Will Take You?

Learn about making a question in another question or statement

17 Minutes • Audio
67

How Did YOU Learn Kanji?

Learn about reporting something one has heard

18 Minutes • Audio
68

Students Always Know the Language of Food

Learn about reporting hearsay

16 Minutes • Audio
69

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

Learn about expressing the speaker's conjecture or guess

17 Minutes • Audio
70

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

Learn about indicating hearsay or conjecture

19 Minutes • Audio
71

A Japanese Discussion Gone to the Dogs

Learn about expression the idea of making someone do something

14 Minutes • Audio
72

My Japanese Father's Lament

Learn about expressing the idea of letting someone do something

16 Minutes • Audio
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

16 Minutes • Audio
74

Munch on the Idea of Japanese Lunchbox Day!

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

17 Minutes • Audio
75

International Student Exchange in Japan

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

16 Minutes • Audio
76

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

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

17 Minutes • Audio
77

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

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

13 Minutes • Audio
78

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about talking about the purpose of something

13 Minutes • Audio
79

First Time in an Onsen! What Should I Do?

Learn about making rough commands

17 Minutes • Audio
80

Happy International Katakana Day!

Learn about Getting used to katakana

19 Minutes • Audio
81

How to Meet People Online 1

Learn about using the nominalizer "no"

20 Minutes • Audio
82

How to Meet People Online 2

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

18 Minutes • Audio
83

How to Meet People Online 3

Learn about using the nominalizer "no"

15 Minutes • Audio
84

Exotic Pets! 1

Learn about expressing one's decision

14 Minutes • Audio
85

Exotic Pets! 2 - What's What in Japanese

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

18 Minutes • Audio
86

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

Learn about talking about one's decision

16 Minutes • Audio
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

17 Minutes • Audio
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

16 Minutes • Audio
89

Box Karaoke for One Part 3 - Do You Mind?

Learn about asking for permission

1 Minute • Audio
90

Are you Overreacting?

Learn about expressing unchanged conditions

16 Minutes • Audio
91

Try Talking your Way out of This One!

Learn about questioning someone about something

13 Minutes • Audio
92

Passive Voice Part 1 - Learn to Speak Polite Japanese

Learn about talking about an action being done by someone

17 Minutes • Audio
93

Passive Voice Part 2 - Learn to Speak Japanese, Naturally

Learn about talking about an action being done by someone

17 Minutes • Audio
94

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

Learn about indicating that someone has something done to them

15 Minutes • Audio
95

The Easy Way to Make Your Japanese Sound Natural

Learn about indicating that someone has something done to them

15 Minutes • Audio
96

Say What You Really Mean in Japanese

Learn about telling others how you feel

13 Minutes • Audio
97

The Right Way to Form Japanese Sentences

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

15 Minutes • Audio
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

14 Minutes • Audio
99

Can Japanese Make you More Organized? Find out Here!

Learn about using the "troubled passive"

18 Minutes • Audio
100

Recipe - Fried Chicken

Learn about talking about how to cook something

17 Minutes • Audio
101

Recipe - Niku Jaga

Learn about talking about how to cook something

25 Minutes • Audio
102

Making the Rugrats Read 1

Learn about getting someone motivated to do something

10 Minutes • Audio
103

Making the Rugrats Read 2

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

12 Minutes • Audio
104

Wasabi Kunoichi 1

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

19 Minutes • Audio
105

Wasabi Kunoichi 2

Learn about expressing that the speaker will return after doing something

13 Minutes • Audio
106

Wasabi Kunoichi 3

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

20 Minutes • Audio
107

Wasabi Kunoichi 4

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

1 Minute • Audio
108

Getting to Know You 1

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

21 Minutes • Audio
109

Getting to Know You 2

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

21 Minutes • Audio
110

Getting to Know You 3

Learn about getting someone's contact informationstating purpose

19 Minutes • Audio
111

Getting to Know You 4

Learn about asking someone to do something

16 Minutes • Audio
112

Getting to Know You 5

Learn about stating purpose

1 Minute • Audio
113

Party in the 'Burbs! 1

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

13 Minutes • Audio
114

Party in the 'Burbs! 2

Learn about asking for directions at a train station

14 Minutes • Audio
115

Party in the 'Burbs! 3

Learn about giving directions

18 Minutes • Audio
116

Party in the 'Burbs! 4

Learn about talking about how things could have been

21 Minutes • Audio
117

Going on a Date 1

Learn about inviting someone to do something

1 Minute • Audio
118

Going on a Date 2

Learn about talking about likes and dislikes

1 Minute • Audio
119

Going on a Date 3

Learn about describing events

1 Minute • Audio
120

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 1

Learn about asking to open a bank account

22 Minutes • Audio
121

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 2

Learn about asking to open a bank account

24 Minutes • Audio
122

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 3

Learn about talking about money and finances

17 Minutes • Audio
123

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 4

Learn about asking to change coins into bills

22 Minutes • Audio
124

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 5

Learn about talking about money and finances

1 Minute • Audio
125

Cheerleaders and Lost Kids

Learn about helping out lost children

17 Minutes • Audio