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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You walk into your home in Japan and see a pile of mail waiting for you on the counter! You love getting mail, so you eagerly tear into it. However, the first thing you open is a summons to be a citizen judge on the Japanese criminal court. You exclaim in [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You wake up in a cold sweat in your Japanese bed. Maybe you’re just annoyed that you have to go to work at your job in Japan…or maybe you’re actually feeling ill? Either way, you decide to persevere and go to work. You take the Japanese train to the office, even [...]

  Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! As you are approaching Mt. Fuji on the Japanese tour bus, your tour operator gets a bit excited. She starts saying in Japanese, “Mt. Fuji is the most revered mountain in Japan.” As you look out the window, she continues in Japanese, “It’s an active volcano, though it hasn’t erupted in [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! “Are you cold?” your friend asks? “No,” you answer in Japanese, “I’m not cold; I’m just fine.” Now you’ve just hit on a universal topic of discussion in Japan and everywhere else in the world - the weather. On your trip to Japan, you’ll want to be able to talk about [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friend asks in Japanese, “How are we going to get through our new class? That teacher seems really tough. What do you think of her?” Your Japanese answer hides your real thoughts, “I don’t know; it shouldn’t be too difficult. I think our teacher really wants us to succeed, and [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Click…click…click. You can’t sleep in your Japanese hotel bed. Something’s just not right…maybe the Japanese don’t like their pillows fluffed as much as you do. You’re not sure what’s going on with your sleep patterns since you’ve been in Japan, but since you can’t sleep, you’re watching late-night Japanese television. On [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re about to meet a bunch of Japanese people for the first time, so you’re a bit nervous. You wonder whether they’ll be able to understand your Japanese. Maybe they’ll send you back for remedial Japanese lessons after they hear you! Your friend tells you in Japanese, “You should relax.” You [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When you first meet someone in Japan, what are the first things you want to learn about that person? To get to know that Japanese person, what might you ask him or her in Japanese? You might break the ice by asking questions in Japanese about the person’s work history-that’s general [...]

  Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve been studying for this Japanese proficiency test for quite some time, and you’re starting to feel like you’re burning out from studying so much Japanese. But you know what? You’ve only covered the tip of the Japanese iceberg! There’s so much more Japanese you’ll need to know to pass the [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. So, you want to ask your friend if you can meet back up in two hours. Easy in English, right? What about in Japanese? Maybe you want to talk about a meeting that happens every Monday. Do you have the Japanese skills to do it? Talking about the time and actions [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. So, you want to ask your friend if you can meet back up in two hours. Easy in English, right? What about in Japanese? Maybe you want to talk about a meeting that happens every Monday. Do you have the Japanese skills to do it? Talking about the time and actions [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. So, you want to ask your friend if you can meet back up in two hours. Easy in English, right? What about in Japanese? Maybe you want to talk about a meeting that happens every Monday. Do you have the Japanese skills to do it? Talking about the time and actions [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. So, you want to ask your friend if you can meet back up in two hours. Easy in English, right? What about in Japanese? Maybe you want to talk about a meeting that happens every Monday. Do you have the Japanese skills to do it? Talking about the time and actions [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. So, you want to ask your friend if you can meet back up in two hours. Easy in English, right? What about in Japanese? Maybe you want to talk about a meeting that happens every Monday. Do you have the Japanese skills to do it? Talking about the time and actions [...]

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. So, you want to ask your friend if you can meet back up in two hours. Easy in English, right? What about in Japanese? Maybe you want to talk about a meeting that happens every Monday. Do you have the Japanese skills to do it? Talking about the time and actions [...]