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The Japanese Language Proficiency Test is almost upon us so I thought I would do a fun video for you last minute crammers. The video contains 10 kanji that often appear in the level 3 JLPT and I have added a few example sentences so you know how to use them. A big shout out to Wes who researched and chose the Kanji for the video. I'll be coming out with a level 2 and level 1 video very soon. Enjoy!

Did you know that the word "HAI" can be translated as 1 yes, 2 what ? 3 Here you are 4 Oh whatever ! Well check this out !

Here are some useful words for getting your hair cut. Study them for Wednesday's lesson

Can you guess what this gesture means ? Check out this video !

Here are some new words for you to learn for Wednesday's podcast.

Find out the weird and wonderful words revolving around the brains of those wonderful Kansai people ! ??????????&Ati...

We have great new stuff for you ! Vocabulary lessons, video, prize giveaways and more ! This Thursday and Friday ! Check them out !

OK I've got HTML show notes up for you. Check them out on the right hand part of the blog page. Tell me what you think. I'll be adding the past show notes later. ????????????

It's Fun Friday with Beb !

Check out these cool new words for Wednesday's lesson !

We have a new video for you for Friday fun. All we had was a camera and some martini's in the right company...Check it out tomorrow !

Do you understand ? I hope you do. Great free give away today !

Show 8 went A.W.O.L for a while but we did a manhunt and found it so it should be working now. Check it out. It's quite a funny show if I do say so myself. We hear the wonderful Waka sensei teach us how to count. YOROSHIKU !

In this week's lesson, Waka sensei teaches Ben and I some useful basic Japanese for phoning a friend. Enjoy.

Why bother to learn Kanji when you can just use pictures ? In more and more restaurants today in Japan you can order food using portable electronic menus. The menu is an A4 touch screen device that sits on a charger on the table and can also be detached and hand held. It's quite a sturdy piece of electronics that looks like it can handle a few splashes of beer or yakiniku sauce. The screen has an easy to navigate user interface with pictures and various menus for you to touch and order. Onc...

This week Dama is back from his holiday in Mexico to teach us some Japanese street slang. Dama has been living in New York since last year and you can catch up with his latest exploits in his blog. Not only does he have some great photos but it's really interesting to see some original insights into life in New York as seen through the eyes of Japanese guy. It's in Japanese so gambatte kudasai.

OK Here's another great resource for you guys and gals and that comes in the form of the GOO online dictionary. It's just simple and easy to use. It has Japanese to English, English to Japanese and a standard Japanese dictionary. One cool feature I really like about this dictionary is the &...

"Adam and Joe Go Tokyo" is a pretty funny program on Tokyo and all things Japanese. In each episode they check out various things the city has to offer and interview some pretty big names. It does pedal the cliched stereotype of the Japanese being weird, wacky and gadget obsessed but it is pretty funny and well produced. Definitely worth a look at on Youtube. In this episode they examine the salaryman drinking experience. Of course, not all Japanese business men a...

Lesson: "WA or GA "Today's lesson looks at one example of when to use the particle WA and when to use GA. Examples 1. ?????? kare ni yatte moratta He did it for me 2. ?...

I've created a new Wiki based on Japan. You can post anything you want to on it as long as it has something to do with Japan. Show the world your amazing knowledge of Japan ! Be the first to get something up there before it explodes over the internet. You'll need to read the instructions on how to do it but it's not too hard to work out. it's here !

Here is a cool idiom lesson for you ! Why not spread your wings ?

Here is a vocabulary lesson for you to help with the following lesson.

We are launching a poll to find out who is listening to this podcast and why. It would be wonderful if you could take a minute or two to fill out the poll and add your comments. Your feedback is so important to keeping this project fresh and connected to all of you wonderful people. Just click HERE to take the poll. You can click HERE to see the results so far.

The forums have moved to a new location. apologies to those who have joined but you will need to go to the new location and re register here...FORUMS 2.0 you haven't joined...why not ? Yoroshiku !

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Even though Mixi is much better, I have made a Learn Japanese Pod community on Facebook. I thought it would be fun to keep in contact with you Japanese learners in Facebook land. Now if only Facebook were as good as mixi !Yoroshiku very much.

Welcome to a new series of free Japanese lessons here. We will be regularly posting interesting and useful vocabulary and grammar for you to improve your Japanese. Lesson: "Urusai" Today's word is "URUSAI" which is a really useful word which can mean annoying, noisy or being fussy or particular about something. Examples 1. ??????...

Please help me out by voting for your favorite podcast on Learn Japanese. Remember there are videos, Japanese lessons and "Fun Fridays". Vote for your favorite type of podcast and then feel free to leave a comment on which number you liked the best. Any other constructive criticism would be wonderful. SO VOTE NOW! It'll only take a minute!

Thanks to Dama for helping me out with this cast ! NOTES FOR SHOW 14.doc

This week's show: , Beb sensei has her nerves tested by some "baka students". Learn some useful phrases to use in your Japanese class

We have updated the main site up for Learn Japanese which can be found at blog at Libsyn is very functional and easy to use but it's just not very sexy to be honest. Also, as part of an ongoing project to increasingly vary the content on the site we should be adding more free Japanese online lessons, tests and maybe some articles about travel, food and life in Japan. Things should start looking pretty different soon. If you have any suggestions for extra cont...

Just to make it easier for you to find, I have put all the learn Japanese videos HERE !If you have any ideas for Japanese language themed videos you would like to see then drop me a line at mail alexbrooke.com DOZO YOROSHIKU ONEGAISHIMASU

Here is show 13 and useful phrases when stuck in a taxi. Shout out to all those who have helped with this cast, you know who you are ! Check out these sites...Tim's amazing Japanese blog... check out Heather's great blog for students of Japanese... finally Emma's blog can be found at... GUYS ! 13 NOTES.doc

So is Japanese that hard to learn ? Read about it here in our new articles section of Learn Japanese Pod.Is Japanese a difficult language to learn ?

After a long absence Beb is back to teach us how to give an extended self introduction in Japanese. These introductions can be used for introducing yourself to groups of people for example when starting a new job or beginning a Japanese class. #57 lesson notesHere is a compilation of all the self introduction lessons and videos we have posted previously. I thought it would be useful to group them together. Lesson 54Read: id 270135Direct download:

What Japanese textbooks do you use ? Which are the better ones and the ones that should be used as door stops ? Feel free to leave your constructive comments and opinions so we can share some good info on Japanese learning resources. YOROSHIKU !

It's always good go through old files and see which ones are being downloaded and which aren't. While going through the files I decided to make the top 10 most popular downloads from this site. Here they are in reverse order. 10 Lesson #5 Asking someone out 9 Lesson #15 Wait a moment Mr Postman 8 Lesson #16 Movie Japanese 7 Lesson #4 Counting In this lesson we learned to count with waka sensei. 6 Lesson #14 Mukatsuku This was my favorite show and has been popular ever since we rel...

Transcript for Fun Friday for 19th October 2007I recorded a conversation with Rob last week at L'Institut Franco Japonaise Iidabashi in Tokyo. I was initially intending to talk about the focus of this podcast and how to organize it. Ironically we lost our focus and ability to organize, at least, my thoughts and the conversation went off on various tangents. However, I thought there were som e good points raised. Those points included what to teach students of Japanese,...

It's time to make the most of the summer so we are having a Learn Japanese Pod party in Yoyogi Park. Anyone is welcome to come along. Bring your own whatever if that be food, drink, frisbee, football or even a friend. There is no end time so we'll party as long as the mood takes us. We'll probably be recording or filming the proceedings too. Stay posted for plan B in case of rain. Date: Monday 21st July Time: 1:30pmLocation: By the main fountain

var addthis pub 'hunyaga'; Welcome to Fun Friday, a chance for us to put away our text books and talk about all things Japanese. This week Waka sensei and myself talked about various finds on the internet and TV that I have found helpful for studying Japanese. First off is "The World Of Golden Eggs". It is a hilarious anime with English subtitles I found on the internet and that really helped me with my Japanese. After that we talked about Matsumoto's suberanai hanashi...

Japanese TV on demand has been around for a while, at least in a limited sense with downloadable bulletins from NHK. All that changed last April with the launch of Gyao, a new free internet TV service which has everything from TV dramas to J pop to cooking shows and anime. This is great for anyone curious about modern Japanese culture and of course students of Japanese. Now you can see the good, the bad and the ugly of the Japanese mass media entertainment complex for better or for worse. Browsi

70 Show notes: Japanese for the telephone

Here is the level 2 Japanese Language Proficiency Test crammer video. Again, this is just for fun and to help you in a small way towards passing your test. Good luck!

In this week's podcast Rob, Makikomo and Beb teach us how to emphasize adjectives in casual conversations. Well we tried but the wine, ice cream and coffee didn't help. WARNING: one or two expletives. We also talked about people from Tokyo trying to speak in Osaka dialect, Japanese as spoken by high school students and Beb's new track called "dancing"Links:Lesson notes for #50Beb's new track "dancing"Brought to you by Makikomo.com the finest handcrafted so...

Who do you think the next Japanese Prime Minister will be ? Aso ? Fukuda ? A carboard cut out ? Take the poll here.

In this week's lesson we study some basic questions in Japanese. These are typical questions you might be asked when meeting someone for the first time in Japan. Therefore I hope you will find these very practical.Links: Lesson #55 lesson notes All lesson notes Panic living #43 by El Gringo Mundo Popular Don't forget to check out the Forums and the live chat page

Three posts in one day? Is it a record? Well here is the last video for you for the level 1 Japanese Language Proficiency Test.

"WINE RED NO KOKORO" Tamaki Koji Exclusively performed for us by SAE AMANADAMA LYRICS IN ROMAJI: Motto katte ni koi shitari, motto Kiss o tanoshindari, wasureso na omoide o sotto daitte iru yori, wasurete shimaeba, ima ijo sore ijo ai sareru noni, anata wa sono suki totta hitomi no mama de, ano kiesoni moeso na wine red no kokoro o motsu anata no onegai ga kanau noni...???&brvb...

16 Show notes: Movie Japanese

Learn Japanese words using the Learn Japanese with Pictures series from JapanesePod101.com. Beautiful images clearly show Japanese vocabulary divided into units by topic. Each word is introduced with the English, Japanese hiragana and katakana characters, and Japanese kanji characters. It's a great way to practice your hiragana and learn new Kanji, while studying new vocabulary words that will build up your proficiency in Japanese and lead you on your way to ma...

This really is the best way to learn Japanese in a hurry. Check it out and see for yourself. You have nothing to lose.

This is the track Japanese Animation, from Gerald Donald's project Japanese Telecom. The video is clipped scenes from the most classic piece of Japanese Animation, the anime film 'Akira'.

This really is the best way to learn Japanese in a hurry. Check it out and see for yourself. It's a great program and you won't be disappointed with the results

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