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Posted in Uncategorized by DavidM on the September 30th, 2008

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Where Do You Live?

Posted in Videos by DavidM on the September 26th, 2008

In this lesson you can learn how to talk about where you live:



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Japanese Lesson- Do You Have?

Posted in Uncategorized by DavidM on the September 19th, 2008

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Another use for particle “wa”

Posted in Uncategorized by DavidM on the September 19th, 2008

Welcome to another lesson.

In this lesson we will look at another way that the particle “wa” can be used (other than as a topic marker).

Often you hear exchanges such as this in English:

Customer: How long will it take?

Store Clerk: At least 1 hour.

- or -

Customer: How much will it cost?

Salesperson: At least $1,000.

We can use the “wa” particle to represent the “at least” part.

For example:

Customer: How long will it take?

o kyaku san: Dono gurai jikan ga kakarimaska

Store Clerk: At least 1 hour.

tenin: ichi ji kan wa kakarimasu

- or -

Customer: How much will it cost?

o kyaku san: Dono gurai okane ga kakarimaska

Store Clerk: At least 1,000 Yen.

tenin: sen en wa kakarimasu

I hope that lesson was useful for you. The translations are below.

See you next week.

QUICK TRANSLATIONS:

o kyaku san  customer

tenin  shop clerk

wa  usually topic marker particle but in the examples above it means “at least”

ga  subject marker particle

okane  money

ji kan  time

kakarimasu  take (time, money, etc.)

dono gurai  About how [long | much]

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Another Japanese Conversation Video

Posted in Videos by DavidM on the August 29th, 2008

This is a another video showing a Japanese conversation (with subtitles).

These kind of videos are good because you get to practice you reading, listening and comprehension.

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How To Speak Japanese Fast

Posted in Uncategorized by DavidM on the August 24th, 2008

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Telephone Conversation Video Lesson

Posted in Uncategorized by DavidM on the August 8th, 2008

This video is a pretty good Japanese telephone conversation.

It is good because it’s pretty easy to follow with everything translated on screen.

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Expression: For the purpose of… tame ni

Posted in Uncategorized by DavidM on the August 8th, 2008

This lesson will focus on explaining the purpose of something. Similar to the English use of “for”.

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Online Japanese Lessons

Posted in Uncategorized by DavidM on the July 26th, 2008

Some of my Japanese learning materials (and others) are now explained and reviewed at http://OnlineJapaneseLessons.org

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kei tai vs oshiko

Posted in Uncategorized by DavidM on the July 25th, 2008

Check this the cell phone versus peeing debate video below:

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