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Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101

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Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #170 Concert Ticket

learn about indicating the action is performed such that its result will remain unchanged

May 29, 200720 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #169 Disaster Drill 2

learn about expressing the speaker's emotional state which is usually anger, disdain or some extremely strong emphasis

May 22, 2007

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #168 Disaster Drill 1

learn about expressing the consequences of a hypothetical situation

May 15, 200715 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #167 Text Message Turmoil II

learn about the noun "tsumor"

May 8, 200718 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #166 Text Message Turmoil I

learn about expressing the meaning "like," as in "resembling" or "it seems to"

May 1, 200716 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #165 House of Horrors

learn about expressing a desire to do something

Apr 24, 200716 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #164 Problem on the Pitch II

learn about a conjunction indicating that the preceding clause expresses a condition

Apr 17, 200715 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #163 Problem on the Pitch

learn about the te-form of verbs and i-adjectives linking sentences

Apr 10, 200712 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #162 Youtube Celebrities!

learn about the particle "no" nominalizing adjectives

Apr 3, 200713 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #161 Jacoby and Matsuzaka

learn about the auxiliary verbs "shimau" and "ageru"

Mar 27, 200717 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #160 Office Mistakes

learn about introducing the nominalizer "no"

Mar 20, 200713 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #159 Headhunting the Right Way

learn about introducing "direct passive voice" and "indirect passive voice"

Mar 13, 200716 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #158 Who's watching who?

learn about introducing "direct passive voice" and "indirect passive voice"

Mar 6, 200720 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #157 A Farming Family

learn about introducing "direct passive voice" and "indirect passive voice"

Feb 27, 2007

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #156 Mr. and Mrs. Unlucky Smith

learn about introducing "direct passive voice" and "indirect passive voice"

Feb 13, 200713 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #155 Bad Day

learn about introducing "direct passive voice" and "indirect passive voice"

Feb 6, 200712 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #154 Security Work III

learn about introducing the passive tense of Class 1 verbs ending with the syllable "su"

Feb 1, 200711 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #153 Macho Man

learn about the conjunction indicating that an action or state expressed in the subordinate clause occurs or may occur (conditional) before the one(s) expressed in the main clause

Jan 23, 200715 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #152 Inspection

learn about an auxiliary verb indicating that an action has been thoroughly completed

Jan 16, 200720 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #151 Security Work

learn about expressing that the speaker's statement is conjecture based on some information or knowledge held by the speaker

Jan 9, 200720 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #150 It Might Be Too Hot

learn about the suffix - an adjective turns the adjective into a noun

Dec 19, 200612 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #149 Creepy Crawly Tokyo Conference

learn about introducing transitive and intransitive verb

Dec 12, 200612 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #148 It Wasn't Me!

learn about introducing transitive and intransitive verb

Dec 7, 2006

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #147 Looks Good

learn about indicate one's assumption/judgment based on what one can see

Nov 30, 200615 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #146 Friendly Advice II

learn about expression to make strong suggestions about what one should not do

Nov 23, 200612 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #145 Friendly Advice I

learn about expression to make strong suggestions

Nov 21, 200611 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #144 Information

learn about using directory assistance

Nov 16, 200613 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #143 All Grown Up

learn about indicating that a certain action is not acceptable or permitted

Nov 14, 200615 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #142 A Favor

learn about expressing "to be able to have someone do something for [me]"

Nov 2, 200613 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #141 Making Amends

learn about introducing an adverb to summarize what has been mentioned in the previous clause or sentence, or to express this information more succinctly

Oct 26, 200612 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #140 Colorful Cleanup

learn about expression of "color" in Japanese

Oct 25, 20069 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #139 Opting Out

learn about expressing an imaginary list of reasons

Oct 24, 200612 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #138 Turn of Events

learn about introducing embedded questions

Oct 19, 200613 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #137 Weekend Activities

learn about introducing "no" to nominalize verbs

Oct 18, 20069 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #136 Study Abroad

learn about introducing the plain volitional form of a verb

Oct 17, 200611 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #135 Peeping Tom

learn about expression to give permission or express that something is alright, and to ask for permission to do something

Oct 12, 2006

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #134 Mr. Yamada

learn about introducing the te-form of the copula, which is the rough equivalent of the English verb “to be”

Oct 11, 200613 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #133 Driving Dangerously

learn about indicating that two actions occur at the same time

Oct 10, 200613 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #132 Casual Lies

learn about auxiliary verb indicating the subject becomes something, someone or some state

Oct 5, 2006

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #131 Ikemen

learn about onomatopoeia

Oct 4, 200612 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #130 Change of Plans

learn about introducing the conjugation of the irregular Class III verb "kuru" to the potential form

Oct 3, 200612 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #129 Big Shot Next Door

learn about introducing the conjugation of Class I verbs to their potential form

Sep 28, 200613 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #128 Animal/Insect Orchestra

learn about onomatopoeia

Sep 27, 2006

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #127 Late Night Movie

learn about indicating potential

Sep 26, 200613 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #126 Handling a Noisy Neighbor

learn about introducing the plain volitional form of the Class III verb suru - to do

Sep 21, 200611 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #125 Fishy Advice

learn about indicating a way or a manner in which something is done

Sep 20, 2006

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #124 A Dog's Life

learn about introducing the imperative conjugation of the Class III verb kuru - to come

Sep 19, 200618 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #123 Driving in Circles

learn about expressing volition on the part of the first person or to invite someone to do something

Sep 14, 200613 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #122 Getting Off

learn about expressing volition on the part of the first person or to invite someone to do something

Sep 13, 200615 min

Beginner Season 1 - JapanesePod101 #121 Going Up!

learn about recapping of the plain imperative form

Sep 12, 200615 min