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Upper Intermediate Lesson S4 #3 - Japan Truly Has The People’s Court

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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  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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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  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 [...]

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve just sat down for dinner at your in-laws’ house, and your Japanese mother-in-law is bringing out the main course. She announces in Japanese, “I decided to try to make something different tonight…I tried to make some pork barbecue.” You tell her in Japanese, “That sounds great! I can’t wait to [...]

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! If only you had a magic mirror on the wall or a crystal ball that would tell you what your future in Japan holds for you! But alas, you’re on your own to make your own Japanese future. So you decide to take the bull by the horns and schedule an [...]

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When you listen to the podcasts from JapanesePod101.com, do you picture in your mind what the voice-actors look like? Do you ever wonder who creates the incredible Japanese lessons you have come to know and trust? Well, wonder no more! We have an amazingly talented team at JapanesePod101.com, and we are very excited to introduce [...]

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s an odd feeling. Your mind seems to be playing tricks on you. You’re talking with your friends, and suddenly you realize you’re speaking to them in Japanese. You’re not thinking in another language. You remember learning your first Japanese words and how difficult it was to remember the Japanese sounds, [...]

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Despite your protests in Japanese, the doctor insists in Japanese that he needs to take your blood. He says in Japanese, “When we get the results of this blood test back, we’ll know what type of blood you have.” You respond in Japanese, “Great…whatever you say. Just get it over with!” [...]

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  Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve always been a matchmaker, and now that you’re in Japan, you have a whole new group of people to work with! When you meet unmarried Japanese people, you think about your other single Japanese friends who could use a date. Sometimes you tell your victims in Japanese, “I have the [...]

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You call up your good friend on Friday night and ask him in Japanese, “Hey buddy, what are your plans for tonight?” He responds in Japanese, “Um, nothing…I just want to stay in and catch up on house chores and watch some television.” You reply in Japanese, “You’ve got to be [...]

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re never one to rest, so after taking up learning the Japanese language, you’re ready to take your Japanese skills to the next level. But first, you want to know how much Japanese you’ve learned. Your friends told you about this test called the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), but you’re [...]

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! One day after school in Japan, you visit your friend to help him with some calculus homework. After struggling with a tough calculus problem for a few minutes, he tells you in Japanese, “This math problem is blowing my mind. Maybe your brain power can help me out?” You look over [...]

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your wake up early in the morning on your visit to Japan, and you’re excited to get to your sightseeing. You call your Japanese friend on the phone and tell him in Japanese, “Are you awake yet? There’s a lot I want to see here in Japan. Are you ready to [...]

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Most of us do it, the inevitable “New Year’s Resolutions.” Lose weight, be more forgiving, spend more time with loved ones, save money…and unfortunately, we keep few of them. The reason for this? If New Year’s resolutions were made up of things that were EASY to do, we wouldn’t need to make resolutions to do [...]

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