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FUN Japanese Listening
by Dr. Asuka Tsuchiya
こんにちは！Are you looking for a fun way to learn authentic Japanese and improve your Japanese skills? Then come and join Asuka sensei's Fun Japanese Listening podcast!You can enjoy listening activities, everyday Japanese vocabulary, fundamental Japanese grammar, unique Japanese culture, and more! This podcast is for both Japanese language learners and teachers. Subscribe to this podcast and level up your Japanese!https://lit.link/asukasensei
Episodes
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Episode 118: 恩 (On): The Japanese Gratitude Higher Than Mountains, Deeper Than the Sea
You may know the word "sensei." But there is another Japanese word for teacher — one you can only use looking backward, for the teacher who shaped who you became. Inside that word sits 恩 (on): a kind of gratitude English can circle but never quite touch. In this episode, Dr Asuka unpacks this key...
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Episode 117: Adult Japanese Learners Have a Strength No One Talks About — Three Lessons from Ten Years of Teaching
"I'm too old for this." After nearly ten years of teaching Japanese at a British university — to doctors, engineers, and retired teachers learning in the evenings — Dr Asuka heard this apology again and again. But from the front of the classroom, that is not what she saw. In this episode, she...
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Episode 116: "My Mind Goes Blank When I Try to Speak Japanese" — Why Studying More Won't Fix It
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the world. You've...
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Episode 115: Why Adult Learners Quit Japanese Classes — and Why It's Not Their Fault
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the world....
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Episode 114: Reading the Air: What Japanese Says by Not Saying It (空気を読む)
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the world....
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Episode 113: In Japanese, Rain Is Not Just Rain — What Japanese Sees When the Sky Turns Grey
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 112: 初心 (Shoshin): Why the Japanese Don't See Learning as a Straight Line
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 111: The Last Sound: How Japanese Sentence Endings Shape the Listener's Emotional Landscape
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 110: Why Japanese People Don't Say "I Miss It": The Psychology Behind "懐かしい (Natsukashii)
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 109: Ikigai is Not a Career Goal: The Japanese Concept of "Hariai"
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 108: How Learning Japanese Literally Rewires Your Brain
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 107: The "Ghost" Subject - Why Japan's Most Famous Sentence Cannot Be Translated
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 106: "Komorebi": Seeing Nature Through Japanese Eye
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 105: Stop Asking "Why": The Counter-Intuitive Secret of Japanese Culture
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 104: How to say "temeperature" in Japanese?
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 103: How to use the basic verb "でます demasu (go out)"
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 102: How to use "そう soo" in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 101: The difference between past tense and た form + ことが あります in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 100: Which particle should you use to indicate the place in an あります sentence
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 99: How to say "put on/wear (clothes)" in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 98: How cats meow in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 97: How dogs bark in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 96: Tricky verbs "あります arimasu" and "います imasu"
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 95: Interesting "souvenir" related word in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 94: How to say "give it a try" in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 93: Rain-related words in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 92: How to say "Dream" in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 91: How to memorize Kanji easily
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 90: How to say New Year Resolution in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 89: Japanese New Year Food "Osechi ryoori おせち料理"
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 88: How to say "A Happy New Year" in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 87: How to translate "a cat under the table" into Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 86: How to show a position in a Japanese sentence
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 85: Look inside the "Complete Japanese Hiragana" book
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 84: Let's read Katakana words!
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 83: Japanese silent "u" sound
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 82: How to say "only" in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 81: Japanese study tips 音読
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 80: What is the strange dot "・" in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 79: How to say "Be careful" in Japanese
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 78: The basic rules of Japanese Noun Modification
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 77: Is Japanese verb conjugation difficult?
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 76: How to use Japanese word "ざんねん Zannen"
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 75: What is the difference between "Arigato gozaimasu" and "Arigato gozaimashita" in Japanese?
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 74: Japanese Listening Tips
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 73: How to make Japanese Noun/Na adjective Negative sentences
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 72: What is "busy" in Japanese?
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 71: Master perfect Japanese らりるれろ rarirurero pronunciation!
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 70: Japanese Kanji Radical "Water"
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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Episode 69: How to use Japanese expression "どうぞよろしくおねがいします Doozo yoroshiku onegaishimasu"
Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the...
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こんにちは！Are you looking for a fun way to learn authentic Japanese and improve your Japanese skills? Then come and join Asuka sensei's Fun Japanese Listening podcast!You can enjoy listening activities, everyday Japanese vocabulary, fundamental Japanese grammar, unique Japanese culture, and more! This podcast is for both Japanese language learners and teachers. Subscribe to this podcast and level up your Japanese!https://lit.link/asukasensei
HOSTED BY
Dr. Asuka Tsuchiya
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