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Episode 118: 恩 (On): The Japanese Gratitude Higher Than Mountains, Deeper Than the Sea

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Episode 117: Adult Japanese Learners Have a Strength No One Talks About — Three Lessons from Ten Years of Teaching

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Episode 116: "My Mind Goes Blank When I Try to Speak Japanese" — Why Studying More Won't Fix It

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Episode 115: Why Adult Learners Quit Japanese Classes — and Why It's Not Their Fault

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Episode 114: Reading the Air: What Japanese Says by Not Saying It (空気を読む)

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Episode 113: In Japanese, Rain Is Not Just Rain — What Japanese Sees When the Sky Turns Grey

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Episode 112: 初心 (Shoshin): Why the Japanese Don't See Learning as a Straight Line

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Episode 111: The Last Sound: How Japanese Sentence Endings Shape the Listener's Emotional Landscape

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Episode 110: Why Japanese People Don't Say "I Miss It": The Psychology Behind "懐かしい (Natsukashii)

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Episode 109: Ikigai is Not a Career Goal: The Japanese Concept of "Hariai"

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Episode 108: How Learning Japanese Literally Rewires Your Brain

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Episode 107: The "Ghost" Subject - Why Japan's Most Famous Sentence Cannot Be Translated

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Episode 106: "Komorebi": Seeing Nature Through Japanese Eye

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Episode 105: Stop Asking "Why": The Counter-Intuitive Secret of Japanese Culture

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Episode 104: How to say "temeperature" in Japanese?

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Episode 103: How to use the basic verb "でます demasu (go out)"

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Episode 102: How to use "そう soo" in Japanese

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Episode 101: The difference between past tense and た form + ことが あります in Japanese

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Episode 100: Which particle should you use to indicate the place in an あります sentence

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Episode 99: How to say "put on/wear (clothes)" in Japanese

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Episode 98: How cats meow in Japanese

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Episode 97: How dogs bark in Japanese

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Episode 96: Tricky verbs "あります arimasu" and "います imasu"

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Episode 95: Interesting "souvenir" related word in Japanese

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Episode 94: How to say "give it a try" in Japanese

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Episode 93: Rain-related words in Japanese

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Episode 92: How to say "Dream" in Japanese

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Episode 91: How to memorize Kanji easily

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Episode 90: How to say New Year Resolution in Japanese

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Episode 89: Japanese New Year Food "Osechi ryoori おせち料理"

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Episode 88: How to say "A Happy New Year" in Japanese

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Episode 87: How to translate "a cat under the table" into Japanese

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Episode 86: How to show a position in a Japanese sentence

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Episode 85: Look inside the "Complete Japanese Hiragana" book

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Episode 84: Let's read Katakana words!

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Episode 83: Japanese silent "u" sound

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Episode 82: How to say "only" in Japanese

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Episode 81: Japanese study tips 音読

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Episode 80: What is the strange dot "・" in Japanese

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Episode 79: How to say "Be careful" in Japanese

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Episode 78: The basic rules of Japanese Noun Modification

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Episode 77: Is Japanese verb conjugation difficult?

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Episode 76: How to use Japanese word "ざんねん Zannen"

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Episode 75: What is the difference between "Arigato gozaimasu" and "Arigato gozaimashita" in Japanese?

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Episode 74: Japanese Listening Tips

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Episode 73: How to make Japanese Noun/Na adjective Negative sentences

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Episode 72: What is "busy" in Japanese?

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Episode 71: Master perfect Japanese らりるれろ rarirurero pronunciation!

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Episode 70: Japanese Kanji Radical "Water"

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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"

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Episode 68: How to tell your future plan in Japanese

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Episode 67: Do you know Katakana-only spellings?

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Episode 66: How to say "Let's see" in Japanese

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Episode 65: How to use Katakana

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Episode 64: Japanese い i adjective conjugation

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Episode 63: Look inside the Japanese Kanji for Beginners

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Episode 62: Japanese Kanji Radical "Grass crown"

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Episode 61: How to use the Japanese expression "んです"

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Episode 60: How to tell the difference between Katakana シ shi and ツ tsu

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Episode 59: How to get help in Japanese

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Episode 58: How to read the Kanji "紅葉"

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Episode 57: Japanese book for your Japan trip!

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Episode 56: How to say "how to do" in Japanese

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Episode 55: How to make Japanese potential verbs!

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Episode 54: What Japanese particle should I use?? にほんご_はなします Nihongo__ hanashimasu

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Episode 53: Japanese verbs か_ます (ka_masu)

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Episode 52: How to say "question" in Japanese?

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Episode 51: How to say "it's getting cold" in Japanese?

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Episode 50: Family members' names in Japanese: TWO words for each family member

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Episode 49: How to say "driving a car" in Japanese, うんてんします unten shimasu or ドライブします doraibu shimasu ?

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Episode 48: Let's master Japanese word order!

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Episode 47: Let's read Japanese Children's book! 「わにさんどきっ はいしゃさんどきっ」

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Episode 46: Don't worry about your mistakes!

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Episode 45: How to use "Give" and "Receive" in Japanese?

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Episode 44: The BEST Japanese notebook for writing [If I can say so! 😆]

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Episode 43: How to use "Only ばかり bakari" in Japanese?

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Episode 42: How to use もう moo (already) and まだ mada (yet) in Japanese?

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Episode 41: Which is used, Vertical or Horizontal writing?

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Episode 40: Two kinds of "Give" in Japanese

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Episode 39: What is the Japanese "~します ~ shimasu" compound verb?

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Episode 38: How to say "Which do you prefer" in Japanese?

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Episode 37: What is Japanese Kanji radical?

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Episode 36: Japanese Simile みたいな (mitai na) and ような (yoona)

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Episode 35: What is happening on Japanese Valentine's Day?

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Episode 34: Can you describe your plan in Japanese?

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Episode 33: How to say "Too Much!" in Japanese?

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Episode 32: Can you say Winter Sports words in Japanese?

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Episode 31: What are Winter Olympic Events in Japanese? Part 2

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Episode 30: What are Winter Olympic Events in Japanese? Part 1

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Episode 29: What is the difference between まで made and までに made ni?

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Episode 28: How to keep up with spoken Japanese well

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Episode 27: The Japanese Language Basics!

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Episode 26: Japanese Star Festival, Tanabata たなばた

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Episode 25: What is the function of the particle "で de"?

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Episode 24: How to start learning Kanji?

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Episode 23: Follow this method and you can speak Japanese!

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Episode 22: Improve your listening skills!

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Episode 21: How to use the word から? [Japanese Grammar]

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Unit1-20 Plain Style conversation

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Unit1-19 Ta form “have the experience of V” and “V, V and so on”