News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
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Learn Japanese through interesting and entertaining news stories. News in Slow Japanese is produced with lower intermediate to advanced students of Japanese in mind. If you are studying for the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) N1, N2, or N3 this podcast should be very helpful. We bring you interesting and current topics several times a week. Our host is a native Japanese speaker and..
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
4M ago
This is something a lot of us have to deal with–putting on weight too easily. Listen to this week’s contributor’s frustration with belly fat and learn the vocabulary associated with this kind of problem ..read more
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
5M ago
This is the native speed version of Episode 388 ..read more
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
5M ago
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
5M ago
In Japanese, Onomatopoeia can be divided into a few categories; they are called giseigo (擬声語), giongo (擬音語), gitaigo (擬態語), giyougo (擬容語) and gijougo (擬情語). As we learned in the previous episode, they are used to describe sounds made by animals, humans ..read more
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
6M ago
Onomatopoeia (オノマトペ) are words that represent sounds, and they are used in many languages to add more depth and texture to speech. However, Japanese onomatopoeia are unique in that they’re used more frequently and in a wider variety of contexts than in other languages. For example, after mopping READ MORE
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News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
6M ago
How strict were your parents? This person had very strict parents. She was made to do all kinds of things as a child. This time we are practicing combining the causative and passive forms (to be made or forced to do something) which we seem to use more than in English or other languages I am familiar with ..read more
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
7M ago
ima de wa, atte atarimae no insutanto rāmen. Jitsu wa Nihon hasshō da to iu koto wo ..read more
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
7M ago
This episode will help you get some really useful practice with the passive forms of Japanese, which we tend to use more than in English ..read more
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
7M ago
Do you know how the animals of the Chinese zodiac were chosen and put in that order? Listen to find out why it came to be so and why there is no cat ..read more
News in Slow Japanese / The Podcast
8M ago
This is the native speed version of Episode 385 ..read more