Learn Practical Japanese Phrases for Traveling

The Japanese language gave the world the first novel ever written, The Tale of Genji, composed by a woman in the 13th century; a corpus of anime and manga that explore mature themes of spirituality, aging, war, and love; and plenty of humorous translation accidents, a la “All your base are belong to us.” Because of the many business opportunities overseas and Japanese-run companies setting up shop in the United States, learning to speak Japanese could be a savvy move. Or maybe you want to practice meditation at a Soto Zen monastery in the rural hills. There are many reasons why the Japanese language can be important to American entrepreneurs and travelers.

Learn simple Japanese phrases today in this free video series with expert Yuu Asakura. Yuu gives you demonstrations for speaking and recognizing Japanese words in print. You will be able to arrange subjects and verbs in sentences, say "Please," and get around in Japan. Yuu offers practical phrases for places like the airport, bar or cafe, hotel, and train station. She also teaches you how to find help in an emergency of if you get lost in the busy streets of Tokyo. Starting watching and speaking Japanese today!

"Hello, my name is Yuu Asakura and you are watching Expert Village. I'm teaching you some practical Japanese which you can start using today. And, so far we've learned Japanese greeting, how to make questions and how to answer to them. You know how to count even big numbers, you can ask how much, what time, and we have learned so much. So, in this lesson, we're going to put everything in practical use so we are going to practice with me in a real situation. So, we are going to practice concerning that we are traveling to Japan, OK. And we also have to cover a few other things. The first one is to make a negative sentence and one more. We haven't learned too many verbs. We only did is and are so we are going to go over some basic, basic verbs together with some golden rules of Japanese grammar."