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行こう ikou VS 行きましょう ikimashou #learnjapanese
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"ましょう Mashou Isn't Always 'Let's ___'" #learnjapanese
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"How About Saying 入りましょう Instead of 入ります?" #learnjapanese
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Formal Japanese Words vs Informal Words #learnjapanese
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Are です・ます Always Polite and Formal? #learnjapanese
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colorless 猿楽町で会いましょう Dir: Takashi Koyama (2020)
colorless 猿楽町で会いましょう Dir: Takashi Koyama (2020) is a well-acted drama about the grit behind the glitz of Shibuya’s fashion industry.


"これいる? vs. これ欲しい?" #learnjapanese
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Back To That Day (幕が下りたら会いましょう, Seira Maeda, 2021)
A young woman facing a life crisis is forced to reevaluate her relationships with art, friends, and family after learning that her estranged younger sister has suddenly passed…
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Is どこにありますか? more polite than どこですか? #learnjapanese
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Break Out (行き止まりの挽歌 ブレイクアウト, Toru Murakawa, 1988)
A maverick cop realises he can only enforce the law by breaking it in Toru Murakawa’s hardboiled ’80s noir.


"Would it Be これがいりますか?" #learnjapanese
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Suizou Ga Kowaretara, Sukoshi Ikiyasuku Narimashita. (膵臓がこわれたら、少し生きやすくなりました。)
In her last book about her physical health, My Alcoholic Escape From Reality, Nagata Kabi-sensei explained the circumstances that landed her in the hospital with alcoholic pancreatitis. We…
Mabataki (まばたき)
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An old school yakuza and high school boy find themselves fighting similar battles through the medium of Karaoke in Nobuhiro Yamashita’s zany comedy.


"I Learned 好き is ALWAYS Used with が" #learnjapanese
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Is つゆ Just a Rainy Season? #learnjapanese
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Manga Kodomo Bunko (まんがこども文庫) March ED (3月の歌) - Little By Little, Spring Arrived (ちょびっとちょびっと春がきた)
Sung by (歌): Kumiko Ōsugi (大杉久美子) Lyrics (作詞): Hachirō Satō (サトウハチロー) Composition (作曲): Masaharu Kikuchi (菊地雅春) Arrangement (編曲): Akihiro Komori (小森昭宏) Very special thanks to PopKorn Kat for transferring and scanning this…
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Itoshii Koishi, Volume 3 (いとしこいし)
Hina is a high school senior with a secret -she’s dating an older woman. She wants very much to share that secret with her friends, she just needs…


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Cross Game 50 (End) もう終わりましたょ。世界中で一番のアニメかもね TT_TT Too good, no words.
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Why Talking About Friends in Japanese Can Be Formal #learnjapanese
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"Duolingo Says ませんか is Would You Like__?" #learnjapanese
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"Can I Say 温めお願いします at a Convenience Store?" #learnjapanese
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伊藤詩織の裏切り:正義の味方は誰でしょうか
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The lives of a series of dejected souls in a moribund quarry town intersect in unexpected ways in a poetical drama from Juichiro Yamasaki
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"やさしい Can Mean Kind And Easy?" #learnjapanese
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Is ぼく Boku Really Just For Small Boys? #learnjapanese
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入りませんか? vs 入ります? #learnjapanese
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Manga Kodomo Bunko (まんがこども文庫) July ED (7月の歌) - Lullaby of the Zoo (どうぶつえんのこもりうた)
Sung by (歌): Kumiko Kaori (かおりくみこ) Lyrics (作詞): Tomoko Koike (小池知子) Composition and Arrangement (作曲・編曲): Nobuyoshi Koshibe (越部信義) Very special thanks to PopKorn Kat for transferring and scanning this record!
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"Just Use Hiragana With Spaces" #learnjapanese
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Basic Japanese Sentence Structure No.5 行く to go #learnjapanese
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Hiroshima (ひろしま, Hideo Sekigawa, 1953)
During the post-war occupation of Japan which lasted until 1952, the censorship regulations which replaced those of the militarist era perhaps ironically made it more or less impossible…
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"Can I Say したい Instead of ほしい?" #learnjapanese
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Is 入りませんか? "Don't You Want to Go"? #learnjapanese
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Manga Kodomo Bunko (まんがこども文庫) June ED (6月の歌) - Lullaby of the Rain (雨のこもりうた)
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__ませんか vs Wouldn't You Like ___ #learnjapanese
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"Just Use Accent Marks with Hiragana" #learnjapanese
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Manga Kodomo Bunko (まんがこども文庫) January ED (1月の歌) - The Snow is Falling (ゆきがふる)
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What konna koto mo arou ka to こんなこともあろうかと means in Japanese, with examples.
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Kōji Nanke (南家こうじ): Anime’s Eclectic Musical Poet
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Wash Away (うぉっしゅ, Ikunosuke Okazaki, 2024)
A disconnected young woman begins to rediscover herself while caring for her ageing grandmother in Ikunosuke Okazaki’s lighthearted indie drama.