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🌸 Topics [#113]
Let's get advanced on using "kusai," which does not always mean  "smells bad."

#kusai meaning, #usokusai,  #kechikusai,  #furukusai,  #obasan-kusai, #ojisan-kusai, #mendokusai, #mizu-kusai 

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🌸 Topics [#112]
Iku, a Japanese teacher, talks about expressing pains with onomatopoeias.

#japanese onomatopoeia, #zukizuki, #zukin zukin, #gangan, #doki doki, #kirikiri, #mukamuka, #bakubaku, #when you are sick in Japan #express pains in Japanese

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🌸 Topics [#111]
Iku, a Japanese teacher, introduces some fascinating dialects that even Japanese sometimes get confused about.

#japanese dialect, #hougen, #oosaka jibun, #nageru vs. suteru, #shindemo iiyo, # naosu vs. katazukeru, #niigata dialect, #hyojungo vs. hougen, #standard Japanese vs Japanese dialect

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🌸 Topics [#110]
Let's master Sarigenaku and Shiretto, which are one of the most challenging Japanese words to grab the nuance.

#sarigenaku, #shiretto, #Japanese adverbs, #Japanese difficult words, #ask Japanese native speakers

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🌸 Topics [#109]
If you are "lost in translation" between "tokoro-de" and "chinami-ni," listen to this Japanese teacher's talk.

#tokoro-de, #chinami-ni, #Jitsu-wa, #Jitsu-ha

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🌸 Topics [#108]
Iku, a Japanese teacher, explains how and why the Japanese use "te-ageru" and how to avoid irritating people with it.

#How to use te-ageru, #te-agaru conversation, #does te-ageru annoy Japanese?

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🌸 Topics [#107]
Iku, a Japanese teacher, suggests manga as a perfect topic for small talk with Japanese.

#small talk in Japanese, #manga talk in Japanese, #Japanese manga,  #hikaru no go to learn Japanese, #ashigirl, #death note to learn Japanese,

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🌸 Topics [#106]
Iku, a Japanese teacher, answers a question about how the Japanese choose which character to use writing a word.

#how to write Japanese, #hiragana VS Kanji, #katakana, #how to use katakana, #Japanese loan word

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🌸 Topics [#105]
Iku, a Japanese teacher, talks about the pros and cons of ending Japanese sentences with the particles Ze and Zo.

#Japanese sentence-ending particle, #Japanese particle Ze, #Japanese particle Zo, #masculine in Japanese, speak like a man in Japanese,

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🌸 Topics [#104]
Iku, a Japanese teacher, suggests 10 tips for men to sound masculine in Japanese casual conversation.

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