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Episode 199 - How to use "te mo shouganai / te mo shikata ga nai" (It can’t be helped (even if ~); There’s no use (even if ~); Naturally ~)

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Episode 198 - How to use "to ittemo?" (Although I say ~; Although one might say ~; Although called ~)

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Episode 197 - How to use "to iuto, to ieba, to ittara?" (Speaking of ~; When you talk about ~; When you say ~)

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Episode 196 - How to use "ni kanshite?" (about, concerning, regarding, with regard to, related to, in relation to)

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Episode 195 - How to use "you ni omou, youni kanjiru?" (have a feeling that; feels like; seems like; think that)

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Episode 194 - How to use "kawari ni?" (On behalf of, in place of, instead of, as a substitute for)

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Episode 193 - How to use "tara doudesu ka?" (why don’t you…)

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Episode 192 - How to use "ni kakete" (through; from A to B)

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Episode 191 - How to use "te hajimete" (not until…, only after… )

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Episode 190 - "Verb stem/Noun + gimi" (-like; -looking; -looked; tending to~)

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Episode 189 - "Verb stem + kiru" (to do something completely, to use something up, to run out of something)

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Episode 188 - " i adj & na adj + sae + conditional form ba" (as long as, if only ~ then)

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Episode 187 - How to use "sae + conditional form ba" (as long as, if only ~ then)

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Episode 186 - How to use "noun + sae" (even)

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Episode 185 - How to use "A wa mochiron B mo" (not only but also, let alone, not to mention, of course)

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Episode 184 - How to use "nomi narazu" (not only A, but also B)

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Episode 183 - How to use "bakari de naku" (not only A, but also B)

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Episode 182 - How to use "dake de naku" (not only A, but also B)

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Episode 181 - How to use "～wake dewa nai/～wake jya nai" (it doesn’t mean that, I don’t mean that)

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Episode 180 - How to use "～kakeru" (half…, not yet finished, in the middle of…)

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Episode 179 - How to use "made" (even, also)

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Episode 178 - How to use volitional form + to suru (trying to do something, making an effort to do something)

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Episode 177 - How to use できるだけ (as much as possible), すきなだけ(as much as you like), and ほしいだけ(as much as you want)

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Episode 176 - How to use "do as much as you want" (たい Form＋だけ＋same Verb)

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Episode 175 - How to say "as much as one can" (Potential Form＋だけ＋same Verb)

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Episode 174 - How to say "in the same way as; in the way; as" (touri ni, douri ni))

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Episode 173 - How to say "about, regarding, concerning" (ni oite)

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Episode 172 - How to say "about, regarding, concerning" (ni tsuite)

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Episode 171 - How to use "to iu koto da" part 2 (The fact that… / In other words… / That is to say… / In short… )

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Episode 170 - How to use "to iu koto da" part 1 (It seems that..., I hear that…, it is said that… )

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Episode 169 - How to use "Hodo" part 2 (to the extent that, so much… that)

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Episode 168 - How to use "Hodo" part 1 ("numeral + counter" + hodo)

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Episode 167 - How to say "among other things, for example, such as" (A toka B toka)

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Episode 166 - How to say "such as, things like, etc., and so on" (A ya B nado)

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Episode 165 - How to say not (A), and (B) (...nakute)

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Episode 164 - How to say "don't do; without doing..." (...nai de)

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Episode 163 - How to say "without doing..." (...zuni)

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Episode 162 - How to say "A is not as Adjective as B" (...hodo...nai)

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Episode 161 - How to say "tastes like, feels like" (...ga shimasu)

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Episode 160 - How to say "smells like, sounds like" (...ga shimasu)

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Episode 159 - Other usages of "stem + dashimasu"

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Episode 158 - How to say "start doing..." (stem + dashimasu)

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Episode 157 - How to say "start doing..." (stem + hajimemasu)

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Episode 156 - How to use "mama+ni suru"

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Episode 155 - How to use "mama" (adjectives + mama, kono/sono/ano + mama)

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Episode 154 - How to use "mama" (ta form+mama, noun + mama)

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Episode 153 - How to use "bakari" part 2 (just did, only, just)

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Episode 152 - How to use "bakari" (doing only one thing and nothing else)

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Episode 151 - How to use "te form + ikimasu" Part 2

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Episode 150 - How to use "te form + ikimasu" Part 1

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Episode 149 - How to use "te form + kimasu" Part 2

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Episode 148 - How to use "te form + kimasu" Part 1

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Episode 147 - How to use "ta garimasu" and "ta gatteimasu" (describe what a third party wants to do)

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Episode 146 - How to use "garimasu" and "gatteimasu" (describe the actions or feelings of someone else)

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Episode 145 - How to use "konna ni, sonna ni, anna ni" (like this, like that)

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Episode 144 - How to say "like this, like that" (konna, sonna, anna)

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Episode 143 - How to use "chuu" and "jyuu" (in the middle of..., throughout... etc.)

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Episode 142 - How to say "to say to do something" (...youni iimasu)

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Episode 141 - Difference between "aida" and "aida ni"

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Episode 140 - How to say while / during / between A and B (... aida ni)

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Episode 139 - How to say while (during the timespan in which), during (... uchi ni)

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Episode 138 - Honorific speech

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Episode 137 - Humble speech

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Episode 136 - How to express reason and purpose "tame ni"

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Episode 135 - Expression of Requesting

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Episode 134 - In-group and Out-group (Uchi and Soto)

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Episode 133 - Expression of giving and receiving

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Episode 132 - How to say "to be made to do something" (Causative-Passive form)

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Episode 131 - How to use "ni" causative sentences and "o" causative sentences

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Episode 130 - How to use causative form with giving and receiving verbs

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Episode 129 - How to say "I make someone do.../ I let someone do..." (Causative form)

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Episode 128 - How to say "it should be that" (はずです)

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Episode 127 - How to say "just did..." (た form + ばかりです)

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Episode 126 - How to say "just did..." (た form + ところです)

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Episode 125 - How to say "in the middle of... " (dictionary form + ているところです)

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Episode 124 - How to say "about to do..." (dictionary form + ところです)

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Episode 123 - How to say "too much..." (stem form + すぎます)

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Episode 122 - How to say "difficult to do..." (stem form + にくいです)

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Episode 121 - How to say "easy to do..." (stem form + やすいです)

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Episode 120 - How to say "to have appearance of…/looks like" (stem form + そうです)

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Episode 119 - How to say "it is about to, it is going to" (stem form + そうです)

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Episode 118 - How to say "it seems that..." (plain form + ようです)

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Episode 117 - How to say "I heard that..." and "it seems that..." (plain form + らしいです)

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Episode 116 - How to say "I heard that..." to express rumours and hearsay (plain form + そうです)

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Episode 115 - How to indicate the purpose of use (plain form + のに)

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Episode 114 - nominalized の to replace "thing", "place", "time", "reason", "human" etc.

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Episode 113 - How to nominalized adjectives and how make a sentence with verb of perception ("no")

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Episode 112 - How to nominalized verbs("no" and "koto")

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Episode 111 - How to say "try and do..." (te form + mimasu)

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Episode 110 - How to say somebody goes somewhere and returns to the original place (te form + kimasu)

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Episode 109 - How to use "chatta/chau" and "jyatta/jyau" (completion of an action, feeling of regret)

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Episode 108 - How to use "te + shimaimasu (completion of an action, feeling of regret)

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Episode 107 - How to use "te + arimasu (the remainder of the result of some previous action)

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Episode 106 - How to use "te + okimasu (to do something in advance, to leave as it is)

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Episode 105 - How to use "no" at the end of the sentence

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Episode 104 - How to say “whether or not~” ( Verb-plain+ ka douka)

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Episode 103 - How to make indirect interrogative sentences ( Interrogative worf + plain form + か )

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Episode 102 - Transitive and Intransitive Verb

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Episode 101 - How to use passive forms (Passive Sentence of Intransitive Verbs)

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A woman who traveled from Japan to Spain only by bicycle? Let's listen to her amazing story in Japanese

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Episode 199 - How to use "te mo shouganai / te mo shikata ga nai" (It can’t be helped (even if ~); There’s no use (even if ~); Naturally ~)

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Episode 198 - How to use "to ittemo?" (Although I say ~; Although one might say ~; Although called ~)

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Episode 197 - How to use "to iuto, to ieba, to ittara?" (Speaking of ~; When you talk about ~; When you say ~)

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Episode 196 - How to use "ni kanshite?" (about, concerning, regarding, with regard to, related to, in relation to)

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Episode 195 - How to use "you ni omou, youni kanjiru?" (have a feeling that; feels like; seems like; think that)

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Episode 194 - How to use "kawari ni?" (On behalf of, in place of, instead of, as a substitute for)

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Episode 193 - How to use "tara doudesu ka?" (why don’t you…)

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Episode 192 - How to use "ni kakete" (through; from A to B)

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Episode 191 - How to use "te hajimete" (not until…, only after… )

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Episode 190 - "Verb stem/Noun + gimi" (-like; -looking; -looked; tending to~)

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Episode 189 - "Verb stem + kiru" (to do something completely, to use something up, to run out of something)

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Episode 188 - " i adj & na adj + sae + conditional form ba" (as long as, if only ~ then)

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Episode 187 - How to use "sae + conditional form ba" (as long as, if only ~ then)

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Episode 186 - How to use "noun + sae" (even)

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Episode 185 - How to use "A wa mochiron B mo" (not only but also, let alone, not to mention, of course)

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Episode 184 - How to use "nomi narazu" (not only A, but also B)

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Episode 183 - How to use "bakari de naku" (not only A, but also B)

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Episode 182 - How to use "dake de naku" (not only A, but also B)

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Episode 181 - How to use "～wake dewa nai/～wake jya nai" (it doesn’t mean that, I don’t mean that)

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Episode 180 - How to use "～kakeru" (half…, not yet finished, in the middle of…)

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Episode 179 - How to use "made" (even, also)

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Episode 178 - How to use volitional form + to suru (trying to do something, making an effort to do something)

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Episode 177 - How to use できるだけ (as much as possible), すきなだけ(as much as you like), and ほしいだけ(as much as you want)

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Episode 176 - How to use "do as much as you want" (たい Form＋だけ＋same Verb)

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Episode 175 - How to say "as much as one can" (Potential Form＋だけ＋same Verb)

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Episode 174 - How to say "in the same way as; in the way; as" (touri ni, douri ni))

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Episode 173 - How to say "about, regarding, concerning" (ni oite)

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Episode 172 - How to say "about, regarding, concerning" (ni tsuite)

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Episode 171 - How to use "to iu koto da" part 2 (The fact that… / In other words… / That is to say… / In short… )

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Episode 170 - How to use "to iu koto da" part 1 (It seems that..., I hear that…, it is said that… )

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Episode 169 - How to use "Hodo" part 2 (to the extent that, so much… that)

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Episode 168 - How to use "Hodo" part 1 ("numeral + counter" + hodo)

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Episode 167 - How to say "among other things, for example, such as" (A toka B toka)

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Episode 166 - How to say "such as, things like, etc., and so on" (A ya B nado)

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Episode 165 - How to say not (A), and (B) (...nakute)

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Episode 164 - How to say "don't do; without doing..." (...nai de)

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Episode 163 - How to say "without doing..." (...zuni)

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Episode 162 - How to say "A is not as Adjective as B" (...hodo...nai)

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Episode 161 - How to say "tastes like, feels like" (...ga shimasu)