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Basic Vocabulary Videos

I also made a playlist for a series of cute illustrated videos that teach how to count the days of the month, family member titles, body parts, animals and their sounds, clothing, relationships, kitchen and household items, natural disasters, flowers, types of fish (sushi), compass directions, nationalities, countries, drinks, occupations, people, shapes, time, school subjects, seasons, weather, colors, fruits, vegetables, transportation, beach vocabulary, forest vocabulary, school vocab, animals at the zoo, stuff you would find in a room, days of the week, adjectives, types of bread, symptoms, computer vocab, bookstore vocab, months, post office, meals, classrooms, words for water, Halloween words, and driving vocabulary.

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Japanese Directions

This is the twentieth video of the Waku Waku Japanese video series teaching basic Japanese phrases. 右 (みぎ), 左 (ひだり), 真っ直ぐ (まっすぐ), 曲がる (まがる), 右に曲がる (みぎにまがる), 左に曲がる (ひだりにまがる), 真っ直ぐ行く (まっすぐいく).

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Let’s go places using いこう

This is the twenty-fourth video of the Waku Waku Japanese video series teaching basic Japanese phrases. いく, いこう, 飲みに行こう (のみにいこう), お寿司を食べに行こう (おすしをたべにいこう), ラメーンを食べに行こう, スターバックスに行こう, 公園に行こう (こうえんにいこう), 海に行こう (うみにいこう).

Another note not made in this video is that the word for “someplace” in general is どこか to state that you are going someplace in general. But you may use どこか more when asking someone if they would like to go somewhere with the expression どこかにいきませんか or more casually どこかにいかない.

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