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Visiting Friends

This is the twenty-seventh video of the Waku Waku Japanese video series teaching basic Japanese phrases. In this video, a new spokesperson is introduced. She talks about the Japan Society located in New York City and covers Japanese words like: どきどきします (which was origionally covered in the second video) おうえんして (Ouenshite) [応援して], こくれん (kokuren) [国連], (こくさいれんご kokusairengo – 国際連ご), かい [階], (いっかい, にかい, さんがい, 一階, 二階, 三階)

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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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