Japanese Culture - Traditional Japanese Songs - Koinobori

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Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Songs lesson will teach you the verses of a popular Japanese lullaby. Just be sure not to use heavy machinery after this Japanese lesson! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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These videos use Kanji (Chinese characters used in Japan) with small Hiragana over them (called Furigana), not Romaji. It's very important to learn Hiragana as soon as possible when studying Japanese as Romaji will hurt your pronunciation and hold you back from advancing in the language.
JapanesePod101 has a great series for teaching the basic Hiragana characters called Kantan Kana!
There are a few videos up on YouTube, so please check out the Kantan Kana series:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A7DB863D6946E1CD

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Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Songs lesson will teach you the verses of a popular Japanese song that celebrates carp. Well tell you what the carp symbolizes in Japan, and well also explain what the Japanese words mean and teach you the Japanese grammar in each line of this song. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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