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Mar 2023
25m 29s

Podcast 48: Levels of certainty in Japan...

ALEX BROOKE
About this episode

In this lesson Ami Sensei and I will teach you how to express different levels of certainty in Japanese. You’ll learn how to express the probability you think something will happen through various example sentences and dialogues.

In English we do this all the time with words such as “definitely”, “probably” and “might”. And of course, you can do that in Japanese too. However, spoken Japanese tends to be less direct and uses more tentative language. And that means there are a lot of ways to say you think something may or might happen.

Check out the podcast to hear example sentences and natural dialogues to help you learn how to express yourself more fluently in Japanese.

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