Basic Japanese #20 - Useful Expressions 1: How to Ask the Price of Something




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Summary: Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You would like to impress your Japanese friends with your new-found skills in the kitchen. After all, they did introduce you to wasabi and sashimi. Okay, it was difficult to start to eat the sashimi, but once you tasted it, you liked it. Now you're going to buy some groceries and supplies so you can do a little Japanese cooking. You're at the grocer's, but the array of Japanese foods has you flummoxed; you don't recognize hardly any of them. "What is that?" you ask the grocery clerk in Japanese. "This is miso," he replies. "How much is it?" you ask in Japanese. "It is 137 yen per kilogram," he answers. That seems like a good price, but you're not sure. "And what is this?" you ask in Japanese, pointing to some meat. "That's Kobe beef," he says. "How much is it?" you inquire. "14,960 yen per kilogram," he replies in Japanese. Ouch! You love your friends, but…you reply in Japanese, "I'll take the miso."Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Basic Japanese video lesson will teach you how to ask about prices in Japanese. Asking the price in Japanese is simple if you start with JapanesePod101.com! 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!