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This entry was posted on Saturday, December 24th, 2005 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Beginner Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
21 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #6 - Merry Christmas”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Merry Christmas JP101 crew 2005 and 2006!
S_R_C
Saturday at 8:01 am
Why is it that there are questions on the review that are not covered whatsoever in the lesson?
Sunday at 8:50 pm
Brandon,
It may look like a lot, but there is only one word (3 kanji) that in the Lesson Review and not *thoroughly* covered in the audio lesson. It is Omotesandou (area in Tokyo). It was briefly mentioned in the audio.
表参道
Is this what you are referring?
Monday at 4:07 am
Shouldn’t this episode belong to the Survival Phrases section?
Thursday at 6:41 pm
Probably not, since Japan isn’t a christian country.
Furthermore, there were any phrases taught except for メリークリスマス
And Japanese people don’t get off work and most don’t even celebrate it. You could live in Japan your whole life and never need to say Merry Christmas to anyone.
Saturday at 1:14 am
There is a question in the quiz that does not make sense…
休みの日を何と言いますか。
やすみのひをなんといいますか。
Yasumi no hi o nan to iimasu ka?
“How do you say “”yasumi”" in English?”
平日 ・ へいじつ ・ Heijitsu
日曜日 ・ にちようび ・ Nichiyōbi
休日 ・ きゅうじつ ・ Kyūjitsu
月曜日 ・ げつようび ・ Getsuyōbi
None of the potential answers are english! Yasumi would be like rest or break in english.
Saturday at 10:53 pm
Merii Kurisumasu Mina
Watashi wa Porutogaru jin desu and I am enjoying so much hearing and learning japanese with japanesepod101 lessons that I made a blog where you can read what is said in the lessons with the meaning in portuguese.
Anyone interested in Portuguese, visit the below site for a Portuguese translation of this lesson.
http://aprenderjapones.blogs.sapo.pt/2008/01/19/
Doomo Arigatoo
Mata ne
Friday at 5:49 am
It’s interesting that on the Vocabulary Flashcards for this lesson, the audio for the person’s name — 紅葉 , or Momiji — is pronounced as こうよう. I’ve heard kouyou used to call the changing leaves of the beautiful autumn in Japan, and the kanji for this certainly makes sense! (Crimson+leaves)
Friday at 6:00 am
I really can relate to i_broke_down’s question of December 22, above. When looking at the timetables for trains on many Japanese station-platforms, you’ll often see them divided into two sections: 平日 and 休日. On a few occasions, I have asked Japanese to help me read the combined version of “hira no hi” and “yasumi no hi.” (Hira, as in Hiratsuka no hira.)
So, thinking of this in a personal context, the quiz question not only makes sense to me, it brought back a nice memory!
Regards,
Tom
Friday at 6:11 am
One final note:
On the Vocabulary Questions, regarding the question for “yasumi no hi,” I think it would be more effective if the answer stems were done in hiragana rather than kanji.
Also, for the question regarding クリスマスの挨拶, there is no answer choice which provides the correct one.
Friday at 8:52 pm
(Adding post so this will appear on managed posts list.)
I guess nobody saw my comment on the anomaly between the name Momiji and how it is pronounced (as こうよう) in the Vocabulary Flashcards.
Tuesday at 5:00 pm
I know someone with the name of “Kenta” which means “big/healthy” but they guy is not big/healthy. Is it common in Japanese to have names which meanings do not reflect on them?
Tuesday at 6:43 pm
Allie san> Yes it is. My name is Hiroko and my kanji means generous child but I’m not!
Usually the names have the “wish” of one’s parents
Monday at 12:39 pm
Thank you Hiroko-san.. That’s interesting. I think you are generous for sharing your knowledge about these stuffs.
Wednesday at 4:14 am
amazingly every name around the world has a meaning behind it. I expecially like japanese names because they sound so much better than names from other countrys. For example my full name Gregory = Watchful, alert. Most last names like smith, taylor, etc. were their job pofessions. A smith was a black smith and a taylor was a cloths taylor. However Sakura by far is my faviorte name because the sakura tree is also my faviorte tree.
Wednesday at 9:16 am
Gregさん,
Sakura is a good name, isn’t it! I like it too
Sunday at 9:25 am
i was always taught that “merry christmas” was クリスマスお目でと. Is that wrong or is there more than one way to say it?
Monday at 10:02 am
kiki-chan
Well…I’m afraid to inform you that we don’t say 「クリスマス おめでとう」.
It’s western culture so we just borrow its original phrase and say メリークリスマス.
Even if you say クリスマス おめでとう, people still understand your message though.
Friday at 1:14 am
紅葉 sound file is wrong.
Friday at 6:55 pm
桜さんの娘の名前は紅葉です、
昨日、天皇誕生日。
明日はクリスマス日。
メリークリスマス、
私は表参道に行きます
また、ね
Thursday at 11:32 pm
I love these japanese lessons. I’ll sit here looking at the website for hours. Doumo Arigatou Gozaimasu
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