Merry Christmas JP101 crew 2005 and 2006! S_R_C

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?

Probably not, since Japan isn’t a christian country.
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. Furthermore, there were any phrases taught except for メリークリスマス

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

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