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We’ve been missing an opening theme for the past 5 lessons, but that all changed today! Our latest hero, Kazushi Takada, cut a new opening intro for us, using Sakura’s vocals. We’ll be using this one for a while, so we take the time to break it down for you and explain the Japanese as this will be daily practice for you. So be sure to iTune in!
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 28th, 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.
20 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #7 - New Opening Theme”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
there’s a problem with the pdf lesson notes on this entry. could you check it out? Also just wanted to say I’m enjoying these lessons very much and I appreciate the attention to detail, to the point of breaking the phrases down by the sublest syllable. It’s so much easier to learn that the Chinese podcast (while informative, it’s often difficult to understand the intonations and proper enunciation). Thank you for making this information available!
Wednesday at 4:48 pm
I am really enjoying your podcasts. I spent almost a month in Japan in 2003 and plan to return for 3-4 weeks in the fall of 2007. I appreciate the pdf notes - they really help and I have printed them out to read as I listen. However I can’t find the notes for Dec 28th: on clicking on the link I get the message “page not found”. Could you find the time to repost those notes? Thank you and keep up the good work - you all seem like family now!
Thursday at 8:22 am
Mambo-san and Paul-san, apologies. The PDF should be alright now. Please let us know if you are still experiencing trouble.
Thursday at 3:00 am
When Sakura says Japanesepod101, I can’t understand what she is saying for the “0″. She says ichi ___
ichi. It sounds like “mau” but I can’t find it in my dictionary. Thanks, Sal
Thursday at 5:31 am
What Sarkura-san is actually saying here is “ichi maru ichi” - if you’ve ever seen a Japanese phone number, like from a business card, they use a kanji meaning “circle” for the zeros, and that kanji is pronounced “maru”.
Wednesday at 4:45 am
Konbanwa,
Anyone interested in Portuguese, visit this site for a Portuguese translation of this lesson.
http://aprenderjapones.blogs.sapo.pt/2008/01/22/
Doomo Arigatoo
Mata ne
Sunday at 10:42 pm
I love the lessons so far. Very good interaction and I love how the syllables are broken down. It makes it easier to try and incorporate how to use Kana or Hiragana to see the sounds.
Saturday at 10:39 pm
I am really enjoying this. However, I am struggling with see you tomorrow. the lesson notes only have the hiragana or kanji but not the romanji. I think I figured it out but not clear why “ne” at the end.
mata ashitane - mata is also/again, ashita is tomorrow, ashitane?
Friday at 6:31 am
Vocabulary Question number 3 is missing the correct answer choice.
Regards,
Tom
Friday at 8:54 pm
(Another post added to the managed subscriptions list.)
It is worth noting that I have never received an email when any of these lists is follow-ed up with comments. Something obviously is not working as intended.
Saturday at 7:28 pm
To Jeff: “nee” is just a particle that is sort of an equivalent to “right” in English. It doesn’t mean “correct” or the direction, but more like in the example ” See you again tomorrow, right?” Thats all. Just looking for confirmation.
To Japanesepod 101: Okage-sama de, Nihongo no benkyou wa tanoshii desu. Arigatou gozaimasu!
(I think that’s right!)
Sunday at 5:45 am
おはよう、リスボン。
Saturday at 3:11 am
Nice episode but I miss an explanation of the「ね」in「また、あひたね」. The phrase is mentioned at the end of the lesson notes PDF but the “ne” is not explained. As far as I know the whole phrase would literally be something like, “See you tomorrow, I suppose” or “Maybe we meet again tomorrow.” But I maybe it is more correct to say that adding 「ね」makes the goodbye softer because I shows that you are not totally confident that you will meet again tomorrow. But this is all guesswork.
Saturday at 2:46 am
i think i understood everything except for putting the sentence in
Tuesday at 9:53 am
Hello, I was wondering why the opening theme say good morning Japan, good evening New York and good afternoon London when it is actually later in London than it is in New York isn’t it? Wouldn’t a better translation for “Konnichiwa” Rondon be “Hello” London?
John
Monday at 9:46 am
お早う 東京。 今日は 今晩は また明日ね。
Sunday at 4:12 pm
In this lesson we heard the short form for ohaiyo gozaimasu as ohayo. I’ve also heard “ohs” being used as greeting. Is this greeting more informal than “ohayo”?
Thanks
Monday at 3:12 am
Hello Kevin,
Yes, “osu!” is much, much more informal than ohayo, and so you have to be very careful how and when to use it. When I was stationed in the Navy in Yokosuka, I would most often hear “osu” from the shipyard workers when they were greeting each other in the morning.
Of course, “osu” is kind of a slurred abbreviation of Ohayo gozaimaSU. I’ve heard the same kind of abbreviation of “konnichi wa” that sounded to me like “Chwasu.” I heard that most often when I was hiking in Kanto-area mountains and was meeting hikers going in the opposite direction.
Monday at 11:42 pm
Thanks Tommy for the clarification. For a long time, i didnt know what they said because these were never taught in class!
Wednesday at 3:22 am
I really like it!
Muy buena presentación
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