I was wondering what “ne” was used as. Before when you were only saying things such as: Anata wa Amerikan-jin desu, ne was not included. With: Anata wa kirei desu ne, it was. Are there certain situations where ne should be added?

Thanks… or Arigatou!

Is there a mistake in the pdf notes? Kakkou ii and the hiragana spelling don’t seem to match.

ne is like “eh?” or “huh?”

eg. She’s cute, eh? She’s cute, huh?

Except in Japanese, it’s actually part of the language.
It kind of has the connotation of: “She’s cute, right?”

yo is expressing your personal feeling, like saying “you know” at the end of the expression.

Kanada ha atsui sou desu. (I heard Canada is hot)
Samui desu yo. (It’s COLD, you know)

Natsuko’s using casual speech, so she drops the “desu.”

Where are the pick-up lines for girls to use on guys?

thanks tintin, for the good explanation
how do you spell delisious and cool?:???:(it didnt stand in the vokabulary)

It’s kakkou ii, かっこういい。

Despite TinTin’s excellent explanation of ‘ne’ and ‘yo’ above, I’m still a little confused with use of ‘ne’ in the examples in the PDF for this lesson.

>> Anata wa kirei desu ne.

If ‘yo’ is expressing a personal feeling, wouldn’t it be more appropriate here than ‘ne’? Why is ‘ne’ used here instead of ‘yo’?

Thanks for helping a noob out!

Iain

Thanks for the explanation John, I appreciate it

konnichiwa!

does anyone know how to say “thank you for helping me” in japanese?
id appreciate it if anyone would tell me

origato!

Hi,

Not sure I get the ne part in this lesson. Why are the guys using ne together with suteki and kirei, but not with utsukushii? And why are they looking for confirmation / provoking a response at all? “You are pretty, arent you?” sounds weird to me, but perhaps it makes sense in japanese.

Cheers,

Håkan

Btw, can anyone see my message? On my computer it isn’t showing the whole message..

how do you say he or she is sexy?

そうですね、Mayumi先生！
Yeah, Mayumi-sensei is right, we usually don’t call guys sexy. BUT lately I hear young people use that word to guys as well.

By the way,
かれはセクシーです。＝He is sexy
かのじょはセクシーです。=She is sexy
These are translations.

I’m still fairly new as this is just my 3rd week of studying using JapanesePod101 but it is an amazing site. Please kep up the great work! I’ve been to Japan each of the last 3 years and look forward to going again in 2009!

Seems like there’s a lot of confusion surrounding “ne” so wanted to see of I could help. As stated above, ne is used when you’re looking for confirmation of something, so it can mean all of the following: isn’t it?, aren’t you?, don’t you think?, etc.

You use it when you fully expect the person that you are speaking to to agree with you but you wouldn’t expect them to say yes in return. So it might sound a little odd at first in this situation, but it’s like saying “You look nice, don’t you?” or “You’re very pretty, aren’t you?” You can use “ne” at the end of any of the complimentary sentences in this lesson, or you can leave it out in all cases, it’s up to you.

If you walk outside and the sun is shining, you might say to your next door neighbor “It’s beatiful weather, isn’t it?” or “ii otenki desu ne” but if you just wanted to say “It’s beatiful weather” you would say “ii otenki desu” - Both of them work fine.

Hope this helps.