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Counting down the New Year! Today we get ready for tomorrow night by showing you how to countdown in Japanese. We also introduce the typical Japanese New Year greeting along with the most update slangy way to say it! This is the way all the young kids say it, so don’t miss this episode as we show you the simplest and coolest way to say Happy New Year!
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This entry was posted on Friday, December 30th, 2005 at 5:24 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.
31 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #9 - Counting Down the New Year”
Friday at 5:24 pm
I just got started downloading the podcast - it’s great, thank you! I noticed that in this lesson’s notes, the numbers weren’t listed - are they maybe written out in a later lesson? Thanks!
Friday at 7:10 am
Johannes-san,
Welcome to the community!
Yes, numbers are covered later. You can find up to 100 here:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/2006/01/24/beginner-lesson-24-talking-about-age/
Ganbatte!
Saturday at 12:13 am
wakarimasen
I downloaded this podcast to use this year, and I did not get what Natsuko-san said right at the end (something like: “Mata rai ne” maybe? Again next (year)?)
anyways, Akemashite Omedetou gozaimasu!
Wednesday at 12:07 am
She said “Mata rainen” which is “See you next year”
Monday at 12:39 pm
hello, i tried to download de kanji close up (lesson #9), but the PDF file seems to be damage and it not possible to download it, could you please upload the file. Arigatou gozaimasu.
Saturday at 11:14 pm
Agreed. Kanji Closeup does not open for me either. I am using “Preview” on Mac OSX 10.4.10.
Sunday at 11:37 am
Anna-san / Daniel-san,
Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. A corrected Kanji Close-Up PDF was uploaded to the server. Please let us know if are still having problems viewing the PDF.
Thank you,
Eran
Thursday at 12:49 am
Can you also use コトヨル as well as コトヨロ?
Thanks,
Justin
Friday at 4:55 pm
Line-by-Line audio doesn’t work…again.
Friday at 4:59 pm
AND WHERE IS THE LESSON 10 SECTION??? Alot of new and informative words are covered there, so why has the whole section been forgotten?
Friday at 7:15 pm
skydiverさん,
thanks for pointing this out!
there definitely is a page for Lesson 10 but the link appears to be broken. i’m not sure why it’s not working right now, but we’re going to get to the bottom of it. check back in a little bit so you can get the line by line and vocab.
as for the line by line for lesson 9, it worked for me. also, you should be able to check the line by line for lesson 10 if you click “next lesson” in the learning center. but like i said, something funky happened, so we’ll get that fixed asap!
marky
Friday at 10:29 pm
skydiverさん, thanks for pointing this out. This has now been fixed. You should now be able to access Beginner Lesson #10. Thanks!
Saturday at 11:06 am
Thanks alot! Really appreciate it
Monday at 10:16 am
Great expressions;
ことよろ と あけおめ
I’ve heard these expressions before bc I’ve lived in Tokyo but I didn’t know what they mean until I heard this lesson!
ありがとうございます!
Monday at 2:59 pm
At the start of this lesson, just before they start counting down for New Year’s, the two speakers say something that sounds like “se no!”. I have heard this before many times and so can generally understand its meaning, however, I wonder: how do you translate this into English? Perhaps, something like “ready? (go!)”? Also, how would it normally be written in Japanese? Just Hiragana?
Sorry if these questions seem weird.
Thanks ^^
Sunday at 6:34 pm
I love your lessons!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you everybody…
Monday at 10:35 am
mayutaka8985-san,
It is written in Japanese as “せーの” which we usually use when we say something together or move something together.
palmist81-san,
Thank you for listening to and enjoying our lessons.
keep enjoying!
Thursday at 2:31 am
oops..i cant play this lesson.its stated there “error opening file”..uuu
Thursday at 9:16 pm
Arina-san,
Please try to play the file once more, it works for me. If it still isn’t working please clear your cookies, close your browser restart your computer and try again. If you’re still having problems let me know.
Saturday at 9:55 pm
ichi, ni, san, yon, go, roku, nana, hachi, kyuu, ju!
Arigatou gosaimasu!
Monday at 11:00 am
what is seino the 1st word of the record
Monday at 1:53 pm
We usually call it as a cue when people say something or do something at the same time.
Monday at 7:44 am
i don’t know how to download it can someone teach me? where and how can i download it…?
Monday at 9:10 am
nicoleさん,
Are you trying to download the lesson? First, you must be a Basic or Premium member. If you are, you can download the audio lesson by right clicking the “Audio” link and clicking “Save As…”
Thursday at 4:36 am
Just wanted to say thank you for making such a good program that really makes me learn japanese and makes me want to learn even more! Still got a long way to go, but regarding the fact I don’t have to attend school until the vacation is over; I’m hoping that I can use this time to really progress
But I a little question: In this lesson episode they use the sentence: “明けましておめでとうございます” and when J.Pod101 translates it to Romaji, I believe they leave out the gozaimasu part? Just wanted to know if I translated it correctly, and maybe there is a reason for it?
Love Japanese Pod 一丸一
Thursday at 9:23 am
Jordyさん,
Thank you for your nice comments!! Best of luck with your studies
As for the romaji, that was a mistake
I have fixed the Lesson Notes! Thank you!
Tuesday at 12:09 pm
Please join here too:
http://learning-japanese-together.blogspot.com/
Let’s study Japanese language/written & culture together!
Thank you! ^__^
Tuesday at 4:45 pm
Hi, I have a quick question on pronunciation. I noticed when they counted down they did not pronounce the “i” in “ichi” or “hachi” and the “u” in “rocku,” and then they pronounce the vowels when they said the numbers separately. So, is it more common to not pronounce the vowel at the end when counting or was that just used to help us beginners. Help.
Thanks!
Wednesday at 9:23 am
What do you say to someone that is still morning a loss this year? I only remember that I should not say akemashite omedetou to them.
Wednesday at 10:12 am
DJ-san
>>What do you say to someone that is still morning a loss this year? I only remember that I should not say akemashite omedetou to them.
⇒ We don’t have any special phrase for those people.
Since those people who are still in mourning, New years day is a normal day. So normal greeting such as Konnichiwa, ohayou gozaimasu etc are fine.
Tuesday at 3:56 am
明けましたおめでとうございます
今年宜しくお願いします。
じゃね
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