Comments on: Beginner Lesson #16 - It’s Cold!

by: JapanesePod101.com

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:11:32 +0000

Monica san> Audio is working….hmmm you should be able to listen to the whole audio lesson but for PDF and LC you need basic/premium membership.
desho means, “right?”

by: Monica

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:40:22 +0000

What does desho mean?? And for some weird reason, The lessons on here don’t play the whole lesson. Is it because I’m not subscribed 2 this website anymore??

by: Bryan

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:24:10 +0000

I think Jeremy was talking about the word at near the end of the podcast - utuskushii, which was slowed down a bit but not broken up into syllables. It also wasn’t anywhere in the notes because it wasn’t a part of the main dialogue. I too found it a little hard to pick up entirely… at first I thought it was utsugushi.

So if I’m right Jeremy, and that was what you were asking.. the syllables are:

u•tsu•ku•shi•i
う・つ・く・し・い

by: Motorerica

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:25:32 +0000

how do you say like “oh.. no wonder” or just no wonder? =]

by: Andre

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:46:57 +0000

thanks!

by: JapanesePod101.com

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:42:02 +0000

nani and nan… they are the same word. think of it like english “a” and “an.”

nani is the basic word but it changes to nan before a d or t sound.

desu means polite “it is.” it’s like a verb.
but ne is a particle that elicits a response from the listener.

in casual conversations you can drop lots of things, including the verbs. so that is why sometimes they only say “ne.”

by: Andre

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:22:36 +0000

I have a question! Why do you sometimes say ne and sometimes just say desu?
is it politeness or something?

by: Andre

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:01:24 +0000

Hey, I wonder, what is the word for what? Nani or Nan?

by: Carla

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:04:51 +0000

Konnichiwa

Anyone interested in Portuguese, visit this site for a Portuguese translation of this lesson.

http://aprenderjapones.blogs.sapo.pt/2008/02/04/

Doomo Arigatoo

by: Daniel L

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:54:08 +0000

Iain,

kyou ha samuii desu yo = It is COLD today! (the yo adds emphasis to the statement “it is cold today”)

kyou ha samuii deshou = It is probably cold today. (no emphasis, and a little bit of uncertainty is implied. Perhaps the speaker didn’t step outside yet, but is seeing people walking around wearing jackets.)