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19 Responses to “Japanese Culture Class #3 - The Japanese SAT (kinda) - UTCE - University Testing Center Examination!”
Saturday at 4:03 am
Today’s location is : Yokohama・よこはま・横浜 - Yokohama is a modern and vibrant city. Home to Yokohama BayStars (baseball), Yokohama F Marinos (soccer/football), a large China Town, and so much more. Yokohama is a city definately worth checking out while your here, and it is Sakura’s hometown! Sakura does this make you a Yoko-ko・よここ・横子? Did I get this expression right? Please let me know. Thx.
Saturday at 4:16 am
Sakura! Thank you for the Nabe link in the lesson 23 comments! That is what we had last night, as after seeing the link I suddenly felt like eating Nabe!
Thank you. Stay warm.
Peter
Saturday at 7:33 am
大学入試センター試験 UTCE - is similiar to the SAT in that it has some influence on which university or college you will attend; however, this influence is limited. The reason it is limited is that in most cases it is just part one of a series of tests. Your score on the UTCE qualifies you to sit for certain universities’ exams. For example, we mentioned Tokyo University, also known as Todai (東大), a high score on the the UTCE would qualify you to sit for their enterance exam, which you may or may not pass. So the UTCE is like round 1, and only gets you chances to take exams.
This is why we say exam season! This is like opening day.
Saturday at 10:00 am
ピーターさん、
Thanks for the suggestion! That definitely sounds interesting! I’ll have to see if I can dig up some dubbed episodes, although I’m sure they will be harder to come across than anime, etc.
さくらさん、リンクスをありがとうございます!美味しいみたいですね。
P.S. Stay warm!
Saturday at 1:32 pm
このレッスンは面白くて楽しいです。
ありがとうございます。
Saturday at 11:14 pm
Peter, Nathan-san, Marvin-san, こんにちは
It’s nice and sunny in Tokyo today. As for Yokoko, I think the term is rather “Hamakko” (someone who was born and grew up in Yokohama; often considered to be fashionable, easy-going, and put “jan” at the end of the sentence, like “iijan” for “that’s good”). Unfortunately, I lived far away from the center of Yokohama, and only lived there until I was ten, I don’t deserve being called a hamakko
Matane!
Saturday at 9:16 pm
Ah! this was a great lesson Peter-san and Sakura-san. Did you guys get my email? I didn’t know that Rounin weren’t frowned upon, that was interesting
You guys are so funny the way you talked about Ryuunen. Thank-you for yet again another great podcast.
And now to the question part of my post:
I have seen blue as ao and aoi, and i think it has something to do with being an adjective or a noun, but i don’t really know the what the difference is. Could you explain what the difference is if it isn’t to much to ask for. Thank-you for your help.
Monday at 8:53 pm
there is no need to answer my question. Thank-you Jonas-san for answering my email with this question
. Arigatou Gozaimashita (would this be the right time to say that?
).
In case anyone was wondering:
ao and aka are nouns, while putting the i at the end (aoi and akai) makes them adjectives. For example: (sorry if these examples are wrong, someone correct me if they are)
Noun:
Ao wa ichiban desu.
Blue is the best.
Adjective:
Kore wa akai ringo desu.
This is a red apple.
Ganbatte kudasai! JapanesePod101.com team
Wednesday at 10:51 am
Why is the last lesson
第二回目 だいにかいめ
but this lesson is
第三回 だいさんかい
where is the additional 目. Is this a mistake? or is it right?
thanks
John C. Briggs
Wednesday at 11:46 pm
Just seeing if anyone responses.
Thursday at 9:22 pm
Nathan answered my question under JCC 2.
Thanks
John
Monday at 11:53 am
Dear Peter san and Jpod team,
Thank you so much for these culture lessons. They are highly entertaining! Takusan benkyoo ni narimashita. Please keep up the good work
Monday at 2:28 pm
Giang Le-san,
Thank you for your nice comment!
We have 60 culture lessons so far now. Please enjoy Japanese Culture lessons!
Friday at 11:54 am
These culture lessons enrich my knowledge about Japan. Thank you so much for JapanesePod101.com team! Keep up the good work!
Friday at 12:00 pm
Thank so much for the culture class! This enrich my knowledge about Japan.
Keep up the good work Japanesepod101.com team!
By the way, how difficult is UTCE? How is it compared to American SAT?
Saturday at 12:47 pm
So, do you have to take the test if you’re a student from another country?
Friday at 4:48 pm
very interesting
it was fun learning about the different schools
Wednesday at 1:56 am
i really did enjoy this lesson myself, i love learning new japanese phrases
Friday at 2:17 am
That was very interesting! I really enjoy the culture lessons a lot.
By the way, this is kind of random, but is Peter from New York? You have a bit of a northern accent. Or is that from living in Japan for so long?
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