Today’s location is sunny Naha・なは・那覇 located in sunny Okinawa!

Konnichiwa.

Another great podcast.

There is a place in North London, called Oriental City. It used to be all Japanese, but now it is a mix off all of Asia, which I like, but there is still a Japanese side. A Japanese Bakery in which you can buy my daughters favourite Anpan and also a Supermarket that has a Japanese section, as I enjoy cooking Japanese food, I buy plenty of ingredients from there. Also there is a large food court which you can eat food from all over Asia inculding Japan and possible the best Sushi bar outside of Japan. And a great shop to buy Japanese crockery, such as Green tea teapots and cups and also Bento boxes. I often shop there (Oriental City and the second hand Japanese book shop) as an excuse to try and speak Japanese….my proplem is I lack confidence and therefore get all nervous and stumble my words or my mind just goes blank.

But what I wanted to say to any listeners in the UK and in easy reach of North London, Just out side Oriental City on the Edgeware Road is a great little second hand Japanese book shop. I have brought Japanese teaching books there for a £1 (one pound) instead of the normal £10, £15 or £20 pounds. I brought a couple of really helpful books on Japanese verbs and particles and for the both of them I actually did just pay £2 pounds. Not only that you can buy some great Japanese books and magazines, and if you like Manga you can buy whole sets for a really cheap price. What I like doing is buying childrens books and then trying to translate them into English for my daughter. This is fun especially if we find an Anpanman or Kitty-chan book which she loves. I will try my best to read them to her in Japanese as well, which she loves.
But anyone near London, go and check it out, it is worth it and a great place to pratice shopping while using Japanese.
O-genki de
Steve

doesn’t ‘Hon’ also mean….’origin off’? as in ‘Honda’ Origin of the Paddy field and ‘Nihon’ Suns Origin? Or have I got that wrong?

a suggestion: perhaps try to avoid over-using “very nice” in the podcasts? though, the language does sound very nice (but challenging to repeat) !

Hey guys,ogenki desu ka
Watashi wa totemo genki desu
Another great lesson! I have been talking to some people who are learning Japanese in my town guys and most of them find quite useful to conjugate verbs. Although I speak sukoshi Nihongo I dont know how to conjugate when it comes to verbs. Perhaps you could include some lessons with verbs conjugation, I think that would be pretty useful to many people. I have lots of books on Japanese lessons here at home,but still no conjugation. Back when I started my English course I used to read lots and lots of English books on conjugation. I have built a vast vocabulary now thanks to these books. Its sad that many books don’t teach verbs negation or verbs conjugation in Japanese. Its kind of difficult to learn this way because we dont know how to use verbs. You folks are doing a very ardous task because you have other things too do but still take the time to help others. And we must do our best to recognize your ardous task. Also, there is a great Dr. who,after years of studying languages, came to the conclusion that the best way to learn is by listening first. These podcasts can build a very vast vocabulary for anybody who wants to learn Japanese. A big shout goes to Sakura ,Peter Nats and Kazunori Douzo yoroshiku and Sayounara

Now you guys really made me want to have 焼き鳥 today! Oh, actually there’s an Aomori Food Fair here at イセタンデパート　here in バンコク。I had a small box of だんご　yesterday and got to practice a little Japanese with 店の人. I pointed at だんご and asked それわおいしいですか？to which she replied はい、おいしいですよ！So I bought a box of it. She told me ありがとう　and I said どうも。　I thought it was really really すごい！
Thank you　皆さん　again for helping me speak ぺらぺら　(basic) Japanese　

Ohayou Gozaimasu Minna-san.
I need a bit of help. I am having problems with downloading the new extended version of the podcast. I tried updating but it would not add or overwrite the original, so I moved the original unto my desktop and deleted it from my file and I tried to re-download again so I could have the new version, but still no joy. CAn someone please help. I have not had iTunes very long, in fact I downloaded iTunes just so I can retrieve these great podcasts.
Domo Arigatou Gozaimasu
Steve

Steve-san, you’re right! Unfortunately, the size of the flashcards don’t allow for all the meanings, so that is why we have to pick and choose a bit. You’re right. Please hang on; we’re working on something big.

Anonymous-san, yes they said they’re going to start shocking me soon!

Anon-san, Thanks for the complement! We have a lot more instore, so please keep checking back and keep the posts coming!

Marcus-san! Always a pleasure! We’re working on adding some more content to the lessons, so you’re suggestion is very good! Yeah, we are going to get into a lot more stuff in the upcoming weeks! So stick around!

チャナンさん- Great story! Keep them coming! You have the right idea. Use Japanese whenever you can, and definately let us know about it! We really like to hear about stories like that! And yes, Yakitori! I think this weekend I’ll have to get some!

Roland- Thanks for the great suggestions! Please keep them coming. We’re going to get started on the ones you provided! Please keep the posts coming.

I ask this question here because I´m hearing the lessons just one year late, and I use it to keep the normal timing.
I was able to see the kanji corner till last week, but since a few days ago I can not. Is it ok? Something had happened to the kanji corner?

What is the meaning 如何ですか here…in the PDF it says “how much it is?”. May someone correct the mistake in the PDF file. Thanks.

watermenさん、

如何 is どうですか？ (dou desu ka) or いかがですか? (ikaga desu ka) “how is it?” (but in this case it’s just a call by shopclerks to interest people in their yaki tori).
so the translation “How about some skewered grilled chicken?” is correct.　

i think you might have confused this with the following line “これはいくらですか？” which is “how much is it?”

Michaelさん、

いらっしゃいませ！いらっしゃいませ！
irasshaimase! irasshaimase!
come on in, welcome!
どうぞお試しください！
douze o-tameshi kudasai!
go ahead, try some!
こちらは本日のお勧めで～す！
kochira wa honjitsu no osusume desu!
this one is today’s recomendation
安いですよ！
yasui desu yo!
it’s cheap!
いかがですか？
ikaga desu ka?
what do you think?
よろしかったらいかがですか？
yoroshikattara, ikaga desu ka?
if you’d like to, how about it?

marky

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