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38 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #33 - Shall We Eat?”
Thursday at 8:13 am
Ummmm! I am ashamed to admit I have not listened to the last two podcasts…..But I will do
I have been busy, but during a quiet 10 minutes I came across this site by accident:
http://www.kanjisite.com/index.html
For those that want to learn Kanji, it is a helpful site.
Jaa Mata
Steve
Thursday at 1:18 pm
ピーターさん、なつさん、
昨日の文法レッスンを聞いたところです。
とても楽しかったですよ。お疲れさまでした。
本当にありがとうございます。
Thursday at 1:30 pm
Another great lesson!
I’ve been entertained by your podcasts every day since you started, and I’m always excited when I see that a new podcast is available for download.
I understand from the comments that a lot of the listeners learn Japanese in a school or university, and see this as break from the usual classroom teaching. This shows that language teaching can be different and that the staff of japanesepod101 has accomplished something great.
By the way, I’m trying to learn to speak Japanese on my own. I have no idea why, since I’m fully occupied with a full time job and my family. It is becoming some kind of posession, and you’re only making it worse
What is different about japanespod101?
I think the answer is the focus on communication and passion for communication. Through examples and frases from daily japanese we feel that we are actually taking part in the conversation. It’s so nice to sit next to Natsuko-san, Sakura-san, Peter-san and Kazunori-san when I commute to work!
I just happened to listen to a tape I have from Japanese for Busy people. What a difference
That reminds me of the school days with audio lab and the teachers robotic voice. Please keep up your work so I don’t have to return to that type of material.
どうもありがとうございます!
Jon
Thursday at 1:50 pm
Hi my dear members of Japanese101!!!!
I have to recognize I’m getting addicted to your voices… you have a nice and funny way to teach… I feel I’m learning very fast… Thank you guys!!!!
I was wondering if you can explain on one of the next chapters, what are the commons signs of the body language in japan… I’m really affraid I will express something with my body language without trying to mean it…
For example: Is yes up and down with the head, and no from right to left like in America?… what signs should be avoided because of a rude meaning… etcetera
Please… explain that for us… I’m leaving in a week, and Im concerned, because I have not been able to find that info in any website or book…
Thank you again… and keep your hard work so easy and funny.
Bye.
Thursday at 4:09 pm
I am now downloading the last 2 podcasts on my home computer, but I just want to say..

Jon-san. Like you I am trying to teach myself Japanese and I am like you also fully occupied with a full time job and my family. But I know why I am learning Japanese…I am a Japanphile…if that is the right phrase.
I have heard a tape from Japanese For Busy People and also I have the Linguaphone tapes….but I have found these podcasts so much more helpful. In fact, a couple of years ago, I started a website to help others like me with simple Japanese, but I stopped, but listening to these podcast as encouraged me to carry on with it, which is one of the reasons I have not yet heard the last two podcasts….Ooooops! Sorry Japanesepod101 team.
The podcasts have now finished downloading..I will listen now
O-genki de
Steve
Thursday at 5:39 pm
http://web.uvic.ca/kanji-gold/
Thursday at 5:45 pm
http://web.uvic.ca/kanji-gold/
Minna-san. genki? Ne steve-san, just read your post, I too have :job and school full time, plus 19 month daughter and my wife who is from japan. I am also trying to teach myself japanese(my wife takes care of our daughter and works too, so she doesn’t have much time to teach me
. Keep it up we can do it yo! Ganbarimasu yo!
I put a link for a cool program to download kanji flash cards. I hope it can be helpful, I use it .
Have a great day. mata ne.
tony g
Thursday at 6:19 pm
Not sure what happened to my post above, but feel free to delete it. It says it’s awaiting moderation and it seems the links are messed up. I’ll try without HTML
Dr. Lalo-san,
Perhaps a few of these links will help you out:
http://lov-e.com/RLSArticlesfolder/JBL1.html
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/culture/body.htm
http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/secrets.html
Hope that helps!
Thursday at 6:22 pm
Hi! なつこです。
Thank you for all of you who posted comments. I always feel really encouraged. どうもありがとうございます!
Nathan-san,
こちらこそ、ありがとうございます。I’m glad you liked our grammar lessons. I found out it’s pretty hard to explain grammars of your native language… I have to study more Japanese!
Jon-san,
Thank you for such a warm compliment. I’m very impressed to hear that you are studying Japanese on your own, and I’d be so glad if these lessons could be some help. がんばってください!
Dr. Lalo-san,
Body language would be a very interesting topic!
Just a few examples…as for “yes” and “no,” gestures are the same here in Japan as in U.S. You can also use thumbs up for the same meaning. (Maybe Japanese people imported that from U.S.)
Steve-san, tonyg-san,
Thank you for trying to listen to our lessons although you are so busy. Also, we always appreciate your information!
みなさん、本当にどうもありがとうございます!
また明日も聞いてくださいね。
Thursday at 6:30 pm
Today’s location is Toyama・とやま・富山 the capital of Toyama Prefecture. Top notch sea food, moutain spring water, and other excellent foods; major festivals include Sannou and Iwase Hikiyama Festivals.
Has anyone been?
Thursday at 6:33 pm
I love this podcast! Thank you soo much for putting it on!
I am have been taking japenese for one year now at my college. With the help of your podcasts I have gone from a D to a B+ in the class! Thank you soo much!
Friday at 12:20 am
Hello Peter, Sakura, Natsuko, Sasahara-Sensei (in the background till now), and Mr. SometimesAvailable none other than Kazunori,
I am following youe podcasts from the day one.
You guys are really making japanese 朝飯前。
I listen it daily in train to your podcast and it has become
an integral part of the day.
I make sure that whatever i learnt today from the podcast, i will
use it.
Lot of other podcast are also available, but NONE of them
is really well planned like your`s. Keep it up.
I am a software engineer by profession. Please plan
your lessons keeping in mind people like us also.
I am basically from India and working here in Tokyo.
I have shared this podcast site with my 60 more colleagues
there back in India. So be sure that you are being heard there
too.
I would like to contirbute to this community in some way or the other. I love photography and have collected few real life written Kanjis of shops, streets, road signals, few warnings or so. Since a picture is worth thousand words I would like to share this with everybody out there. Please do tell me where can we have a section named “Photos” or anything like that where they can be shared.
Also I saw the videos and TAXI video was worth seeing, since my
They also enjoyed that video. Please do tell me if I can help you in making
Japanese colleagues too didn`t knew about that
few minutes` videos on certain topics like that one. I guess then only the true meaning of community will achieved.
Best of luck.
Prem
Friday at 4:49 am
I have just listerned to the last two podcasts…and WOW!!!! they really are starting to pick up the pace. This really is the kind of stuff I need. It is good to have the extra podcast on grammer…Very, very helpful. Thanks for all your hard work, I really appreciate it, as to I am sure everyone else does.
Ok…need to get back to work
O-genki de
Steve
Friday at 5:42 am
justin-san, our team was so excited to hear that your grade improved so much!! Omedetou gozaimasu
Thank you very much for letting us know. Mata komento shite kudasaine!
Sugoi! I’d love to see your photos. I’m sure Peter will come up with some idea about it. Arigatou gozaimasu.
Prem-san, komento arigatou gozaimasu! It’s great news for us that your colleagues (and so many!) in India are listening to our shows
Steve-san, いつもありがとうございます。Oshigoto ganbatte kudasaine
Friday at 10:14 am
Steve-san, O-kaeri!
Welcome back, we missed you!
ネイサンさん、コメントしてくれましてありがとうございます!これから、文法のレッスンをたくさん出しますので、宜しくお願いします。
Jon-san, thanks for making our day! That line about Japanese for Busy people was classic! I am going to print it and take it to our interior decorator and see if she can make it in to wall paper!
Classic! Thanks for listening from the beginning! And we have a whole lot more in store for you! We think it is great that you’re learning on your own! And Japanese is such an amazing language, you made the right choice!
Please let us know, as we’ll do all we can to help! Keep the posts and questions coming!
Dr. Lalo (ラロ先生(Raro-sensei (in Japanese Dr. are also called sensei)! How did you know what we were up to!!!
We are working on something for that at the moment, so just give us a little longer. 
When are you leaving exactly?
Tonyg-san, Genki desu yo! Thanks for posting! Great to have you! I have a great feeling that we’ll all get there! Especially when everyone is helping one another!!
Natsuko-san! Great to hear from you!!
Justin-san, that post was SUGOI! Thank you for sharing that with us! We were talking about it all day at the office! Great job!! Please let us know if there is anything else we can help you with. Please don’t hesitate to ask! Great job!
Prem-san, thank you for your great post! And thank you for spreading the word! We have the BEST listeners and because of you guys, we are growing so fast! Thank you! You have the perfect attitude for learning! Learn, practice, learn, practice! You will succeed without a doubt! And thanks for being with us since day 1!


Thank you for your offer to contribute!! We are always looking for help and ideas! We were flattered and happy to get your offer, and please allow us to contact you by email!
The photos would be great! We’re actually working on something similiar to this! How did you know? You and Lalo-sensei seem to know all our plans.
Thanks for appreciating the videos! Yes, the Nishikawa-san, the man in the taxi video, was great about helping! And, we depend so much on that here, so your offer was great! Thank you!
Will be in touch shortly!
Steve-san, yep. With Sasahara-sensei on board we can start to tackle some of the trickier issues, while still having fun!
Balance, got to have balance. I need the reigns pulled everyonce in a while.
Sakura-san, great to hear from you! We missed you!
Friday at 8:30 pm
I invite you too see the kind of snaps i can contribute to this wonderful learning community. I am just a tyro in photography,
so please bear the photo quality with me
I have created two albums named viz;
1. Real Life Kanjis and Signs in Japan
(Shot randomly spread over a period of last two years)
2. Metro Subway Train signs
(Might be useful for making a new traveller aware of
all possible signs here while usinf Tokyo Metro. The snaps
are taken in the museum for Tokyo Metro located in Kasai.)
I have not yet written descriptions of those kanjis
. Some of the snaps
since i am not still aware of each kanji
may be blurred since they are taken on the go.
Will be adding more snaps and letting you know.
To locate these snaps easily…
1. Go to the URL.
http://360.yahoo.com/straighttoprem
2. Go to PHOTOS drop down box (in right hand side)
3. Select any one of the album
4. Double click the snap appeared so that you can get a larger view
to the album.
Please do let me know if can take some more snaps, whose explaination can be covered here in this forum. From now onwards
whenever i click a Kanji or site, I will keep this in mind that it may be shared and hence will ensure its can be HAKKIRI seen.
Saturday at 2:29 am
Konnichiwa Minnasan,
I’m in a cafe today, and a bit shy to speak out the lines along with your conversations, but, i’m doing it in my mind. hehe
anywayz, I can’t wait to be back in the office to download the lessons I have missed.
Ganbatte Minnasan!!!
Saturday at 6:32 am
JP: take care so you dont get fired like this guy
Saturday at 7:55 am
Prem-san, thank you for the link! Checked out the pictures, and they were very good! We were very happy to hear about your eagerness to help!
We think it is great. Please expect an email tomorrow!
JP-san, どうも!(doumo) thanks for posting! Great to hear from you! When the situation allows, please try to speak out loud. A little embarassing, but it goes so far in the long run!
I still do it.
But much like yourself, I carefully select the places where I practice.
Jonas-san, thanks for the article. Very interesting. For me it the most interesting thing was his salary of 27,000.
Wow! Seems like the only thing that hasn’t changed since I left is public workers salaries!
Sunday at 9:08 am
You know, Ramen is a very popular food among American college students, too! 10 packs for a dollar! can’t beat that!
Sunday at 12:29 pm
I have a question about the pronunciation of the particle を. ピーターさん pronounced it as it would seem from the romaji (wo), but 夏子さん pronounced it like an お. What is the correct way to pronounce this, and is the pronunciation the same with the katakana equivalent, ヲ?
Sunday at 2:29 pm
the pronunciation is like お
ヲ is the katakana equivalent but it’s rarely used.
awwww yeah!
Sunday at 2:32 pm
ありがとうございます!
Sunday at 10:54 pm
Hello Japanese Pod 101.com
First of all may I say,this is the most enjoyable learning course I have ever done.
Your lessons are light happy and totally alive with lot’s energy ,as if real.
I worked in Tokyo for one year some time back ,learning a little Japanese form books and friends ,a little dificult’,but I did learn some Japanese,what a pity I did not find Japanese Pod 101.com at that time.
Anyway I will enjoy what I can learn now.
Thanking you
Ray Pedler.
Wednesday at 7:08 pm
Hi !
みなさん!おげんきですか。
Please note the Japanese word for bread パン comes from Spanish!. Here in Spain we also say PAN for bread. In Portugese they use pão, which has similar fonetics. Does anyone know the etimology root for this?
Regards to all!!!
Wednesday at 1:08 am
Hi! The etimology root for “pan” is probably the french word : “pain”. Here in France, we use it also in the term “compain” (friend) who means literally “somebody who’s sharing bread with you”. In France, it’s all about food…
Bye
Friday at 2:49 pm
Newlys-san,
Thank you for sharing interesting information with us. I agree that eating together is the best way to become friends easily!
Sunday at 5:12 am
I have a question regarding the Vocabulary Expansion test. I see that the kanji for 拉麺 is given there in several of the questions, however I don’t find the characters in the Kanji Close-Up or the Kanji List. I do notice them in the Lesson Notes, defined as “noodles with soup,” or ramen.
I am very curious to know how often the Japanese write and use these characters for ramen. Just because someone felt it was important enough to ask test questions on them, I am wondering. In all of my trips to Japan, I have only seen the katakana for ラーメン.
Thank you for your attention to this, and for your response.
Regards,
Tommy
Wednesday at 4:20 am
Hi , i would like to know the different between tabemasuka and tabemasenka? i still get confused /.thanks
Wednesday at 3:08 pm
iz-san,
You can say both of them to invite someone to eat something. But, “tabemasen ka?” would sound more polite.
Saturday at 3:07 pm
I thought
tabemasuka, is like “do you eat something?”
while,
tabemasenka, is more an invitation form to ask someone whether they would want to eat something.
is like “shall we (something)”
Sunday at 1:57 pm
The track for this mentions a bonus grammar track, but I did not see it here. Please clarify the location of this bonus grammar track.
Friday at 3:56 pm
my first comment. you do a great job (being studying japanese both on minna no nihongo and your podcast). i would like more grammar
Friday at 2:32 am
今何時ですか。
今十二時半です。お昼を何時に食べますか。
一時はどうですか
いいですよ。
私は日本料理が好きです。日本料理を食べませんか。
そうですね。私はイタリア料理が好きです。イタリア料理を食べませんか。
日本料理はものすごく美味しいですよ。
イタリア料理もものすごく美味しいですよ。
じゃあ、インド料理は
いいですね。
また、あしたね。
Thursday at 3:11 am
Hi, I had a question about when to use the honorific “o” for meals. In the dialogue, you said o-hiru for lunch, but just asa-gohan and ban-gohan without the “o” for breakfast and dinner. Is there a hard and fast rule for this? Or is lunch just the most important meal of the day? Thanks!
Thursday at 10:21 am
Sara-san
I don’t think there’s any hard and fast rule for honorific “o” and “go”.
You basically have to memorize one by one.
Thursday at 1:48 pm
Sara-san
I’d like to supplement Naomi-sensei’s comment by saying that the “o” of o-hiru and the “go” of “gohan” are actually the same kanji. So you don’t need to add “o” to asa-gohan and ban-gohan because they already contain a “go”.
Saturday at 4:36 am
Like Michael T, I’m also wondering where the grammar bonus track is.
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