Today’s location is Osuro・オスロ - Oslo, hometown of JapanesePod101.com’s very own Jonas!
We’ll be posting shortly with an explanation regarding today’s translation!
よろしくお願いします！

That should be intermediate lesson #6. The file name shows I6.

Just in case he come’s here….This is a message for:

Michael D. Cassidy-san

Ok…..The word for ‘Spouse’ is 配偶者　・　はいぐうしゃ　Haiguusha.
These refers to either male or female.
For brothers and sisters it is 兄弟　・　きょだい　kyoudai.

If you are interested I have made a break down of family members in my website at:

http://uk.geocities.com/yasashii_nihongo/family.html

O-genki de
Steve

Is the title wrong…isn’t this number 6…not 5?

Anyway…these intermidiate lessons are really great……It is turning into a right little soap opera…Hehehehehe.

Oh!…and I just love the kanji for Lightning. I never took much notice of the kanji make up before, but now you have explained in your great way off teaching kanji, it is so clear now.

Anyway, I will listen more carefully when I return home and of course burn it on to a CD to listen to in the car

O-genki
Steve

Michael D. Cassidy-san.

I forgot to add:

Parents.
Related to speaker is: Ryoushin. 両親　・　りょうしん　
Related to someone else is: Go-ryoushin.　ご両親　・　ごりょうしん

Jpop101-tachi
Clever ploy

Steve

Hello again everyone….

I was sick for couple of days, and just finish checking all jpod. I was able to catch up until today’s lesson. Yeah Kin-yobi lesson is still hard for me.

Here is time to practice my Japanese….
Ashita wa uchi no tanyobi desu…
Is it correct to say? Yeah tomorrow is my b/day

Nathan-san, heading to chapter 4 today!!!

Mata raishuu!

AJit-san, thanks for posting! Keep them coming!

Michael-san, thanks for the heads up!

Steve-san, as always thanks for the posts and info! Yes, to tell the truth, I am learning a lot about Kanji studying it this way! We owe a big thanks to Jonas-san the Kanji guru.

Nathan-san, this is the weekend!

Vicky-san, Happy B-day! Otanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu! Have a great day!

Otanjoubi Omedetou Vicky-Chan !!

LoL - I started into this lesson without noticing it was an intermediate level!

I was thinking I turned into an idiot overnight “and I was doing so well…”.

So yeah; not quite there yet.

Meanwhile, I chip away at my blockhead each and every day, and with the help of JapanesePod101 I’ll find some brain matter eventually!

Thanks and kind regards,

-Saru

Its 60+ in NYC.
Its spring for at least today.
Byrant Park is full of girls in spring dresses and guys in shirt sleeves.

Time to buy a beer, and get mellow for the weekend.

Happy birthday Vicky.

David Hallgren-san: Well, the “sa” part is true. But it is hard to explain the usage, and it is more confusing than helpful I think. The only real way to really get a grip on the usage of “sa” would be to live in Japan for a while.

For “yabai” vs “yabee”, most girls dont use “yabee”, as it is a masculine way of saying it. Of course there are girls who use this, but I would guess there are more guys who say “yabai” than girls that use “yabee”.

Jonas

You’re absolutely right Jonas, I didn’t mean to complain. I tried to say how great and realistic I think the language is! A far cry from what you would find in most conventional textbooks.

Thanks for the very nice lesson. I like the onomatopoeia. For other beginners like me, here’s a nice site with some more examples of onomatopoeia.

http://jweb.kokken.go.jp/gitaigo/50_on.html

Sorry if someone already mentioned it before.

ハブアイス？　本物のハブから作られる…わけじゃないですかね？（笑 この
ハブ酒のように？

So would どろどろ（とした？）アイス be not completely melted/liquid, kind of inbetween frozen and liquid? Like, would there still be some parts that are still solid?

Also, for ～てほしい, do you always use に when you include who you want to do something? (Such as in ピーターに歌ってほしいです, which I thought it was “sing to Peter” at first )

Just to respond to JP:
I too like the in-between banter. I learn a lot from it as well as from the lesson.

as for your question about Peter’s response: he says, ‘緊張しなくていいでしょう。あんなに行こう（と）思っていて、羨ましいです。　（きんちょうしなくていいでしょう。あんなにいこう（と）おもっていて、うらやましいです。）　(kinchou shinakute ii deshou. anna ni ikou (to) omotteite, urayamashii desu.)
I think the translation would be: You don’t need to be tense/nervous. I thought I would go (like that), (so) I’m jealous/envious.

I just found JapanesePod 101 a week ago (By the way I love it! Thank you so much for it!), so I don’t know, did Sakura go some where?

Also, please note that I’m not really sure what to do with the “anna ni” part. It literally means “to that extent,” “to that degree.” I tried to translate it as “like that,” but I don’t think that makes much sense. I’m just an intermediate student myself sooo…..

Anyway, I hope this helps a little…

John San,

Thanks for helping out in my interpretation… I really do like the “in between conversations.” Those challenges me even more since they are not explained.

Peter San,

Great Interpretations? Does that mean I was right? or Not even close?

Just want to share, I called the Japan Embassy here in the Philippines and it so happened it was a holiday. The phone prompt was in Nihongo–I recorded it and tried to interpret. I was so frustrated (still am) that some words are not clear enough to be understood!!! It’s harder to find words from the dictionary for a match. WaaaaAAAAAAAAA (Now that’s me crying)

Mata Ne!!!

Yeah, could someone say if JP-san and I are on the right track? I’m not positive myself. It’s starting to drive me a little crazy wondering.

The middle part is 「あんなにいい声を持ってて」 (anna ni ii koe wo motte te, you’ve got such a good voice), I think? That’s what it sounded like to me.

Nathan-san,

勉強になりました！　ありがとうございます。

Peter-san,

So are habu foods ( [in case it doesn’t work again: http://www.geocities.jp/habuyakata/sym-3.html ] mentions habu sake, powder, and oil as well) a Okinawa regional thing?

Seanさん：　あぁ、そうですか。　なるほどですねえ。　

Johnさん：　「もってて」は「－ている形」だと思います。

Hello, JPOD101. Like I mentioned in another thread, I found and fell in love with JPOD101 not long ago. I studied Japanese here at college for 3 years, but ran out of classes. So the beginner lessons are a little too easy for me, but the intermediate lessons are just about perfect (personally, I could stand them just a *tad* more challenging, then they really would be perfect for me). I love how they’re challenging enough without being overwhelming. I’ve listened to the first 3 so far, and could follow about 98% of them the first time through.

As I also mentioned on the other thread, some friends of mine and I are planning a trip to Japan in December of next year. Most of them haven’t studied much Japanese (or at all), so I’ve whole-heartedly recommended JPOD101 to them, especially for the survival phrases. One thing I’ve noticed about my own Japanese is that it tends to be a bit bland and “textbooky,” both in writing and especially in my voice tone. That really bugs me, since I like being very expressive in English, and I’d like that to carry over. I’m hoping that with JPOD101’s help this’ll be somewhat different by the time we actually get there.

Just something to consider, and I realize something like this is really difficult to do over the ‘net, but by far my weakest area is speaking. And unfortunately there aren’t many Japanese people living in Louisiana, so I don’t have much opportunity to practice. Especially now since I’ve already taken all the classes here. So anything you guys may possibly come up with to help with that would be greatly appreciated.

In other news, though I know you already have tech people to help run the site and everything, I’d just like to offer my help with anything I could do as well. I have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science and am currently working on my Master’s. I’d be more than happy to help however I can should the need and/or opportunity ever pop up, be it with something directly JPOD101 related or issues/questions that individual members here might have.

それでは、皆さん。今後もよろしくお願いします。 ^_^

Jason-san,

Check this out:

http://www.japanesejapanese.com/index.php/get-ready-for-voice-chatting/

In particular, The Mixxer is a great resource!

Whoops! In the first paragraph:

ほとんど -> あまり

Jason-san,

ローメート = ルームメート?

Is your roommate fluent in Japanese? If not, then he won’t have any idea what you’re saying or how well you’re saying it

I think there are probably a few who would be willing to meet on Skype. I know Jay-san was interested in a chat room. It would indeed be difficult to coordinate a bunch at once, though. There is also the issue of skill levels of those involved.

Perhaps we need to get an email discussion or something of the sort going regarding such a thing.

Haha! Oh, wow, that’s a bad typo. Geez. Yes that should be ルームメート.

And as far as I know, he doesn’t know any Japanese. But still.

Haha, I totally understand. It can be embarrassing. Luckily, I’ve known my roommates all of my life, so if I speak foreign languages, say weird stuff, or run around the apartment singing and flipping, it’s completely expected

Jason:
I’m not sure, but I think you might have it backwards. For example, if you say:
歌うつもりではない。([I] do not intend to sing.)
or
歌わないつもりだ。([I] intend NOT to sing.)

The second one is more direct. The first one means that you don’t intend to sing, but it might happen. The second one means that you will go out of your way to avoid it.

It’s the same thing for 筈 (はず).

I think it’s the same with 欲しい.

歌ってほしくない means literally “I do not have a desire for you to sing.”
歌わないでほしい means “I have a desire for you NOT to sing.”

So the second one kind of means: “Shut up”. I’m not sure about this though.

Totemo sugoi desu ne! I am having more fun listening to your conversations in between the scripted lesson. However, I want to learn the some of those great colloquialisms as well! Especially the introductions- what does zekocho desu mean? Eigo de nan desu ka? do imi nan desu ka?

Domo arigato!

These lessons are great.
Unfortunately, the Hiragana transcript has the bottom two lines missing, presumpably clipped by a text box.
ありがとう　ございます
ジョン