皆さん、みなさん(Mina-san)　We hope everyone had a great weekend!
As you may have heard on our Sunday News program,　this week we’ll be appearing as speakers for the Tokyo Mac Users Group at 7pm on Friday night. Directions to the Ginza Tokyo store can be found via this link.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

http://www.apple.com/retail/jp/ginza/

Fab-san.
If your are interested I have a lost of some number counters at my website:
http://uk.geocities.com/yasashii_nihongo/numbers.html
Also there is a much more complete list of counters at:
http://www.trussel.com/jcount.htm
But that is just scary
O-genki de
Steve

Fabi-san, yes, this counting style is very, very useful! Especially when ordering, at is can be used more universally than some other counters.

Steve-san, as always thanks for the great posts and links! Yes, I love those mushrooms shaped candies! Although for some reason they are like tranquilizers, as I find that I have to sleep within 30 minutes of eating them. Then again, I eat 2 boxes at a time.

Hi Steve-san / Peter-san,
thanks very much. I will check out the links, especially the first is usefull for me.

Steve-san, I like those mushroom-shaped chocolates, too! I can’t stop It’s “kinoko no yama” (mushroom mountain?). It has existed from when I was a child. A couple of days ago, I saw this special version, “トリュフアイス” The flavor of black truffle and vanilla mixed together! I still haven’t taken up the courage to try it though
http://open.meiji.co.jp/sweets/chocolate/kinotake/
Japanese love these time-limited special versions of sweets

I love your lessons and this website I’m learning alot Thank you for all! I love japanese food its delicious! S_R_C

This was another great lesson though I have to say my brain hurts trying to keep the different counting suffixes straight in my head. Sakura-san, Takeya-san, or Natsuko-san, are there any helps you used when growing up that might help me learn when to use what counter? Maybe some kind of memory game or something?

Arigatou gozaimasu!

ネイト

you guys: aikawarazu sugoi desu! (dunno if that’s a legit construction).

And in nz, in a lot of mackers if you have ordered something that might need to be cooked (like nuggets) they will usually bring it to you if you are eating there, you can just get the rest of your order and start on that

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Let me know if the text above was correct ^^.

MOS Burger sounds Delicious O_O ! *Drool*
I can’t write long comment today. I have to sleep in five minutes ^^, because I have to wake up very early tomorrow ^^. As said earlier, I’m going to ?? tomorrow. ????????????We have to be at the ? at 8.00 AM.
I was wondering… In Japanese, how do you say, “I must or I have to” ? For example; I must go now, or, I have to eat now ^^. I’m sorry if it’s a stupid Question.

And I have one last Question for Peter-San or Nate-San, or any other Mac user that can help me. I was wondering how I can automatically type an “?

haha doh! it’s just a bunch of ???????

Disney is teh 3V1L. I’d rather have one on Ghost in the Shell.

Where is the kanji video for the day?

Y’know Japanese chocolate is good……….. but I must be honest and say it still doesn’t size up to European chocolate… (probably because I was brought up on it though )

Fabi, I love Lindt, it’s always expensive though, milka is good too! And I miss cadbury’s so much, you can get it here, but it is kinda rare, and also so expensive!

Anyways, back to the reason for my post, this is a whole day late! I went to KFC yesterday and it was all good, sailed through the sit-in/take-out stuff, then it was all unknown. I had to wing it (no pun intended!). Btw, thanks for teaching us how to say no ice! I usually asked for no ice at home, but here I was just putting up with the cup half full of ice! Now I can!

I have been to Mos Burger in Akihabara 1 month back, after JP101
introduced to us this lovely place. Before this I have been to McD`s and KFC here in Japan. Its really a healthy food in Mos Burger as compared to McD`s and KFC.

If this podcast was available1 back then I didn`t had to
be confused about the token number they gave me. I took the token and went upstairs and was wondering they will come or I need to go to fetch the burger. But then I saw other people getting
served and relaxed a bit till i got my burger at my table.

And in case of visiting these places, I never knew that how to end
my order. I alwasys used to say これでOKです。But now today i learnt
以上ですis the elegant way to end your order.

I also learnt how to use counter in the sentence today.
I use to say Burger ひとつ。But Burgerをひとつis again
sounds complete.

Thanks again for a lovely podcast.
And kanji Videos are going to shine I bet….:-)
May be we can do something similar to our
Kanji Archives so that we can revise all the kanjis
in one shot…
What say ?

Keep up the grt work.

Great podcast. Greetings form St. Louis. I need more help knowing when to use shi / yon , and shichi / nana before attempting other counters. Any help would be greatly appreciated.　

Also we do have a few fast food restaurants here that will give you a number and bring out the food to you.

ありがとう　ございます

シンデイ－

There’s an interesting book that teaches kanji using pictures that represent what the kanji mean. It’s called Kanji Pict-o-Graphix. Not too expensive and just fun to look through.

Great episode, made me crave for MOS Burger!

Fast food chains here in Thailand give out numbers too when the food isn’t ready. Also, believe it or not, sometimes the staff carry the food tray to your table for you and most of the times they fill up your empty glasses with water, just like in a restaurant. The best part is that when you’re finished eating, you don’t have to clean up all the mess, just leave it there, the staff will come take care of it (clean it, not eat it!)

Hi,
I think that one thing Japan is really under-rated for is the quality of all it’s food. Nihon Ryori is of course yummy… But In this country we can find great food from any country! Like most things, I feel that the Japanese have assimilated some good aspects of other countries (like the food) and in many cases improved upon it. And, as for the cost…. well, yes it’s expensive….but has anyone eaten out in NYC lately (besides you Peter )….it’s very expensive!

And yes….for the record I too love those little mushroom shaped chocolates… they are very addictive and I usually end up wresteling my kids for one…

However, I’m with Kevin in regards to MOS burger. The taste is OK…but every time I leave there I’m always still hungry! And I’m not that big of an eater! Now…if they could just “super size’ that stuff they would have a winner on their hands!

Kerry

Hi everyone,

Great show as always.

Can you elaborate a little bit on the use of 単品で and なしで.

I have always been using　なしで while not knowing 単品で.

ありがとうさくらさん。

Hervé.

Fabi-san, strawberry-banana-flavour! That sounds nice And “Milka”! Yes, I looove milka! We can get it in places where they sell foreign sweets.

Nate-san, I think I learned the counters bit by bit in everday conversation, but when I was a child, there was an interesting song called “Ippon demo ninjin” from a popular children’s TV program “Hirake! Ponkikki” (pity they don’t air it anymore) using different counters.
http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/k3j/warabeuta/ippondemo%20ninjin.htm
Here is the lyric.
Ippon demo ninjin (one carrot; one but ni[2]njin)
Nisoku demo sandaru (two pairs of sandals; two pairs but san[3]daru)
Sansou demo yotto (three yachts; three but yo[4]tto)
Yotsubu demo gomashio (four grains of sesami salt; four but go[5]mashio; actually, yontsubu might be more frequently used than yotsubu)
Godai demo roketto (five rockets; five but rok[6]etto)
Rokuwa demo shichimenchou (six turkeys; six but shichi[7]menchou)
Nanahiki demo hachi (seven bees; seven but hachi[8])
Hattou demo kujira (eight whales; eight but ku[9]jira)
Kyuuhai demo juusu (nine glasses of juice; nine but juu[10]su)
Jukko demo ichigo (ten strawberries; ten but ichi[1]go)

Rob-san, I haven’t tried, but the phrase that might work is “トッピング抜きでお願いします” (toppingu nuki de onegaishimasu; without the topping). I hope that works.

Sakura-san,

What a fun little song!! Thanks for sharing!

Sakura-san,

Arigatou gozaimasu for the song. That’s a fun way to learn about the counters!

i don’t mean to be rude…but who says we’re going to order that?
you should of made a list of alot of different items.

I can learn a lot about how to order foods and drink.
I’m looking forward to visiting in Japan.

I learned to say ‘kudasai’ while ordering something, is this wrong?

You said ‘only in Japan’ about the restaurant delivering your food to your table. That happens a -lot- here in the US in many restaurants that are just above the fast food level, but not yet into the ‘real restaurant’ level. And in some areas, it even happens in the fast food restaurants. It depends on the area, and the amount of business they have. I imagine Japanese restaurants do it for the same reason: They have too much business for how little counter space they have. It’s better to push more people through and pay someone to be delivering food than to let it back up and have people leave.