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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today we continue one of our most requested topics - getting around. And if that wasn’t enough, today’s lesson features the return of Sakura!! Stop by the site to leave us a post, download the PDF, and see the enhanced questions in the Learning Center!



This entry was posted on Monday, May 15th, 2006 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Survival Phrases Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

28 Responses to “Survival Phrases #21 - Getting Around Part II”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Hahaha I’m first

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Vicky says:

Hahaha I’m 2nd….

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JockZon says:

Haha I’m 3rd :P Honestly I don’t care but I just want to say I love the getting around lessons. :cool:

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Naz says:

Is there like a race here?? :razz: hehe
can’t wait to listen to this one

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Vicky says:

I think Peter-san and Nathan-san are gone. We haven’t hear from them for couple of days. They forgot about us? Getting worried here. :roll:

Beside, what’s up with bi-weekly thing???? :mad:

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Liz says:

The new feature in the Learning Center is very nice! :cool:
Beyond nice, it’s great!!! :grin:

Everyone should try this! Got the Learning Center. Go to Lesson Quizzes. Click on Vocabulary Questions to see the map, hear the audio (as many times as you need to :roll: ) and answer the questions!!

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Liz says:

Vicky-san,
Sorry, but you are wrong! Listen to the survival phrases to hear Peter-san and, wahoo!!, Sakura-san is back today!! Great lesson.

I have a question: I have some very good friends in Japan who have all been to the U.S. many times. We always speak English together and I call them by their first names. But, if I learn a little Japanese :roll: should I call them “so and so san”?

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Jonas says:

Liz-san: If they are very good friends, definitely not! Using polite japanese in the wrong situation can create distance, and hurt relationships (one of the harder things to master with japanese is to judge when to use what kind of language). If your friends have nicknames, I would probably stick to that. Else go with 呼び捨て(yobisute, the term for just calling someone by name without added “san” and similar suffixes)

Jonas

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Vicky says:

Liz-san, I was talking about from comment section. We haven’t see them for a while. :cry:

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Peter says:

Tim-san, congrats. :wink:

Vicky-san, yeah, we’ve been busy! But we’re here. :grin:

JockZon-san, yeah, these lessons are really fun! And, it was so nice to get Sakura-san back. :grin:

Naz-san, please let us know what think! :grin:

Liz-san, you found it!!! :grin: This is one of my favorite features! I also recommend that everyone check this out. Jonas made a really nice map!

Jonas, great job with the map and PDF as always. :wink:

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Vicky says:

Still alive Peter-san!!! yeah!!! :mrgreen:

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Nate says:

Peter-san,

Is there any news on other payment options for the subscription to Jpod 101? I am very leary of Pay Pal due to some past experience, but am hoping you guys will find a way to use cc numbers in near future.

BTW - thank you for the directions lesson. Great stuff. I have also found some videos that go into some detail too.

I know I have been away from Jpod 101 for a while, but nto for lack of interest. I have been just working very hard. I am hoping that things are slowing down a bit so I can get caught up.

Mata ne.

ネイト

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Naz says:

Sakuraさん、お帰りなさい。It’s nice to hear from you again.

Yoshiさん、you always come up with funny things. :wink: New Yorker slang this time?? What’s next?

Today’s lesson is very practical. I think the phase 近くにis very useful. 勉強になりました。

p/s: I would like to say a special thanks to Eranさん for helping me sort a recent problem when I comments was temporarily blocked off. You were very helpful and efficient. 本当にありがとうございます。

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Daniel Beck says:

Sakuraさん!お帰りなさい!  :grin: So, they finally let you out of jail for swimming with the sharks! :twisted:

And boy, you had Peterさん in his place today. Good job! Maybe you’ve been taking lessons from Takaseさん。 :lol:

Oh, and kudos to JP101 for giving in to the honorific campaign. :wink: I’d like to thank Jason for helping make this happen. :lol: Hmm……what should we campaign for next. :mrgreen:

-Daniel B

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Bob says:

Sakura-sama,

It’s very nice to have your strict but cheerful presence felt again on these podcasts. お帰りなさい!

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Kitsune says:

Nate-san,
I signed up last week using a credit card… just checked and the option was still there so it should work out fine. Best of luck!
Kitsune

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Tech Guy says:

Naz-san - I am glad I was able to help. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Nate-san - Five days ago we added support for secure credit card payment directly on our site. You can read the this Tech Update to learn more about it:

http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=175

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Nathan says:

Vicky-san,

We’re definitely still here! Sorry, things have been a little crazy, but we’re here :wink: I’ll PM you a little later :grin:

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Sakura says:

Minasan, tadaima!
Thank you for your comments :razz:
It was such doing the show in the studio again.
Mata yoroshiku onegaishimasu! :wink:

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Sakura says:

Sorry,
It was such doing -> It was such fun doing
:oops:

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Nate says:

Tech Guy-san,

Arigatou. That is great news!

Mata ne.

ネイト

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Liz says:

Jonas-san,
Thank you for your answer about the use of “san”. You said using “san” among very, very good friends would be inappropriate and would create a sense of distance.

When I listen to JPOD podcasts, I’m a little confused. Peter-san has co-workers, Yoshi-san, Take-san, Natsuko-san, but, as with us Americans, he wants to leap into instant friendship. That’s the way we are :shock: Could you explain the relationship between Peter-san and his jpod colleagues and why should he say “san” to them? Thanks.

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ジム says:

:mrgreen:

私の名前はジムです、よろしくおねがします!ロスで住んでいます。

このサイトはいいですね。皆はいつも元気だよ、そしてこ、のレッスンは覚えやすい。最近、ipodを買った。 この番組を聞きながら、ビーチまで歩きます。

皆さん頑張ってね!

英語

Hello, my name is Jim. I live in Los Angeles.

This site is great! Everyone is always energetic and the lessons are easy to remember. I recently bought an ipod. I listen to this program while walking to the beach.

Everyone keep up the good work!

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KeithH says:

I don’t know about everyone else, but I really missed Sakura! It was great to hear her on the show again.

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Peter says:

ジムさん、JapanesePod101へようこそ!It’s great to have you. It’s quite funny, everyday while we try to make our deadline, we’re all thinking about that beach you’re walking on!! :grin: うらやましい!

KeithHさん、I am with you! I really missed Sakura too! Was really great to have her back. :grin:

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Daine says:

If we want to learn to write in Japaneses, which one should we have to focus on to. Should we focus on HIRAGANA, KATAKANA or KANJI …..

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Naomi says:

Well.. Hiragana or Katakana. Not Kanji at the beginning.
I would recommend that you start with learning Hiragana first. Japanese kids star with Hiragana too.
However it’s also true that some Engish-speaking people start studying from Katakana since English speaking people are familiar with Katakana. (The pronounciation of True English word and Japanese-adopted English word are so different though)

You can learn and practice kanji in our learning center.
http://www.japanesepod101.com/learningcenter/reference/introduction

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David says:

こんにちわ 皆さん

I’m new to Japanese pod 101, just wondering, Peter さん mentioned about the Learning Center Lesson Quizzes, but I couldn’t find it anywhere, could somebody please help, thanks a lot!

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