How about a hello to Massapequa?

Ah! Again the same, anayway greetings for everbody in this great comunity and for the Japanesepod101 team, keep going!

I am a new member and just discovered the coment section. I had two questions about Lesson#88 and they were both answered very well. Thank you for your good work.
I have just booked a flight to Osaka in Aug. Ichiban tomodachi ni ai ni ikimasu. She said she had to fill out an application for Awa Odori of Tokusima. I am wondering what I have gotten myself into.

Wonderful job you guys do. Thanks again.

Hello, minna-san!

Just signed up yesterday — wish I had found this ages ago. I have been studying Japanese intermitently for a few years now, but I’ve always made leaps in progress followed by bouts of inconsistency.

This daily podcast is brilliant. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy receiving it everyday; there’s something about a daily feed which is forcing me to be more regular in my practice (which is, of course, the secret to real improvement).

Your dialogues are always so lively and natural — what a change from the normal dreck served up in the ‘Gambatte!’ style textbooks. My wife, from Oita, and I were just laughing away at today’s all-to-real conversation.

Just a comment to say what a great job you are doing. Peter(piita): I *love* your New York accent. Also, I appreciate your humble and sincere manner in the podcast. Honestly, I am so fed up with typical gaijin podcasts: ‘This is me in Japan. This is my opinions about Japan. I know all about Japan.’ On the contrary, Peter, you have a genuinely appreciative style and modest atmosphere that makes for very gentle listening.

Wow, I’m impressed. Just wanted to tell you lot that.

More new people yeah!!! Welcome~~~

By the way, I noticed that th emp3 files are with a lower bitrate than before. It’s nice to even this way we have a very good sound! A very interesting idea, cause maybe in other place they would try to short the lenght of the lessons.

One more time, どうもありがとうございます！

Claudenir

I agree with you Claudenir-san!!! Btw, where is this name come from? Very nice, but never heard of it. I don’t think I can say your name….

Courtney-san,
I agree! What a delightful conversation today! I enjoyed everything! Sometimes I get discouraged about learning Japanese but the good humor and jokes on jpod help to keep me going! Thanks!

Peter-san,
Yes, I heard what you said (in your very soft aside) in this epidsode!! I hope no one tells your wife about that.

Mina-san,
I’m waiting to read your “best pick-up lines”!! (or worst! )

Liz-san,

Not too much experience with pick-up lines, sorry How about you share a few?

Liz-san and Vicky-san, doumo arigatou gozaimasu.

I don’t know the real origin of my name but I think that it has a kind of French in it. But I’m actually a Brazilian ^_^
It’s not difficult to pronounce my name. Just speak it as in Spanish with the last syllable stressed

By the way, I’m want to fix the Peter quotation cited for me. The right it’s “JAPANESEPOD101 is a way to spread out the Japanese to the world” Gomen nasai

Till the next time

Claudenir

Nathan-san,
You are sooooooooooo funny!

Nathan,

Meant every word of it, really. I am very impressed at how practical and ‘everyday’ is the Japanese used in these passages. Native speakers who have listened in on my practising have said that the dialogues are the most realistic, by far, of any of the study units I have used.

In particular, 「ありがとう迷惑」got a huge clap of approval. “Very useful word, very Japanese.”

Nathan,

Thank you. That would be mistake #8 I’ve made today
Always appreciate the heads-up on this stuff.

ssomers-san,

No worries, making mistakes is a great way to learn

Vicky-san,

Once I remember my mission, I’ll make sure not to forget it again!

Going for over 30 comments today??? Yeah!!! Peter-san will be really happy when he comes to work today.

Nathan-san, I’ve been telling you all day about your mission, and I even send PM about your mission. So please don’t forget! ASAP if you can!

We like surprises~~~
Mata Ne!

I guess my mission today is to push it over 30 comments I hope that wasn’t Nathan’s mission!

Can’t wait to listen to it, but I have to catch up a bit first!

hi
watashl Vicky’s friend ^^

Regarding pick-up lines,

Actually, I far prefer the British expression “to chat up”, since our Amercan expression is so dismally goal-oriented.

Now mind you, I have beeen married for coming up on 28 years now, so this line has not been subjected to any rigorous testing. Nevertheless, it is printed on every can of beer sold in Japan, and so I figure it must be set there much as a stage prompter telling tongue-tied lads what to say.

飲酒は二十歳になってから（です）。
いんしゅははたちになってだらです。
Inshu wa hatachi ni natte kara desu.
Drinking alcoholic beverages is (only) for those who have already turned 20.

注意: Don’t use this line if you suspect she is really under 20!

鶯嬢（うぐいすじょう）？

ちょっと説明お願いします！

Voice is こえ、ね？

Those are some difficult looking kanji!

(Also, setsume = explain, isn’t that right? My computer didn’t automatically give me the　明　when I typed in せつめ, I had to type in ‘ashita’ then delete the 日 to get it）

皆さん！38 comments! なんて！うれしいです！ Will be back to address them shortly. Now were working on today’s intermediate lesson!! It’s a big one!
よろしく！
Max-san, せつめいー＞説明 need the い. And the explanation for 鴬嬢 is can be in JCC #17 Animals and their meanings
http://www.japanesepod101.com/2006/05/13/animals-and-their-meanings/

In the U.S. we have the “Do Not Call List”. If you register your phone number there and telemarketers call you, they can be prosecuted and fined.

While visiting my 90 year old aunt I noticed she got a lot of telemarketing call. She told me she often had to run in from another room to get the phone, only to find out that it was a telemarketer! She was very grateful when I put her number on the list and now she doesn’t get those calls.

So, if you have an elderly relative you should register their phone number on the Do Not Call list. After all, you wouldn’t want them hitting on young sales people!

Hey everyone, go listen to the last Culture Class and then put a note on the comments section. If there are over 30, we get something special from Chigusa-san!

Peter-san, every time you say “bush warbler” I hear it as “bush wobbler”. Always makes me laugh.

I don’t know if things shouted from construction sites are really pick-up lines, but my worse one was “Woah! Nice udders!”. Another guy managed to annoy both my Vietnamese friend and I. I heard “Wow, look at the titties” and she heard “Wow, look at the Chinese”. So we were both … peeved.

Worse real attempt was “I can’t believe you’re both a computer programmer and a woman.”

@Jeiri

If you install Far East Language Support on your PC, you can enable the ‘language bar’ which allows you to select which language you are typing in. For Japanese I select hiragana input. As I type romaji it gets converted to hiragana.

じゃ　ね
アラン

I don’t know if things shouted from construction sites are really pick-up lines, but my worse one was “Woah! Nice udders!”. Another guy managed to annoy both my Vietnamese friend and I. I heard “Wow, look at the titties” and she heard “Wow, look at the Chinese”. So we were both … peeved.

Worse real attempt was “I can’t believe you’re both a computer programmer and a woman.”

男として、お謝りさせていただきます。大変申し訳ございませんでした。 m(_ _)m

ちぇ、なんとうい奴らめ。超むかつく、ああいう野郎。他の男を悪く思わせるのはもう止せ、てめえら！恥ずかしくねえのか？男の恥だぞ、そういうこと。

いや。。。。私は誰に喋ってる。。。？ f(^_^);;

ssomersさんへ

親切なお言葉をありがたく受けておきます。感動しました。^_^　あ、ですが、おっしゃっていた方々をWikipediaで調べてみる必要がありました。ヘッへ。f(^_^);;　もうほとんど理解できたと思います。

あなた様こそ、初心者である事を私には見えません。正直、ssomersさんのお返事は結構難しかったです。私の日本語はまだまだ足りないようですね。

どうかもう三段階上の討論のグループへ参加なされることをお進めいたします。

お言葉ですが、まだあまり自身ないので、高いレブルの日本語を使っているところへ行くのはちょっと緊張します。ですか、もっと難しいことを練習しなければ、成長しません。参ったな。f(^_^);;

Thanks, Jason. Thankfully most men aren’t jerks.

Did ssommers really just say that you are surprisingly good at Japanese and that you frolic perfectly?

Great conversation! A little late perhaps but I heard this approach recently it was so original it made me chuckle.

Walk up to a girl and randomly say.
“10 ton Polar bear.”
At this point she will most likely look at you quizzically and probably say “huh?”
You sit down and say
“Well it breaks the ice doesn’t it!”

However it’s probably been played out by now. I thought grampa was pretty good at hitting on chicks by my estimation.

seeing as ive given one i like heres one I can’t stand.
“What’s happening sweetness?”
I mean come on!! Who does that work on??? The incredibly despirate?

はじめまして、kawasaki といいます。
鶯の声を見つけました。
http://www.mu-tech.co.jp/mp3/uguisu_ikoma.mp3

In Norway, you can register on the Internet and say that you don’t want calls from telemarketers, but even then they may call you… Well, at least it feels less cruel to tell them you’ve registered and then hang up, than to just hang up.

JapanesePOD101,
Another very pratical and interesting lesson.

However, PLEASE turn down the volume on the ringing phone sound effect. I almost drove off the road. I cannot believe someone listening with earbuds hasn’t already complained.
Thanks
John C. Briggs

I think something’s wrong with the MP3 file. I downloaded it, and it seems to be only the introduction.

Aaron, that happens sometimes. The file gets cut off, and for some reason it cuts off just at the intro, or at some specific point in the lesson. Just download it again!

potwsさん、

表参道 (おもてさんどう）Omotesandou is a broad boulevard that goes from the 表参道駅 (station) to 明治神宮前（めいじじんぐうまえ) Meiji Jinguu-Mae. It is full of fashionable shops and people. At the top end of 表参道 is 原宿 (はらじゅく) Harajuku, another very fashionable part of Tokyo。

I think they were encouraging ピーターさん to go to 表参道 for some ナンパ action.