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34 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #93 - Going to Meet Someone III”
Thursday at 9:53 pm
Mina-san,
Today’s location is ガラパゴス・Garapagosu - hello to all of our listeners in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands!
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!
Thursday at 10:01 pm
Dang! I thought I was going to be the first post for the first time.
Well, at least I got her before Vickyちゃん！
Well, I’ll be back in the morning with my thoughts on the lesson. It’s still downloading, and I’m off to bed! おやすみなさい！
-Daniel B
Thursday at 10:09 pm
Daniel-san! Where have you been?
Please let us know about the lesson, and just to let you know, we tend to use -さん when addressing one another. 
We don’t want to have to start deleting posts. 
Sweet dreams!
Thursday at 10:23 pm
Its Too too.
Thursday at 11:12 pm
Peter… you mean we can’t call Vicky by Vicky-chan
I don’t think she would mind 
Would you Vicky?
Thursday at 11:32 pm
Peter-san,
It helps us Beginners to learn the correct way. Thanks! It’s very hard for us casual Americans to learn that. 
You are so funny (”….we tend to use さん when addressing one another”!
Actually, I want to compliment you on your gigantic effort to do that on the podcasts
Thursday at 11:33 pm
Mina-san,
Hi
Thursday at 11:40 pm
JockZon-san, was just having a little fun with Daniel-san. I know he loved that.
Liz-san, glad you liked it! Here at the office, we got quite a kick out of it.
Friday at 12:02 am
Peter-san,
On today’s podcast — “Octopus balls???”
Friday at 1:27 am
Liz-san,
http://www2.alc.co.jp/ejr/index.php?word_in=%82%BD%82%B1%8F%C4%82%AB&word_in2=%82%A9%82%AB%82%AD%82%AF%82%B1&word_in3=asdf2
Or try cutting and pasting this into alc.co.jp
とこ焼き
Friday at 1:48 am
Peter-San
About The world cup finals I make a mistake again Germany lost dawn 
now the final is Italy VS France and my last comment for this world cup is that it began good but end terrible with teams that weren’t favorites so all I can say is that Italy will win the cup even do France is great team with Zidane and great with their knowledge! But what Italy has show with Germany is definitive of a master so there is no doubt about it! Well its over now and we will wait for 2010 World Cup in South Africa Good luck next time! 
Friday at 1:50 am
Okay I’m here. I had a doctor’s appointment today.
You guys can call me whatever you want. I still like our Vicky though.
I came to office….reading comments about yoshi yoshi yoshi….and I read my emails here is more yoshi yoshi….Liz-san is so much into Yoshi-san. I heard that he might comes to US, are you going to visit him???
You might will get heart attack when you meet him.
I woke up the middle of night, and got email from Yoshi-san. It was all Japanese or Chinese something like that. When I open the email, my eyes was like this…
and didn’t or couldn’t read at all. I should go back to check again.
Whatelse???? I come back later after the lesson~~~
Your Vk
Friday at 1:59 am
Hey, Vicky-san!
So you can read Yoshi-san’s email!! You can stop teasing me about Yoshi-san now. 
Now you have a very good reason to learn Japanese!
Thanks!
Friday at 2:15 am
Liz-san….yoshi yoshi yoshi….
I was just kidding. Hope they can post some pictures for you. Nathan-san doesn’t respond of his mission. I guess Daniel B-san will be stand by for his duty.
Did you sign for mixi??
I won’t tease you anymore….yoshi yoshi yoshi…
With Love~~~
Friday at 4:47 am
Why does this remind me of the Brady Bunch?
Friday at 4:48 am
なっちゃん、
I don’t think “baked” is the right word for たこ焼き。
Peterちゃん、
It’s good form on a place like this to use shorter urls.
There is a good site at http://tinyurl.com/
So, the link you provided for Lizちゃん above looks like this:
http://tinyurl.com/nhlxc
Oh, and octopus balls?
Just because arc defines it that way… 
Reminds me of that movie with Chevy Chase, “Funny Farm”. Only, I can’t remember what name they used for sheep balls.
I think you all should take a sushi eating trip and make it into a video podcast!!! I volunteer to shoot the video. I only ask that I be treated to free sushi!
Yoshiさま、
Have you hired a bodyguard yet?
-Daniel B
Friday at 4:50 am
Brady Bunch????
Friday at 6:34 am
Peter-san and Daniel Beck-san,
Is there a picture of octopus balls? Well, it’s ok because the description on the podcast was fantastic and I could picture them very well and the pan they are cooked in. This podcast was particularly good at explaining everything. Thanks.
Thanks very much for the links, etc. However, I wasn’t able to see anything on the site.
Friday at 6:43 am
Jasonさん、
Brady Bunch? Now, you’re dating yourself!
Marsha Marsha Marsha.
-Daniel
Friday at 6:46 am
I never watched it. That was before my time. But that phrase is pretty famous.
Friday at 6:47 am
That’s very interesting that Tsukiji is now closed to the public! When was this enforcement put to task? I remember visiting there in the morning — not interfering, as such, but enjoying the crazy vibe of it all, the supreme fish afficinados, and the weird, weird, weird slang those guys use. How about a cultural episode on subcultural slang in Tokyo?
Sean, the invisible one.
Friday at 7:36 am
Sean-san - While I take everything with Wikipedia with a grain of salt, it says they closed the auctions to public in May 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market
Liz-san:
I couldn’t see anything on those links either. Try these -
http://images.google.com/images?q=takoyaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki
Friday at 8:39 am
Jasonさん、
You’ve never seen it? Don’t they show it on some cable channel? There’s probably a ’70’s TV show channel.
Also, Tom Hanks, when he was on Busom Buddies, would always say “Sunny Sunny Sunny Sunny”.
-Daniel B
Friday at 9:53 am
I’ve seen bits of it on channels like TV Land, but I don’t think I’ve ever watched a whole episode.
Friday at 10:51 am
Ssomers-san, just the fish auctions are closed to the public. I hope that was clear.
We definately don’t want people thinking that Tsukiji is closed! 
Daniel-san, I was trying to create so work for Tech-guy.
Friday at 11:10 am
Peter-san!
Good morning! You’re at work now, right? What hours does the JPOD team keep to produce each show? LIke from 11:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m.?? Just guessing….
Friday at 11:20 am
if you swich the a.m. and p.m. around, you are pretty close
Jonas
Friday at 11:27 am
Jonas-san, you are back!! How was Guam???
Any gift for me?
Yeah am to pm, sounds right to me. You guys are working for US time not Japan time.
Friday at 12:50 pm
Nice cast today guys, and you make it even better by making the comment section humorous
Friday at 5:30 pm
mina-san gonnichiwa
hi~ Vecky ^^
my job is finished as soon!
I’m going to play the ‘Flute Ensemble’
Happy day~ pretty Vicky
Saturday at 12:52 am
Ah thank you d.k. Lee-san, hope you still do listen the lessons. I will try to contact you this weekend….
When are you going to Japan again? I forgot.
Thanks again!
Monday at 5:43 pm
Monday at 7:38 pm
Tuesday at 12:48 pm
Re: Getting off track
I don’t mind getting off track. And when 先生たち use Japanese in these little diversions, I find them very useful.
In this show, everyone joked that Yoshi-san should take them out to o-sushi. When Natsuko suggested they say “Gochisousama”, it gave us a really good example of a situation when this word is appropriate. And when Peter joked that they should ask the waiter for a plate, and said “ichi mai” it gave us the counter for plates.
You could explain these two Japanese words 10 times and I might not understand. But a short little joke about Yoshi-san and I understand perfectly.
I like these little diversions in the classes, but ask that everyone remember to slip NiHonGo into them (やまに忘れる）.
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