Mina-san,

Today’s location is ベオグラード・Belgrade. Hello to all of our listeners in Belgrade, Serbia!

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

Oooooo!!
Your new features are great!! Audio questions are great! I hope I do better with answering them, instead of the written ones.:???:
Grammar Bank? Awesome!
Omedetou gozaimasu!

I’m so happy you’re doing the “kara” thing because when I listen to Japanese, I keep hearing “kara”, “kara’, “kara”…………

Vicky-san,
I had no trouble with the Informal Track. Hmmm…………
I love the way it downloads with lots of numbers as the title, but when you drag it to iTunes the real word title appears!! :

It says, POSIX error : Connection reset by peer. Maybe it’s my company thing. Finally getting trouble at work?

How about a translation of the informal!!!

Actually Kathmandu is a company (!); the place is クライストチャーチ- Christchurch, NZ - lovely place too !

ニュージーランドの クライストチャーチ, ニューブライトン特に, 皆さん お早うございます.

mikuji

Yeah!!! I download informal audio. I knew it!! They can’t block this site, right???

If they do, I will be really depress at work, and it will affect my creativities….

Good day!

The new features look great. The grammer bank looks really promising. I also like the overall vocab list. 頑張ってお疲れさま。

@Vicky-san. My lovely company blocks the entire site (and anything else with mp3s), so things could be worse.

Alan-san / Vicky-san - Sorry to hear about your companies cracking down! Personally, I wouldn’t stand for it Don’t they know that you are so much more productive after getting your daily dose of our podcast?

Alan-san, I am so glad to hear that you like the new features so far. As we continue the daunting task of populating the Grammar Bank with grammar points from past/future lessons, I truly believe that it will become an extremely useful resource for our premium members. I personally would like to thank David, Jonas, Nathan, and Peter for architecting and implementing this powerful feature, which incidentally is a direct result from feedback received from our community of listeners.

In addition to the Grammar Bank, we also unveiled an All Lesson Vocabulary List and Audio Content Questions. These new premium features are available in the Lesson-Specific area of the Learning Center. To read more on these new enhancements, visit this forum post:

http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=409

As always, thank you for the incredible feedback and continued support.

- Eran

The new grammar bank is nifty.
Its hard to believe you can get so much for so little money.

i’m soooooooooooooooooooo old, vicky, you should tkae pity on me and pay for me

hm…..guys, I don’t know what make you think I’m that rich. I haven’t sign for mine yet!

Liz-san,

Glad you like the new features!

Vicky-san,

Could you pay for my membership, too???

mikuji-san,

I’m not sure what you’re talking about… it says Nepal! Sorry about that, it was a long day

Mina-san,

Keep checking back on the grammar bank… it will be growing very quickly, and will be a great tool!

Nathan-さん　

成程! 　 代わりますした、　ですね。
みくじの他の’doh!’モメント　でした ね。
何も　を　書きくなければ　よかったね。
かわいそう　みくじ　ー　頭があまり 鋭くない
もう一度　ごめん　
みくじ

Maybe since there are a lot of informal lessons, you should do a lesson on informal particles and small stuff to notice. Like “ka na” being “I wonder…” and “ka” sometimes being used when it’s not a question, but merely making the statement less definite and giving an informal feel. If I’m wrong about these meanings, then it’s because I need a lesson on it!

There were some words in the dialogue that I didn’t know:

zukuri
と
Yarimashou (from Yaru? I don’t that either )

Will we get a translation of the informal?????

mikuji-san
i hope this helps at *’s

追っ払っていました。　→　酔っ払っていました。
already got drunk
“酔っぱらう”
http://www2.alc.co.jp/ejr/index.php?word_in=%90%8C%82%C1%82%CF%82%E7%82%A4&word_in2=%82%A9%82%AB%82%AD%82%AF%82%B1&word_in3=PVawEWi72JXCKoa0Je

あつく語る
say enthusiastically, talk passionately about
arc says
http://www2.alc.co.jp/ejr/index.php?word_in=%94M%82%AD%8C%EA%82%E9&word_in2=%82%A9%82%AB%82%AD%82%AF%82%B1&word_in3=PVawEWi72JXCKoa0Je

kawasaki-san

thanks for the explanation - I sort of guessed the second expression but the first was baffling me although it makes perfect sense now I read it.

My experience with this track is that informal tracks like these are particularly difficult to use for self study because most times the topical expressions are not available on books or dictionary. I don’t have Japanese friends to ask question on everyday speaking.

I am still in to mind whether I benefit from tracks like these - I love the challenge to solve the puzzle - I hate not being able to compare what I deduce with a solution and thus learn from my mistakes- but then perhaps this is what this forum is for.

I am also contrained by lack of time to study which is why I do not have the time to make my own material from news items, and the other plentiful stuff on the net. This is why I often sound frustrated. Sumimasen!

mikuji

No more spam, man!

Mikujiさんとkawasakiさん、

有難う御座います for the help with the informal track.
難しいですよ！

I translated it myself and then came here. I didn’t expect there to be anything here, but there was. I am glad that I got it mostly right. I am having a hard time with a few things.

1) How is this prounounced? 酔っ払っ (ていました) Without the PDF, I would never have gotten these characters from the pronunciation.
2) Is this really “spirits”? その後さらに焼酎を二本飲んで My 日本語・英語dictionary says that 焼酎 is a clear liquor distilled from sweet potatoes, rice or buckwheat. My 日本語辞書 seems to indicate that it basically means “alcohol”. Is this a generic term for all types of alcohol or a specific type?
3) 会計後始末, すべて大変でした == Settling the bill was totally awful.
4) I also had much difficulty with the beginning of this sentence:
ああ、早く帰てよかった。 It sounds like はやえけ。 My translation for this is: It was good I left (went home) early. The 漢字 in the PDF has “early” and “return” in it but the pronunciation is all mashed together and 難しい。

宜しくお願いします。

At the beginning of the lesson, it appears that the location is “Belgrade” and not Katmandu. Is it my ears or is it possible a change was made?

Where do I manage the subsciptions to the follow-up comments?

Jessi-san.

Thank you for your reply. I can now find the hyperlink — “Manage your subscriptions” — above the text box, but it took some doing after I accidentally entered the wrong email address. Everything’s fine now!