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64 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #111 - Weekend Barbeque?”
Thursday at 10:15 pm
Mina-san, today’s location is モンテビデオ montebideo! Hello to all of our listeners in Uruguay! Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Thursday at 11:02 pm
Hi everybody! What happened to the e-mail? I reloaded the site by accident and suddenly the lesson appeared
Oh, well I won’t complain ’cause this was a really useful lesson.
私はうれしくなりました。
Thursday at 11:03 pm
Ah, now I got the email.
Friday at 1:31 am
Another great lesson. Thanks
BTW, I think you forgot the “tachi” in the メンバーたち in the Romanji section.
ジョン
Friday at 1:53 am
JockZon-san, seeing your Japanese sentence made my day!
私もうれしくなりました!Watashi mo ureshikunarimashita!
Another popular one is:
難しくなる・muzukashikunaru to become difficult
often found in the following 2 patterns:
1) plain non-past verb + nominalizer + ga/wa muzukashikunaru - to become difficult to
回復することは、難しくなる。kaifuku suru koto wa, muzukashikunaru.
it will become difficult to bounceback/recover
2) noun + ga/wa muzukashikunaru
テストが難しくなる・tesuto ga muzukashikunaru - the test will become more difficult
John-san, thank you for pointing that out! It will be fixed shortly. Thank you again!
You can tell on what days we receive videos! We’re now up to 12!!!
Liz-san, apologies for not mentioning your video that we DID receive!! Hontou ni arigatou gozaimasu!
It was great!
Friday at 3:31 am
Mina-san,
In an effort to deal with our growing community of listeners and to improve site performance, speed and reliability, we will be upgrading our server environment this weekend. We have posted a blog entry about this scheduled maintenance window. Click here to see it.
Please accept my sincere apologies for poor site performance and slow page load times over the last few days.
We thank you all for your continued support, patience, and understanding as we work hard at stabilizing and continually improving our service.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Eran
JapanesePod101.com
Friday at 3:56 am
Dear Peter-san,
Thanks for updating me on the number of videos. It is difficult for me to get a sense of the JPOD community size. There are a few very vocal people but seem to be many more sitting on the sides just enjoying the Podcasts.
Eran-san,
Thanks for the update. The site has been really bad today.
ジョン
Friday at 3:56 am
Adverbs have arrived. Hooray, I love those endings that convert verb to noun, adjective to noun (-sa) etc. They really make my limited vocabulary go further.
@Eran,
Thanks for the update. Loading is pretty slow from here, but sometimes the problem is this end; one of the drawbacks with cable is shared bandwidth
Friday at 3:57 am
Thank you Eran-san!!! It works pretty good now.
Friday at 4:17 am
Ah Daniel-san, today is D-day. Good luck on carrying your mission today. I thought it was tomorrow. Looking forward to hear it! Take-san???/
Friday at 4:45 am
Vicky-san, thanks for the encouragement. I started to put something together, but it just didn’t work out too well. I need another 3 weeks of studying before I can be good enough to come up with some good descriptive sentences. On top of that, I only have a macbook pro built-in isight camera to use today. I’ll be ready for the next one. Being part of this community is a privilege that I don’t want to miss out on.
Friday at 5:20 am
Eranさん!
You rock!
We really appreciate all the hard work you put in. Looking forward to the performance of the new server.
Chigusaさん、
Around here, we use 「さん」, as in Peterさん。Again, Peterちゃん is also acceptable.
Junさん、
You are soooo mellow.
You really should get to a BBQ though.
Our Vickyちゃん、
D-Day?
Well, it is the day for me to carry out my mission. But, I doubt I can do it to the satisfaction of two certain little birds.
Take Take Take…blah blah blah…
Although I probably cannot carry out those two requests, if there are any requests, let me know. What do you all want to see the staff at JP101 perform? We already have Peterちゃん’s dance on the menu.
Friday at 6:06 am
I knew there were too many Daniels around here… That’s probably why I didn’t understand the Take-san reference. Gomen nasai.
Friday at 6:38 am
Mina-san,
I would like to express my sincere apologies again for the brief downtime and overall site sluggishness earlier today and in the last few days. I cannot thank you guys enough for your support and commitment as we fight through these growing pains.
I have just released a new mechanism which caches our feeds and significantly reduces the load on our server by utilizing far less CPU cycles. I am crossing my fingers that this tweak will dramatically improve stability and provide a major performance boost until we carry out the server upgrade this weekend.
Please let me know if you are seeing improved performance and faster response times.
Thanks,
Eran
Friday at 6:43 am
Daniel-san I don’t have any request, just that you go out and get those photos because I can’t belive that none of them has a camera
We have waited for so long
Friday at 6:51 am
It does feel noticably snappier.
Friday at 6:57 am
Yes Danielさん、
There are several of us. How about adding a last initial or name in the “name” field?
Friday at 7:11 am
鬼婆の魔法でうちの猫が化けキリンに成りました
onibaba no mahou de uchi no neko ga bakekirin ni narimashita
Our cat was turned into a monster giraffe by the old witches magic. (I hope thats how the meaning comes out anyway)
Sorry if thats not the use of naru you covered, I’m about to listen to the lesson now.
if that wasn’t the grammar point, I’m including the other one now:
化けキリンのせいで私達は怖くなりました
bakekirin no sei de watashitachi ha(wa) kowakunarimashita
Because of the monster giraffe, we became scared.
毎日日常でも使えるから覚えて置いて下さいね!
Friday at 7:26 am
Oops just realised my 2nd sentance means ‘we became scary because of the monster giraffe’ sorry people.
Friday at 7:42 am
We have 2 Daniel-san???
Friday at 7:43 am
Hey, sorry to bother y’all again but did you receive my video? I sent it yesterday and would just like to make sure it went through the e-mail alright. I’m not too snazzy with computers so I’m not sure I did it correctly.
Here’s hoping! (Where’s the fingers crossed emoticon?)
Friday at 8:41 am
Our Vickyちゃん、
>2 Daniels がいるよ!
Oh, btw, 皆さん、
Don’t you think Our Vickyちゃん should do a video? She’s got the equipment. She’s just a little shy.
Let’s give her some encouragement!
Friday at 8:42 am
Brody-san,
I haven’t seen your video come through, yet. How are you sending it? If email, what address are you sending it to? Thanks!
Daniel-san,
Vicky-san should definitely do a video!
Friday at 8:56 am
I guess we could call NEW Daniel-san??? Welcome!! I didn’t know what you were talking about I got it now.
Old Daniel Beck-san
, please bring me a good news.
Nathan-san, me video???
Friday at 9:19 am
Yeah! Vicky-san moratte kudasai!
Friday at 9:34 am
One more vote for Vicky-san video.
Hope everyone’s had a good day!
Friday at 9:45 am
You guys already saw me even PJ condition.
Video??? no thanks, let’s see Peter-san’s dance first. Maybe Take-san’s singing???
Btw, Skype video ussers, we are planning to go to Japan this weekend. I talked to Kawasaki-san abit. He got webcam, yeah!!!
Mark-san, we still need to figure it video conference.
Can’t wait for OLD Daniel B-san’s mission.
Mata Ne!
Friday at 10:07 am
Vicky-san, yes I know we need to figure it out.
Need someone who has the right computer and internet though.
Anyways… working right now.
Ah, D-san’s mission is today! Diddn’t know that - ganbatte D-san!
Friday at 10:43 am
Our Vickyちゃん、
You don’t get off the hook that easy. 4 votes so far.
C’mon folks!
Friday at 11:06 am
Vickyさん、
One more vote here for a video. I submitted mine. It is always a little scary, but I did.
ジョン
Friday at 11:29 am
Vicky-san,
Others of us have risked our embarrassment and sent in the video!! Come on, just do it!! Borrow a camera, just say a few words and you’re done!! Please??? We got Skype and everything because you asked, so you have to return the favor.
Friday at 11:33 am
Vicky, you would deny the others of seeing your Hat of Ultimate Cuteness(TM)?
Friday at 11:40 am
HOUC?
Sounds like something from the Princess Bride!
Lizさん、
Our Vickyちゃん doesn’t need to borrow a camera. Her iSight works with iMovie.
Thanks for the vote Johnさん!
Okay, we’re up to 7 votes now. Keep ‘em coming!
Friday at 11:40 am
Oh, c’mon Jason - get the trademark symbol right! Though the symbol does show up small.
Hat of Ultimate Cuteness™
Friday at 11:47 am
Daniel Beck-san,
You are right about iSight and iMovie. With iMovie, it’s such a snap to do this! Of course, I couldn’t have saved my video properly in the right size without you! You told me how find “Expert Settings” under Quicktime under Share. (Tip for Mac Users)
Friday at 12:28 pm
Give me a ‘V’
Give me an ‘I’
Give me a ‘C’
Give me a ‘K’
Give me a ‘Y’
What do we have?
VICKY… VICKY… VICKY… VICKY!!!
Friday at 12:40 pm
VICKY… VICKY… VICKY… VICKY!!! Yeah!
Friday at 12:48 pm
ヴィーキちゃん、
ヴィーキーちゃんのかわいさの帽子のビデオを見て下さい。
皆さん、
‘hat of cuteness’ は日本語で「かわいさの帽子」書きました。どう思いましたか。
ノグスさん、
化けきりんはとても面白いです。それわ見たいです。
アラン
Friday at 12:48 pm
Friday at 12:52 pm
Oops, that last わ should be a は。
ヴィキちゃんの帽子はどんあ帽子ですか。
私は思いたいです。
Friday at 12:55 pm
Haha! Well, you told me to read the comments Vicky, so here I am… And of course I vote for a video from you! Come on!
Friday at 12:55 pm
I can’t type this morning. For どんあ read どんな。
Friday at 1:01 pm
And I used ‘omou’ rather than ’shiru’ a couple of posts back. I’m really not awake & should stick to english this morning (or at least to posting in the forum, where a quick edit covers up my stupid mistakes
)
Anyway, I’d like to see a video of Vicky’s hat. Vicky can be in the video too if she likes
Alan
Friday at 1:15 pm
::looking for my hat::
Friday at 1:27 pm
Yay!
Go go go Our Vickyちゃん!!!
And, with the HOUC!
D’oh! Jasonさん is going to charge for using his trademarked phrase.
Friday at 1:37 pm
As encouragement, here is a video of some of my hats.
Voiceover in english I’m afraid, as zero preparation
My hats
Friday at 1:56 pm
Geez Alan-san, my hat’s aren’t like that. I was wearing my hat because I didn’t take a shower. They are just making fun of me….
Btw, do you have msn, skype, or ichat ID? They all left me here and I got no idea.
Friday at 2:12 pm
Vicky, sorry, but I don’t use any of the chat apps. There is some help on using iSight with iMovie in the iMove help though
[quote]
You can capture live video from your iSight camera directly into iMovie HD.
To use iSight with iMovie HD, you must have iChat AV on your computer. If you can’t use iChat AV, then you can’t use IIDC cameras such as iSight with iMovie HD.
[/quote]
[quote]
1. Open the privacy shutter on your iSight.
2. Click the mode switch to set iMovie HD to camera mode.
3. Click the triangle to the left of the camera mode switch and choose iSight from the pop-up menu.
4. Click “Record with iSight.”
The video you see in the iMovie monitor is recorded as a clip in the Clips pane.
5. Click “Record with iSight” again to stop recording.
[/quote]
I don’t have the iSight myself, so can’t give more of a clue.
Then you need to export the Movie to Quicktime
From the Menu, select File->Share
Click on the Quicktime tab, then select ‘Expert Settings’ in the drop-down selection list.
Then click on ‘Share’. A dialog box comes up where you can adjust the various settings. In particular, check the ‘Size’ setting is what you want. The rest is probably Ok as is. Then accept all the dialog boxes & wait a long time while the movie converts to quicktime. Then you need to figure out how to post the file.
Friday at 2:15 pm
Thank you so much Alan-san. It’s 11 pm here…….
But, I can’t say NO to them. I will my best.
Friday at 2:17 pm
Last question Alan-san, did you sing?
Friday at 2:27 pm
Vickyさん、
on my video entry? I did
Friday at 2:30 pm
…but since you’re short on time, I’m sure Peter would be glad to have your entry, even without singing. (Actually I sang something different to that requested)
Friday at 3:08 pm
Hi, I sent my video to contactus@japanesepod101.com.
via yousendit. Did I do it wrong? I’ll try sending it again.
Friday at 3:17 pm
Brody-san,
I just double checked our email, as well as the YouSendIt account and we have received nothing from you. Sorry! The email address looks correct. Perhaps try another site like:
http://www.transferbigfiles.com/Default.aspx
We look forward to seeing the video!
Friday at 8:04 pm
Brody-san, now that was funny!
Friday at 9:03 pm
Brodyさん、
Just got back from JP101. Got a glimpse.
That was wild!
Friday at 9:09 pm
Daniel-san, pleasure having you down here!
Friday at 9:24 pm
The pleasure was mine, JapanesePod101.comさん!
Got some great video & photos folks!
However, my mission is still incomplete. So, I guess I’ll have to stop by again.
Friday at 9:27 pm
I’m wondering if there’s going to be a rogues gallery of these videos.
は・ず・か・し・い
I may have to post a link to my efforts.
On odds alone it seems any to Yoshi-san videos have a good chance at a prize.
Now the deadline, what time zone are you talking about?
Friday at 9:37 pm
Greetings to everybody! To bad what I can’t improve the quality of my first video, well something is somethig, anyway it was very fun!
Eran-san, thanks for the hard work!
Vicky-san, I hope what we can chat a litle more this weekend with Liz-san and everybody!
Saturday at 2:24 am
I got webcam!!
vicky-san
my computer was restored
Saturday at 2:33 am
@Belton-san
I’d like to see everybody’s efforts, but should we wait until after iLove Episode 2, so not as to spoil the surprise? Maybe folks can’t wait that long
Incidentally, I really like the photo’s on your website.
Alan
恥ずかしく成りますね。
Saturday at 2:48 am
Belton-san, we would like to visit to UK as well. Would you have skype or ichat ID? If not, would you please send me a PM so we can contact you?
Hugo-san and Kawasaki-san, yes we are ready for this weekend!!!
Saturday at 3:35 am
今週末、バーベキューをします。土曜日は晴れだし、他のメンバだちも暇で、わたはもう道具を揃えました。来週の月曜日から新しい仕事始めるので。来週から、忙しくなります。来週は来週です。まだ今週末は暇でしょう。ごめんなさい、いいえ、書類を準備したいです。今回は、欠席です。
また、明日。
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