JapanesePod101.com Team:
This topic looks fascinating!! Can’t wait to hear it!!
How do you come up with such great ideas???

forgot ‘bell’; Liberty Bell - i’m still asleep after two coffees and a subway trip and voting for Solvi 15 times this morning

Welcome Oe-san! Bienvenida! Very nice voice, great work!

As always very good, fun and priceless lesson, keep going guys! JPOD101 is the sun of my day

はるよさにょこそ！
しゃしんがしゅみですか？
ピーターしゃしんをおねがいします
Please correct my mistakes! Mina-san, please correct me. Thanks.

I wanted to say:
Haruyo san, welcome!
So, photography is your hobby?
Please take a picture of Peter!

Practicing outside the forums, I see

I find kana easier to read if you put romaji style gaps in. Without kanji it can be hard to scan otherwise.
I think something happened with your typing on sentence 1.
2 seems fine I think except maybe more forceful than “so, …” because of the が　does anyone else think this? .
3. I’d put no after peter san but perhaps it feels more “Peter’s photograph please” to get a verb in you’d need te kudasai construction perhaps.

I should know what photography is but offhand… no
it’s in Take-san pretends to be a gaijin in the museum episode.

but to take photo is syashin o toru

check iPod… satsuei is photographing (is that photography?)
I’d suggest this (and might not be right) –>

ハルヨさん、ようこそ！
ハルヨさん　の　しゅみ　は、　さつえい　です　か？
ピーターさん　の　しゃしん　を　とって　ください。

You have seen the early videos on jPod？
Peter-san appears in one of them I’m sure.

Yeah Peter-san now you’re breaking into movies you need the making of documentary.

Belton-san,
Oops! I should have practiced on your thread in the forum. Thanks very much for your answer, though. It helped me out. I understand just about everything you wrote, but what is this: さつえい

Minna-san, ohayou gozaimasu!

watashi wa koukou de benkyo wo shimasu. demo.. motto nemui desu. sorekara, kouhi ga suki jya nai. U.U

watashi wa nani o suru beki de aruka?

Liz-san,
I think Haruyo-san’s name might mean spring night, so probably is 春夜。
Photography is probably ‘photograph taking thing’, i.e. ’shashin no toru koto’ which is 写真をとること。Hobby (Shumi) is 趣味。
So I think it should be:
春夜さんはようこそ。 (Haruyo-san wa youkoso)
趣味は写真をとることですか。(Shumi wa shashin o toru koto desu ka)
ピーターさんの写真をとってください。(Peter no shashin o totte kudasai)

That isn’t to say I’m right.

And from me…

春夜さん、どんな写真をとることが好きですか。
どこの東京にしゃしんをとることがいいですか。
私は新宿御苑の写真をとって好きです。

Which is even more likely to be wrong, particularly the last bit which is supposed to be ‘took and liked’, but I’m not sure of the construction.

Alan

みんなさん、
This is a new verb for me, 行う　（おこなう）　(okonau). The kanji looks like 行く　(to go) but actually means “perform”. This is a strange reading for 行。
I also thought that it was interesting that they managed to work in both the words
ゆめ　夢　　　dream
and
ゆうめい　有名 fame
To me, I have difficulty hearing the difference and I thought the first ゆめ　in the dialog was ゆうめい. So I was confused at first.
じゃ　ね
ジョン

I mean, being famous is like being in a dream??

baka baka shi. hmm… i’ve been called that before. ^.^ haha.

Hey, this was funny: Natsuko-san said, “Peter-san no eigo ga hairimasu” and then Chigusa-san gave the English! Oh, well, no one is perfect!

Can I by any chance still make a video for submission? Liz and Vicky told me it was possible, but I’d like someone to back that up.

Back again.

Liz-san,
Alan answered your question. さつえい 撮影　satsuei is photographing. a noun and can be used with suru. it makes a lot of compounds for words relating to photography and cinema.
The first kanji is the same as the one in toru 撮る to take (a photo)

Briggs-san
I like ポポタン which is　たんぽぽ　dandelion backwards　and was the title of an anime I saw once. Don’t know why I find it amusing but dandelions will always be popotan to me. 　

this is completely un-related.. -ish. does anyone have any recomendations for an Online Japanese Radio station?

I thought it would be helpful as a practice tool, for me anyways. seeing how i can understand Japanese better on paper, than by listening. guess i’m a visual learner.

are there any other visual learners out there? if so then do you have any strategies/resources which have helped you progress in the listening aspect?

oh yeah some may be wondering how i got here in the first place. ^.^ well the Japanese SATII is available this November where i’m at. so I was hoping to revamp the two years of japanese language instruction i had earlier in life. JPod101 has been a major portion of my studies.(I average about 2 to 3hours of it a day, reviewing over everything) Why take the SATII? well two reasons really. The school i goto doesn’t have Japanese but Chinese instead. so in order to get out of a Language requirement, i just need to get good scores on the test to get out of Chuugokugo. my second reason is that i absolutely love japanese language. It even surpasses my enjoyment of computers. which is pretty hard to do.

^.^ gomennasai! reply wa ookii desu ne?

Liz-san, doumo arigatou!

koko no station o kiku ga ikimasu!
I’m going to listen to that station. (if thats not what it means, then i’m sad T.T)

Geh, ポポタン didn’t do anything but confuse me.

ALERT!!!!

Solvi-san is #2 very very hehind!
Help Mina-san. You can used other browser to vote couple of times.

Go to
http://creamofthecrop.cc/

Vote for Solvi Stokkeland!!!

You can vote MANY MANY times for Solvi if you remove the cookies that creamofthecrop is putting in your browser each time you votes.

Yeah, Cassidy I figured it out and have voted 100 times now in 20 minutes…

I feel bad on was on vacation when the JP101 vote happened then we could have overwhlemed the voting. Maybe next time I’ll write a little script we can leave running all night - can’t run too fast or my ip will be very upset and ban me

Can 写真　be used with suru to mean taking a picture???

Whoops. Kanji malfunctiion.

写真を撮る

haha. hello everyone.

i have another question (i know i ask a lot ^.^ gomen gomen). But how many of you occasionally (albeit not intentionally) use a japanese word(s) when talking in your normal language?

while i was eating lunch today with a friend, i was asked what the time was. so naturally, i said ichi ji jyu roppun. but it was how quickly i went from speaking english, threw in japanese, and back to english that i didn’t even realize anything had happened. So after maybe another minute or two my friends asked again what time it was. Which got me confused. haha.

But how many of you occasionally (albeit not intentionally) use a japanese word(s) when talking in your normal language?

I almost did one time. I went with my grandmother to the podiatrist. We were in the waiting room and the nurse asked if one of the patients was there. She wasn’t, and I almost answered “いません”

What’s the difference between 幸せ [shiawase] and 嬉しい[ureshii]

Shimizu-sensei explained this to us once. 嬉しい is more of a reaction to some external event. It would make a good response to someone who just bought you a one year premium jpod subscription or in a similar situation. I guess it’s very similar in nuance to “glad” in English. 幸せ on the other hand is more of a general state of being happy/content. It’s more of an internal state than a reaction to some event. There’s a sense of it being longterm where 嬉しい is more short term. For example, I was 嬉しい when I graduated college, but I am 幸せ because I’m now a college graduate. Someone who got married would (hopefully) be 嬉しい when they said “I do”, but would be 幸せ that they get to spend the rest of their life with their love. 嬉しい is very “external” and fleeting, where 幸せ is much more “internal” and long term. Does that make any sense?

“But how many of you occasionally (albeit not intentionally) use a japanese word(s) when talking in your normal language?”

For me lately, I do have a problem adding -san everybody’s name. When I send out emails to my clients, I noticed that I use -san to everyone.
Also, I noticed that everybody from jppod talk like Peter-san. Or answering like him, Peter here, very very nice…..without further adieu, we are bringing it all together, really really good…aikawarazu.

Great to be around you guys,
Love you all.

PS. Thanks again Peter-san, you made my day. What a surprised!!!

みなの出身はどれですか？いろいろな訛りが聞いているから、「どこからの訛り？」と思っています。
特にちぐさやたけ。。。それにみなの名字は何ですか？

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はるよさん、初めまして、宜しくお願いします。

それども、たくさんがだれ？　どちらのメッセージか？

晴世さん、
すみません、お名前は不正確書きました。
晴世さんの名前の意味は英語でsunny worldですか。sunny lifeですか。それとも、意味は英語でspring nightですがsunny world書きますか。

アラン

About accidentally speaking in Japanese… Well, I can’t remember actually saying a word, but I always say “eeh?”…

It was quite funny to talk to some of the other listeners on skype the other day, seemed like they had picked up the habit as well!

Inadvertently using a japanese word while speaking English?

Masaka!

That’ll happen to me.

Inadvertently using a japanese word while speaking English?

YES! The first time back to the states after being in Japan for about a year, I used “Sumimasen” on a the information desk worker. That was just the beginning. Would pepper in un when a friend was speaking, and my parents got familiar with wakarani, as I would answer them with that word among others.
After my tenth time back-and-forth, I am pretty good at light-switching. But there are still times when the Japanese just sneaks in there.

I would like to know where Norikoさん and Sasaharaせんせい went. After a while we didn’t see them. Where are they? Will they come back?

Paulさん、

Takaseさん was on just the other day. And, I can verify that she’s there. I met at the office last Friday. I don’t know about the Member Introduction page, but she has been seen in photos on the blog page before.

Nagasaki Connection Rocks!

Looking at the kanji for Haruyo-san’s name has made me realise how many combinations there are. This site lists a huge number of combinations of kanji for each pronounciation, although it doesn’t give the meanings. I guess if you know the kanji, it is obvious. Still I have learned the valuable lesson of not trying to guess name kanji from pronounciation.
Girl’s Names

There doesn’t appear to be a matching list for boys names on that site, although there is a list of monster names (not boys names, I checked )

I guess half the fun with japanese names is finding out which meaning goes with them. With English names, if you know the pronounciation, then you know the name. I also read somewhere (forgot where) that japanese names are chosen so as to contain an auspicious stroke count.

You can guess I had the day off, with all the posts I’m making today

＞Lizさん
ピーターの写真ですか？お見せできる日がくるまで、たくさん撮っておきますね！

＞Alanさん
私はポートレートや、空の写真をとるのが好きです。
名前のいみは　たぶん　sunny world　であってるとおもいます。５月生まれなので日本のさわやかな春をイメージした　名前だとおもいます

＞Brodyさん
「ものすごい声」ですか？ありがとうございます。一生懸命しゃべってるので、よろしくおねがいします☆

＞Nateさん
楽しんでくれましたか？楽しみながら日本語を勉強しましょう。がんばってください♪

＞JackZonさん
オフィスに来てくれましたね！よろしくおねがいします！！

＞Beltonさん
コメントありがとうございます☆これからも登場すると思いますので、よろしくおねがいします

I love the passing comment that the meaning of ‘baka’ is different depending on context. that’s like saying Japan has a few islands. One of the most interesting things about Japanese is if you don’t pay close attention, you miss the whole thing!