#1 yeah!!!

Weekend!! I’m off for ten days!!!!!!
Bye all

Michael D. Cassidy-san, I’m off 10 days too. Where are you going??? Don’t tell me you are going where I’m going…

みんなさん
　　　Perhaps someone can help me with this from the lesson.
沢山必要ってわかっていて。
たくさんひつようってわかっていて。
What is the meaning of the って after the 必要。
Thanks
John C. Briggs

What is the meaning of the って after the 必要。

It’s (very) short for というXは. What exactly X is depends on the context, and is often ommited like in that sentence. But in general it always literally means “things like X…/something like X…” It gives a good bit of emphasis to the subject than a simple は or が would. Here X would be こと. So the long version would be たくさん必要ということはわかっていて. So litterally, “I know that as to something like that a lot is needed.” But a better translation would probably be simply “I know *that* a lot is needed.” Some more examples:

-お前ってやつは。。。 “Someone like you is…” [expression of frustration or anger. Here X is explicitly stated]
-私ってバカ？ [quote courtesy of Chihiro from Azuamanga Daioh. X is implied here]

In colloquial speech, the と that’s used as a quote marker and the one in という often gets replaced with って.

Does that make any sense? というXは is a bit difficult to explain since its exact nuance changes depending on the situation.

Take Take Take…blah blah blah…

Miqueさん、ようこそいらっしゃいました。こちらこそよろしくお願いいたします。^_^

親切なお言葉を、ありがとうございました。自分の言語のことでも知らないことがあるのはそんなに珍しくないと思います。いつも使っていますから、文法のこととかあまり考えないで使えますよね。つまり、あまり考える必要はありません。普段、卒業の後学校の時に言語のクラスで覚えたことをほとんど忘れます。アメリカでも同じです。ですが、外国語を勉強するために、そのことを知る必要です。ですから、多分しばらく前から英語を勉強している日本人は私より英語の文法が詳しいかもしれません。

Forgive an ingorant question, but I’m new to podcasts…:???:
I want to catch up with what’s going on, so I plan to listen to Intermediate lessons 1-27 on my iPod when I have time.

I can download 1-20 on the download page.
Starting with 28, I get it through iTunes as a podcast.

Is it possible to get 21-27? I know I can listen to them on the site, but it’s more convenient to have them on my iPod. Do I just have to wait until they’re made available as torrents?

Thanks for any help!

Alan-san, love to read your comments. Of cause I like to read every other ones but lately, it’s good read something like yours. Very very good!!!
Just want to say Thank you and Hi Alan-san!!!

Jason,
Thank you for your kind and detailed explanation. I understand this now.
ありがとう　ございましあた。
ジョン

@Peterさん

Thanks for the concern. I got them all now.

りょうほう両親がその事故に死んだったそれがほんとに悲しいことだし。
ほんとにふしぎなことに二人が東京で出会った。
大丈夫かなさとこさんは。
ええと、、どうしてさとこがこの大事なことを前に知らなかったかなあー。
ドラマだからかも。

Ok thats fair but then how do you say both peoples parents. As i don’t mean only one set of parents or is this already inferred in the sentence?

Thanks Daniel I’ll have to remember that.

1. Yeah. There’s a bit more empahsis on the situation that happened first. Since 〜たら expresses a cause and effect relationship, there’s a very direct connection between the first clause and the next. In English, “when” is probably the closest in meaning. “When I entered the cafeteria…”

2. This is really just a simple statement of time. It doesn’t really empahsize either part. I guess because of that actually, it doesn’t “steal” any of the attenion from the next clause. So it indirectly adds a very slight emphasis to the next clause. Or rather it allows the next clause be more of the focus of the sentence. “After I entered the cafeteria…”

3. てから is used to express from what point in time some action or state started and *continues or continued over a period of time.* For example, you wouldn’t say, 食堂に入ってから、ご飯を食べた. In English it’s similar to “since” or “ever since.”

大学院に入ってから、すごく忙しくなった。

While this literally says “since I entered graduate school, I became very busy”, it implies that the 2nd clause is still true. So what this sentence really means is “Ever since I entered grad school, I’ve been very busy (and still am).”

Graphically:

1. When X->Y
2. After X, Y.
3. Since X, |———-Y———-|

[Out of topic]

I think it would be nice for the people arriving at jpod101 (especially for total beginners) to find all the Pdf lessons with the same design, to have an uniform presentation and also to save ink.

Lessons 9,10, 23 to 40, 43, 44, 45, 49 are yet with the old design, as also old intermediate lessons.

New lessons are perfect, but think of the total newbie who discovers japanese and jpod101: he will look at first at these first lessons, not at the 115th where he doesn’t understand anything..

The first lessons are actually your portal, not old things to forget.

ズベルさん！ようこそ！
You made it to the message board! こちらこそ宜しくお願いします！

Alainさん、you’re 100% correct! It is #1 on our to do list. We’re hoping to standardize things by next few weeks, as we have something big in store for iPod users.

Minnasan

I have listed some useful expression extracted from this lesson so you can enjoy explanations when given in Japanese.

Please refer to the forum All about Japanese for the post.

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu

mikuji