First!

How many lessons do you have to finish so you can be intermediate?

Sd-san

You don’t have to wait, go and try it out now! The only criterion is whether you are able to understand the lesson, or say 60% to 80% of it.

However, there is a gap between the 2 levels and I think it has to do with the need to build up the kind of expressions we need to talk about language, which is, by nature, a more abstract subject that asking for the ‘nearest restaurant’.

I am still thinking about what help I really need - will let you know as soon as I can pinpoint what I currently find is missing in what we have been given at Basic level and we need at Intermediate level…

Best wishes

mikuji

What happened to JapanesePod101さん？

遅くない？

Belton-san,

Not seeing the same issue here. iTunes downloaded the latest episode right away for me. Perhaps a temporary hicup. Shoot me an email at support@japanesepod101.com or Skype me if the issue persists.

Thanks,

Eran

Mina-san, today’s location is ボイシ・Boishi! Hello to all of our listeners in the USA.
Things on itunes seem to be alright now. Anyone still having trouble? If so, can you include your location.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

Mikuji-san
Yours is one of the best posts I have read in this section since who knows how long. There are so many gaps between levels (I even wonder if we have a real intermediate level) that your task is going to be too hard but, go ahead, please. I will read whatever you have to say about it

JapanesePOD101さん、
　　　 Are there supposed to be sounds in the MP3 file for
足音がする and 携帯を切る? I was a little lost during the conversation and perhaps these sounds would have helped.
じゃ　また
ジョン

Omoshiroi!
I really liked the conversation. It’s something that’s more likely to happen with relations between siblings.
I guess I need to get used to the switching from informal to formal. What I imagined was Takase-san was walking away and saying, “Ja, shitsurei shimasu,” trying to leave the room like she did something instead of hanging up the phone. (Did that make sense?)
Now, what will happen with the brothers? Soon maybe a family conversation in the future? That will be fun!

In the past, I have seen boyfriend as かれ。 But here, it is shown as かれし.
Does かれ mean boyfriend? and how often is it used compared to かれし？

　　　In a related question, if かのじょ　can me both “she” and “girlfiend” isn’t have very confusing?
じゃ　また
ジョン

Mikuji-san
Don´t worry about not being able to produce Japanese. You need interaction in order to do so but this method (let me use this word for jpod) doesn´t allow that. Try to look for a Japanese language exchange and he/she will provide what you need in exchange for what he/she needs to learn your language. Jpod has many good points but you can´t expect everything from it and you should think about moving outside if you are a serious learner of this language. I have had your “precision anxiety” (up to a point I still have it) and it works wonderfully as an stimulus to learn and study harder but don´t let her control you. This is a very hard (but wonderful) language and you can´t never forget that or frustration will come soon (this at least has been my experience)

Takaseさん！

You rock!

Finally, the Nagasaki Connection was on the same lesson. But, it doesn’t seem they were in the studio at the same time. When will we have lesson two of Nagasaki-ben?

I didn’t get that the いもうとさん was talking to her 姉ちゃんの彼氏 when she said 失礼します during the first reading of the dialog. It seemed to me that she was saying that to her sister.

Peterちゃん、

What happened to the translations for 「あれ」 and 「ちょっと！」?

Oh, and what was up with the English mini-lesson for Japanese speakers? Are you trying to move in on my territory?

In the past, I have seen boyfriend as かれ。 But here, it is shown as かれし.
Does かれ mean boyfriend? and how often is it used compared to かれし？

彼 can mean boyfriend. Personally I’ve heard 彼氏 more often, though.

In a related question, if かのじょ　can me both “she” and “girlfiend” isn’t have very confusing?

No, not really. The context should make it very clear which it’s being used as. Also, if it’s prefixed with [誰か]の彼女, then it definitely means “girlfriend.”

Minasan, こんにちは。
Today I’d like to tell you about the origin of 彼.
彼(kare)　comes from 彼の(kano) which means “that” in Old Japanese. Even now we say very politely ,「この方はかの有名な科学者であられます」 (”This person is THAT famous scientist.”)
So 彼氏 is originally “that man”, and 彼女 “that woman”.
And 彼 is a short form of 彼氏.
I’ve showed you only where they had been derived from.

In the same way, 彼方(kanata) which means “far away” means “that way” literally.

ピーターさん、ヨシさんとチグサさんのことですが。昨日あなたの彼女と彼の彼女と彼女の彼と僕の彼女とが彼らについて「彼と彼女は仲が良すぎる」って話していたらしいですよ。
Now, can you find who’s who?

Briggs-san,

Thank you again - it has been fixed!

Mina-san,

Apologies for the email notification that went out minutes ago for a test post we created (and deleted). We inadvertently forgot to turn the notifications off prior to posting.

Eran

Eran-san,
Are you testing for the videos we sent in?

Hi!
Just popping in to say hi - we still haven’t got Internet in the new apartment, and needless to say there are very few computers around here with Japanese support… I hope I don’t have to wait too long to join you “for real” again! But - these weeks (hopefully, if not months) without Internet at home give me the push I need to go back and review previous lessons, and that can’t be bad In the meantime - take care!

Whoops I got 彼の wrong I enjoyed the challenge.

Peter:

“We’re still waiting on your video!”

　まさか！結婚していますよ！
(at least until I go around making publicly podcast passes at beutiful young JPod lasses)

I started learning Japanese about a year ago. I even registered in a class to learn the proper way of speaking it instead of just memorizing phrases, however, during the course of my studies I still needed some help since I don’t converse in Japanese on a daily basis. I discovered Japanese pod and start listening to it to help me with my vocabularies and sentence structures.

The podcast would have been a great way of learning the language (at least for me), however, Peter (I think that’s his name) chit chat is quite annoying. The Chinese pod is mores straightforward, goes right into the lessons and the repetitions and explanation helps a lot.

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