Great lesson - Nagasaki Connection rocks! Need to make sure I’m not eating while listening to lessons featuring them though.

Yeah, I think we’re better off not knowing.

Jasonさん、その気持ちがよくわかります。

I long to see The Rock’s eyebrow move up and down while I’m in his arms,

はっ？い、いや。やはり知りたくもない。。。

I’m gonna try to add to Naz-san’s comment about “Agatte kudasai.” It really means please come up. Very polite. And you can take it as please come in. I think lots of the traditional Japanese houses, hotels (旅館　Ryokan) and buildings had the floor higher than the entrance. You take off your shoes there and step up into the house. You can keep the house cleaner that way. The dirt don’t get in much because of the floor level. And we still have the entrances made that way even the hight is not as high as before. So “Agatte kudasai” came from that, I think, and we still say it as please come in. And you can also say “Douzo Oagari kudasai” to make it even more polite than “Agatte kudasai.”

上がって下さい。（Agatte kudasai.)
どうぞお上がり下さい。（Oagari kudasai.)

It’s kinda funny to see both chinese characters “up” and “down” in one sentence. Alright, I hope it helped.

I long to see The Rock’s eyebrow move up and down while I’m in his arms,
Yoshi

Kanji (ロックの腕の中で彼の眉毛が上下に動くのを見る事を熱望する。）
Kana (ロックのうでのなかでかれのまゆげがじょうげにうごくのをみることをねつぼうする。)

Nateさん、it is our pleasure. We want to show the world how fun and interesting Japanese can be!

Danielさん、nice to know Takase has you on her side.

Lizさん、yeah, my favorite parts too. Yoshi is too funny. Thanks for the story about Japanese visitor!

The lesson came in handy today, since I had a Japanese visitor to my house. I greeted him at the door with, “Douzo. O hairi kudasai.” Thanks for being so relevant and useful!

Peterさん、

What do you mean when you agreed that Takaseさん wasn’t wanted in the studio?

Yoshiさん、

Good job in slipping that Nagasaki-ben into the lesson! Keep it up!

Haven’t told you and your group how much I appreciate all that you do to bring us this great language. I have to admit to being distreacted by other things recently, but I am doing my best to keep up with you all (sorry, the Texan in me just came out).

Anyway, arigatou gozaimasu so much for everything.

ネイト

Actually, I’m posting to let everyone know I got the JLPT paperwork … In the space for “jap language institution you belong to” I’m going to put JAPANESEPOD101.COM
So, now you better make me study enough to pass
Is there anybody else for Rome, Italy?

Nazさん、so far I haven’t been greeted with that expression, so maybe I’m hanging around with the wrong crowd. Very nice expression! One of the expressions coming up in House Visit II.

I’d like to add something. I was told that if you want to invite your guest in you can also say Agattekudasai, but that’s really polite.