..and should this lesson not be #30 ?

mikuji

Vicky-san,

There may be a slight delay between the time the lesson appears on our website and the time it is available for download on iTunes. In any event, I just checked and it’s available there now

- Eran

There are days when I think learning a language is unreasonable - it amazes me that we can learn to speak, write and read. Quantum Mechanics is a piece cake compared to learning a language.

mikuji-san,

Thanks for pointing out the mistake with the Lesson #. We have corrected it!

Eran

Finally I was able to download from iTunes.
Very long long long lesson to me.

I hadn’t looked at the Grammar Bank lately. Wow!! It’s amazing how much there is in there now!! What a lot of work it must have been. This will be truly useful.

Michael, quantum mechanics, yes. I know what you mean. I just keep reminding myself that even kids take years to learn and they’re highly motivated and surrounded by people who spend all their waking hours helping them to learn, and they have no fear of saying “runned” or just pointing and saying “cookie!” as long as someone can figure out what they mean.

Laura+Michaelさん、

I wouldn’t say Japanese is harder than quantum mechanics. Afterall, there are millions of kids in Japan who speak Japanese everyday, but you won’t see much kids anywhere who solve Schrödinger equations everyday.

Hello,

I’m very glad to be here again.
I had a connection problem coming from my ISP’s DNS server, and I couldn’t see japanesepod during 2 weeks at home.

I saw the great place japanesepod101 has taken in my life, and the progress I made in japanese since the beginning. I really missed you all.

I want to thank publicly Eran-san for his friendly and effective help to find the solution of my problem.

Alain-san, welcome back!! Yes, there have been some issues regarding this, but it is great to know that you’re back!
お帰りなさい！
And, yes, Tech guy is sugoi!

Be back with more comments in a bit.

Paul-san, I must have just missed you! This page has a pretty good write up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_titles

Be back to add a few things, and real life examples.

I really like the presentation of the intermediate lessons. I like that there is some English to help clear up translations and difficult points and I like that Peter is speaking Japanese again during the lessons. I think it is good to hear a non-native speaker as well.

Good, good work!

(P.S. Peter, I love how you translated Chigusa’s tears into English! Genius! (Mom, Dad, why?… classic.))

They’re not inferring too much.　　貸す means to lend.
But 貸してもらう means “can I receive the lending of something,” which sounds strange in English, so naturally we’d ask “can i borrow?”