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Crazy kids trying to beat JP101.

Have a great day!

Romaji and translation on itunes Podcastinformation are! back
どうも有り難うございます 【どもうありがとうございます】
Hanspeter

Hanspeter-san / Joao-san,

Apologies about the missing Romaji and Translation in iTunes for the last few lessons. We ran into a technical snag and had to add them after the podcasts were already published (if you already updated the podcast in iTunes you will not see them unless you unsubscribe and subscribe back to our podcast). This issue is now resolved and again sorry for the inconvenience!

Regards,

Eran

Eran-san.

Actually, there is nothing to complain about.

JP101 is the best!!!! Really, I miss those transcripts, but this no problem @ all.
You guys rock!!!!

どうも有り難うございます

Vicky-san,

Turkmenistan is in Central Asia. I didn’t know where it was either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan

Hello Mina-san,

I noticed that quite a bit of people are behind the lessons. And, lots of people went back to review the old lessons. I’m one of them.
But instead of just checking the old lessons, have you guys went back to check old comment section? There are quite abit of new people leave the messages and asked the questions but not many people got the answers back.

Only jppod staff was repsoding abit. We should go back old comments once in a while and reviews all the memories back then. And, also welcome new memebers out there so that they can keep up with us instead of being left out.

It was good to see and read our host Peter-san’s a long long long message.

Shouldn’t it be ‘kikerimasuka’ for ‘can you hear?

Whoops I mean’t to use the happy evil smiley rather than the grumpy one

Just for fun I typed 聞かれる　(passive of kiku) into google and got over 6 million hits. I then typed 聞こえる and got only about 27,000 hits. So the passive form of 聞く seems more widely used than 聞こえる.

Is there a difference between these two in meaning?

I’m not sure either, but I thought it sounded a bit like
恋言うふん老い言うはね。女んかかあで
which I thought could be:
You say ‘love’ - Humbug, Say ‘getting old’. (get a) young woman for a wife.

However, on a confidence of being anywhere near right scale, this rates about 10% as

That’s why I asked for a transcript of this sentence.
Troy, I’m glad not to be alone. I had some doubts about my japanese skills.

Troy-san, the last line is:
Celeb: I have lots of fan like this! John, (the name of her dog) get him! (kakare)

Thank you for pointing out the romaji and missing line-by-line. The problems have been rectified.

Simone-san, is there something missing from the PDF?

Very good cover of the potential form of Class I verbs, plus very amusing dialogue! Poor guy!

And speaking about the zoo lesson, I love the song what
Yoshiさん and Sakuraさん interpret in the bonus track, すごい！

Keep going, Thanks for the hard work!

Thanks for the transcript of the last line. I was Sooooo wrong

Minasan, Ohayou gozaimasu.
I’ve come back after a week’s absence.

Alan-san,
聞こえる and 聞く are different verbs because they have their own conjugation respectively.
聞こえる; 聞こえない・聞こえて・聞こえれば・・・
聞く;聞かない・聞いて・聞けば・・

So the passive form of 聞く is 聞かれる .
聞こえる has the meaning of passive and potential in itself. It’s very confusing to explain their differences in detal.
I can just show you some expamples, how to use those two verbs.

私にはその音が聞こえる。 (I can hear the sound.)
虫の声が聞こえる。 (The sound of bugs can be heard.)
その音が聞かれる。 (The sound is heard.)
私たちの話が聞かれる。(Our chat is heard.)

I have a question for the Japanese English speakers. How hard was it to learn the “beatlessness” and “uncrispness” of English. Compared to Japanese we seem to slur sounds together, and as a result we have very uneven pacing. It’s difficult not to make dipthongs when speaking Japanese - “ne” vs “nay” etc (though listening to Natsuko makes it much easier), but it must be even harder the other way around. Or is that one of the easier parts of learning English? What was most difficult? I’m getting really curious.