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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today’s lesson gives you a lot of potential! That is, it completes the introduction of the potential form for all Japanese verb classes by covering the potential form of the irregular Class III verb kuru. Today’s conversation takes place between a superior and his subordinate, showcasing the aspect of multiple politeness levels in the same Japanese conversation. Stop by JapanesePod101.com after tuning in, and be sure to leave us a post!



This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 at 10:17 pm and is filed under Beginner Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

43 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #130 - Change of Plans”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, today’s location is ノバスコシア・Noba Sukoshia! Hello to all our listeners in Nova Scotia!

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Bertin says:

Peterさん。

I`m new here at japanesepod101.com, i`m at Beginner lesson 28 right now. But what i wanna ask is about music. I have a Punk-Rock band for over 3 years now, I love music from rock to hardcore. I would like to know some of japanese`s bands. Some punk-rock bands as Sum 41, NOFX, Greenday, Rancid. It would be nice to learn some japanese listening to music…

thanks in advace.
ありがとう おねがい します。

じゃね。

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Jason says:

Check out the pillows.

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Sølvi says:

Bertin-san, you should check out a band called Electric Eel Shock. Especially their videos.

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Jean-Michel says:

Hi everybody !
Aren’t the posts to this list supposed to be “comments” on today’s lesson? :wink:

More seriously, being still somewhere around beginner lesson 60, I find it frustrating, when I consult the comment sections from some months ago, to find so many posts that have nothing to do with the subject of the lesson.
As there will be probably more and more people like me joining the community throughout the year, I think something should be done to keep the two threads separate. Is it not what the forums are supposed to be for: informal day-to-day discussions on all kinds of topics? Having the chat take place on the forums would help reducing the clutter in the “comments” and make them much more user friendly to late comers.

I have already made this suggestion some time ago but got no feedback. I understand that early members are now used to this way of doing but I it might be worthwhile at least to give it a thought.

Having one forum especially devoted to discussions of past lessons might also be a good idea if the number of participants was large enough.

Just my point of view, but I would be interested to know what you guys think about this.

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Michael D. Cassidy says:

I agree Jean-Michel; however, separting out the chatter is hard to do and keep a sense of community.

If its a bit difficult now it will be VERY difficult in 2-3 years; and even more difficult for Peter and company to monitor how new students are doing in th eeraly lessons.

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Joao Paulo says:

みなさん、こんいちは!!

今日のかいわはあいかわらずすごくたのしいです。

Jean-Michel-san - よろしくおねがいします。
Welcome to JP101. About your comment, I believe comments could be intended for both comments about the lesson and other personal issues.

I recently discovered the comments, even though I’ve been following the podcast for some time and I found it great the way communication flows in here. Separating things would break the flow of conversation, in my point of view.

Bertin-san - お元気ですか。
De que cidade vc tc???
Abraços

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Daniel Beck says:

Nobasudoshia? Where is that? Hahahaha. :lol:

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Liz21 says:

Jean-Michel-san,
I appreciate your comment, but I disagree because I have found many comments that deal directly with the lesson. People have asked interesting questions about many of the lessons. And, people often have interesting suggestions. For example, Bertin has an interesting idea for the podcast (about using the lyrics of music as one way of learning Japanese) and people can comment on his suggestion. It’s more immediate than a forum.

As for me, “meeting” members of the community for language exchanges on audio chats on Skype, etc. has been a very enriching experience and it’s been made possible by the free-flowing comments. :smile:

We have had this discussion before. Some people say, just scroll past the comments that don’t interest you. :smile: Don’t you think that would work?

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Bertin says:

Jason-san & Solvi-san
arigatou onegai shimasu.

I looked for the bands the pillows is not quite my kind of music but the Electric Eel Shock called my attention even not beeing in japanese.

Joao Paulo,
Sou de Joinville-SC, vc eh de onde?
Qualquer coisa se quiser manter contato soh clica no meu nick
e dexa um e-mail ou algo na pagina da minha banda..
Seria bom ter alguem pra me ajudar a praticar o japones.
Blza.

Jane.

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Hugo says:

Bertin-san idea of use the songs for learning japanese is great, for example the animes songs. :cool:
I agree with Liz-san about the comments issue :smile:
Greetings to all! :mrgreen:

Thanks for the hard work to all! :grin:

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Joao Paulo says:

Bertin-san

日本語をべんきょうしよう!!!

ぼくは São Paulo しゅっしんけど、いま ぼくは Piracicaba にだよ。

これも Estado de São Paulo にある。

Santa Catarina は さいこう だよ!!!

Espero ter consigo me expressar bem em japonês… hehehe

Eu moro em Piracicaba, perto de Campinas, conhece???

Vou deixar um contato no seu blog, blz???

T+ :cool:

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John C. Briggs says:

Jean-Michel,
Thank you for your post. You are not the only one that feels there is too much chit-chat in the comments.

Generally, I agree with you, but I think it tends to offend people when you try to restrict what they have to say. So, on balance, I think the current usage is OK.
I think the challenge for people who would like more lesson (or even Japanese) related comments is to make these posts ourselves. Personally, I have had excellent responses when I have listed lesson specific comments.

The other problem mentioned here I think is more serious. The comments section seems to be ineffective for the older lessons. Peterさん and company cannot possibly check the comments on 200+ lessons every day to see if there has been a question posted. Perhaps there needs to be a way to see the lessons that only shows lessons with new comments.
Personally, I spend a lot of time on old lessons, so it would be fun for me to see more activity there.
じゃ また
ジョン

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Vicky says:

ummm…Portuguese??? :shock: Don’t tell me this is Spanish, then I forgot whole Spanish… :cry:

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Joao Paulo says:

Vicky-san

スペイン語はなしますか。
ぼくはブラジルじんですけど、スペイン語もはなします。

Feel free to write me in Spanish if you want to practice some. You could also do so with Fernanda-san. Right, Fernanda-san????

¡Hasta la próxima!

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Joao Paulo says:

Vicky-san

Btw, how did you recognize it was Portuguese???

Most people make confusion about Port. and Spanish because they are very similar languages. Have you studied any b4???

Cya

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Jason says:

The best way to get an answer to a question on an older lesson is to make a post about it in the forum.

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Vicky says:

Well I live in El Paso, TX, and it’s Mexician environment. So I would say I know abit of Spanish. Yes I studied Spanish before. And your comments, it looks Spanish but I didn’t get much so I figured it’s other language if I didn’t forget Spanish.

Since I started to study Japanese, I got all messed up my language knowleage and none of them right. :shock:

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Vicky says:

About the comments, I would say you can write here about old lessons. We don’t mind go over to check old lessons or some of them are know the answers already.

I think the comments section is the fun/good part of jppod. We could get information and also we could meet some new people out there who is interesting in Japanese.

Everybody has different taste that we can’t please everyone. But we are all grown up, so we should know how to arrange certin things. I personally don’t like to read a long long long essay type comment, and only Japanese comments. But hey, I never said anything or I didn’t mind at all. That doesn’t mean I loved it. But guys, please feel free to do so!!!

We are all Jppodzoku (hope this is right Belton-san) who love to be here and be part of jppod community.

So just enjoy!!!

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Max says:

I guess you have to get better at speed reading to use the comments section!
I think the ‘get to know you’ posts encourage people to try to tap out a few words in Japanese, which is the whole idea behind the site. But I do agree sometimes it’s too much.
On a similarly unrelated tangent, check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNyxcrVjWco
The Pythagoras Itch
Terrible name, fantastic show, and it even has English subtitles! :mrgreen:

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Eran says:

Mina-san,

I’d like to chime in on the comment discussion. Particularly on the issue regarding comments posted for older lessons. One very simple way to keep track of all new comment posted on JapanesePod101.com (for all lessons) is to subscribe to the comments feed (RSS 2.0) using your favorite RSS reader. The comment feed can be found on the footer of each page on our site. Here’s the direct link to it:

http://www.japanesepod101.com/comments/feed/

I encourage everyone to subscribe to the comments feed and to post responses on old lessons as well. With the community being such an important part of what we do, it is vital that we make everyone (new or old) feel like they are part of it!

Eran

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Jean-Michel says:

Hi, みんなさん
This time, I’ve got a lot of feedback :razz:
Well, I hope I did not look like I have something against people chatting on JapanesePod. I love the friendly atmosphere there, though I do not feel fluent enough in English to easily take part in this kind of informal exchange.
My point was just opposite : I would be happy to join but I am reluctant to post questions on lesson 60 in the “comments” to #130: anybody reading it later will find it useless and confusing.
I think the best suggestion on that is probably Eran’s: the RSS should make it possible to keep the discussions on older lessons going… so let’s all subscribe — at least I am going to do so! Thanks Eran, and everybody out there

Jean-Michel

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Jean-Michel says:

Just one more point : I think one good reason why lesson-specific questions should be posted to the lesson they belong to rather than to the current day’s “comments” section is that otherwise, there will be no simple way for people coming later to find it at the time they are studying. Again, the RSS idea looks great.

Sorry, Liz-san if I seem to be coming back to a discussion you already had before : this is just my point : I simply do not know where to find it :sad: !

Jean-Michel

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Vicky says:

Jean-Michel-san don’t worry. No sad face, just let us know if you need some help or question. You can post anywhere you want, there is somebody will find you and give you an answer.

That’s jppod. :wink:

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Sølvi says:

Wohoo! I just subscribed to the RSS feed, and what a great experience! It’s so fun to see the old comments sections being brought back to life by new people! I definetely recommend it.

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Liz21 says:

Help! I must be “technically challenged”! :shock: Can you explain to me, in more detail, how to subscribe to RSS feed? I seem to be clueless! :shock:

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Sølvi says:

Personally, I use this program: http://www.rssowl.org/

You can find a link to the feed in the bottom of this site, the one called Comments is the one I’m talking about, but there are feeds for other things as well (the forums, for example). You just right-click on the link, copy it, and paste it in the program (”new favorite”)

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Liz21 says:

Sølvi-san,
どうも!

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Alain says:

Yes, I also didn’t knew anything about RSS. For me it meaned “Réseau Santé Social”, a french medical intranet and secured mail provider.
I tried Feedreader, and could easily read questions on old lessons! If we’re going there, we can really answer to newbies and welcome them!

But my feedreader brings me on this japanesepod normal pages to write comments. Is this normal?

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Sølvi says:

Yeah, I think it’s normal. At least that’s how it works for me too. I must admit I only started using RSS today, so I’m not the most experienced user.

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Yoshi says:

Everyone,

Discuss!!!!!!! :twisted:

Matane,
Yoshi :wink:

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Jean-Michel says:

It is also possible to subscribe a RSS flux directly in some browsers. At least I am doing this now on my Macintosh using Safari… Works great!

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Sindy from Brooklyn says:

Jean-Michael quiet down personal comments and relative lesson comments aren’t going anywhere ok just like Jason-san say for the forums ok! :mrgreen:

:shock: Did someone say Mexico and Spanish yes Texas was Mexican before but the USA took it away from us not we want it back :lol: not just Texas, but all the others states California, Arizona, New Mexico, etc I am bilingual I speak English and Spanish 100% so now I’m going to my third language Japanese then after that I’ll study Chinese so Chinese Pod wait for me I’ll be with you in the future! :wink:

:cool: ohhh my god to many new and old listeners now I wonder what we (JP101) are going to do? S_R_C

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Max says:

How about a lesson about moving house? :mrgreen:

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Bertin says:

I loved this RSS program…
Now I feel confident that I’ll receive an anwers At the the lessons that I am right now….
This is awesome. I just search for the words I need and there they are.. totemo sugoi.

And Max-san, Really great your youtube.com link…
Thank you all.
Ja ne.

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Jean-Michel says:

For those interested, the program PAdict has a nice function giving the order of strokes for a large number of Kanji . Free download from:
http://padict.sourceforge.net/
This is only for the folks using a PDA…

The associated data base can be found at:
http://taka.sourceforge.net/current/

Enjoy!

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Jean-Michel says:

Eran,

It seems to me that the link to the RSS feed for the lessons comments is not in the RSS list at the bottom right part of the Japanesepod home page (nor anywhere else I could think of). If I am right, it might be worthwhile to add it. In my opinion, this isone of the most valuable tools to help newbies become part of the active community.

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Sølvi says:

“Comments (RSS 2.0)”

It’s in the bottom right :)

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Sindy-san says:

Thanks for the information Solvi-san! :wink: Scandinavian connection love it! :mrgreen: S_R_C

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worried says:

The mp3 link is not working (404?) :(

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Eran says:

This issue should be resolved. Please let us know if you continue to receive 404 errors. - Eran

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Jonathan says:

Um, the link seems to be broken again… :sad:

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王凱 says:

会議は二時からだよね。いいえ、中止になりました。私は何も聞いてないぞ。川本さんは来られません。来られない。分かった。何で。そこまで、ちょっとわかりませんが。川本さんに連絡して、日程を変更して。はい、分かりました。

また、明日後の日。

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