Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! The tonari no hito series continues! Today Yoshi welcomes the tonari no hito into his small apaato while expecting the worst. After quickly apologizing, it seems that things are not quite as Yoshi expected. Tune in to find out what happens! Today’s grammar point discusses embedded questions, so don’t miss this one! Stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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11 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #138 - Turn of Events”
JapanesePod101.com says:
October 19th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Mina-san,
Today’s location is 土星の環・どせいのわ・Dosei no wa - hello to all of our listeners on Saturn’s rings! 
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!
Daniel Beck says:
October 19th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Are there no cities on Earth to give a shout out to? 
Max says:
October 20th, 2006 at 7:11 am
I noticed that the phrase “yoku wakarimasen” was used during the conversation. I thought when using negatives yoku always became anmari. Is this assumption incorrect?
maxiewawa says:
October 20th, 2006 at 11:31 am
前のポーストは上海のマックスじゃない。。。
まさかマックスが二人。。。 
ところで、今日の番組よく効いた。
(I don’t know if that last sentence was right. What i wanted to say was that ‘Today’s lesson was useful/effective.’)
(And since we’re all friends I left out the particles so that I could get that informal feel, don’t know if that was right)
Sindy says:
October 20th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
WOW nice page!
Hi Maxiwawa and welcome to the site! 
So you come from Chinesepod.com its good to see listeners from there! Hey Max is it you the one in the video if so your a handsome Chinese ehhh! 
Well I must say all Asians are cute! 
mina-san you may start thinking that I only look at the faces but that is what you see first when you see or meet someone so we all do it ok! 
Its ok Max and I agree with you it was a great lesson keep it up! S_R_C
Nathan says:
October 20th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Daniel-san,
We just try to focus on the places where the majority of our listeners are
Max-san,
Be aware that there is more than one yoku. The yoku you’re thinking of is an adverb of frequency meaning “often.” In this case, it would normally be used with the positive, and amari would be used with the negative to mean “not much.” Yoku is also an adverb meaning well, thoroughly, extremely, skillfully, etc. Yoku wakarimasen/yoku wakaranai is a phrase that you will hear often!
Alan says:
October 20th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
That comment about ‘yoku/amari’ versus ‘yoi+ku = yoku’ was useful to me too, because I was also thinking ‘often’ when I heard ‘yoku’
Nathan says:
October 20th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Alan-san and Max-san,
You might find this entry in the Yahoo dictionary helpful.
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?p=%E3%82%88%E3%81%8F&enc=UTF-8&stype=1&dtype=3
Hanspeter says:
October 20th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
I just wonder what happened or will happen to the shoe’s the neighbour was holding in her hands last week?
By the way there was no explanation how she got them; I fancie about some more strange japanese custom to leave your shoe’s after not really complaining about the visited persons bad behaviour to express what you really wanted to say. )
Hanspeter
Sindy says:
October 22nd, 2006 at 4:02 am
Hi Nathan-san and thanks for that Link and for posting!
Don’t listen to Daniel-san the cities that JP101 Rules shout out loud are great keep it up! S_R_C
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