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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today we bring you a very colorful dialogue! Chigusa and Yoshi get to reminisce as they are both once again shogakusei, or grade school students. Arts and crafts has just ended and it’s time for okatazuke, or cleanup, which means rounding up the art supplies. Tune in to add some color to your vocabulary! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!



This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 9:11 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.

15 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #140 - Colorful Cleanup”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, Today’s location is ユリーカ・Yurīka - hello to all of our listeners in Eureka, California :grin: Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

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Nathan says:

Mina-san,

Here is an interesting site with a lot more colors! It also has description/explanation for many of them! It is in Japanese, but I hope all of you can find it useful :mrgreen:

http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~sakamaki/dentouiro.html

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Liz21 says:

Nathan-san,
What a beautiful page! I want to explore it more . . . .
Safari User Tip: I had to switch to Japanese (Shift JIS) in my preferences for “font” to see the Japanese text.

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Nathan says:

Liz-san,

I’m glad you found it useful! And thank you for the Mac user tip, which some PC users may also have to use (set Encoding to Shift_JIS if you are having problems seeing the Japanese!) :grin:

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Daniel Beck says:

Eureka? What is this? A tour of rural Northern California where they don’t even have electricity, let alone the internet? :wink: Let’s see, tomorrow must be Shasta.

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Sindy says:

:wink: Nathan-san great website but guess what? I still can’t see the Japanese and I follow your orders now what should I do? :wink:

:mrgreen: My favorite colors most are:

Black黒, Red赤い, Blue青い,Grey灰色, White白い, Green緑, Purple紫色, Yellow黄色,Orangeオレンジ, Gold金, Brown茶色, etc

:twisted: I like all the colors EXCEPT PINK ピンク yeah I know I’m the only weird and different girl from the rest on this earth! but like I say before I don’t follow everybody’s choice even if it means have the whole Universe against me period! :lol: S_R_C

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Joakim Andersson says:

Then I must say I am the only weird and different boy that likes pink :cool:

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Daniel Beck says:

Great. Another ranking list. :roll:

Oh, I forgot to mention earlier:
Chigusaさん、
Around here, we add “ーさんとか、ー様とか、ーちゃんなど。。。 :wink: Please be kind to Our Peterちゃん™. よろしくおねがいします! :grin:

Peterさん、

What does it take to get a reply? :wink:

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NickT says:

Another good lesson - an interesting way of covering lots of colours in one short conversation. I think I knew all the ones in the dialogue, but there were several in the PDF I’ve not seen before.

Sindyさん - If you are using internet explorer, try clicking on view -> encoding and selecting “Japanese (auto-select).

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Alan says:

There were a fair number of colours in the pdf that I didn’t know 水色 for instance, although this will be easy to remember. 茜色 is new to me as well. I like the rikaichan provided meaning ‘madder red’. The first kanji means ‘madder’. So is this the colour you go when you get angry?

藤色 has the kanji for wisteria. My father has one growing over his garage, and it is indeed a lilac colour. I suppose that wisteria are more common than lilacs in japan, so the colour is named after the local plant :)

藍色 Rikaichan comes up with ‘indigo’ for the first Kanji and ‘indigo-blue’ when 色 is added to the end. I can’t think of anything memorable for this one.

I liked the prefix and suffix stuff. Can you use -ppoi with things other than colours?

My favourite color is 緑, but I’m also very fond of 茶色、赤とピンク。 :cool:

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Bob1 says:

Here are a few color-related stories this conversation reminded me of.

1) Although it sound apocryphal, a friend of mine actually tried to complement a woman on her colorful dress, and thought that he had heard the word somewhere for “colorful”. Those of you who know Japanese can smell this one coming . . . “Iroppoi fuku wa sutteki desu ne.” Embarrassed twitters all around. Correct translation: “Your sexy dress is really nice.”

2) An Irish friend of mine is named Ruairi. In Japan it is not uncommon to name girls after colors such as Midori and Momo. So when he and his Japanese wife had a daughter, they named her るりこ (るり子), which translated directly would be “Azure-child”. The “Ruri” comes from “瑠璃”,
which is the gemstone lapis lazuli that renaissance artists (who could afford it) crushed up and used as the bright blue pigment in their paintings. Bottom line: now Ruairi and his daughter’s name are pronounced the same, except for the “ko” at the end of her name.

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Tintinium says:

Pop Quiz… What color means GO! on a traffic stop light!
青 of course!

It’s interesting that 緑is one of the noun-adjectives, while most of the colors are verbal-adjectives (-i adjectives)

There are many theories as to why Japanese people call traffic lights blue… but actually, it’s all about perspective. After all… green is really just a yellowy blue, anyway. the Japanese word for 青 encompasses greens as well.

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mikuji says:

そのコッメントを遅く送くってにごめんなさい。

子供に話しているの時の敬称の」お」を加えることについて、説明を提案したいんです。日本で世界の物と大人の物を尊敬は大事ですから敬称の」お」を使うことはその尊敬が子供に見せると思います。大人の時はそんな強意強調は必要がありません。

その説明はどうと思いますか?

ミクジ

PS: did you understand my Japanese? If not can you tell me where I got it wrong?

I meant to say that the reason the honorific prefix is used for children is to instil respect for the world and for things adults believe are worthy of respect.

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Lulu-chan says:

このかいえは丁かわいいね。^_____^ :razz:
大好きですよ。色についべんきょなりました。

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王凱 says:

皆さん、お片付けの時間ですよ。お片付け嫌い。
色鉛筆の箱は何処?ここだよ。色鉛筆は、ここにあるよ。灰色、白、黒、茶色、桃色、オレンジがあるよ。ここにもあるよ。青、赤、黄色、黄緑、緑、水色、紫がある。
ここで全部。

また、明日。

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