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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today the trains of Tokyo are more crowded than ususal as congestion from a peculiar event has reduced personal space to the point it is subject for conversation. A hint about today’s lesson comes in the form of mushi, nakimushi, yowamushi, and a lot more mushi. Also in this lesson, we tackle transitive and intransitive Japanese verbs, a popular listener request, once again! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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31 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #149 - Creepy Crawly Tokyo Conference”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, today’s location is パンゲア・Pangea - hello to all of our listeners in Pangea!

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Yoshi says:

Hi Mina-san,

I just wanted to remind you that today is 漢字の日! (かんじのひ、Kanji no hi, The kanji day) and the character chosen for today is 命 (いのち、inochi, life)

Well, I didn’t know about it till now, but how wonderful it is that today is Kanji day! Let’s learn kanji and also take advantage to think about our 命・いのち.

I wanna say “Life is beautiful.”

Matane,
Yoshi

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maxiewawa says:

Happy ‘kanji no hi’ from the home of Kanji, the PRC!
“Sometimes I wake up on a beautiful day, and I just say ‘yatta’!”

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John C. Briggs says:

In the Vocabulary for the Romaji
“Tokyō”
should be
“Tōkyō”

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Liz says:

Yoshi-san,
Thanks for telling us about kanji no hi. :smile: I tried looking it up online and the only thing I could find out was that this day started to be celebrated in 1995. This year’s kanji (命)is certainly an interesting one. :grin:

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Rob says:

Wow, an entire year dedicated to one kanji? This is something new to me! Seems very interesting, too–I think I’ll look deeper into it!

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Vicky says:

Daniel B-san, I finally open the box today. Thank you so much for your Christmas gift. It was really thoughtful of you.

Thanks for everything!! You are the best of the best! :wink:

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Barbara says:

Lis-san,

I also could find little on kanji no hi, but here is a little on the choosing of each year’s kanji. I thought it interresting that 命
was considered in 2001.

http://www.kanjiclinic.com/kc16final.htm

John C-san,

I think you are auditioning for our new proofreader? You have a sharp eye- ganbatte ne!

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Alain says:

Today’s japan Times explains the choice of inochi kanji.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/

There is a photo of Kiyomizu drawing with the comment:
“The Chinese character of the year, “Inochi,” which means “life,” is unveiled Tuesday at Kiyomizu Temple here by Chief Priest Seihan Mori. The character was chosen because several student suicides and other incidents underscored the importance of human life, said the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, which organizes the annual event.”

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Alain says:

おもしろウェブサイトですね。

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John C. Briggs says:

Barbaraさん,
Well, sometimes it looks like they could use a little help with the fine details. I don’t mean to be critical. It is just nice when this stuff is right.
Thanks
John

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Mique says:

Last year, it was 愛(love)!
命 is too serious.

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Kevin says:

One bug you missed in the dialogue: お金食い虫: the money-eating bug.

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ヴィッキ says:

:cool:

John C. Briggs-san, your :cool: is working so far.

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John C. Briggs says:

ヴィッキちゃん、
   ひさしぶり です ね。 きょうは げんき ですか。
じゃ また
ジョン

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ヴィッキ says:

John C. Briggs-san! :wink:

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Daniel Beck says:

John C. Briggs-san, your :cool: is working so far.

Can I borrow those?

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John C. Briggs says:

Beckさん、
さいきん どう ですか?  げんきですか。
じゃ また
ジョン

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Lu-chan says:

Alain– wow. 面白い!あのヌースのARTICLEは面白い!有賀とございます!

happy Kanji day to everyone! I like the new Kanji of the year: 命。

and, to Peter-san, Natsuko-san and Yoshi-san: i really enjoyed the topic today. still trying to work out the “bugs” :wink: in understanding intransitive and transitive. :???: methinks I may have to brush on my english grammar. >.

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Kevin says:

A transitive verb, in both Japanese and English, is one that has a direct object, while an intransitive verb does not.

In the example:
虫を集める人が… “the people who collect insects”
集める has a direct object in the clause 虫を集める (i.e. 虫).

…人が東京ドームに集まる… “people gathering at the Tokyo Dome”
集まる has no direct object in this clause (people are just gathering, they are not gathering something)

In English it’s much harder to distinguish them because many verbs can be used in either way, although the meaning of the verb often changes between the transitive and intransitive case:

Transitive: I hurled the baseball at the batter’s head. :evil:

Intransitive: I hurled during English grammar class. :razz:

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Lesley says:

To all the other beginners out there:
I’m enjoying the Beginner series and won’t go pass lesson four until I get it down pat! I love Mina-zan voice as well as Peter-san. They are both very easy to listen to and I’m able to repeat what they say in Japanese. Today, I was able to say to both my larger English classes, “Are you busy? ” They all were thrilled for me! But I do have one question. The lesson regarding “he, she, they…” most of my Japanese friends here in Japan tell me they don’t use the “Kare-la” form to speak just to read and write. Should this be noted in a boardcast?
Thanks, An American living in Japan :smile:

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Sindy says:

Yoshi-san Thank you for telling us about 漢字の日!(かんじのひ、Kanji no hi, The kanji day)

Daniel-san :wink:

ヴィッキ :wink:

Now thinking about yesterday 2:00AM or 3:00AM was it a dream? or Vicky-san really said something to me I just saw the comment very dizzy and blind so I couldn’t read it well but anyway whatever it was thanks telling me ok! :wink: S_R_C

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nanaka says:

Watched animation “蟲師” (mushishi), and none of mushi-s mentioned in this lesson appearred in that animation. ^_^

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ルう says:

すみません、「何て言うんだっけ」ちょっとわかリませんですから、なんて=what/how、言う=to say,でも、「だっけ」と「ん」は何ですが。どうも ありがとう ございます。。。

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An anxious げんご学生 says:

A little feedback- the info in here was super interesting, but I think much more time on the transitive/intransitive thing would have been nice. How to remember which verbs are trans and which are intransitive when WE’RE speaking, i.e. when no particle is there in print or spoken by someone else to clue us in. I realize that there isn’t much of a pattern to the way the words appear so perhaps a dumb song would help?

I dunno, I just need some mneumonic devices here.

Also, you said you’d be doing a bunch of followups on this topic :)

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Mayumi says:

An anxious げんご学生-san,

We’ll talk about this topic in our Beginner S5 and Lower Intermediate lessons S5 which will be coming soon. Please look forward to those lessons! :wink:

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David says:

A mistake in the PDF table of transitive/intransitive verb pairs:
預ける is not an intransitive verb. It does take a direct object to mean “to entrust [object] to someone else”. 預かる/預ける is not a transitive/intransitive verb pair. They are simply two transitive verbs that happen to look similar and mean similar things.

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王凱 says:

今日は何でこんなに電車が混んでいるの。あ、そうだ。今日、東京ドウムがイワンとがある。何のイワント。なんだっけ。あの、虫集めること、思い出せない。虫集めるコト。そう、無視集める人が東京ドウムに集まるイワント。無視集める人が東京ドウムに集まる。何で言うんだっけ。わかるでしょう。ほら、あれ、あれ。昆虫採集でしょう。そうだ。すみません。ありがとうございます。

また、明日。

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