Nice lesson. So when do we begin learning differentiation and integration?

Seven??
Shouldn’t this be Newbie Five?????

I just wanted to be the first to say はじめまして。ゆろしく。　to Cookie Monster from Sesame Street who was making a suprise guest appearance, playing kyoshi. ;-D

Monkey TV????

Base 3 |5| = |7|

I’ve dug out that episode and it appears that japanese give the denominator first. e.g. 5/6 is ‘roku bun no go’, unless I misheard of course, which is quite possible. Can someone confirm this.

Kiyoshi was just plain scary. Especially that “Hai, ganbarimasu” at the end.　怖かった

Funny. Natsukoさん said 「ピーターさんの英語が入ります」, Boy, his voice suddenly got a lot higher in pitch.

Whoops: I mucked up the link. Try again.

and yes Danielさん, I thought that was funny too.

Sugoi!

Suugaku ga daisuki desu. It just took me a long time to make the calculus in Japanese. What a shame! It’so so hard to do so using a different language.

Now I’m eager to find out how classes continue. I remember I saw once the kanjis for positive and negative numbers. I also remember they were really complicated kanjis. Is that really so???

Ganbatte ne!!!

João Pauloさん、
There are of course kanji for positive and negative, but I’ve never seen them used when solving math equations.

Alanさん、
Thanks for the link. I can’t wait to use some of my new math words. (And I do find myself talking about Math in Japanese far more than I’d ever expect– the Math teachers at my school are quite friendly.)

Thanks for the link Alan. Wow, that’s quite a list of math terms. It’s interesting–a lot of them are “non-math” words as well. Words like 交差, 連続, 評価, and the like that are used out in the “real wold” as well…

As for me, I’m definitely not a math person, but if anyone wants to see what studying math in Japanese would be like, see this page: http://www1.kcn.ne.jp/~iittoo/japanese.htm .

Or, for the less mathematically-minded, this site lists some “number” proverbs (i.e. 「ことわざ」 that involve numbers): http://www.geocities.co.jp/Bookend/3479/kotowaza.html

Kiyoshi was hilarious, actually made me lol

I’m about 1/3 of the way through the beginner lessons but I’m glad I checked out the newbie ones. It’s great to review material with new scripts, and there are some new words in there for me.

Great job.. or よくできました

What happened to lesson 6?

あら！How very amusing!! Much love to Kiyoshi, who was wonderful and hilarious. I’m sure I’ll enjoy the math lessons more knowing that he’s there.

This a Wonderful refresher i haven’t ‘Really’ used Japanese for like 3 or 4 years.

i am just wondering what could be the importance of adding “ne” to Ganbatte kudasai.. is it a topic marker or just for emphasis?

this is a wonderful website anyway

すみません, but there isn’t a 6th lesson. Where is it?

よくできました on the podcast though!

I was just wondering why the numbers themselves are not covered in this episode. Even the numbers that are used in the dialog are not translated, aside from translating the sentences they are in. Is there another episode I was supposed to listen to first?

Hello, hello, just a random question…

Is “Ai wo supu-zara heakatto desu” correct grammar?

“Supu-zara” is soup bowl. I believe I need a “no” somewhere, but… Well, you should know why I am asking for help with this! ^^

Mihara-chan san> suupu-zara heakatto wa ai desu. or suupu-zara heakatto wa airashii desu if the love part is more like “lovely”.
I’m curious, Why should you know this phrase??

Mihara-san> Suupu-zara katto ga suki desu.

What is the problem with the Newbie Lesson #6? 
http://www.japanesepod101.com/learningcenter/lessons/newbie_lesson_6/

I’m getting a lot of tags, but nothing more.

mayumi_k1114 san,

Thank you for your help. Doumo arigatou gozaimashita.