Mina-san,

Does anybody have their calculator out yet?

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

Sorry but, since learning center 2 is here, there is almost every day a problem with the upload of ipod files.

To day, there is nothing in the soundfile, and the notes are those of yesterday’s Miki’s blog.

Perhaps you have to change something in your upload system?

Alain-san,

Apologies for the frustrating issues with the iPod files since the launch of the new learning center. We are fully aware of the problem and are working to resolve them as fast as we can. The files for this lesson should now work properly. Thanks for your patience as we work through this issue.

- Eran

Maybe someone knows this one…I am curious about the difference in the pronounciation of the number ju between Fujimoto-sensei and Megumi-san. Is this difference local accent related or is this the difference of pronounciation Pita-san was refering to? Megumi-san has a unique accent anyway it seems to me.

Jpod team-
I like the repetition of the dialogue at the end of the lesson. It is a good reinforcement, or review, of all that just went through my head.

A question about question mark.

I thought that Japanese Language does not have question mark in their writing system, however we have quite a bit of questions marks in the PDFs, can anyone give some explanation please?

Sorry if this has already been discussed before.

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

Alanさん、
I think I know what you mean, I just wonder, will question marks appear in ,say, original Japanese novels? Surely not all the convesation are done in a formal way.

nanakaさん、

You are right about the question mark not being a part of formal Japanese writing. However, you see it a lot in more casual situations like email and manga. And with novels, Japanese artists like to break rules for the sake of breaking rules, so I think it will depend largely on the author.

An example of authors “breaking” rules is that they like to use 漢字 (kanji) in ways not approve by the government for newspapers and official documents.

Now, I’m not an expert. The above is simply my understanding of how it works. If someone knows better, they can chime in.

JPOD team,

I have been waiting for a ‘division’ lesson- any chance? does one use 分る the same as かける?

Also would like more maths simply because there are a lot of statistics in Jaanese newpapers and news so why not learn our 何何分通り? Maths is always a difficult thing to handle in another language so we really need to practice..

mikuji

it’s not explained cuz it’s a bit of an inside joke, not really good japanese - just having a bit of fun in the studio. if you stick around the site a bit longer, you’ll come across this grammar point a lot.

in extremely informal guy’s style japanese an “-ai” ending gets changed to “-ee.”

tsumetai (cold to the touch) becomes tsumetee.
tabetai (want to ear) become tabetee.

this is really rough, informal japanese so it only happens with casual language. kudasai is a really polite word, so to change it to kudasee is just a joke. so, it’s nothing you need to practice, but if you ever meet yuki or me, you can use it! lolol. also, some of the other long time listeners know this joke and use it in the forum and comments.

Ryan-san,
I am not an ITunes expert (I only just started using it the other day) so this may seem like a really silly thing for me to say but have you subscribed to the JPOD101 iTunes feed? If you have try deleting the incomplete files from the folder in to which the downloaded and then get iTunes to re-download them file by file through right-clicking or right click on the feed itself in the iTunes podcast section and select ‘Update’ that should re-download the incomplete files for use within iTunes.

If you have not subscribed to the iTunes feed. See: http://www.japanesepod101.com/downloads/

Subscribing to the iTunes feed will be sure to speed things up.

Jakkii-san,
Not at this point in time from what I can see. Perhaps you might like to make a post in the “Lesson Suggestions” forum?