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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In today’s lesson, we drop in on a conversation between a pair at the kaisha. Someone had quite the rough night, and the morning doesn’t seem to be much of an improvement. Could it get any worse? Tune in to find out! This lesson gives you a healthy dose of the ukemi, or passive form of Japanese verbs - something you don’t want to miss!

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 at 6:30 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.

19 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #155 - Bad Day”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, have you experienced rush hour in Tokyo? This scenario is not unrealistic!

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Michael D. Cassidy says:

Not much different in NYC.
Happily because I’m male and old no one gropes me.

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Liz21 says:

JPOD Team:
Thanks so much for this lesson on “passive” verbs. I am just starting to try to learn this form.

Peter-san:
Thanks very, very much for your careful teaching of every aspect of the conversation. I took notes this time!! I need every bit of it, thanks!! :grin:

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Liz21 says:

Natsuko-san,
Also, many thanks to you for great explanations! :grin:

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Sara says:

Hello everyone :smile:
I’m doing a project in Japanese class on Nagasaki. Soooo, if anyone has any interesting facts about culture, foods, history, ect. it would be much appreciated… :wink:
OH! BTW, I’d like to thank J-pod for all of the awesome lessons. b/c thanks to you guys my friend and I are ranked 1 and 2 in our class! :grin:
Again thx bunches, you’re the reason I got an A on my semester exam… :mrgreen:

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Vicky says:

Perfect lesson for me today…having a bad day already! :evil:

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Daniel Beck says:

Saraさん、

Hopefully Yoshiさん and Takaseさん at JP101 will read this. I’m sure the Nagasaki Connection™ could be of help. :grin:

Our Vickyちゃん、

I hope your day gets better! :smile:

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maxiewawa says:

あれ?
PDFわれたらしい。。。
I don’t think the PDF is working. Is it just me?

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John C. Briggs says:

maxiewawaさん,
It worked for me. Make sure you are logged into the site.
ジョン

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Alan says:

Great lesson :mrgreen: Just what I need. Still trying to get my head round the direct and indirect passive forms though. Considering the PDF example:

妻は逃げた。(past) The wife ran away
妻に逃げられた。(direct) I was ran away by my wife - obviously wrong
妻に逃げられた。(indirect) My wife up and ran away

One could say ‘My wife ran away from me’ which would probably be:
妻は私から逃げた。

So what’s the difference in meaning between 妻は私から逃げた and 妻に逃げられた?

Alan :smile:

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Alan says:

…maybe it’s just the emphasis of subject i.e. me or wife?

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Hugo says:

Everybody has a bad day in some moment, is a rule of the life :eek:
Speaking about rush hour, here in Cordoba Capital is a litle mad, but in Buenos Aires, especialy in Capital Federal is a real odyssey :razz: Great lesson as always! :grin:

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timothy says:

oh boy… i think i need to go back to earlier lessons and review. starting to feel overwhelmed. :sad:

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timothy says:

i just checked the pdf’s for the next few lessons - they all seem to have the same second half of the pdf as these last two lessons. is this a screw-up?

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Mayumi says:

timothy-san,
All of these lessons are about the same topic, the passive voice. So, the PDF has almost the same content. Sorry for confusion caused. :dogeza:

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timothy says:

ooops… thanks mayumi-san. :oops:

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aitrai says:

hello

i did contact you many times because i m intrested in learning japanese

i did send a request for to get your bank account for to make transfer

of the fees for learning japanese .but i didn t get any reply of you

i wonder really why .i m from morocco

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Naomi says:

aitrai -san
Please send e-mail to
contactus@japanesepod101.com
If you didn’t hear from them, please let us know. :wink:

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says:

お早う、今日の調子はどうですか。今日は災厄です。どうしたんですか。今朝五時にカラスに起こされてかられむれないし、電車は混んで足を踏まれるし、おまけに傘で刺されたんだ。今日はとても機嫌悪いよ。もうついてないよ。まあでも、今朝の会議の発表が終わったら、もう少しだよ。もう心配ないね。しまった、家に資料は忘れてきた。そんなの、机もらっていい。

また、後で。

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