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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! One of the most important tools you need to speak Japanese correctly is the ability to talk about time. In fact, you’ll need to say things like, “See you at 2 o’clock” all the time. It’s really simple to talk about time in Japanese, and you’ll find everything you need here.

This newbie Japanese lesson is all about time. Learn how the Japanese word ji allows you to talk about time. And, learn what the exceptions are and how to use them correctly. This Japanese lesson contains a helpful chart of times to get you started.

 

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This entry was posted on Monday, February 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Newbie 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.

43 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #10 - What Time is It?”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, 時差ぼけって知っていますか。Jisa boke tte shitte imasu ka? Do you know what jisa boke means? Answer to come shortly….

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Alain says:

Once more no line by line audio and no ipod sound file!
It becomes impossible to learn with ilearning center. In fact, I’m working again with the basic features.

It could be a choice not to give audio files in the intermediate lessons(?), but here it’s a newbie lesson.

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John C. Briggs says:

nanakaさん,
Type xtu to get っ
ジョン

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Hugo says:

Great lesson as always, very useful to reinforce my basics :razz:

Nanaka-san to type the little “つ”, the only thing what you have to do is press two time the consonant letter, for example is you type gakki (musical instrument) the result is gonna be がっき、rember this tips works in Windows XP with the IME interface activate and the Input mode in Hiragana, I hope what this can help you :grin:

Greetings to all, have a great week! :mrgreen:

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JapanesePod101.com says:

Alain-san, apologies. Everything should be up and running now!

As for 時差ぼけ-jet lag :grin:

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Liz21 says:

John-san and Hugo-san,
Great tips for typing Japanese! Also, I have learned how to write ん. You type “n” two times, when you are in hiragana mode!!!

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John C. Briggs says:

While we are on the subject, to get small vowels by themselves.
   xa ⇒ ぁ
   xi ⇒ ぃ
   xu ⇒ ぅ
   xe ⇒ ぇ
   xo ⇒ ぉ

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nanaka says:

John C. Briggs-san, thanks as always. You are really knowledgable, aren’ you? ^_^.

Also thanks to Hugo-san for explaining, that’s normally how I get a ‘っ’, followed by deleting the ones I don’t need.^_^

So, Liz21-son, we are learning new things every day, aren’t we? ^_^

btw, where is my earlier comment? It’s gone!

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Alain says:

John C. Briggs san,
Thank you for this small vowels typing tip !
It also works for xka = ヵ and xke = ヶ.

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rain says:

Is the time difference in this lesson a loose example? I am getting that it would be 5PM there in Japan while it is 3AM here in the Eastern Time Zone. Perhaps I’m just confused & that why I’m always lte for my penpal chats…. :grin:

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John C. Briggs says:

Rainさん,
I think you are right about the time difference. I wonder how “Daylight Savings Time” in the USA impacts the time difference.
ジョン

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Kat Richardson says:

:???: There is no lesson #10 anywhere. Nothing on iTunes, Podcast Alley - even the J101 site can’t fine any file in the library! I’m supposed to get an autoupdate, but this one skipped.

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Eran says:

Hi Kat-san,

Our media hosting provider had a glitch with this file. Issue should be corrected. Thanks for bringing it to our attention and apologies for the inconvenience.

Eran

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Jasper says:

Finally decided to really focus on learning Japanese.
Ordered some books and bought a premium account!

Love you guys, you really make it fun to learn the language.

ありがと ございます  :mrgreen:

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Mayumi says:

Jasper-san,

がんばってください!!
We hope that our premium course would be most powerful learning tool for you! :kokoro:

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JKid says:

You made a good choice. :cool: Premium accounts grant you access to some of the most amazing and helpful tools for learning Japanese… *off to the grammar bank*

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beth says:

ohhhh again no audio :cry: whats going on J pod?:???:

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Utena says:

I wish there was a review audio file for this. I love the review audio files. :cry:

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Mayumi says:

Utena-san,

Sorry that we don’t have the review audio for older lessons. :dogeza:

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Salivia Baker says:

Does Japan has the 12-hour clock or the 24 hour clock? Can you also say juusan ji for gogo ichi ji?

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Salivia Baker says:

another question. Why is wa used here and not ni? “nihon ni gogo 3 ji da yo” since it should mean (in Japan) I thought ni is for directions *is confused*

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Mayumi says:

Salivia Baker-san,

We use the two systems in Japan. So, we can say in both ways, juusan ji and gogo ichi ji. :nihon:

This “wa” is a topic marking particle, so “nihon wa gogo 3-ji da yo” literally means, “As for Japan, it is 3:00 pm.” :wink:

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Salivia Baker says:

Thank you Mayumi-san.

Could you also leave off the gogo/gozan when it’s clear which one you mean? Like “I woke up at 3 and couldn’t sleep anymore” or “let’s meet at 3 o’clock”

I see. But could you use ni as well or do I have to use wa? I do understand wa but ni is a bit tricky for me. I know the theory but in sentences it’s a whole different story.

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Mayumi says:

Salivia Baker-san,

When it’s clear which one you are saying, you can do without saying gogo/gozen.

For your another question, you can’ t say “nihon ni gogo 3-ji da yo.” “Ni” is a particle marking a location, but “ni” is used to say “something exists in a certain place.” which means “~ni something ga aru.”

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Salivia Baker says:

Arigatou gozaimashita Mayumi-sensei

So you say for -ni time doesn’t exist? Or that it doesn’t exist only at one place?

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Salivia Baker says:

Me again. I know I must be bugging you. Sorry.
I listened to the audio again and I wondered about the last part “itsu kara” you translated it as “since when” in the dialogue but those words weren’t in the vocab list, that’s why I tried to look them up in the dictionary to add them to my wordbank. I found itsu but no kara. I then looked it up in the grammar bank and found 3 kara. Now I am wondering which one it is. The first is suppose to come after nouns (itsu/when is not a noun), the second is to come after the -te form and the third is for cause and effect. in which category is our kara here? Or is there a forth?

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Mayumi says:

Salivia Baker-san,
Sorry to make you confused.
I thought the reason why you are thinking you can say “nihon ni gogo 3-ji da yo” is because you are thinking “-ni” is a particle for a location. But, when “ni” is used as a particle for a location, it is in a sentence like “(a certain place) ni something ga arimasu,” which means “something exists in a certain place.” :wink:

Kara (1) in the grammar bank is for “kara” of “itsu kara.” :wink: “Itsu” is a pronoun indicating an indefinite time. So, it can be thought as a kind of noun. :wink:

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Salivia Baker says:

it’s not you it’s the grammar that confuses me. I have the same difficulties with my own language *lol*

The reason I thought it’s ni because I thought ni is something like “here” or “there” like “at a certain location”. be it here in Japan or there in America. Like. kitchen-ni my mum is baking a cake. Or: let’s meet train station-ni. Or: The sun shines Japan-ni.
Ah well I guess I have to study more. Ni is not such a nice particle as no.

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Naomi says:

Salivia Baker -san
If you want to learn Japanese grammar from basic, I’d recommend that you start from Newbie lesson 31. Nihongo-Dojo series.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/07/03/newbie-lesson-31-nihongo-dojo-welcome-to-style-you-1/

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Salivia Baker says:

Thank you Naomi-san.
I will get to it in due time. it’s good top know where to start. :)

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Ellen says:

I can’t seem to find Lesson 6 anywhere hmm…. :???:

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Jessi says:

Ellenさん,
Unfortunately, there isn’t a Lesson 6. Sorry for the confusion :dogeza: We’re currently in the process of organizing our older lessons!

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James says:

Why no review or dialog audio file for this one? Only the full podcast?

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Majkinja says:

I will just make you aware that the lesson notes are blank. I’ve seen this problem in other lesson notes too, all the pages are blank.
I hope this will be corrected.

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Majkinja says:

Oh, forget my previous comment, now I see that the lesson notes lite is here to replace the first one. :razz: I’ll check if the other lesson have the same.

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Jessi says:

If you are having problems viewing the lesson notes, please try the Lite version :smile:

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Angry Katie says:

時差ぼけは”jet lag”です。 Jisaboke is ‘jet lag’ in English.

時差ぼけは苦しいですね。 成田空港からアトランタまでは20時間ぐらいかな。 Jet lag is miserable. From Tokyo to Atlanta (layovers are required now that there are no direct flights) it takes at least 20 hours on a plane plus layover time in airports.

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Jessi says:

Angry Katieさん,
20 hours! :shock: Wow.. I guess that requires flying to LA or NY somewhere first? Did there used to be direct flights?

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Ana Lucia Umpierre Leite says:

what happened to the review exercise????

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王凱 says:

電話、もしもし、お久しぶり、元気。
何、今午前三時だよ。今日本午後三時です。
でも、いつから。

未だね

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Trevor says:

I enjoyed the lesson. However, there were new words here for me, and I have been going through the lessons sequentially, that were not included in the premium vocabulary list with audio (e.g. “demo”, “itsu”). Hopefully these will come up again in the next lessons, as I like to add new words to my wordbank as I go. :sad:

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Sarah says:

By far my favorite dialog

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Bob says:

There is no Review file for this lesson.

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