Yoshikai-san, you are really, really talented! Did anyone catch the name of the 3rd person who gave the boss chocolate? Hint, hint…he was in the conversation and it wasn’t Yoshikai!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all!

Happy Valentine’s Day Mina-san!

Hope you guys collect lots of flowers, chocolate, candy, and jeweley etc….

Yes, Korea is same as Japan. All female will able to show their love to the guy who like… And on March 14h is White Days the guys will give Candy to female.

I’m badely waking up….hope I wrote it right.

Love you all~~~OXOXOX

Happy Valentine’s Day Mina-san!

While I was typing today’s lesson, I got a question.

At the beginning of the dialog when buchou said ‘旨い’、why use this ‘旨い’, rather then 美味い'’, or ‘甘い’, or something else？They all have the similar meaning as in ‘good/delicious’, right?

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

Take Take Take…blah blah blah…

Has anyone seen the movie MirrorMask? There are cats with person-faces. More kimo than kawa.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/books/mirrormaskchildrens/mirrorgallery/sphinx/zphoto_view

Alain-san,

Thanks for the tip!

Vicky-san,

Happy Valentine’s Day!

nanaka-san,

I’m not quite sure who chose the kanji, but I doubt that there was a whole lot of deliberation in choosing the kanji 美味い, 旨い, and 甘い all carry the meaning of good taste, as you mentioned. Of course, different kanji will give a different feel, nuance, etc. since they carry their own meaning. You’ll see this technique used often in literature - the author will choose a non-standard kanji in order to attempt to express a specific nuance or feeling. As for umai, I myself have not noticed 甘い used in this role yet, and because it is the same as amai, it’s hard to tell from Google how common it may be. 旨い has just a few more hits than 美味い. Since I am not Japanese and am still learning, I cannot really accurately comment on the nuances, but I read a number of opinions, and can’t seem to find a consensus. You can note that much like mazui can be used to describe a circumstance, so can umai, and in this case you use 旨い. 美味い, on the other hand, is only used for taste, I believe, and is ateji coming from 美味 (bimi) - good flavor. 旨い seems to be stronger from the opinions that I read, but more opinions are needed. Perhaps some of our Japanese listeners (I know there are a few out there) can chime in!

Interesting.  I can read my own post, and Nathan’s, but all the kanji in earlier ones are still unreadable.  Eranさん have any changes been made to the publishing system?

Eranさん、Thanks for the reply. No worries

kimochi ga warui + kawaii = kimokawa (キモカワ)
Sort of horrifying, but you still kind of like it. It’s tempting to ask for more usage examples

Alan-san,
strange, no ???s for me.

Nathan-san, thanks for your explaination.

So compared to ’美味い’、’旨い’ has a wider range of usage. Say, if you were invited to a dinner party, you hated the food there, but you can still use ‘umai’, either because you liked the atmosphere there, or just for better etiquette. ^_^

Laura-san, that human-faced dog is really horrifying, although other combinations of animal-human can be cute.

ななか

良かったぞ！

i got really lucky this year.
i got a mystery チョコがいっぱい袋 (bagful of of chocolate) and girlfriend made 手作りチョコ for me….

今からホワイトデーのplan考えるよ！

Yes, it is the same in South Korea. It’s amazing how many similarities there are between South Korea and Japan. ^_^