Mina-san,

Do you think this topped yesterday’s bonus track?

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

I juts noticed you are listing the voice actors - I like that; its good to give them the extra credit.

We also have to pay a licence fee in the UK to pay for the BBC. It’s currently £131.50 (I just paid) which is about 30,000円. Theoretically, you don’t have to pay if you don’t have a TV, but…

Lots of new vocab for me. Funny though, 引っ越す came up in reading comprehension in my japanese evening class yesterday. I’d never seen it before. And here it is again a day later. Better learn it

I haven’t quite figured out the bonus track. Was the NHK guy saying that he knew they were in?

JP 101 crew and Listeners!

NHK ehhh sounds good but I don’t like TV that much so I don’t care about it!

I have Time Warner Cable and Road Runner High Speed Service and that’s fine for me, I’m very happy with the service! (NYC listeners you know what I have and the costs)

Great Bonus Audio keep them coming I also gone wild ahhhhhh! S_R_C

Daniel-san!

Yeah me too I agree with you!

They seem to love what they are doing now so all I can say is good luck and I hope you come back to say hi to all of us because remember Yoshi-san and Chigusa-san that a true person that starts from the buttom and gets on top of the mountain NEVER forgets his/her roots and where they came from before reaching the top! S_R_C

You know what this lesson reminds me of, America’s Public Broadcast System (PBS) when they have the donation drives. The NHK seems a bit more extreme. What if PBS knocked on your door to pay for the local PBS station?

I have a question though: What if some answered the door to the NHK collector, but he or she did not have the money to pay. So would their services get cut? It broadcasts all over Japan, so how would they limit the people not paying?

Hey //digitaljo-san,

Funny I was thinking same thing! In Texas we get PBS and I get junk mailings to please support public TV, but I suppose that is too easy to just toss in the trash, so periodically the station will just broadcast hours of someone droning on and on to call in your donation while volunteers sit in the background at a bank of phones taking calls. I always wonder if they are really talking to people pledging money or if they are trying to look good so you get caught up in the mood and feel you just have to call in.

Our public TV is good tho… after all, without them I would have never seen Sesame Street.

Barbaraさん、

like Vickyさん said, it’s like just a minute or just a sec.
it often softens the meaning of the sentence、or in this case shows that something will happen quickly.
maybe you could think of it as ‘in a little amount of time.’

in your post, you translated it as ‘I’ll go look a little and come back.’ i’d say that’s pretty much the gist of it.

compare these uses:

ちょっといいですか？
‘have you got a sec?’
‘is now a good time?’
(used when asking if someone has a second to talk with you)

ちょっとコンビニに行ってくるよ！
‘i’ll go to the convenience store (and come right back)’
(implying it’s a quick errand)

does this help at all?

and for the record, no one has ever come to my door asking for NHK dues. i guess i’m lucky! （笑）

マーキー

この会話は面白かたでした。けどThese new verb tensesはとても蒸すかしでしょ。えと。。。。がんばりますね。＾＾；；
そしてこのBonusaudio…最高でしたよ。前文あたしはわるいてしいました。ほんとにとてもたのしかた。今日のBonus audioときののBonus audioはいちばんでした。＾＿＿＿＿＾
Jpodは最高でしょ。ありがとうJpodみなさん。