Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Do you like to sleep? One of our recent lessons featured a couple who loved to sleep - they turned out to be bears! Today’s mukashi banashi features their human counterpart, Netaro. In fact, his name even means the sleeping boy! Netaro’s village suffered from drought - was it because he slept so much? Tune in to find out! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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Eran-san, my iTune both from work and home didn’t get the lessons for today. Double check please~~~
These mukashi-banashi are fun and interesting, but they don’t contain nearly as much content as an ordinary lesson. The story lessons are usually much shorter as well.
Could it be possible to have a bit more discussion about the actual language used as well as the cultural discussion about the story? Story telling has its own unique language style and common grammar, so it would be really nice if we could review some of this during these stories.
Other than that, I love the podcasts and will keep tuning in every week!
What a strange story! I can’t figure out the moral. Is there one? Do mukashi-banashi usually have morals? Perhaps I read too many Aesop’s Fables as a child.
Category: Intermediate Lessons |
Topic: mukashi banashi | Politeness Level: Polite
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