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This entry was posted on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Intermediate 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.
7 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #51 - Amanojaku”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, genki desu ka? There are many stories about Amanojaku. And today his name is a metaphor for someone who always says the opposite of you, or a devil’s advocate. In the Learning section, in addition to the line-by-line audio, we added something new for you: you can listen to just the story in Japanese or just the translation in English! Enjoy the story, it’s a good one!
Friday at 8:40 pm
Senbou wa warui desu ne?
Saturday at 7:27 am
As an intermediate student, I find the Traveblogue series are more interesting than those mukashibanashi which show japanese classical culture, but are not so lively.
I note there are not a lot of comments on the mukashibanashi.
A real intermediate lesson every 2 weeks seems not enough, but you may consider that the Aomori section is intermediate or even advanced japanese?
Saturday at 7:33 pm
andyさん、
ぁあ、羨望か・・・
i was trying to figure out the moral and couldn’t. lol.
i think you’re right.
alainさん、
or at least assumes a lot of exposure. (so far, the pdf’s have been packed with stuff.) and there will be different dialects presented in the future.
but it’s good to know your feelings on this so we have more ideas for future lessons!! v( ‘ _ ‘ )v
yeah, i think the aomori-ben is definitely not beginner
皆さん、
here’s a picture of hakone mountain, which i had never heard of before. i mean, i know it’s a mountainous region, but i didn’t know of a place called hakone mountain.
man, it’s so small, i don’t know what amanojaku thought was so great about it.
http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/lg01/31/0000084731/83/imga68ac48ds7sq17.jpeg
Monday at 7:58 am
I agree that the mukashibanashi don’t really teach much, but they are more like a listening exercise. I like the old versions of the mukashi banashi where they were done exactly like the intermediate lessons — they had grammar points, key vocab, etc. I find on the mukashi banashi, if I want to learn the vocab, I have to pause/replay the parts, then look for the definition in wwwjdic.
Wednesday at 3:23 pm
Interesting stories, but I feel a little too advanced when compared to the rest of the lessons at this level. Maybe if the English explanation wasn’t given all in one go, but mixed in with the Japanese?
Thursday at 2:11 pm
ben-san,
Thank you for your feedback!
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