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16 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #161 - Jacoby & Matsuzaka”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, konnichiwa! kono musuko wa dou omoimashita ka? What did you think about the son? Also, what do you notice about the politeness levels used in this conversation?
Tuesday at 9:02 pm
Well I wouldn’t like my parents to use my computer without my permission. I’ve got my private life on it so I totally understand him. Maybe he did overract though?
Lesson wo arigatou gozaimashita
/JZ
Wednesday at 12:16 am
JZ-san, thanks for your question
Let me see if I can answer to it…
Yes, the case is rare. We usually use informal language between parents and children.
Outside home though, it happens all the time that one uses polite language while the other doesn’t. It’s because we tend to speak in polite language to elders even though you are teenagers.
Hope it’s helpful. Maybe you’ve already known about that
Wednesday at 12:31 am
I think he’s speaking politely because he’s taking the role of the policeman/lawyer and he wants to sound authoritative and formal. He’s been to law school, so he probably isn’t a teenager anymore.
I don’t think he’s being toooo strict. Perhaps he knew they were snooping in his browser history and reading his email.
Wednesday at 12:59 am
I thought this lesson was quite dificult surprised it’s in the beginners section
from robato
Wednesday at 1:38 am
this was a bit difficult today… 面白い単語ですが、難しい!
Wednesday at 3:01 am
just a random fact–i grew up mostly in northern California and I totally remember “Jacoby & Meyers”. Saw the commercials *all the time*. I thought they were based in CA, but I guess they were known nationwide if Peter saw the ads in New York. But yeah, I haven’t heard of them in a looong time (don’t see their ads anymore)…think it was a thing of the late 80s-early 90s.
anyway I was a bit surprised when Peter said that the other Americans at JPod101 hadn’t heard of them. Guess I’m just getting old (but I’m only 28!!).
Wednesday at 6:05 am
I worked in the US in 94-96 in St Louis and remember ambulance chaser adverts well. Can’t remember whether it was the same firm, but I distinctly remember thinking that those guys were definitely ‘bottom feeders’.
What was that about some data protection law? Is it illegal for parent’s to snoop on their childrens’ web habits? Surely parent’s have a responsibility to supervise such activity? I can see that perhaps the situation changes over the age of 18 (21?) when children become adults, so in this case, maybe the son has a legitimate beef.
Wednesday at 9:07 am
This was really good!
I think this goes beyond beginner lessons though!
I’m walking around the house now bellowing at inanimate objects in my best samurai voice: 知らない振りしないで!
Wednesday at 9:52 am
Lauraさん、
>>I think he’s speaking politely because he’s taking the role of the policeman/lawyer and he wants to sound authoritative and formal
i agree with you.
furthermore, i wonder if the parents are not taking him seriously, as they refuse to speak formally and go along with his farce. (笑)
Wednesday at 7:01 pm
A question: 法律の上で
According to the law? How about ‘from what my friend says, I think it’s wrong’ = 友達教えたの上で、違います。
正解ですか。
Monday at 7:28 am
peter-san
I totally remember the Jacoby & Meyers. I think those commercials are still on. They were soo funny. great lesson.. gah! these nomalisers…bit difficult..but, ganbarimasu! ^___^
Friday at 12:41 pm
Just around here the lessons become incredibly difficult. This one uses a causative without any explanation (unless you do s2 in parallel to s1) and some vocabulary that had not been introduced before and is not explained. I find that to understand what’s really going on requires an open dictionary and lots of detective work.
Funny enough, the podcast spends a lot of time on ‘jinmon’ - I guess thanks to Conan (the detective) I already knew that.
Friday at 1:02 pm
Monkaさん、
i’ll be totally honest with you. from here on out, the beginner series gets really difficult.
if you’re only listening to this level, i highly recommend checking out beginner season 2 and beginner season 3
Wednesday at 5:35 am
I remember Jacoby & Meyers, and I’m not that old… 23. Only from the commercials, though. Fortunately, I never had to use them.
Friday at 11:30 pm
子供に変なものを食べさせたのは誰ですか。(Grammar exercise)
uh?
I doubt there was anything about that verb form, causative? in any previous lesson…
so is it Who let the children have/eat that weird food?
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