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This entry was posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2007 at 12:00 am 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.
14 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #53 - Komedonya no Orei”
Thursday at 12:00 am
Mina-san, apologies for the delay, and for switching up the levels on you. We just wanted to make sure you’re paying attention. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Friday at 12:25 am
Sorry to be off the topic, but:
Happy Birthday to JZ! (JockZon)
Friday at 12:50 am
その昔話は悲しいですね。それに若い男のお父さんはかわいそうです
私はたくさん分かりませんけど新しくて重要な言葉を勉強になりました。「昔々」と「昔話」と「おしまい」です。
Intermediate lessonがとてもむずかしいとおもいます。略Advancedですか?
では、以上話がありません。
Friday at 12:52 am
リズさん、ありがとう。I took long enough to write my comment haha.
Friday at 12:55 am
I mean it took me long enough. God I must be tired.
Friday at 1:12 am
Happy Birthday JZ from Vicky
Friday at 4:34 pm
こんにちは!
昔話は、日本の文化や考え方を理解するのにとても役立つもののひとつだと思います。
日本人は正直で真面目な性格だと言われますが、今日の昔話からも、よくわかりますよね。
文化 ぶんか Bunka
Culture
理解する りかいする Rikai suru
To understand
役立つ やくだつ Yakudatu
useful, helpful
真面目 まじめ majime
serious, ernest
性格 せいかく seikaku
characteristics
Happy Easter!
and
Happy birthday to JackZon san
Miho
Friday at 6:31 pm
役立つ やくだつ ?
I only knew 役に立つ (やくにたつ) Yakunitatsu
Is there a difference?
Friday at 8:08 pm
Alainさん、こんばんは。
「役に立つ」も「役立つ」も同じ意味(いみ)です。
役立つ is one verb, while 役に立つ is kind an idiom
It was a good question! I didn’t really think about that until Alain san asked me…
I am learning from your questions so please feel free to ask me anything!
Miho
Friday at 11:55 pm
Ok
I haven’t listened to the lesson yet but I’ve been wondering 2 things, and I still haven’t found any explanation, so can you help me Miho-San?
What is the difference between for instance 食べない and 食べず?
And what does it mean when -もの comes at the end of a verb, like in 食べるもの?
I thank you in advance
Saturday at 12:26 am
Daniel-san; Are you sure that you aren’t thinking of 食べもの which means food. Mono means thing and makes the verb into a noun.
Saturday at 4:08 pm
Danielさん、
食べず(に) is used to say “while not/without eating…”. For example “I excercised without eating” could be written, 「食べずに運動した。」
Thursday at 3:02 pm
米問屋=こめどいや does it not?
Thursday at 11:29 pm
I have to start skipping these mukashibanashi lessons. The regular intermediates by this point are already mind numbingly difficult, with Sachiko’s hyperspeed banter filled to bursting point with unknown vocab, but these stories… I feel my poor head will explode!
Maybe you should put them in a seperate section, as extras or something, as I feel they’re totally out of line with the other lessons in so many ways.
Sorry to be so negative!
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