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This entry was posted on Friday, April 6th, 2007 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Lower 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.
17 Responses to “Lower Intermediate #19 - A.P.B. on Kinoshita”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, today we’re looking at some new business vocabulary. And I have to say, Natsuko-san and Sachiko-san went crazy with the vocabulary explanations this week! This episode is quite long, but they really get into the nuance of some of this vocab. Lot’s of good stuff in here, we hope you enjoy it!
Friday at 7:05 pm
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JapanesePod101.com is the way to the future!!
Friday at 9:00 pm
今日のレッソンはいいと思いますのでもう一同聴きましょう!。Haha
皆さん、元気!?
JZ
Saturday at 2:14 pm
hi, i m new to this site, and signed up for the 7 day trial. i found this site very useful and wonderful….
i manage to pass my JLPT4 for the 2006 paper… i intend to take up level 3.. can i know which audio are best for level 3?
i m self-study, therefore level 3 seem to be difficult for me compare to level 4…
thanks for the help…
Sunday at 10:10 am
Hi-5 for 上海 getting a mention too!
Monday at 7:52 am
I found this lesson very challenging…. I think I will listen to it one more time.
Shenyong, I would say try jumping in around beginners lesson 100. You can then jump backwards or forwards from there depending how easy you find it.
Monday at 9:11 am
shenyong, i agree with NickT.
nothing is too easy or too hard. it’s all japanese.
as for me, i listen to all the levels, listening to things are too difficult doesn’t hurt.
Friday at 6:40 am
markystar-san– perfect advice. I agree, i love listening to all the lessons. the more I listen, the better I get. Though, it’s the speaking that i am absolutely horrible at.
nick-t san, i agree with you. it was a little difficult, but thankfully we can listen as many times as we want until it sinks in. ^___^
Saturday at 9:06 pm
A.P.B. stands for All Points Bulletin.
Monday at 10:53 am
Monday at 1:39 pm
milan-san,
Thank you for the nice comments! Glad to know that you enjoyed listening our lessons!
Friday at 12:48 am
I just started listening to lower intermediate lessons and I am finding them a little difficult to follow along with but I can’t say enough about how great this site is. I have made more improvements in the past month than in a whole year of trying to study on my own with books. Thanks JPOD!
Friday at 10:07 am
Anthony-san
If you found this Intermediate lesson difficult, try Lower Intermediate series.
Lower Intermediate season 4 and 5 are more organized and easier to follow.
So my recommendation is listen
Lower Intermediate season 4 →5 first.
Then listen
Lower Intermediate season season 3 → 2 → 1
Then move up to Upper intermediate.
Saturday at 8:56 am
Pretty difficult lesson this one, especially so early on in lower intermediate. I’m stuck on a few words -
きのしたはらいげつまでしゅっしゃしません - What does ’shussa’ mean?
きのしたにやらせましょう - What is the verb used here? It’s translated as ‘ask’, but ask is usually ‘tazuneru’, or ‘ukagau’…
The current season (season 6 at the time of writing) is incredibly easy - it’s really more like beginner level, but season 1 is hard as nails..!
Thanks all!
Monday at 5:30 pm
Tachikomaさん,
出社する (しゅっしゃする) means to go/come to work.
The verb used in the second sentence is やらせます (informal form やらせる), which literally means “to make or let [someone] do”. They’re essentially saying “Let’s make Kinoshita do it/take care of it”.
I hope this helps!
Sunday at 5:42 am
大事な取引先かと思いますので、
I am wondering about the function of the particle “ka” in the phrase above. Can someone explain this to me?
Thank you for the help in advance!
Monday at 1:56 pm
Derrick-san,
It grammatically means “I wonder..”
ex)かぜをひいたのか、頭が痛いんです。
“I wonder if I’ve caught a cold, my head hurts.”
But this time -ka is used to say the speaker’s opinion in the extra formal way.
He is sure that it is an important customer but he used -ka “I wonder” because it can express politeness to the listener to avoid straightforward answer.
I hope this helps.
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