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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! We interrupt our Postcards series to bring you a quick 2 parter about life in a Japanese company (kaisha). Their company ace, Kinoshita, is MIA!  We’ll look at some important business phrases as well new terms like maternity neurosis (whatever that may be)!  And we’ll practice expressing causal relationships using no de, which is our exciting grammar point for the day.  After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!



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”

JapanesePod101.com says:

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!

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丸出し忍者 says:

An all-female Japanese company! :shock:
JapanesePod101.com is the way to the future!! :mrgreen:

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JockZon (JZ) says:

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 :lol:

皆さん、元気!? :cool:

JZ

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shenyong says:

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…

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maxiewawa says:

Hi-5 for 上海 getting a mention too!

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NickT says:

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.

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markystar says:

shenyong, i agree with NickT.
as for me, i listen to all the levels, listening to things are too difficult doesn’t hurt. :cool: nothing is too easy or too hard. it’s all japanese. :mrgreen:

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lulu_chan says:

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. ^___^

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Dusty says:

A.P.B. stands for All Points Bulletin.

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milan says:

:neutral: :cool: it’s really fun listening to these explanations i had a great time listening!!!

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Mayumi says:

milan-san,
Thank you for the nice comments! Glad to know that you enjoyed listening our lessons! :kokoro:

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Anthony says:

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!

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Naomi says:

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. :wink:

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Tachikoma says:

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!

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Jessi says:

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!

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Derrick says:

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!

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Motoko says:

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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