Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s getting late and Tomoko hasn’t come home. Her parents are getting worried. Today we’ll make a phone call in Japanese and find out if Tomoko at her friend’s house. Our grammar point today is koko (here), soko (there), and their polite forms. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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13 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #19 - Where is She?”
JapanesePod101.com says:
April 9th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, how was your weekend? Did you go to any crazy parties?
Miho says:
April 9th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
こんばんは！
Today, I would like to list up some vocab which is related to family. If you know them already, let’s look at how it is written in Kanji 
* In today’s lesson, 「うちの子」was used as “my kid” in the dialogue. Here is other way of saying “my kid”.
息子 むすこ musuko
son
娘 むすめ musume
daughter
You can say 「うちのむすこ」「うちのむすめ」in stead of “my kid”. In this way, gender is clearler. I don’t mean that this is better way of saying it though 
It all depends how you want to say it.
おやすみなさい 
Miho
João Paulo says:
April 9th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Will there be a continuation for this story???
I got curious where the kid was. I wonder if she isn’t hidding inside her bedroom (some kind of hikomori girl) or maybe she’s traveled to a neighboring city for some special reason, who knows??? Or maybe she is with Peter-san, he was missing in today’s episode too.
Mata!
Michael D. Cassidy says:
April 10th, 2007 at 2:11 am
This is a great www site:
http://www.miporadio.net/SAWAKO_NAKAYASU/
What is lovely is how her love of words comes across …
Alan says:
April 10th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Probably she’s just visiting a different friend. If not, maybe she’s painting the town red (translate that!) or been abducted by aliens.
(Atempts to come up with translation for ‘painting the town red’)
どんちゃん騒ぎする = cause a commotion with cymbals & drums
はしごする = to do the ladder
Hugo says:
April 10th, 2007 at 8:46 am
First greetings to all!
Sorry for not write in a lot of time, this last month was a little hard, but now I start my japanese course, I must to put me in day with JPOD, again greetings to all!
Liz21 says:
April 10th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Hugo-san,
Welcome back! Okaeri! Hisashiburi desu ne!
Michael D. Cassidy-san,
Very interesting web site — thanks!
Robert says:
April 11th, 2007 at 12:46 am
thank you enjoyed this lesson
dochira sama deshouka is useful to know if someone calls and you don,t know who they are
polite and fine for any situation
from Robert
lulu_chan says:
April 13th, 2007 at 8:08 am
hmm… i bet she’s prpobably a teenager. being a teenager. ^___^
Glen M. says:
April 20th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Ok, now I’m confused. When I’ve seen Japanese films or “dramas” people always say “moshimoshi” when they ANSWER a phone; but I know Peter-san made a big point awhile back that that is what the person CALLING says, not the person that answers. I was confused but bowed to his seniority. But in THIS episode the person answers their ringing phone with “moshimoshi”. Ok, other than another round of “confuse the gaijin”, whazzup?
Any help sincerely appreciated, minasama!
SkyDiver says:
October 12th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Maybe Peter-さん mixed something up, because you say もしもし as an answer, and not if you’re the one who called.
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Category: Newbie Lessons |
Grammar: demonstratives | Function: asking if someone is home | Topic: missing daughter | Politeness Level: casual, Polite
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