皆さん、It’s Friday and boy do we have a great Intermediate Lesson for you! This one is chock full o’ great business vocabulary. So if you want to work iin a Japanese company, this is a must! I wonder if Agnes will get the job….

Have a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!　

doraemon,
when you say Intermediate, do you mean jpod intermediate or have you taken the jlpt?
for grammar i recommend SItuational Functional Japanese (but depends on your level) also The Japan Times has 2 fantastic grammar bibles that i highly recommend.
also, you should check out what some other members have posted in the forum:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=17&sid=fcf1de11aa210396a2c3235b854859ea

what do you guys think? will she get the job or end up at macdonalds?

markysan
Hey! Thanks for the thumbs up. By intermediate practise/exercises I mean having gone through causative, passive and the likes. I have a good understanding of basic grammar but need a lot more practise than the 1 or 2 pages which you can find in a standard textbook.

Did that even make any sense?

I´ll read up on SF Japanese right now.

thanks

今日のレッソンには本当にたくさんインフォメーションがあります。その話はいいですよね。そして、アグネスさん、頑張ってください。つぎのエピソドに起こりますかな。 私は待っています。

それでは、また後日(can you say that?)

JZ, を should be が in your correction.

But on another note, I see that the english translation is back. So it looks like the last traveblogue’s lack of English translation was a one-off.

Well, it isn’t that hard for this case specifically JZ. Something is going to be happening. No one is doing the “happening”, it is occuring on it’s own. が is used for those situations where there is no object involved. Eventually, if you listen to a lot of Japanese or read a lot, you’ll just get an ear for it like you probably have for English where things just “sound wrong”.

Oh… I didn’t know what “rule”. Thanks alot

thanks miho!!!! as always, you give us so much useful information! it’s really appreciated!!

i’ll add to what you said about 「部」

this is also the same kanji used 全部 everything　and 部分　portion

markystar san, maxiewawa san

It’s my presure!
I am very happy to be involved in this community with so many people who are very keen to learn Japanese!

Although I would love to be here more often, I might not be able to comment or response as frequently for next 4 weeks due to my teaching practice at a secondary school…

Anyway, I am happy to receive any question! I will try to answer on the weekends

Miho