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20 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #27 - My Shopping Bag”
Thursday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, do you do your part to help protect the environment, or do take the easy way out? Be honest (笑) Also, today let’s welcome Akihiro to Team JPod! He told us a funny story about his own experience with point cards and we included it in the Bonus Track! Woot woot!
Thursday at 8:04 pm
ty >
Thursday at 8:33 pm
皆さん
私はリサイクルことが大事と思います。
家庭でリサイクル法はたくさんあるのです。
食べ物は野菜の物をたい肥貯蔵所に入るのです。 草と木の葉などをたい肥の山を作るために、庭に積み上げられます。
グラスと古い服とプラスチックときりがみを専用箱に入られるのです。それからよく会社まで歩いて行って、環境{を救うのより健康法ですが!
車は公共輸送より安いですが便利にだったら公共輸送を乗るようにしようと試みる。
家内に、低消費電力電球をも使って見るのです。私もショッピングの時にレジぶくろ袋もっています。
皆さん そんな小さいことを環境を救うように努力するのはやりがいのあると無駄とどう思いますか?
ミクジ
Thursday at 8:47 pm
Very slow website today (about 3 minutes a page).
But Audio and PDF download at normal speed.
Has anyone this problem ?
Thursday at 9:17 pm
Yeah, me too.
mikuji
Thursday at 9:22 pm
Mina-san,
We are currently experiencing network latency, resulting and extremely slow page load times. We are working with our host to resolve these issues and hoping to have it fixed very soon.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
- Eran
Thursday at 11:27 pm
I am glad more men are on their way. I have missed Yoshi, Take, and going all the way back to Kaze.
So welcome to Akihiro.
Nate-san
Friday at 1:05 am
Mina-san,
Our provider just informed me that the network related issues experienced by some of you earlier today are now resolved. Sincere apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your support.
If you continue to experience latency, please send us an email at support@japanesepod101.com
Thank you,
Eran
Friday at 2:34 am
JP101 Crew and Listeners!
Great Lesson, I love the environment and ecology lessons and DVD’s!
Nathan-san, your so sweet!
S_R_C
Yes Nathan is right welcome to all the new guys and old ones specially Yoshi-san, Take-san, Alpha male and now Akihiro.
Friday at 2:45 am
Ohhh I forgot to mention my favorite ecology DVD’s
S_R_C
An inconvenient truth by Algore and Planet Earth. I really recommend them!
Friday at 5:00 am
Thank you Eransan, all is working fine.
Vocabulary question:
The reading of レジ袋: rejiBUkuro (lesson vocabulary, which seems logical) or rejiFUkuro (Edict)?
What does レジ mean? recipient, resistance, residence legionella?
Friday at 5:02 am
Could someone explain to me how this “tatokorode” is different from “te mo” or “(volotional) tomo”…It’s confusing me
??:
Friday at 4:13 pm
nateさん、 i’m glad to have more guys around too. guy’s japaneseは格好いいじゃん!


Alainさん、ふくろ changes to ぶくる when combined. レジ袋 is れじぶくろ and 池袋 is いけぶくろ
as for レジ, i think it comes from レジスター cash register. it’s the bag they give you at the cash register.
Evanさん、 i’m not sure what you mean by ‘tomo,’ but ても and たところで are basically the same. なおみ先生 and i had a long discussion about it because i was also wondering about the difference. she said they are the same, but ても is more common in spoken japanese.
marky
Friday at 4:43 pm
Mina-san!
Thanks for all your comments.
And thank you to all those who answered questions.
To offer another pun using “hukuro”, the word “ofukuro” is a casual way of referring to one’s mother. Usually this term is used by men. Women would say “haha” a polite way of referring to one’s mother.
By the way, I carry around so-called stamp cards for at least 10 stores at any given time. For everything from grocery stores, restaurants, drug store and Internet cafes. That’s why my wallet is always bulging. Sadly it’s not because of the amount of cash it contains!
Sachiko
Friday at 4:52 pm
Nateさん
コメントありがとうございます。がんばります!
p.s. 自分の名前に「さん」はつけないので、気をつけて下さいね。
Friday at 10:25 pm
おもしろかった!新しい人は吐入たら、皆うれしそうです。
一匹!
でもね、一匹は「いっぴき」と言うので、ピータ先生は「いいぴき」と言ったはず。
猿も木から落ちるね。
Re: Bonus Track
What would you do if you were the boss of a bankrupted Sauna House and AkiHiro先生 knocked on your door with his fully stamped card in hand?
そうなら。。。
「はい、了解」と言って、自分の風呂へ連れていきます。」
I’d say ”yes, understood” and take him to my own bath, (probably with a shamefully lowered head).
Saturday at 1:33 am
Sachiko-san: were you ever on TV? I sometimes hear a little news-style coming through.
Saturday at 7:19 pm
Laura-san
To answer your question:
Yes I did voice overs, narrations and stand up reports for NHK and TV Asahi when I worked there as a TV producer
years ago.
But I much prefer doing voice work for Japanesepod. Where else can I get paid for simply chatting away with some great friends?!?!?! I truly love working on this podcast!
Sachiko
Wednesday at 2:03 am
A little late input but hopefully not 無駄.
I would like to see more environmental themes incorporated in JPod lessons but so far I have been disappointed that they come out sounding rather flippant. e.g. in this lesson there was too much emphasis on how it was so troublesome to carry one’s own bag. My own observations of conbini customers is that a lot of people throw away their bag as soon as they step out the store so they never needed one at all but they just thoughtlessly didn’t refuse it.
We need more signs like this:
Another example would be that in Int #61 - Destruction of Nature - there was a good piece about the environmental dangers facing us but when the teacher and students had a discussion after they seemed to focus on correctly separating garbage. Separation is important but nowhere near as important as reducing the total amount of waste produced and making lower carbon choices in daily life like not idling engines or choosing a smaller TV screen or properly insulating one’s home.
JPod is not an environental site and I don’t expect it to be but I would like to see a little more serious treatment when you do bring up the issue.
Monday at 11:02 pm
can you please explain the sentance of […….影響があるとは思えないなぁ]
how do you espress [i dont think ……], should it be [….と思いません]
[..思えない..]: is this the 可能形 of 思います in negative form.
why is it interpreted as “I dont think….”
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