Mina-san, do you think it’s a good idea to get a haircut after getting dumped? Or is it better to stay the course and bear it stoically?

After I dump a boy, he usually goes psycho and starts stalking me or threatening to do crazy things. I wish they would just get a haircut. That sounds more sane.

kitty-chan

Ok … I just listened to it. Perhaps he’d better keep the back hair after all.

Laura-san, we have a white board in the office full of off-beat things said in the office. Congrats you made the board! Priceless!

Kitty-chan, !大丈夫？Can we help? I say they get haircuts too!

Mexicanhat! A fresh start is always nice!

Nice lesson once again. By the way, how much does a haircut cost on average in Tokyo?

On vocabulary…

In English, “vocabulary” is a set or list of words, so in the context of jpod101, “first vocabulary” and “next vocabulary” don’t make sense. They would be correctly stated as “first vocabulary word” and “next vocabulary word,” though “vocabulary” is unnecessary as it is understood in context.

Thank you!

Andrew

Eh??? ￥6300 … ?? 本当？　それが平均ですか？　高すぎるよ～！　韓国では￥6300を持って言ったら。。。パーマまでできますよ。ハハハ。that’s way too expensive _-_ what’s the cheapest price possible? just curious. . . kk

Laura,

While I appreciate the humor, there is an important distinction between “vocabulary” and “vocabulary word” that I think shouldn’t be overlooked. The meaning of “next vocabulary” is markedly different, whereby the speaker would be providing us with a new list of words rather than a new single word. Unfortunately, as is the nature of the medium, I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, so I apologize for pressing the point.

Andrew

Hyunwoo Sunさん、

Yeah, unless you need to look as pretty as Markyさん, guys can get haircuts for ¥1000. After all, who needs their foreheads shaved anyway? Unless, of course, you’re a Star like Markyさん is.

Interesting lesson, but a couple of 文句：

Why use katakana for フラレル　instead of 振られる ? The kanji is one of the standard characters that all Japanese school students are taught. I thought maybe that the kana had become a fashionable way of writing this word, but when I googled it, it was quite rare.

Likewise, you used a kanji-kana combination for 捨て台詞. It took a fair amount of work to figure out what was going on with that term, especially because the ゼリフ　would normally be pronounced セリフ。　I was also surprised that you defined a simple term like 捨てる in the vocab section, but didn’t define the phrase 捨て台詞, which is quite a bit more difficult.

中国語では、髪を切りながら、マサージをもらえる。気持ちい！

Yuki, I envy you. うらやましいよ！
Your must have a very pretty head to have such a hairdo!

I could be mistaken, but isn’t the grammar point in the audio lesson different from the one in the PDF? I was looking forward to learning about “mitai ni”. Oh well, I thought this was an exceptionally good audio lesson anyways. Lots of new stuff in there and not too much time wasted on tangents.

A few detail questions for anyone who can answer them…

In this sentence,

彼女は僕のことを軟弱だ、なんて言ったんです。「あなたの女々しいところがもう耐えられない」

when he says なんて言ったんで, which part is the direct object of 言う, is it the sentence that came before, or the sentence that comes after in quotes?

Also, is there some clear difference between ところ　and こと　when used to refer to ‘things of’ a person or a place? Could こと have been used here without a change in meaning?

Thanks in advance.

The part before なんて言ったんです is spoken. The sentence that comes after also sounds like it has been said though.

何て言ったんです is a grammatical structure that indicates what came before it was spoken. If you look it up in the grammar bank you won’t find it, it’s a corruption of 「何々」と言いました or in its plain form「何々」と言った。(The writer has changed the と to a て and put a 何て in front of it, which is kinda like the Japanese word for “kinda”].

But the sentence that comes after also looks like it’s been spoken because of the ［ ］around it.

I think ところ and こと are interchangeable. But こと is shorter (duh!) which means that it’s used in spoken language much more. Often when there are two words that mean the same thing, the shorter is used in spoken language, the longer in written.