Mina-san, Fabrizio is back and this time he’s hungry. Hopefully he’ll get enough to eat tonight!!

Nice lesson, やっぱりなおみ先生はすごくて、本当にうぐいすじょうですね。I can sort of see a sixpack in 肉, although I never would have thought that myself

相変わらず、次のレッスンを楽しみにしていますよ。

Hi Liz-san - PDF has been tweaked

markobe8さん、
kanji is so integral to japanese. and in a lot of ways it offers you shortcuts when reading/writing!

i recommend to everyone Eve Kushner’s “Kanji Curiosity” in the Blog section. she is definitely excited about kanji!
http://blogs.japanesepod101.com/

and as for Izakaya, here is the kanji:

居酒屋・いざかや・izakaya

居る・いる　to be, to exist
酒・さけ　　 sake, alcohol
屋・や　　　 store, restaurant

and another interesting related one:

二日酔い・ふつかよい・futsukayoi

二・に　　　two
日・にち day
酔・よい sickness, drunkness

the meaning, of course, is ‘hangover’

I’m off to a 飲み会 (nomi-kai; party with adult beverages plentifully available) at Ebisu Garden Place tonight. This lesson came just in the “niku” of time. (noxious pun intended, groaning obligatory)

乾杯！ (kampai)

ooops Bob1-san*

どうしてこの人は肉かどうか分からない?？めずらしい！

How is it that this guy doesn’t know if it’s meat or not? Weird!

Good luck with the Kanji! In truth I don’t understand how people learn without them… Whenever I click twice on the wheel of my iPod and see the Hiragana version of the dialogue staring back at me I get a headache just looking at it!
(That’s a thought actually… could we have a show of hands of people who would prefer a proper Kanji version of the dialogue instead of the Hiragana version in the lesson mp3s?)

Here’s an interesting Kanji:
海豚 = dolphin
The first is ‘ocean’ or ’sea’, and the second is ‘pig’. I understand the first kanji, as a dolphin lives in the ocean, but I don’t see how a dolphin looks anything like a pig though.

maxiewawaさん、

I have a far-fetched explanation. You can eat pig meat. A few Japanese do eat dolphin meat, so maybe they took one of the kanji of one earth-bound-eatable animal and used it for this sea-bound-eatable animal…

Such a shame to kill and eat graceful and intelligent sea creatures, imho. Pigs might be intelligent, but they clearly lack grace

こんにちは。/Konnichiwa
なおみです。/Naomi desu.
みなさん、ありがとうございます。/Mina-san, arigatou gozaimasu.
Thank you very much all your comments.

According to an etymological dictionary, the combination of kanji 海豚(dolphin), was originally from china. In chinese language, dolphin is spelled as「海豚」,「海猪」or「江豚」. The reason they spell dolphin as sea pig was dolphins have big noses similar to pigs’ snouts. So that’s not because we eat dolohin and it tastes like pig…

By the way, I was so glad some people could see six pack in 肉.

私は肉と魚好きです。

ヴェジタリアンでは　ありません。

I love this site! This is a great lesson… I’m scrounging around to pay for a premium membership…

My question is the during the introduction, the guy ordering the hamburger says something like ‘NUKI’… like ‘Bacon Nuki de’… then the waiter repeats him… i figure it means something like with bacon or with out bacon…

what is this nuki… am i just really hearing this wrong?

thanks!

Cheers,
George

It seem easier to start with the Nihongo Dojo lessons, it’s more fluid in my opinion. I think after I’m done with the series, I’ll go back to the first lessons in the newbie section! Although for the Kandji…well that’s another story

Domo arigato gazaimasu