Comments on: Newbie Lesson #33 - Nihongo Dōjō - Welcome to Style You 3

by: JapanesePod101.com

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:36:13 +0000

you heard it correctly! ぬき (nuki) means “without.”
and it implies that the thing you don’t want on the food is standard with the food.
so, he ordered a double bacon burger (which clearly comes with bacon on it) and wants it without the bacon, therefore he says “bekon nuki de.”

marky

by: George

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:12:46 +0000

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

by: Peter

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:20:00 +0000

How come for what is only the third lesson of a beginners course some people are writing Kanji like natives?

If they know that much they surely cannot need to be learning or revising
dewa arimasen etc

by: Karin

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:22:23 +0000

私は肉と魚好きです。

ヴェジタリアンでは　ありません。

by: markobe8

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:07:27 +0000

markystar.. thanks for the info.. the blog was good.. now i must really get into kanji… the terms of yours about your post is very useful.. maybe i could use them for quite some time hehe

by: Naomi

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:49:25 +0000

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.

by: markystar

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:11:03 +0000

GIllianさん、
turkey meat is ターキー肉, the turkey is a New World bird, so it has to be imported here. 残念　

by: Sophie

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:01:55 +0000

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

by: Babliku

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:39:25 +0000

it has a snout?

by: maxiewawa

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:34:13 +0000

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.