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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today’s lesson is about geimu (video games). One guy is teaching his friend how to use the joystick for a new game. Our grammar point is the -masu stem plus kata which forms a compound noun indicating how to use something. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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23 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #35 - Video Game Guru”
Thursday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, let’s get ready to ruuuuuuuuuuuumble! What’s your favorite (or most hated) video game?
Friday at 12:27 am
This is ESSENTIAL Japanese!!!
Vocabulary for playing video games… すごい!
I love those “point and click” games, like crimson room (also the green and blue rooms), the mistery of time and space, and those games from www.gotmail.jp. Most of them are in Japanese!
By the way, the idea of having a “Japanese cuisine” series was also very nice. As long as we have the ingredients and how to prepare it, maybe we could give it try and then post what the result was.
今日の会話は最高でした!
また次回!
Friday at 1:17 am
ビデオゲームの言葉と単語は楽しかったです。今夜、ビデオゲーム前に晩御飯をチンする。
By the way how does one spell chin to mean microwave suru?
私の好みのビデオゲームはジェット戦闘機のゲームである。
私は私の敵を殺すことを楽しむだよ
Friday at 2:38 am
I don’t really play any more because of RSI, but recent favourites would be Halo, Ghost Recon, Battlefield, Call of Duty, anything with shooting
FPSs don’t seem to be very popular in Japan, I found the arcadey-style Lost Planet to be pretty poor.
All-time favourite would have to be Final Fantasy VII, closely followed by Metal Gear Solid, so Japanese games definitely aren’t without the charm
By the way, neko-panchi, that’s a great word
Friday at 3:49 am
João Pauloさん、
i wanna buy a Nintendo DS because there are kanji practice games for it!!! if do the stroke order wrong, you LOSE.
how awesome is that?
as for cooking classes…
you’re right, we should probably do a short series about that, huh?
henjinさん、
チンする = to nuke something
このインスタントライスをチンする = i’m gonna microwave this instant rice
電子レンジがチンしたばっか! = the microwave just dinged!
(that’s probably bad english, but i think it stays true to the japanese)
Javizyさん、
猫パンチ is great, right? i learned a new one the other day ラブパンチ. when your girlfriend or boyfriend give you a playful tap. ‘love punch’ is the exact translation.
マーキー
Friday at 8:09 am
chin suru ?
that’s amazing
Friday at 10:15 am
牛乳をチンしたら、超熱かった!
てか、ラブランチってなんだ?!
Friday at 11:28 am
Cooking episodes would be priceless! I posted that ideal about a week ago in the fourm!
Im just moved to an area in South Philly Called the ‘Italian Market’ where the sell tons of fresh food and fish, and I also just moved in with a Japanese Roommate. I’ll be cooking alot and trying some new styles.
That would be really great if you could teach some words I could really surprise him and other Japanese friends with.
On the topic of Educational video games for the DS, Ive also been intrested in that. I used “Education” as my excuse to buy the DS as my first game system since Sega Genisis. My girlfriend just gave me “Tadashi Kanji Kakitori” and its amazing. Ive also been using the Soma kanji dictionary and there is a Second “Brain Training” game only for in Japan that includes Kanji Quizes. There are some other Kanji games but theyve been a bit to difficult for me and even my native friends think they are difficult.
There are ways to Hack the DS and just download the Japanese games so you dont have to go there to get them, but its somewhat limited.
Anyway, bust out that cookbook Peter and whip out some cooking vocab!
Friday at 12:53 pm
JP101 crew/listeners!
I’m a video game girl player since I was six so this lesson was wonderful, it remind me of my old days.
Anyone else likes video games? I own PS3, Wii, Xbox360!
I still need to get PSP and DS!
Let me know if anyone is interest in sharing Wii codes with me ok!
S_R_C
Friday at 12:58 pm
My favorites are Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Alone in the dark, The Elder Scroll IV Oblivion, Splinter Cell, All RPG’S, Doom 3, Quake 4, fighting, All action/Survival Horror, etc! S_R_C
Friday at 1:14 pm
Check me out on 1UP mina-san!
http://Ulver_684.1UP.com
S_R_C
Friday at 2:18 pm
To TempleUniJP:
Ohaiyo Gozaimasu! Hajimemashite, James Brian to moshimasu! Yoroshiku onegai itashimasu!
I see that you have moved into the Philadelphia area! Welcome. My name is Brian (as I said earlier). The Italian Market is really a treasure. I think you’ll find the prices unbeatable. My family has been shopping there for years. Make sure that you check out Esposito’s Meats. The freshest meats you’ll ever get. Espositos actually sends meat to Atlantic City casinos as well as many of Philadelphia’s well-known eateries!
If you want someone to chat with and practice Japanese with, please feel free to e-mail me so we can make arrangements to meet and/or exchange phone numbers sometime.
I didn’t know if you were aware that there’s a website: http://jasgp.org/ - and they have set up a free conversation club! I hope to make the next one. I really want to go, so I can learn more Japanese, help someone understand English better, make some friends!
Please e-mail me back from my website (www.briankjames.com) when you can, okay? I’d really like to hear from you. I’m always up for making new friends, and I’m interested in some cooking vocab too!
Nihon ryouri wa monosunoku oishii desu yo!
Ja ne!
Sincerely,
Brian K. James
www.briankjames.com
Friday at 2:59 pm
1) 最後の「携帯を使い方」と「電子レンジの使い方」はとても有用でした。
「僕は、もちろん、使い方はもう知ってるのに、説明は日本語でまだできない。」
2) introはいつもおもしろい!ドラえもんはこの間映画を作ったんですよ!
3)… ‘この必殺技は1ステージで2回しか使えないから’…
私には、「二回した使えない。。。」と言うのはわかりません。」
Rikaichan says that ‘した’ means ‘only’ or ‘nothing but’. - I understand that I think, but the verb 使えない makes me think of the opposite of the translation we were given.
つまり、「した」と言う言葉の使い方を教えてください。
As I understand it:
一冊しか借れない。 = You can only borrow one book. Or should that be you can’t only borrow one book? The negative verb at the end has got me in a spin.
Like I said, 使い方を教えてください。 (Hey, that was today’s grammar point!)
Saturday at 1:31 am
Markystar-san
This game seems to be nice… good practice!!
Ganbarimashou!!!
Saturday at 2:12 am
Max, ’shika’ is always used with a negative verb to mean ‘only’. Check out lower intermediate lesson #5.
Sunday at 12:40 am
Where can I find the transcript of the short conversations that come before Good morning Tokyo. They are really interesting, but I’m not sure about their meaning sometimes.
Sunday at 5:32 am
Joa Paulo-san!
I agree, great game!
JP101 crew/listeners!
I know how to use the computer(PC) everyone should learn how to use it and you’ll discover how beautiful the relationship between You/PC can be or turn out ahhhhh.
PC games are also very interesting and fun, I really recommend them.
S_R_C
Wednesday at 11:12 pm
I would LOVE to hear a lesson on the history of ninja!
Thursday at 11:46 pm
Couldn’t really get on with this lesson (usually think they’re pretty good). Too much random chit-chat in English made it somewhat disjointed and hard to follow, at least for me. Remember the same thing happening in the ‘pizza lessons’. I prefer Peter’s type of lesson: short, concise and with English used only when necessary. Anyway, grumble over - please keep up the good work.
Sunday at 1:54 am
Ben-san,
Thank you for your honest feedback.
Monday at 2:26 am
yay nintendo DS rocks for kanji software.
One cool word I learnt by playing japanese games is
十字ボタン, which stands for the directionnal button
It’s fun to see how japanese use the kanji 十 to symbolize the cross button
Monday at 10:04 am
十字ボタン!なるほど~
I agree, the DS has lots of good software for kanji and Japanese
Friday at 12:17 am
Hey guys! Simple yet useful lesson. I have lots of friends that learned English and Japanese through videogames. Especially Roleplaying games, where you can’t advance without understanding what the characters are saying. Also, in J-RPGs (like Odin Sphere or Final Fantasy series) characters’ lines are written on the screen. Good, eh?
I just loved the idea of a cooking series! In fact I was studying some JLPT N3 materials, and there were two chapters about cooking in the book, terms like slice, chop, separate, skin, boil, the names of the ingredients, utensils and all that. I think it would be really useful for people living in Japan to understand the cooking books and videos.
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