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This entry was posted on Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Intermediate Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
15 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #64 - Invitation to a Ball Game”
Friday at 6:30 pm
No interest in baseball either here but nice to have Sensei joining in. Wish the grammar was not treated so superficially, though. I definitely need to supplement with a ton of other stuff. Anyone else feel the same way? Gambatte!
Saturday at 5:34 am
Marky-san,
I can’t understand them all the time, but I always enjoy them! Keep it up!! What will be next???
Thanks for your amazing intros! They are so much fun!
sindy-san,
As for myself, I think I am still a Beginner. But, when I listen to Intermediate lessons, I always pick up some little thing, such a a new vocabulary word, for example. Learning a language seems to be a gradual process — you just keep picking up one thing after another. Think about how a child learns his or her native language.
I feel your pain.
Many people have decided to go back to some Beginner Lessons in order to recoup missing bits! So, don’t feel bad!
JPOD Team: As for this lesson, I loved it. I was even able to understand a lot of what Natsuko-san said when she spoke Japanese! Nice job, Natsuko-san! And the explanations of vocabulary were all clear and to-the point. Naomi-sensei, thank you so much for your clear explanations, too. Of course,iIt doesn’t hurt that I am a huge baseball fan. Peter-san, I will cheer Chiba Lotte with you (tobemasu?). Too bad they slipped to third place. Do you think they can come back? They were leading the Pacific League for a long time.
Saturday at 5:35 am
Wow, I blabbed on a lot today, didn’t I!
ペロペロ
ごめん。
Saturday at 6:49 pm
私はこのレッソンがちょうどいいと思います。
一回聞くと全部分からないのに、二三回後分かるぐらい。
このレベルは学生たちが全部分からないはず!
I think that at this level, students shouldn’t be able to understand the whole thing. (At least the first time you hear it anyway.)
I liked the intro too. Always like them! It seemed like a promo for an event. I have a suggestion though: although this is a japanese language site, if you really want people to know about the event, I think you should somehow put it in English. That would of course make it kinda boring though… Maybe we should get transcripts/lessons based on the intros. Especially in the event of an event like this. (In the event of an event?)
Introはいつも頑張ってください!
I actually started a thread on this:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1872&highlight=intro
返事がないけど。
Sunday at 1:27 am
sindy-san!
Stop posting like me put Cindy instead of S! I’m the only one with Sindy with s ok!
Liz-san!
I don’t feel pain, to the contrary I feel joy like Silent Hill says
S_R_C
“This world is fill with unnecessary people is god decision that I fight has the night of honor has the protector of the seal I sacrifice to the world of criminals”
Sunday at 5:55 am
Sindy-san,
It’s easy to tell the difference.
“Feel the pain” means that I understand how difficult it is to learn Japanese. Wakarimasuka?
My remarks were directed to “sindy-san”, not to you.
Sunday at 5:55 am
What?
Sunday at 7:14 am
Liz-san!
You’re right! I know how you can see the difference between me and her.
I also knew that you were referring to “feel the pain” has how difficult is to learning Japanese and that’s why I said that I feel joy, pleasure.
About Silent Hill 3 soundtrack song lyrics it’s a truth that hurts alot and the coat felt on them and me.
Jason-san!
Welcome back, we miss you specially me!
S_R_C
Sunday at 9:32 am
There’s a lot of guesswork in this, but here is my transcript of the intro:
ね、ね、ね、聞いて聞いて、マーキがDJを勤めるエベント
八月十日、金曜日の十時から。シブヤやるの知ってる(知ってない- maxiewawa)
絶対楽しめるエベントだから、みんあ来てるね え え え え
I know there are some mistakes, but the important stuff is that there is a DJ event run by DJ marky星. It’s on Friday the tenth of August, in Shibuya Yaru (?) in Tokyo.
Tuesday at 6:09 am
Do I get a commission for plugging Premium content?
As I’ve mentioned before; beginner level here is like Intermediate at Japan Society… still it’s all fun. I get to use one or two words at my local NYC Izakaya so I sound clever… or when I mangle my ke/ka’s or such I sound utterly 馬鹿。
私は日本語で何時も呆けている。
Thursday at 10:54 am
Really a good lesson of all. Should be called as 上級 lesson because lot of 語彙 pertains to 上級. gr8.
Sunday at 10:22 pm
Totemo omoshiroi resson desu ga, ima boku no atama ga itai desu…
Monday at 1:51 pm
ben-san,
I hope that this lesson didn’t make you have a headache.
Tuesday at 10:38 am
Hey, is there a section just for latest news
Wednesday at 2:46 pm
Ray-san,
I’m afraid that I don’t understand you correctly, but the latest Sunday news is here.
http://www.japanesepod101.com/2009/04/05/news-76-the-fastest-easiest-and-most-fun-way-to-learn-japanese-just-got-cheaper/
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