This game is 大変!!!

Do Japanese audiences “boo” in sporting events. My image is Japanese people are very polite, so I can’t imagine them booing like in this story.

Kitty-chan

hello there,
i’m not a big baseball fan but the lesson was very good
the the grammar today is very useful
thanks

あの：

三塁コーチと二塁コーチはどうちがいますか。つまり、三塁プレイヤーのボールを受けリ方は他のベースのプレイヤーと違いますか。クリケットには、チームは皆がコーチが一人だけ。

In cricket, there’s only 1 coach for the entire team. Why does the guy on 3rd base need his own coach? Is his catching technique so different to everyone else’s that he needs his own coach to tell him how to do it?

JP101 crew/listeners!

I’m not a baseball fan but I’m with it!

I would like lesson on soccer or poker games that would really be my days.

Kitty-Chan-san!

Congratulations! ナンバーワン

You deserve it my friend, keep it up!! S_R_C

Peterさん-
I didn’t notice anything about the xそう structure in the PDF. (I just glanced really quick though). I take it from the lesson that looks cute would be かわいいそう right

Also, you mentioned we should suggest topics. How about music.

Maxiewawaさん -
From what I understand (I’m not a baseball player myself, but occasionally like to go the Mud Hens games) there is a coach at each base, to provide guidance to the runner, have an extra set of eyes, suggest times to steal the next base…

Chris,

Jonas has it almost right, but might have added more detail. First, you made a small mistake at the outset with your adjective + そう construction. One must take the stem of the adjective. To get to the stem of an -i adjective, you must drop the final -i, so that kawaii becomes kawai. Now following the rules, we would add そう, to make it 「かわいそう」.

Only, in this case we are dealing with a rare exception, and so this word in
Japanese does not mean “looks cute”. Instead, 可哀相（かわいそう）means “poor, pitiable”, as in “Poor Will was blamed, even though it was actually his visiting cousin who dyed their poodle’s fur blue.”

The buttons and lines in the line-by-line transcript in the learning center don’t quite match up. The umpire’s “Out! Out! Out!” is skipped, so that its button and all subsequent buttons link to what is said one button further down. つまり、ずれている。

Aah, yatta… I’m back baby! Finally listened to all Beginner lessons S2!