Mina-san,

We planted a kanji joke in this dialog.  Can anyone spot it?

doraemonさん、we’ve got some good advanced grammar coming down the pipe over the next weeks. so hope it’s good for you!

marky

Is it just me, or is the dialog file exactly the same as the regular file today?

Never mind, seems to be working now

there is an issue with the lesson on the website. It won’t stream.

Mina-san,

We just got word from our media host provider that at about 2:30 EST on Thursday, Aug 23, there was a momentary DNS misconfiguration that may have caused some users to be unable to access media files hosted on their servers (i.e. our audio). The situation was recognized and resolved immediately, but due to the nature of the DNS system, some users have cached the incorrect data, either on their computer, or on the ISP DNS servers. As with everything DNS related, the caches will time out, and the correct data will be received, and we’ve been told the maximum time this will take is 24 hours. (It’s usually much shorter, however) In the meantime, a potential remedy for end users is a reboot of their computer to hopefully flush that local cache. We apologize for any downtime.

- Eran

Maikaiwa to bunten no lesson arigatou gozaimashita! Jp101 no sugoku lesson wo kiite koto kara, nihongo no SAT de yoku dekite kanji ga arimasu! Kyou “jya arumai shi” wo tsukutte yatte mitai ne~

Erinさん

Is that AM or PM? OR, what time UTC?

So it’s not 出／入？

well, it’s not a particularly funny one but…
here’s a hint: compare the audio to the transcript

marky

hey JPOD101

I had problems downloading this episode…it failed yesterday so I tried today, and it still doesn’t work…

I am so eager to get stuck in for the lesson….

In Georgia, I’m still getting this inability to download the audio, both for the 23rd’s lesson and the 24th’s. Is there nothing one can do?

It was indeed a challenge to search for it, but I believe that Alain spotted it correctly. The word in the vocabulary was 婉曲 (enkyoku) for euphemism or circumlocution, but the speaker said 湾曲 (wankyoku), meaning twist, bend or crook. But this makes sense to me meaning-wise, since circumlocution simply means a circuitous (twisting) way of saying something. Would it be fair to say that either word used in this context would have nearly the same meaning?

Scott Curry-san!

I don’t have kids, I’m 23 years old, single and enjoying NYC!

BTW Mina-san thank you for asking me if I’m a guy or gal I made a mistake and in the JP101 listeners photos in my picture it should say gals, I make a mistake and click on guys nobody is perfect. S_R_C

Alain-san and Bob 1-san

Both婉曲enkyoku and湾曲wankyoku are big words and their meanings are pretty similar. But 婉曲enkyoku is more abstract. 婉曲表現Enkyoku hyougen (hyougen/ expression) is translated as euphemistic expression or circumlocution. Whereas 湾曲wankyoku is used to describe something more concrete. 湾曲した鼻Wankyoku shita hana (curved nose).
I think 婉曲enkyoku is used for something you CAN NOT actually see and 湾曲wankyoku is used for something you CAN actually see.
The reason Take, the voice actor, read it wrong is they have similar meanings and pronunciation. Quite a few people confuse these two words easily.

Naomi

Hi Phil, as I understand, 一向に employed with a negative verb means: (not) at all, absolutely not.
Here the sentence is incomplete but we can guess the 先生 means : no success at all.

BTW I do not catch さめている at the beginning of the dialog, nor 当てても in the middle. Any hint? Thanks.

In the romaji transcript, is “o-yago-san” correct? It seems to me that it should be hyphenated as oyago-san since the first kanji is oya = parent(s) [i.e. the o is not honorific prefix here].