Typoons - Unfortunately I have.

Thanks for a nice lesson!

However, the real reason for popping in is to say a big *Thank you* to Psycho 013-san for helping me out yesterday

Happy weekend all!

I was wondering why Hidetada said ” Ie koto nai wa”. I thought only women sometimes used “wa” at the end of sentences.

The reason for changing from just women’s names for hurricanes to both men and women was purely to be more politically correct. However, I believe the change to be a good one.

Come to http://youtube.com/group/japanesepod101 and join the japanesepod101 group! An easy place to keep all the video material together.

By the way… I started to make some Japanese videos on youtube. 　本当に恥ずかしいけど　 。。。行って下さい！

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvlYVgJ0G5I　

台風って、韓国にも沢山来ますけど、途中で突然弱くなったりなくなったりします。

面白いレッスン、ありがとうございます！今日も沢山の面白い表現を並べました。

Thanks!

I was wondering why Hidetada said ” Ie koto nai wa”. I thought only women sometimes used “wa” at the end of sentences.

It depends on the intonation. Seems like I just heard this mentioned in a jpod episode not long ago. I believe in some areas, like Kansai (I think), わ is a more gender neutral sentence ender than in say Tokyo dialect.

bakanekoさん、hahahaha, good questions, depends on the status of the speaker and the listener, but i think samurai to samurai of equal status would say something like:
台風が参る

as for guy’s saying わ or わー, like Jasonさん said, in the Osaka dialect it has no gender bias. but the intonation matters. guys say it with a falling intonation. cool girls use this too, but generally they can use a rising intonation for a more feminine style. also, guys don’t combine this particle with other particles. combinations like わね、わよ or わ after the copula is dropped are particularly effeminate.

if i’m not 100% sure of the effect, i don’t use it. there’s nothing funnier to the japanese then foreign males speaking like women.

marky

アメリカであまり自然破壊ありません。よかったですね。

ーら日

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