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20 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #68 - My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 19”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, poor Agnes is under a lot of pressure. So much pressure, in fact, that we weren’t able to continue her story until now. We hope you enjoy this one!
Saturday at 3:45 am
I still don’t understand the difference between nakereba naranai and zaru o enai. They both seem to mean someone must do something according to the examples. Also, where does the “zaru” come from? What kanji does it relate to and what is the meaning? Does “enai” come from eru? I need more explanation.
Saturday at 3:50 am
One more. “nakyanaranaku natta” was thrown in with no explanation. The same as nakereba naranai? I cannot use this additional “must” variation unless I understand the usage rules.
Saturday at 6:13 am
Glad to hear that this series is still going, since there’s been a lack of Sakura lately. I’m about 20 lessons behind though, and have taken a break to review the lower intermediate lessons, so I’ll have to catch up with Agnes later
Saturday at 9:36 am
jpod のリスナーのある人は夏子先生のような仕事をやりたいと思う。(She’s a translator) 私は夏子さんの仕事に興味があります.じゃ、レッソン意見のthreadに行って来ます!
Sunday at 1:41 am
Neilさん、thanks for the questions.
“nakereba naranai” is roughly equivalent to the English phrases “have to”, “should” or “must,” while
“zaru o enai” is roughly equivalent to the English phrase “have no choice but to~.” While the meanings are quite similar, in the case of the latter, there is the nuanance that what must be done is not what the speaker would like to do.
enai->得る (eru)
変えなきゃならなくなった (nakya naranakunatta) - is the same as nakereba naranai, with the addition of the verb “naru.”
nakereba -> nakya
naranakunatta is the past tense of naranakunaru
naranai -> naranakunaru (-kunaru is attached to naranai, so we drop the i -> narana and attach kunaru (to become) narana-kunaru.
変えなきゃならなくなった. (lit. closer to “It became that I had to change” (the color)) I had to change colors.
Sunday at 1:44 am
Javizy-san,
Yes, it is quite nice to have CB back!
She’ll be in a few upcoming lessons too! Sakura
“We’re not worthy!”
Monday at 5:45 pm
A nice, very challenging lesson, and with grammatical constructions that I had heard before but did not understand. Good job!
As for the premium content questions, please take a look at the grammar and vocabulary questions. Each question should have 4 multiple choice buttons corresponding to the four answers, but instead there are only two buttons with the three wrong answers grouped together behind one of the buttons.
JPL は同じようにしたら、うれしいんですけど。
Monday at 6:54 pm
thanks for the heads up! try them now!
Monday at 7:51 pm
Haha nice one Bob1!
Monday at 7:53 pm
In China, today is Teacher’s Day. 老师节快乐 to all the jPod teachers!
Monday at 8:07 pm
Bob1さん、毎度ありがとうございます!
おめでとうございます!As a reward for all you’re hard work, we’re giving you admin rights, so could you please proof lessons 1-600.
よろしくお願いします!
締め切りは来週の金曜日でございます。
Monday at 10:33 pm
there you go, scaring away the listeners again.
(笑)
marky
Tuesday at 12:19 am
サクラさん、どうやって洗濯機の中まで入ってしまいましたか。。。
アグネスさんのストーリ、大好きです~!
Tuesday at 1:07 am
Hyunwoo Sunさん、
やっぱりサクラさんは仕様ですね
marky
Tuesday at 4:00 am
Thanks very much for the extra help.
Tuesday at 3:51 pm
僕はJapanesepod101.comに来ていることが初めてけれども、こんなに素晴らしい番組には予期してない。嬉しい!Japanesepod101.comの皆さん、お疲れ様でした!
Tuesday at 5:53 pm
Peter,
Thanks for seeing to it that the premium questions for this lesson got fixed. Actually, must of the other recent intermediate lessons suffer from the same problem, so it’s a good thing you gave me administrative access.
Actually those questions are really valuable. I may think I know the content, but those questions have a way of showing me that I haven’t really mastered it. And I just sent in my registration today for the JLPT (level 2). JapanesePod101 is listed as my “school”, so I’ll try not to shame you too drastically. So no time for proof-reading all your lessons; I’ve got to buckle down on those 600 kanji (my huge weakness) they expect me to know!
Tuesday at 6:15 pm
Oops! Make that 1000 kanji!
Tuesday at 6:55 pm
all fixed thanks for the heads up!
good luck on your level 2, it’s a biiiiiiig jump from 3!
marky
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