I think Fuyuka is fishing for compliments

Where’s Fabrizio?

Kitty-chan

Good lesson, this sort of pace would have been ideal when I was newbie. I find myself paying more attention to Naomi’s pitch, and noticing where Peter is going wrong

I was going to ask it any Japanese women have naturally curly hair, but I have no idea how to convey ‘any’. It’s really tough when there is no directly corresponding word in the dictionary

I had a similar problem the other day trying to convey ‘against’, in the ‘England won 3-0 against Russia’ sense. There are a few tournaments going on at the moment, so maybe a couple of sports fans discussing results and fixtures could be a good idea for a lesson.

I know one Japanese woman with curly hair. In the last few years she’s been having it straightened. She said it was annoying when she was a kid, and teachers kept trying to get her to keep it under control.

すごいレッスンです。 I can understand about 50% of the intermediate lessons now, but I still learn stuff from the newbie ones, like the bit about the “dangling い”.

I was going to suggest asking the curly hair question with:
“curly-haired にほんじんがいますか？”
and then realized I don’t know how to say “curly”. For that matter, how do you say “not straight haired”?

まっすぐではない
not straight

the “ない’ makes it an い-adjective? Or do you make the negative in another way when the な-adj precedes the noun.

まっすぐではないかみなにほんじん？
not straight haired japanese person

JP101 crew/listeners!

Thank you for another great lesson JP101!!!

Fuyuka (Miki) cut her hair ehhh I want to see a picture if you don’t mind JP101 please!

I going to cut my hair like her now too! S_R_C

Javizy-san, わざとです。 Glad at least one of us is learning from my mistakes.

the board ate my arrows

Javizyさん

はい。私はモヒカンカットです。
うそです。
According to my hairstylist,　すこし　くせ毛です。

Topknot style? It’s good to see people in touch with their culture, it’s much more of a rarity in the West. なおみ先生は丁髷を結っている立派な方なんですよ。

The Newbie lessons are really very interesting!!
Nihongo ga dai suki desu

“to like” in english is a verb, but in japanese 好き (suki) is an adjective. so it means “a likable thing.” so you need the です (desu) for polite conversation. if you’re speaking among close friends, you can drop the です (desu).

Laurelさん、the kanji for mochiron is　勿論
but it’s a bit 硬い (stiff or uninviting) so, usually people will use もちん in just hiragana to keep things friendly. but if you’re writing something formal (for school or business or a to a person you don’t know so well, you should use the kanji). but in general, the kanji is not used.

mochiron is not an adjective, so the -i adjective/-na adjective rules do not apply.

kirei ends in -i, but not all adjectives that end in -i are -i adjectives.

a good example of this is 嫌い(kirai) and 好き (suki).
(hate, like)

to be honest, i’ve never seen a native japanese person use the kanji for kirei.
in my experience, i’ve only seen it in katakana, because it’s more cute in katakana. if you use the kanji, again, it gets stiff and too formal.

the -i adjective name comes from the romaji.
and it’s a standard way to refer to these adjectives.

that said,
you brought up a good point and i’ll put the kanji into the pdf tomorrow!!

勿論　もちろん　mochiron
綺麗　きれい kirei

一 (ハジメ)-san

知るshiru dictionary form
知らないnon-polite negative form
知らなかったshiranakatta is a past form of 知らないshiranai

The verb shiru is used in a affirmative sentence, it’s usually used in ～ている pattern.
ex)
知っていますかShitteimasu ka?
いいえ。知りませんIie, shirimasen.

The phrase I said was “I didn’t know that.” and it’s a past sentence.

This grammar point will be covered in Beginner Lesson Season4 Lesson 14 which is planning to be published on the 7th of October. So please check that lesson too.

Naomiさん、

そうです！ I didn’t know the -しなかった form. I am still trying to get to Beginner Lesson #1 . Since joining JPod101 I have done the first 48 Newbie lessons in the last 12 days. When I finish all the Newbie lessons I will start Beginner Season 1 and Season 4 (as they arrive) simultaneously. I studied the ピラニア lesson yesterday. It was a little difficult for me. Still a newbie!

有難う御座います。　

私 JPod101.com.

thanks laurelさん！

but now, i take back what i said about kirei. i just received an e-mail from my friend yuu-sensei in osaka and she used the kanji for kirei. lolololol.
but she’s a japanese teacher, so maybe her use of kanji is pretty high level, you know.

keep on rockin’ in NYC!!!
NYC

Robert-san,
Thank you for pointing it out! I fixed them.

Foniksさん＞
Thank you! Everything should hopefully be fixed now