Comments on: Newbie Lesson S2 #13 - Nihongo Dōjō - What Have You Forgotten in Japan Today?

by: トーマス

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:13:40 +0000

そして、誰がナツミさんの傘を取ったかなぁ。:???:

by: トーマス

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:01:49 +0000

はい、ファブリツィオさんは人騒がせな人でしょうね。

by: Motoko

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:02:41 +0000

Danielle-san,
You can use かっこいい to things and people and the meanings change.
When we use かっこいい to describe a person, it becomes good looking, and when we use it to do things, especially cloths, cars, it means “cool.”
But unfortunately we don’t often say かっこいいえいが.
You can say the actor/actress in a movie is かっこいい.
I hope this helps.

by: Danielle

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:07:21 +0000

Hi,

I have a question about the word かっこういい. It is translated here as meaning good looking and stylish. Whenever I have heard this word before it was used to mean “cool”. It is common for it to be used for cool? If someone wanted to say “that was a cool movie” in Japanese, would you use かっこういい?

thank you.

by: 王凱

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:14:11 +0000

ない、私の財布、ない。
ファブリツィオさんの財布はどんな財布ですか。
高い財布、イタリアのデザイナーの財布です、とても素敵な財布です。
あれですか。
そうです。有難うございます。
どういたしまして。
とても格好いい財布です。

じゃ、また。

by: Sara

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:43:29 +0000

Kanji is interesting, but sometimes very confusing. How do you get すてき (lovely, fantastic) out of　素(uncovered) and 敵 (enemy)? Is it really fantastic to see your enemies without their clothes on?

It reminds me of what people say about public speaking. If you want to relax, just picture your audience naked.

by: Naomi

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:30:26 +0000

Griff-san
Thank you for answering Dino-san’s question!!!

Dino-san
As Griff-san kindly answered, donna means “what kind” and dono means “which”.

“Kono kaban wa donnna kaban desu ka?” means “What kind of bag is this?”
But your sample sentence “kono kaban wa dono kaban desu ka?” doesn’t sound very natural though. It literally means “Which bag is this bag?”…

I think following sentences are more clear.
●Ken san wa donna hito desu ka? (=What type of person is Ken?(literal), What is Ken like? What does Ken look like?)
●Ken san wa dono hito desu ka? (Which person is Ken?)

I hope this helps.

by: Griff

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:13:19 +0000

どんな = what kind of

どの = which

So in your examples I would use the second sentence.

I hope that helps.

by: Dino

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:29:11 +0000

みなさん　こんいちわ

なおみせんせい　は　ものすごく　せんせい　です。

I have a question regarding todays lesson.

What is the difference of donna and dono?

e.g. kono kaban wa dono kaban desu ka?
kono kaban wa donna kaban desu ka?

Are those two the same? Or did I make a mistake?

Thanks for any help in advance

どうも　ありがとう　ございました

by: Pallavi

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:47:17 +0000

Jessi San,

Arigato gozaimas. I’m not facing that problem today. The vocabulary flashcards is working fine. Just because you asked - Firefox and Windows XP.

by: Jessi

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:28:29 +0000

Pallaviさん,
When you click on the Vocabulary Flashcards link, what happens? Also, what browser and OS are you using? Thanks!

by: Pallavi

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:49:11 +0000

For tech team,

The vocabulary flashcards function is not working

thanks in advance for fixing it

by: Mayumi

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:41:27 +0000

Tama-san,
It might sound どうゆう, but it is written as どういう. I think we can use them almost in the same way. But, it seems to me that when you ask using “どういう” you are expecting long explanation rather than when asking by “どんな.”　For example, when you want ask someone how they feel, you can say どんなきもち or どういうきもち？ When you ask どういうきもち, you might expect them to answer in more detail rather than just saying one word expressing their emotion such as “happy” or “sad.”
I hope that might be of any help for your understanding.

by: Tamas

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:36:26 +0000

I was just wondering, what is the difference between どんな and どうゆ。。。? Both mean ‘what kind of’, and although I can somewhat feel the difference, an explanation would be good.

by: Earl

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:29:38 +0000

Fabrizio just wants to show off his designer stuff!