Comments on: Lower Intermediate Lesson #43 - Hangover http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/ Learn Japanese with Daily Podcasts from Tokyo Whether you are Japan-bound or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at Japanesepod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever! Yoroshiku O-negai Shimasu! Tue, 22 May 2012 17:51:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: JapanesePod101.com http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-321709 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:23:02 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-321709 Corona Qnsさん、 you must have downloaded this episode when it was released on September 27th, 2007. for 1 week we ran the audiobooks promotion, but at the end of the week, the ad was removed and an nice ad-free version was uploaded. if you re-download the file now, you'll find there is no ad in it! :cool: Corona Qnsさん、

you must have downloaded this episode when it was released on September 27th, 2007. for 1 week we ran the audiobooks promotion, but at the end of the week, the ad was removed and an nice ad-free version was uploaded. if you re-download the file now, you’ll find there is no ad in it! :cool:

]]> by: Corona Qns http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-321647 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:33:02 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-321647 i cant believe i just paid money and wasted my time to listen to Galante give a 1 minute commercial for an audio book company. Please keep commercials out of lessons. thank you i cant believe i just paid money and wasted my time to listen to Galante give a 1 minute commercial for an audio book company. Please keep commercials out of lessons. thank you

]]> by: Jason http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-195253 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:56:49 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-195253 <blockquote>And is it just me or was the mother shouting at him? That will make his hangover worse!</blockquote> お母さんはそのつもりだったと思いますが。 :mrgreen: <blockquote>Maybe someone else can confirm it</blockquote> Yep. It's also often used like なんちゃって to mean "jut kidding."

And is it just me or was the mother shouting at him? That will make his hangover worse!

お母さんはそのつもりだったと思いますが。 :mrgreen:

Maybe someone else can confirm it

Yep. It’s also often used like なんちゃって to mean “jut kidding.”

]]> by: Scott Curry http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-195168 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:15:22 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-195168 HAHA! Glad to see I'm not the only metalhead on here! HAHA! Glad to see I’m not the only metalhead on here!

]]> by: StEvE AuStiN http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-194902 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:03:26 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-194902 My hangover cure is Cannibal Corpse! http://www.cannibalcorpse.net/ That scares the hangover away and makes your head feel goooooooooooooooooood :mrgreen: My hangover cure is Cannibal Corpse!

http://www.cannibalcorpse.net/

That scares the hangover away and makes your head feel goooooooooooooooooood :mrgreen:

]]> by: markystar http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-194483 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:25:55 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-194483 Every now and then it's nice to get a little Shakespearian. :mrgreen: marky Every now and then it’s nice to get a little Shakespearian. :mrgreen:

marky

]]> by: クリストファー (KC8UFV) http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-194443 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:07:44 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-194443 Max - Japanesepod101.com (Marky???) is using archaic English. Max - Japanesepod101.com (Marky???) is using archaic English.

]]> by: the_gaped_crusader http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193389 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:05:33 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193389 correction, Chicken McNuggets! I guess I should proofread before clicking "submit." :oops: correction, Chicken McNuggets!
I guess I should proofread before clicking “submit.” :oops:

]]> by: the_gaped_crusader http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193388 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:04:47 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193388 LOL@seoulsistaさん、that's pretty funny but true. :lol: I also found that eating McDonald's Chicken McFuggets and drinking a bottle of Pocari Sweat or Aquarius before sleeping also does wonders for preventing a hangover. LOL@seoulsistaさん、that’s pretty funny but true. :lol:

I also found that eating McDonald’s Chicken McFuggets and drinking a bottle of Pocari Sweat or Aquarius before sleeping also does wonders for preventing a hangover.

]]> by: seoulsista http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193182 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:19:42 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193182 the best cure for a hang-over is more alcohol! :wink::wink: the best cure for a hang-over is more alcohol! :wink: :wink:

]]> by: maxiewawa http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193123 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:21:19 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193123 Shouldn't that be "the Romaji HAS been fixed?" 冗談，冗談！:mrgreen::mrgreen: 今日俺の冗談は面白いね！いい天気のセイカ。(Sorry, couldn't think of any other way to use today's grammar point!) Shouldn’t that be “the Romaji HAS been fixed?”

冗談，冗談！ :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

今日俺の冗談は面白いね！いい天気のセイカ。(Sorry, couldn’t think of any other way to use today’s grammar point!)

]]> by: JapanesePod101.com http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193057 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:36:07 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-193057 Neilさん, thanks for the heads up! The romaji hath been fixed! :dogeza: Neilさん, thanks for the heads up! The romaji hath been fixed! :dogeza:

]]> by: rigo http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-192978 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:43:13 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-192978 hello i just want to say thank you for this lesson very very good grammar point hello i just want to say thank you for this lesson
very very good grammar point

]]> by: Javizy http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-192947 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:04:15 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-192947 Wouldn't want to give you the wrong idea* :mrgreen: Wouldn’t want to give you the wrong idea* :mrgreen:

]]> by: Javizy http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-192945 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:02:14 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/09/27/lower-intermediate-lesson-43-hangover/#comment-192945 Steve, Like Naomi said, it adds emphasis, and you kind of add it where you want the emphasis to be placed. It can be used as a colloquial form of 何と, which modifies adjective/adverbs in an exclamatory way. なんて寒いな！Talk about cold! You can use it in place of が or は to emphasise the topic/subject. ピンクのトースターなんてかわいいー！A pink toaster! How cute! And as in today's lesson, you can use it in place of こと or の to nominalise a predicate with a nuance of emphasis. こういう時に踊るなんて馬鹿だな！Dancing at a time like this is stupid! This is what I've picked up through the lessons anyway. Maybe someone else can confirm it, because I would want to give you the wrong idea. Steve,

Like Naomi said, it adds emphasis, and you kind of add it where you want the emphasis to be placed.

It can be used as a colloquial form of 何と, which modifies adjective/adverbs in an exclamatory way.

なんて寒いな！Talk about cold!

You can use it in place of が or は to emphasise the topic/subject.

ピンクのトースターなんてかわいいー！A pink toaster! How cute!

And as in today’s lesson, you can use it in place of こと or の to nominalise a predicate with a nuance of emphasis.

こういう時に踊るなんて馬鹿だな！Dancing at a time like this is stupid!

This is what I’ve picked up through the lessons anyway. Maybe someone else can confirm it, because I would want to give you the wrong idea.

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