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Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! In today’s lesson, a husband and wife are discussing food banks, a concept which hasn’t really caught on in Japan. We’ll be looking at some formal vocabulary for disposal, manufacturing/selling, and enterprise. Our grammar point will look at continuation and simultaneous action. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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This entry was posted on Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Intermediate Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
15 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #71 - Food Bank”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, does your country have a food bank system?
Friday at 7:21 pm
Never heard of this
Happy weekend everyone!
Saturday at 5:53 am
Sometimes in front of my supermarket there are people that collects goods for the poor, and I’ve heard that some supermarkets give the goods that are about to be thrown away to the poor as well.
By the way I was not able to understand the meaning of some words, even by reading the PDF. You should really think of adding Furigana or at least align conversation lines. Searching the right word (pronunciation + meaning) really takes me a lot time.
With furigana and line alignment, this lesson would be perfect.
Saturday at 9:06 pm
[thread hijack]
Inspired by (read: not to be outdone by
) Hyunwoo’s awesome self-intro vid, I decided to make a 2nd self-intro vid since the first one I made some odd months ago was really short.
[/thread hijack]
Saturday at 11:03 pm
A lot of new words, indeed!
Some lessons like that and we can read the Keizai Shinbun!
Although Japan Times seems to be a little easier for a while
Sunday at 12:45 am
I didn’t eat the dessert that came with my lunch set today. And now I feel bad.
Sunday at 3:09 am
ワオー、難しいですよね。
Monday at 2:54 pm
What was the phrase at the begining of the podcast? 何とか借り付けにしょうぜ???
I couldn’t quite catch it…
Monday at 9:17 pm
Really nice lesson.
I never heard about food bank here, but I believe it is an excellent idea!! This lesson was very useful, not only for the Japanese, but also because of this very important social issue topic!!
Mata ne!
Wednesday at 9:12 pm
Very nice lesson, thank you!
We have something like a food bank system here in Germany - called “Die Tafeln” http://www.tafel.de/ - homepage is only in German, sorry. They have about 32.000 volunteers which are collecting food from supermarkets, restaurants, … and give this to people, which really need it.
またね
マルクス
Thursday at 10:53 pm
Maybe you need an ‘advanced’ section for this type of lesson. Difficulty spikes like this can be a little off putting… Too many new words by far for me!
Thursday at 11:31 pm
OOOO! an advanced section would be excellent!
Tuesday at 9:26 am
For those who may be wondering, food banking does exist in Japan. Check out www.2hj.org for more information on the nation’s first food bank, Second Harvest Japan. I happen to volunteer there and was pleased to see a lesson about this.
Tuesday at 12:10 pm
Patricia-san
Their web site that you showed us has a lot of information about what kind of activities and how they are doing. It’s very nice! Thank you for letting us know!
Friday at 6:11 pm
「つつある」という表現は日常会話に使えるんですか。現在進行形と比べると、どのように違うんでしょうか?
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