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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”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, does your country have a food bank system?

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doraemon says:

Never heard of this :shock:

Happy weekend everyone!

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scnnrc says:

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. :sad:

With furigana and line alignment, this lesson would be perfect. :dogeza:

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Jason says:

[thread hijack]

Inspired by (read: not to be outdone by :razz: ) 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]

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Alain says:

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 ;-)

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the_gaped_crusader says:

I didn’t eat the dessert that came with my lunch set today. And now I feel bad. :cry:

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デボン says:

ワオー、難しいですよね。 :roll:   :sad:

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Jen says:

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…

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João Paulo says:

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! :mrgreen:

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Markus says:

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

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Phil says:

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!

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teeter says:

OOOO! an advanced section would be excellent! :kokoro:

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Patricia says:

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.

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Mayumi says:

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! :dogeza:

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Alice says:

「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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