Mina-san, is マック cheap?

Come to think of it, I have a fried G5 dual sitting in a box (I ran it 24/7 set to maximum performance until it was medium rare).

I’ve never used a Mac, but I’ve used a few Apple applications and don’t exactly find them user-friendly. Don’t get me wrong, I hate windows with a passion, but I can’t imagine why people are all like ‘z0mg Mac pwnz PC yeh!1!!?’.

Kitty-chan, the Fabster is going out with Yuki according to the intro, but I couldn’t catch where

Good lesson anyway

全く～！まったく can be used, as well as すっかり and まるで.

You should have mentioned the return of the メガマック! (http://mcdonalds.co.jp/sales/index.html#mega) It’s horrible, awesome, and also rather cheap (for the amount of food you get)
… of course it’s ぜんぜんヘルシーじゃない。

Javizyさん and Kitty-chanさん、

(spoiler alert!)

I believe Yuki is going out salsa dancing with Fabrizio.

marky

When I first heard this lesson (this morning), I thought “Let the flame wars begin!”

I must say the group here is quite civil, compared to other sites I frequent, or magazines I read. A couple months ago, in 2600, someone asked the editor’s preference in OS, and the response was “We don’t discuss religion here”. Also, I have seen many flamewars started on /. by a comment that could be interpreted negitively about a given OS. (Except MS, where it is positive comments that start the flamewar)

In response to the first comment, マックは高いです

If you remember my comment a few weeks ago,
マックもワークもリヌクスもいいです。

I hope I transliterated that right.

Marky -
I take it the third option I mentioned isn’t used in the office?

Help! I’m still stuck on あまり。

とても means very or extremely. Does that mean that あまり means very or extremely not?

If I say “あまりげんきじゃない” (amari genki ja nai), does it mean “I’m not feeling very well” (I feel a little bit sick), or “I’m feeling very not well” (I feel terrible)? If あまり is the negative equivalent of とても then it must mean the second, but I always thought it was the first.

とても、あまり

とても is always in affirmative sentences and あまり is always in negative sentences.
But とても has nuance of “very” “really” etc etc.. , emphasizing adjectives so much.
「この寿司はとてもおいしいですねー。」 “This sushi is very very good!!”

あまり stays with ない. This word has nuance of “not really” “rarely” etc.. This phraseあまり～ない is not direct way to mention something.
「この寿司はあまりおいしくないですねー」 “This sushi is…. not really good”
「お寿司屋にはあまり行きません」 “I rarely go to sushi shop”

it will be back… have no fear!

Hi everyone, I just wanted to say thank you for all these pod casts, finding audio tools for learning Japanese is very difficult, especially that go beyond the basic usage level. These lessons are very helpful and informative. I like that you take the time to point out the literal meaning of words, something many books and tapes leave out. The slow run through of the dialoue is also very useful, the words can really blend together sometimes when spoken. Your efforts to maintain the qualty of this site our impressive, thank you.

If I may, could I ask how it is that so many users are responding using Kanji compound words? To write multiple kanji words in complete sentences hardly seems newbie at all?
lol, you guys are flashing me back to my first Japanese class with my frozen expression of horror and Hiroko-sensei glaring over my shoulder like a eagle ready to strike.
Japanese is easy she wold say, and I would think, sure, it just has more letters in its alphabet then English has words. Arrgh, ganbatte, ganbatte.

watermen さん
Thank you for pointing out. We have fixed them.

Nicholas L. さん
Thank you very much for your feed back.

what i learned is that:
よくmeans often
よく魚を食べます。i eat fish often

あまりmeans NOT often
あまり魚は食べません。i do not eat fish often
since amali means NOT often. the sentence will be in negative form/and the paticle will be wa.

時々means sometime
時々魚を食べます。i sometimes eat fish
since there isn’t any “NOT” so it will be in positive form and teh particle is WA.

全然means NOT at all
全然魚は食べません。i eat fish NOT at all(direct translation, which is: i never eat fish)
there is NOT, so the sentence is negative and the particle is WA

hope this will be better

I think a lot of people listen to every level.
Plus they use Rikai-chan to help them read in Firefox.

Check here:

http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3030

That’s probably because “nai” works like an I adjective which you already know, right?

おは～！

peterさん、

the pdf has been uploaded and you can re-download it now.

kore wa kantan ja nai hon desu is grammatically possible.
so it would not be a mistake to say it,
however, it’s not natural.

the natural way to make a na adjective negative is to use it as a predicate, so:

kono hon wa kantan ja nai desu.

that would be the best choice when dealing with -na adjectives.

hope this helps!