Mina-san, is it too late for this couple to go to the beach? It’s already October!!

Friends don’t let friends drive really fast to buy a swimsuit.

gaminetteさん、クリストファー・ハートさん、

it’s gotten downright cold in tokyo the last few days. it was raining all day today which just made it worse. the idea of going to the beach is almost like torture at this point, guess i have to wait until next year.
but i saw the chicago marathon on the news and sounds like there is a heatwave going on there in the midwest. that was shocking!

Jasonさん、
hahahahahahahahahahaha, we need t-shirts that say that!

marky

I thought that ちゃ was a contraction of ては used to infer てはいかない at the end of negative verb stems, whereas きゃ is a contraction of ければ used to infer ければならない.

買わなくちゃ　〉　買わなくてはいかない
買わなきゃ　〉　買わなければならない

Yuki managed to suggest the bikini pretty smoothly, it’s a shame it backfired

By the way, from yesterday, does 気持ち悪い have its own contraction of something like きもっ！That’s what I seem to hear in 気持ち悪い situations, but I can’t be sure.

Lastly, I was listening to some 昔話 the other day, and 牛島さん was doing the narrations. You wouldn’t need to act to narrate, so that’s got to be her real voice, right?

Javizyさん、 yes! the slang term for 気持ち悪い is キモイ!
it functions as a regular -い adjective

ところで、「デパートみずぎうりば」という文は話の中にありますかな。。。聞こえない。

mmmmmmmmm shibuya girls

Gah, ANOTHER variation on “have to”! HOW many are there?!?

I’ll agree with that too, although I’ve only seen them on TV

Francisco, there is also ～ないといかない. They can all be used with either ならない or いかない, which confuses things further. I myself don’t really know the difference in nuance.

水着を着ている女を見るために、俺は何でも買っていいと思います。 To see a girl in swimsuit, a guy would buy anything.

Naomi-san,
I use 「キモッ!!」 a lot… not seriously, just for joking tho. Do I look a kid?　
「キショイ！！」 I use this term as same as　きもい. 「気色悪い」⇒「キショイ！」
　

Though, now I can’t quite remember the difference between ければならない and てはいけない. Is it just that ければならない is stronger?

I’m pretty sure they’re pretty much the same.

They can all be used with either ならない or いかない, which confuses things further. I myself don’t really know the difference in nuance.

That should be いけない not いかない. The one exception is in the 〜わけにはいかない construct.

〜ないと = is colloquial and slightly informal. You probably wouldn’t see or use it in writing.

I made a post about the different must do/must not do endings here

BTW, ちゃ and きゃ by themselves are contractions only. They only imply いけない and ならない when you let the sentence trail off after them. It’s not uncommon to hear things like:

友達A：来月フランスに引っ越す。 = “I’m moving to France next month.”
友達B：え〜！行っちゃいやだよ！ = “Eh! I don’t want you to go!”

デボンさん、そうですね！今はシカゴにとてもさむいですよ。
Now it’s 8 Celsius (47 Fahrenheit) at 10:30 a.m.
It will be 12 C (54F)

This was an entertaining lesson.

Markyさん、

It was unbelievably hot here the other day. Someone even died during the Chicago Marathon. Now the temperature dropped from 90 to 50. Its extremely cold today!

Does Tokyo hold marathons?

Scottさん、
tokyo has a few marathons. off the top of my head there is the Tokyo Marathon. and also there are various 駅伝 (ekiden) which are long distance relays of varying distances (so technically not a marathon, i suppose…. but i don’t run, so….)
if i’m not mistaken there are events too!

Glen Mさん、
i know exactly which lesson you’re referring to! hahahahaha
it’s interesting you thought they were at home, i personally imagined them spelunking and then deciding to buy a new bikini. you know, just a really modern and dynamic and sporty couple.

marky