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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Beginner Season 2 . 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.
16 Responses to “Beginner Lesson S2 #51 - Permission to Marry Your Daughter 1”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, this father is really scarey. I hope the best for this couple, but I have a feeling this isn’t going to pan out for them.
Tuesday at 8:24 pm
This will come in handy one day
Tuesday at 8:51 pm
でも、この話題はこの私には全然は早すぎですね!!!
ピーターさんと賛成です:彼女の父は怖いです。私よりも年上だ男は全部怖い.Ah, that’s an exaggeration. Didn’t Seinfeld say something about it? “I can make my own people, I’m not afraid of everyone…”
Wednesday at 2:01 am
This lesson (more specifically the dad in this lesson) reminds me of the song “Cleaning this Gun” by Rodney Atkins
Wednesday at 2:35 am
Japanesepod101はとっても安い値段で私に会話をpdfで 読ませてくださいました.
Wednesday at 4:02 am
Hahahaha, JPod stories always have a happy ending, so I know this couple will be fine!


But this father sounds like a real d?@<#34>.
Are Japanese fathers really like this?
Wednesday at 6:47 am
Thanks for the lesson. IMHO the only thing more difficult that causative is the passive causative
!!
Wednesday at 7:45 am
LOL. 「おとうさん、おかあさん、こんやなにたべよ!」 That impromptu dialog from Peter was hilarious.
Wednesday at 12:42 pm
Peterさん was wrong and Naomi先生 was right. さすが?
The boyfriend wasn’t calling his girlfriend’s father “Dad”, like a son-in-law might in English speaking countries. In Japan, instead of using the person’s name, you usually call them according to their title relative to your group. The point of reference for this guy was his girlfriend. So, by calling him “お父さん”, he wasn’t calling him “Dad”, but “father (of my girlfriend)”.
In my job as wedding minister, I notice that everyone refers to the couple’s parents as お父様 and お母様 respectively.
Wednesday at 2:02 pm
i’ll add to that,
a friend told that the first time i met my girlfriend’s father i should ask “お父さんと、呼んでも良いですか?” i thought this would sound presumptuous or it just seemed wierd because we would never say something like it in my culture. before i attempted it, i asked my girlfriend “is this really what i should say?” and she said, “oh yeah! that’s really japanese. it’s correct.”
i guess the idea being, if the father says “no,” you’ll instantly know where you stand with him. if he says “yes,” you know you’re in the clear… for the time being.
Monday at 3:06 pm
I tried to get Beginner S2 onto my iphone but I cannot get it on itunes. Can you help?
Friday at 1:23 pm
This lesson is almost useless, in that it is not applicable to a real world situation. Typically, when you are asking permission, you are fairly certain that they are going to say yes. It would be nice if Jpod101 would include a dialogue that would be more typical of a real conversation.
Tuesday at 2:45 am
This is the generational difference:
When my nisei dad asked his issei father-in-law-to-be for permission to marry my mother, the first response was “too young!”. But when my dad pointed out that they were in their mid-20s, the reply was “あそうか” and that was that.
When my husband asked my nisei dad for my hand, the response was “Why are you asking me? Did you ask her?” やっぱり結婚させてくれたのね。
Tuesday at 12:00 pm
タネ-san
That’s a really nice story.
結婚させてもらえて、よかったですね~。
Monday at 5:56 pm
In the example:
私にその歌を歌わせてください。
I first thought it meant ”Will you sing this song for me?”
But it turned out to be: Please let me sing that song.
If that’s the case, how do I say, “Please sing this song for me?”
Thanks a lot.
Monday at 6:17 pm
jenchantedさん,
“Please sing this song (for me)” would be 「その歌を歌ってください」。
To ask/tell someone to do something, the structure is “te form of a verb” + ください.
To ask someone to LET you do something, we use the “te form” of a causative verb + ください, as we learned in this lesson.
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