Mina-san, Fabrizio is quite the party animal, huh? I can’t wait until next week to hear all about his crazy party! Woo-hoo!

I see a kind of mini-series happening with the intros…

私もバーヘ行きたい

hehehehehe, yeah, that wasn’t the same intro repeating every day. it’s a little mini-story. i mean… well, it’s just wierd. no actual plot.
and her name isn’t Wacky, it’s 和季. i met someone with that name once and thought it was really cool.

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can you also use the particle へ for もどる　？

和季? I think I’ve finally found my Japanese name! 今日は、ワキです。よろしくおねがいします。

Having moved from Taiwan where I had studied (and continue to study) Chinese with chinesepod.com I want to say your Lesson Notes are incredible ! I am trying to learn as quickly as possible the Newbie’s and the Notes are a great source of useful dialog, ‘lexical chunks’ as well as very nice explanations of these strange marking particles and copulas.

Even so- how do you say grrrrrr! in Japanese

I also have been listening to the Survival Series and using them as much as possible on “the street”. The Japanese as I have known for years are very forgiving and willing to help. I successfully (all in Japanese) went to the post office, asked to air mail a letter to the US, how much, and how many days. My wife was impressed. Fortunately she was not with me in our local veg/fruit store. I came to the counter and politely asked in Japanese ‘tomato how do you say in Japanese ? The woman looked at me, smiled and in all seriousness said ‘tomato’ with a short ‘a’ as opposed to my long “a”. We all had a laugh about that one.

Mike in Ebisu Tokyo

Thanks

Michael-san!
In Japanese we write “CD” as “シーディー”, but generally even Japanese people write “CD” as its own.

Mike in Ebisu Tokyo-san,
がんばって！その調子です。 応援してますよ！ 　keep it up!
Grrrrrr… might becomes “ガルルルルルル。。。” or “グルルルルルル。。。”
but I’m just curious to ask….. why do you wanna say that?

yuki

Maxiwawa

Yes that is me. After two years in Taiwan now I am living in Japan. It is odd to be able to read the Kanji ( as Hanzi) know what it means but be clueless as to how to say it in Japanese.

Yuki san
grrrr! is just an expression my wife and I use when something just doesn’t go the way one of us planned. In Japan I will use it less (as I have been coming here for 26 years) as to my wife she uses it often inside her head as she learns the ways of Japan.

Mike in Ebisu Tokyo

SORRY, for the repost. I’ve just added to the confusion. The above comment should be:

Was Fabrizio right when he asked “Fuyuka-san mo *kimasu* ka”?

If he had asked in English “Are you *coming* too?”, he would have been correct. But, as he is standing next to Fuyuka (rather than already being in his friend’s bar speaking to her by phone), shouldn’t the Japanese sentence be “Fuyuka-san mo *ikimasu* ka?”

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