Should have known there was going to be a twist! Thanks for this grammar point. In theory, this isn’t too difficult. But in practice it’s so tricky. But now I’ll always remember 代わりに娘さんを一生懸命働かさせます！

Oh, yeah, I love the JPOD twists!! (See iLove video, “Twist of Fate”^^)

VIcky-san, 久々！「ひさびさ」 Yes, you should have the best one, no? If you’re going to make one, be sure to make one for me too!

Liz-san, 久々！「ひさびさ」 なつかしい〜。iLove!

Steve-san, mastering this grammar pattern will really bring you Japanese to the “next level.” I usually pick a phrase and try to use it as much as possible to build familiarity.
For example, with my friend I would always say:
この「something」を食べさせる　I’ll make you eat this “something.”

While the sentence isn’t very deep, and in retrospect pretty foolish, using it over-and-over did serve the point of reinforcing the grammatical contruction and building familiarity. Soon I was successfully using the contruction with other verbs, and in more sophisticated conversations.

Two lessons with Naomi in one day? I’m starting to like Englishpod more and more I like the intro by the way, it’s very Samurai Champloo-ish

That was a great sentence, it’s a lot funnier when you can understand the stuff first time

代わりに is a good grammar point in itself. It could have been useful to cover it in more detail. I’ll try an ambitious explanation, hopefully someone can correct the mistakes.

Noun + の代わりに
Verb (plain form) + 代わりに

今日サチコさんの代わりに直美先生はEnglishPodを担当しました。
Naomi hosted Englishpod instead of Sachiko today.
昨日雨のせいで買物に行く代わりに家に残っちゃったさ。
I stayed at home instead of going shopping yesterday because of the rain.

Sorry not homeworker but homemaker

Vickyさん！

오랜만이에요!

Vicky-san!

Why didn’t you come to help us out at Englishpod101.com with 101 comments inaguration!

We can’t make it with out you, we only have 48-50 comments, we are half afar and we want to be farahead. S_R_C

I’m glad they aren’t getting married. The boyfriend doesn’t have to put up with such a crabby old man as a father-in-law.

When I get married, I’ll check out his family and make sure they’re cool. Like they say, you don’t just marry the man, you marry his family too.