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20 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #54 - Quitters”
Thursday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, These guys are 凝り性, addictive personalities. How about you guys? What’s your weakness? Chocolate, shopping, JapanesePod101, biting your nails, etc….?
Thursday at 7:42 pm
女!
このレッスンはぴったり!会話の前、ちょっとピータ先生の忠告はいいし、ゆっくりのスピードもいいし。
Thursday at 8:27 pm
Sheesh, some twosome! What do we get next? The junkie and the kleptomaniac?!
Thursday at 8:32 pm
Oh and…Natsuko san, now you HAVE to do a lesson on how your marathon goes! Ganbatte!
Thursday at 10:24 pm
Finally a story about smokers and gamblers. I’ve been waiting for a lesson I can relate to. My favorite way to relax is plop myself down at the pachinko-ya. And as we all know, pachinko is basically a chain-smoking sport.
Friday at 12:57 am
I live in The Netherlands and here u need to be 16 to buy sigarets and low prosentage alcohol. but for strong alcohol and gambaling you need to be 18.
I will save a lot of money becouse i do’nt smoke, drink, or gamble
my only adiction is watching J-dorama, anime and playing computer games
Friday at 2:49 am
¥300? A pack of 10 decent brand cigarettes in England is pushing £3, so about $6 at the moment. I haven’t bought a pack for months though, and haven’t smoked one for weeks. I haven’t officially given up, but I think I’d have an easier time than most people seem to; maybe I’ll make it a New Year’s resolution.
Funny gambling should come up today, a book I ordered ‘The Mathematics of Poker’ arrived today
If you know what you’re doing it’s more of a game involving money than out and out gambling on stupid odds like a lot of betting shop stuff. It’s fun to play too, so you get some sort of value on your money when you lose.
Friday at 3:18 am
i have too many addictions…
sound, music, technology, history, linguistics, japanesepod101, collecting 葵の御紋… i could go on and on… but i probably shouldn’t in public…
btw - a bit of a cultural note, in japan smoking is a ubiquitous torture i’m subjected to on a daily basis (no offense to any smokers out there). i never realized how good certain cities in the US had become about smoking until i came here. in japan, i literally see people smoke WHILE they are eating!
or when the light at the crosswalk goes red, they light up and suck down a whole cigarette. that’s the epitome of addiction, i think. 
japanese people are usually so polite, but when it comes to cigarettes, it’s as if it’s a god given right.
a few years ago, i did some research on the subject and met a lawyer who works for Japan Tobacco. he told me that the japanese government owns at least 50% of Japan Tobacco (they used to own almost all of it in the past). this company is immensely influential and has been since the early Meiji period.
so as a result, smoking is acceptable in a many places i would have thought it not:
internationally it’s one of the richest companies in the world. within Japan and asia, it’s one of the most powerful and influential.
at the so-called “family restaurants” (diners), often the smoking section is much larger than the non-smoking section and non-smokers have to walk thru that section to get to a non-smoking seat. then they’ll have to pass thru it again to get to the bathroom.
or many restaurants don’t even have a non-smoking section.
things seem to be changing quickly, but………..
Friday at 3:20 am
javizyさん、
i quit!! it’s not only possible, but once you really pull it off you’ll never go back.
頑張ってくださいませ!
Friday at 3:36 am
This sounds like a pretty realistic conversation. I mean, you could have this anywhere in the world and there is someone saying the same thing.
I usually don’t smoke, but sometimes I bet on a baseball game. But I only make easy bets. The loser buys dinner or gets an embarrassing photograph taken for the internet.
Kitty-chan
Saturday at 2:00 am
Marky, wow thanks for the interesting addition in the comment! I’m so surprised that smoking in public places is so prevalent in Japan. It’s quite the opposite in Korea - I don’t smoke myself and have never been a smoker either but I have friends who smoke and it really looks like a headache to be a smoker in Korea. There’s just too few choices left when you want to go have lunch with someone who needs to smoke during the meal.
Wednesday at 9:10 am
私はビール中毒です! タバコが悪いですけどバーでやむを得ない時々です。
Friday at 11:22 am
According to the Guardian (UK) newspaper: “(Pachinko) generates ¥30 trillion a year, which is more than the top 5 car manufacturers”
Sunday at 2:22 pm
i think it’s good lesson
Friday at 11:36 pm
イギリスには外でタバコが吸えるがレストランとかバーとか吸えない。
日本はぎゃくです。たくさんの町中に外ですえないのにレストランとかバーで吸える。可笑しいじゃないの?
両方の国の駅に吸えない。
これは僕の始めてのコメントです。
よろしく
キャンティー
Thursday at 10:45 pm
is that a curious george reference in the dialougue?
Monday at 3:34 am
what is said at 13:30 on?
“いるですそういう人。
then I didn’t get this part=あらうたうだから? ”
then at 13:44 peter says “いまさらも” what does this mean?
the rest I followed.
Tuesday at 3:03 pm
Hi guys,
I do like the usual Jpod podcasts but I would like to suggest that the repertoire be expanded. I’ve discovered a website called j-tokkyo.com and enjoy reading the feature stories as they are short and filled with pictures. However, I don’t always understand the text as it is designed for native speakers (even Rikaichan doesn’t help much). It would be nice to hear you guys tackle trends and news items and help us understand it by discussing the nuances and vocabs. Thanks.
Jen
Wednesday at 1:52 pm
jenchanted-san
はやっているものや、人気があるものについての、culture lesson があったら、おもしろいですね。
The culture lesson about Japanese trends or new items sounds really nice.
Thank you for feedback.
Friday at 4:40 pm
皆さん、こんにちは!
質問がありますが。
子のレッスンが始まる前に男の二人の会話がありますね。でももう一回もう一回聞いて分かって見たいでしたけど、まだわからないです。店の事ですが、誰かが助けてくれますか??:???:
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