Mina-san, you made it thru 25 Nihongo Dojo Lessons!! What a wild journey it’s been! ! This is officially the last Newbie Lesson of 2007, but have no fear: Nihongo Dojo will return with an all new season in 2008!! Woo-hoo!!

Is Fabrizio in the next Nihongo Dojo?

thanks it was really fun
Naomi san i will spend christmas with my brother
good food and a few drinks , unlike Fabrizio

o (object parking marticle)….
maybe you want to change this a bit (^o^)//

Jan
(from Berlin)

Fabrizio cracked me up when he started coughing.

For Xmas, I’ll be partying so hard. I’m sure I’d make Fabrizio proud.

Jan-san,

From here on in we shall use object parking marticle!

Here’s my favourite Spoonerism: You’re a fart smeller. 日本語でもある？

皆さん,

I just finished going through 2 years of newbie lessons. It is not necessary to tell this group how difficult it is to teach yourself Japanese but that’s what I have been doing. Very frustrating.

But the combination of well-crafted lessons, an engaging story line, and actors/teacher you can’t wait to hear again have led to non-stop studying on my part. Never has がんばって been so enjoyable.

One of our friends visited from Japan the other day and she brought her mother and her two friends. I have never been able to keep up any level of conversation in Japanese before and my (admittedly rudimentary) conversations really impressed them (especially my friend who never heard me speak Japanese before). As we were walking into the レストラン, they started chattering about my Japanese and the word I did not know was じょうず. My friend had to translate (she said it meant “good”, which I just could not reverse translate back into the word I heard). Later that night, I did a lesson about -い and -な adjectives, and there it was in the PDF.

I owe that success to JapanesePod101. Yes, I had studied before, but I was never able to “put it all together” until now.

どうも有難う御座います。

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