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25 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #84 - Oshōgatsu with Grandma & Grandpa”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
皆様、新年おめでとうございます! Happy New Year! We hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. Here at JPod World Headquarters in Tokyo, we’re enjoying a long awaited holiday vacation with our families and loved ones. We had a lot of fun with each and every one of you during 2007 and we’re truly looking forward to every day with you again in 2008! From everyone at JapanesePod101.com!
Tuesday at 7:42 pm
Happy New Year !
to everyone on the JPod Team, looking forward for your great lessons in 2008 !
Tuesday at 7:49 pm
A kid.
Tuesday at 9:25 pm
あけましておめでとうございます。
I’ll study Japanese hard with this wonderful program. THANKS !
Tuesday at 9:51 pm
Happy New Year to everyone at JapanesePod101!
Happy New Year to all other classmates out there!
Let’s have a fun year (of the mouse).
B
Tuesday at 9:57 pm
私はお年玉を貰(もら)うどころかあげる方になってしまった!!
Wednesday at 12:06 am
An intermediate lesson on New Year’s Day?
ひどすぎよ!
I’m barely recovering from last night’s alcohol. *OoOooOo… head pounding again*
Wednesday at 4:17 am
皆さん、良いお年を!
アメリカにおせち料理は高い。高い一番多い$400だった。日本には値段が同じあるの?日本人は自家製のおせち料理を食べてかな。俺がおせちを食べない。
今日の夜は2ビールだけ飲みった。俺の新しいことわざ: 新年、ビールより少ない!
スカット
Wednesday at 7:56 am
明日働かなければならない。。。
みなさん~明けましておめでとうございます!
Wednesday at 10:34 am
皆、新年おめでとう!
中級日本語はいいスタートだと思っている。
海外にはお屠蘇を買うことが出来るかな?
皆、一生懸命にJpod101で日本語を勉強しよう!
Wednesday at 6:05 pm
I liked this lesson, happy New Year. Was Sakura supposed to be playing a boy? or was that just another example of female characters being referred to as men (usually happens to Ushijima) ?
I understood all of it except the new words, which I could pick up at the end of the lesson, so it’s looking like a good start to the new year
Wednesday at 11:56 pm
I think she was a little boy. Sounded like the mother had one 2 many otosos!
Thursday at 1:55 pm
Wasted!
I think we should start doing otoshidamas in the US.

And soon, I’m almost finished with college, that seems like the logical cut off date.
Thursday at 11:25 pm
japanesepod101 どうもありがとうございました!
皆さんも良いお年を迎えてくださいね!
Friday at 2:51 am
Hey, I find this site very usefull !
Aparently, there is a contest for ‘kids’ (that would include me, I’m 14)
that if we post a comment, we could win a 6 month subscription…well, I’d like to enter.
Thanks
Friday at 10:03 am
Hello!
Thank you very much for this website it has been very helpful.
Domo Arigato Gozaimasu!
(Also i’m under 18 so please enter me in whatever contest I kkep hearing about.)


Friday at 10:21 am
keep the posts a-comin’!
win! win! win!
マーキー
Friday at 9:15 pm
I was surprised to hear 僕 as well… But young girls can use this word as well, can’t they?
Saturday at 12:33 am
I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask grammar questions but anyway here goes:
In the middle of the dialog Daichi sais: … ずーっとお年玉もらいたいんだもん!
I am wondering about the もん at the end. I have encountered it a few times but seem to have missed the grammar lesson on it. What does it mean? Would there be a difference in meaning if it were simply left out?
Thanks and keep up the good work! I have been listening for only 2 weeks but I am very happy with japanesepod101.com.
Harald
Saturday at 12:42 am
katafeiさん、girls don’t use 僕 - if they do, they’re being strange or pretending to be boys.
Saturday at 10:21 am
もん is a statement ending particle used by girls and kids. It’s used to emphasise what they’ve said. It’s a little bit cute, which is why men don’t use it so much.
Saturday at 10:28 am
Anyone interested in new years’ greetings written by real live Japanese people, come over to http://www.englishpod101.com/2008/01/01/happy-new-year-and-happy-holidays/?lan=english#comment-308 .
I hope EPod and JPod listeners can converse more in the new year. If you feel you want to [i]use[/i] your Japanese with a group of Japanese people, EPod is ideal!
Sunday at 10:30 pm
マーキースター さん、
Actually, I find that heaps of younger girls (elementary and jr high) use 僕. In the Tokyo area, at least, it seems to be trendy. That, and referring to themselves in the 3rd person.
Monday at 1:21 am
hehehehehehe, あの子は超オタクじゃん!
Friday at 11:50 pm
Whoa! These folks are scary! They make me appreciate my parents in law! This dear old ojiichan and obaachan are clearly in their late 90s, ojiisan lost his teeth a few years ago, and obaachan has been sneaking a bit too much of the otoso!
Now, the real scary part is this: I’m an ojiichan, I have five grandkids, and I wonder if I sound like those folks to my kids and grandkids! Just the thought of it is throwing me for a loop! Is there any hope? I ride a mountain bike into and out of town, and speak in public quite a bit, but… am I just fooling myself? Am I really one of THEM? HELP!
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