1. watashi wa Higashi-san to eiga e ikimasu. Demo, Shuu-san to wa ikimasen.
What happened to ‘wa’ after ‘to’ in the first sentence?

2. ‘wa’ is back in both sentences.

3. ‘o’ reappears. I’m guessing that ‘o’ doesn’t change to ‘wa’ because the activity is the same, it’s either done or not done at two contrasting places. also, ‘eiga’ has been dropped as an inferred object in the second sentence, so not a good target for ‘o’.

4. we have two particles ‘ni’ and ‘e’. ‘ni’ is picking up the contrasting particle ‘wa’. Is there a specific reason why the contrast is being applied to ‘ni’ and not ‘e’? would applying ‘wa’ to ‘e’ be completely wrong, or would it just change the emphasis of particular words?
(when we go into the demo vs. ga section, Takematsu / Matsuyama example, ‘e’ does take the contrastative ‘wa’, one place being visited instead of the other as opposed to two places that are both visited, but at different times.

Leading me to…..

1. Doyoobi ni kaisha e ikimasu.
2. Nichiyoobi ni eiga e ikimasu.

combining with ‘demo’, does this result in …

A. Doyoobi ni wa kaisha e ikimasu. Demo, nichiyoobi ni wa eiga e ikimasu.
OR
B. Doyoobi ni kaisha e wa ikimasu. Demo, nichiyoobi ni eiga e wa ikimasu.
OR
C. I’m trying to extend this grammer beyond it’s usefulness and the answer lies in another lesson somewhere.
?????????

Thanks,

James

ところで、ヨーロッパ人は学校で英語を勉強しなければならないですが後であまりよく話せません。僕も英語を読むはよく出来ますが話せるはあまりよく出来ません。残念ですね。 でも絶対日本語はペラペラ話せるようになりたいんですから毎日JapanesePod101のポッドキャストを聞いていて勉強しています。

I understood most of what Naomi-Sensei, and Rebecca-Sensei were saying.

これは楽しいです！

じゃ、後で。

We don’t usually use hiragana ゐ or ゑ. However you’ll see them in old songs or books.

If you have culture related questions(not lesson related questions), I’d recommend that you use our forum. There, you can get detailed answers from other listeners. For example, I’m not into Manga, but there are bunch of listeners who read Manga, so you might get a more detailed explanation about う with ゛.

And I have another question: what’s the meaning of this hiragana: “ゔ” an “う” with てんてん?

We say “Ii desu”　or “kekkou desu” for “no thank you” and “Osoyou gozaimasu” for “Late morning!” (”Osoyou” is from a word “osoi” meaning “late” which is the opposite word of “hayai” in “Ohayou”)

ありがとう ございます! Thanks alot for your very useful lessons!

Arigato gazaimasu!