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25 Responses to “Newbie Lesson S3 #2 - Nihongo Dōjō - What You Don’t Eat at Home, You Might Eat in Japan!”
Monday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, 大変お待たせいたしました! Due to circumstances beyond our control, yesterday’s Newbie Lesson is being released today. You might notice Ushijima-san’s voice does not appear in the slow reading (instead Naomi-san’s does). As soon as we can get her in the studio, we’ll swap out the slow reading with the correct one for consistency. 申し訳ございません。では、切腹いたします。
Tuesday at 5:50 pm
Since you included a bonus track from Miki’s, all is forgiven!
Tuesday at 8:04 pm
いえいえいえいえいえいえ (Japanese colloquial for “no problem”. Starting high then gradually getting lower.)
Just as you said the word 四国 my girlfriend looked up from the other side of the table… she’s from 愛媛、in 四国.
Here we both are, answering the question 出身はどこですか。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohy22ArAL7U
You can’t see her, it takes her hours and hours of preparation before she will agree have her picture taken.
Tuesday at 8:33 pm
僕の出身はセイントルイスです。(アメリカのミズーリ州)
でも、今東京に住んでいます。awwww yeah!
Tuesday at 8:33 pm
僕は前の授業をまだ勉強していたので、全然問題ないですよ。
I was still studying the previous lesson, so no problem at all. このサイトは一番だよ。
Tuesday at 11:14 pm
You can just add 出身(しゅっしん) after your hometown can’t you? ロンドン出身です. Although, if it was established that you were talking about hometowns, you could just say「私はロンドンです」. This use can be more interesting if you are talking about favourite food or animals or something 「私はうなぎです」. Out of context, it could mean ‘I’m an eel’, but if the subject/topic isn’t being inferred, then objects, agents, and whatever else usually are, so context is everything
Wednesday at 3:45 am
What does this phrase mean - では、切腹いたします。Why Jpod101 needs to cut their abdomen for apology???
Wednesday at 7:09 am
watermen, in the old days (and even in some more modern cases), when a Samurai brought about a great shame to himself or his group, it was customary to commit 切腹 (seppuku), a traditional (and horrendously painful!) method of honorable suicide. Here it’s just said jokingly to express how sorry he is for the tardiness of the lesson.
Wednesday at 7:49 am
四国が大好きです、遍路道を毎年二週間歩きます.
鳴門から宿毛まで歩いて、香川県で観音寺から高松までも歩きました.
十月に残っている500キロを歩くつもりです.
四国の景色はとてもきれいで、人々は親切です.
http://henro.free.fr/ 道の写真が若干あります.
Wednesday at 11:15 am
みなさん Mina-san
こんにちは Konnichiwa.
Alain-san
Thank you for the information. Recently my aunt came back form her お遍路(ohenro) trip. She said it was wonderful.
Even though I’m not a religious person, visiting 88 temples in Shikoku is something I would like to do in the future.
Wednesday at 12:44 pm
I spent three days there at a friends place after New Years. A beautiful place.
Wednesday at 3:25 pm
Delayed lesson means twice as much japanese on the following day….I guess that more than covers the wait…
I only know about 四国 though 村上春樹 ’s book 海辺のカフカ…it seems quite a strange place !
Wednesday at 5:08 pm
I like this book (that I read in french, I’m not so ggod at japanese!).
I found in Shikoku’s country this a little out of time life we can feel in this book.
Thursday at 8:31 am
This was a really good lesson. I have the basic idea of how most of the particles work, but it really helps me going over them again and again and showing their uses in various situations. I got a little worried about the contrasting は, since I had only known it to be a topic parking marticle up to this point. The PDF made it much easier for me to understand. どもありがとうございました!
I got to see a friend over the holiday that I haven’t seen since the early 90’s. Turns out that he is living in 四国. He gave me lots of useful info about Japan and really boosted my confidence in wanting to try to live in Tokyo.
狸! I have known this since I was really young! Does everyone remember the tanuki suit in Super Mario Bros. 3 on Nintendo?! 懐かしいですね!
狐寿司と狸寿司を食べない?
Friday at 12:10 pm
Is Rebecca’s pic missing from the japanesepod101 staff photos? I would need to see what she looks like before she can become my 合図地女.
Wednesday at 12:48 am
Is nobody doing the Video Vocab? I love having these! I bring it up because somehow this lesson’s video vocab is for the lower intermediate #58 episode - I’m just surprised no one’s mentioned it yet, and I’d like to get the one for this lesson if it’s available.
Monday at 11:12 am
the video review is beginner #174
Wednesday at 3:29 am
Konichiwa Minasan,
I still somewhat confused about the use to “e” and “ni”, can’t they be used for the same thing?
Wednesday at 5:27 pm
Leon-san,
I hope that helps!
In most cases ‘ni’ and ‘e’ are interchangeable. “e” emphasises more the direction of movement. I use ‘ni’ most often but some people say it is better to use ‘e’ because ‘ni’ is used a lot for different purposes in Japanese and it can get confusing, it’s up to you.
Tuesday at 11:39 am
犬鍋!!!
OH, no!!!!
Monday at 10:36 pm
Guzen, (coincidence) does not show up in the dictionary. Anyone knows the correct spelling?
Tuesday at 9:17 am
manuelさん,
The “u” is a long vowel, so it is spelled ぐうぜん (guuzen)
Monday at 12:09 am
Frank,
It’s 相槌[あいづち], not 合図地!
Monday at 2:48 am
そうそう、来週、私は会社を休みます、実家へ帰ります。
そうですよね、冬香さんの出身は何処ですか。
四国の高松です。高松のうどんは美味しいですよ。私は東京ではうどんを食べませんが、毎日高松ではうどんを食べます。
偶然ですね、来週、私は四国へ行きます。高松へは行きませんが、松山へは行きます。
じゃ、後で。
Friday at 4:54 pm
ピイタアせんせいはあ?
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