I never heard of this before. Sounds yummy!

ちょっとまって。。。蛇しかいない？That means “they are all a bunch of snakes?” 説明をください！

*英読み：マクシワーワー

Is there a reason Jpod101 does not want to rectify the lesson number?

羅子傑, did you hear yesterday’s lesson? I think her co-workers are “literally” snakes.

One of them bit her boss!

i looked up ガラガラヘビ in the dictionary and it said Rattle Snakes!!!

肉じゃが大好きだよ。
you say its a typical mom’s dish. i heard “a good japanese wife must know how to cook nikujaga”

My question is about しかいない. How does mean “they’re all..”?

Wow that was crazy hard. Listening to it was like going back to being a total newbie again, only able to pick out one word out of every dozen or more. These cookery lessons have been the hardest JPod have ever done I think, and really, really severe difficulty spikes compared to the other lessons. Perhaps these should have been flagged upper intermediate? Or maybe some sort of new upper super hardcore advanced level?

I shall retreat to the safety of intermediate now, where I can actually understand nearly all of what is said!

Dear Steve Austin, for what it’s worth, I did find this lesson (and lesson before it, on fried chicken) too challenging, mainly because of the sheer amount of new vocabulary. The grammar and language points were not particularly difficult, but the amount of new vocabulary was overwhelming. That could be down to my personal weakness in Japanese, of course.

I’ve been following JPOD101 lessons up to AND INCLUDING Intermediate level for nearly a year, and these two lessons were the first where I had to go through the “long” lesson more than once just to begin to get a handle on processing and listening to what must have been 16 - 20 totally new words. I believe in being in a “challenging” level, but this was pretty daft unless JPOD101 only intend to have two cooking-themed lessons, and have to cram all the vocab into these two lessons.

t didn’t help that the PDFs in this new season of Lower Intermediate are also very sloppily-down, with vocabulary/hiragana pronunciation suddenly disappearing from tables, and transcripts which DON’T match what is being said by the voice actors/ teachers. Hmmph…

Still, I’m a happy JPOD101 fan. I’ve abandoned these two lessons, and won’t look back, although it’s sad for me because my hobby is cooking and it’s exactly the kind of topic that I love.

Auntie-san,

Sorry for some mistakes in the PDFs for recipe lessons.
I fixed them.
Thank you pointing it out.

Mayumi

ジャガリコのレシピ面白かったんです。
ジャガリコ作製過程の逆にしていくみたいんですね…
It’s like reversing the process of manufacturing the Jagariko…

なるほど…３分以上待ったら、生ポテトに戻るかな…やってみましょう～