Comments on: Lower Intermediate Lesson #58 - LI2: Recipe - Niku Jaga

by: Auntie

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:58:03 +0000

Dear Mayumi-san, thank you sincerely for fixing it so fast. I am so sorry now to have sounded so impatient, it was not right.

All the best (and thanks once again!)

Auntie

by: Mayumi

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:10:00 +0000

Auntie-san,

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

Mayumi

by: Auntie

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:06:26 +0000

Sorry, that should have been:-

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

My turn to be sloppy now!

by: Auntie

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:05:16 +0000

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.

by: sTeVe aUsTiN

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:50:46 +0000

>>Perhaps these should have been flagged upper intermediate?

What was difficult about it? The verbs were all simple. The grammar was like newbie level….
And now I know what to expect when I open my next package of instant ramen!

by: Phil

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:26:55 +0000

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!

by: マーキースター

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:32:56 +0000

the construction しか + negative verb means “only.”
it’s like だけ but always construed with a negative verb

marvinさん、that’s true.
i was eating dinner with my girlfriend at an izakaya and we ordered some 肉じゃが and i said “ohhhh, i had this once.”
and immediately she was like “who made it for you?!” she got really angry out of jealousy. things got better when i explained that it was at another izakaya. i still haven’t tried real homemade 肉じゃが but she’s promised to make it for me. ラッキー！

by: 羅子傑*

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:36 +0000

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

by: stu

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:35:36 +0000

by: marvin

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:49:04 +0000

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”