Mina-san, if you got stood up on your birthday, what would you do?

Hahahaha, that’s hilarious, Kitty-chan!
Definitely wouldn’t be my boyfriend anymore.

I think Kumi shouldn’t wait for him.

where is Taro !

There is a mistake on page 4 PDF. The romaji is not reflective of the original sentence. May someone correct it.

By the way, what is the different between 仕事をする and 仕事する?

>No reason to date a boy who has a monkey’s name.

kitty-chanさん、comment of the week award goes to you again!

>Why does Kumi say 私の彼 instead of 私の彼氏 ?

プチクレアさん、watermanさん Is correct. 彼 can be used as a substitute for 彼氏.
i’m gonna ask naomi先生 about this tomorrow, but i think 彼 has a more intimate feel. but don’t quote me on that.

>There is a mistake on page 4 PDF.

thanks watermanさん, i’ll look into it now, refresh your iTunes and it should be corrected.

>仕事をする and 仕事する?

no difference at all. the を gets dropped in spoken japanese or to make the sentence flow more naturally. but both are completely interchangeable!

>where is Taro !

that’s a good question!!!!

Question for a native speaker; There is photography term ‘bokeh’ for the out of focus part of an image [a lens can have good and bad bokeh]. Many believe it is from Japanese but I don’t see how you’d get bokeh; boke or bokeha maybe but not bokeh.

I know there is a verb bokeru: to fade or dim; but I don’t see how that would become bokeh. Anyone have any ideas?

According to the source of all knowledge, Wikipedia:

boke ぼけ, “blur”

ジェーピーさん、good idea!

One weird thing: my girlfriend doesn’t often refer to me as 彼氏 nor かれ, I often hear 「この人」 or マックス though. I’ll have to ask her about it. いま寝坊途中何ですから、後で聞く。

So this guard and the odds of Kumi falling for him . . .

Are we like talking Keibiin Costner here?

警備員Costner ? ROFL !!!!!

The kanji for 懐炉（かいろ）is not really difficult in my opinion. Aren’t this common kanji?

watermen,

As you probably realize, verb tenses and constructs don’t line up neatly between Japanese and English, the way they would between two closely related languages such as German and English. There is no present progressive in Japanese to correspond precisely with the English “I am now arriving.” Therefore, the simple present tense in Japanese 「今着く」, “(I) now arrive” does double duty for both. People like Peter, who live in perpetual time warps, may stretch the meaning of now, and this is the point he makes in the podcast. The verb + te plus imasu, as in 「来ています」by contrast does not mean that a person is in a state of coming, but rather that the person has come already.

Why does this lesson not show up in Itunes?:???: