Mina-san, we hope this cleared up any confusion between しか, ばかり and だけ. Now it’s your turn to use them!

Like father, like son ? Taro has chosen a girlfriend just like his own mother…

I’m not sure living with Kumi would be that nice… complaining all the time…looking at other people’s plates all the time…brr…

では、すき焼きは私の一番好きな食べ物ですよ！ とっても美味しいですよね！レストランに行くといつもすき焼きを食べます。皆さん、ぜひ食べてみてください！
Sukiyaki is out of this world…

And I don’t think wasabi usually comes into play with sukiyaki… hmm… there must be another clue here…

歯はいい。。。。I like this phrase.

I agree about Kumi, she seems higher strung than a pinata. Tarou was probably late for the concert so he could go straight in and let the orchestra drown out her nagging. The dad mentioned the mother rather nonchalantly… if she was like Kumi, maybe her death was the result of a domestic “accident”

歯はいい… Peter has a reputation for bad jokes, but I think even he must have been shocked to hear that one Maybe Naomi’s ‘prepared joke’ should be a weekly event

I think there should be more lessons comparing similar particles like this one. I got ‘How to Tell the Difference between Japanese Particles’ (Naoko Chino) this week, and each section groups a set of particles with similar functions and has a little quiz after a detailed explanation, it’s really useful. Jpod can be further useful since the dialogues put everything into context, and stick in your head more than random example sentences.

In the line-by-line for the iPod, there are tons of mistakes in the Japanese section…
直してくださいね。

みなさんコメントありがとうございます。

Thank you for all the comments about my joke.
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good lesson, but it felt kinda strange without the introduction

ah… gravatar service ですね。
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Is it just me or did the japanese not match the english in this one? Looking at the ipod romanji, the line むかしから seems to be missing from the japanese but it’s translated in the english.

Complaint? I still miss Peter-san’s thinly veiled implications that Takase-san is some kind of criminal mastermind or evil villain.