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February 25th, 2008 | help Need help?

Start Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Ever since he was shot down by Mi Yeon, Shu’s been a little more depressed than usual. Today Fabrizio finds him and tells him about his plans to go to Shikoku for a crazy party. Today’s grammar is conjugation of the polite past of verbs (-mashita). We’ll also introduce the four cardinal directions (kita, minami, higashi, nishi) and talk about how to use word order to give sentences more nuance. This is an important one, so you don’t want to miss out. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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12 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #63 - Nihongo Dōjō - Style You and Beyond 8”

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, if Shu-san was your friend, how would you cheer him up?

avatar プチクレア says:

Fabrizio’s crazy party on Shikoku ? Be afraid…. Be VERY afraid… Though it would probably do Shu some good :smile: I’d probably try to get him to up out for some coffee, or a drink in a nice bar, but he seems too far gone for that… :neutral:

I’ve taken a new, belated new year resolution: I won’t ever sigh again ! :mrgreen:

avatar rene says:

Lovely, these small idiomatic excursions. However I sighed a lot before I found the exact expression in a dictionary:
溜め息を つくと 幸せが 逃げる (ためいきを つくと しあわせが にげる)
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
It would be of a great help if you could include some of the “conversational extra’s” in the pdf. Thanks in advance.

avatar gillian says:

I believe saying “Bless you” goes back to the time when the Plague was rife, as sneezing was a symptom of catching the Plague which frequently frequently ended in death

avatar ジャービジ says:

Until a couple of years ago, I’d always thought people were saying ‘plesshu’ as some sort of set phrase, and I’m 22 :shock: I was even saying it myself, although not very often since it’s pretty annoying when people do that :wink:

avatar Rishi says:

Isn’t Shikoku EAST of Kyushu? Or is this why Shuu says “tabun,” because he’s not sure?

avatar kitty-chan says:

Hahaha, I just checked a map :cool: :cool: :cool:
I guess that IS why he said たぶん :lol: :lol: :lol:

avatar Abrassart says:

Yeah, I just came to this page about that.

While listening to the lesson, I was like: “What the heck, this is wrong, Shikoky is east”. :shock:

But because the teachers didn’t say anything, I started to doubt myself. I was trying to visualize a map of Japan with Shikoko on the West in every position possible, but it didn’t work.

Well, it’s lucky they put a “Tabun!” at the end of the conversation, but the teachers should have corrected this wrong information in the comments… :neutral:

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

>>Well, it’s lucky they put a “Tabun!”

it’s not just lucky. it was on purpose… :lol:
naomi sensei was trying to show the effectiveness of たぶん in a passive way, because it will come up in future newbie lessons! :cool:

avatar Naomi says:

四国は九州の西にありません。四国は九州の東にあります。
Shikoku wa Kyushu no nishi ni arimasen. Shikoku wa Kyushu no higashi ni arimasu.

>>the teachers should have corrected this wrong information in the comments…

Actually, レベッカ and I did make comments about the wrong information in the lesson, but that part was badly damaged and couldn’t use it. We have already retook that part and should be up by …I don’t know the exact date, but very soon.(depending on how busy Marky is)

Thank you for your patience and understanding. :dogeza:

avatar Jason says:

I believe saying “Bless you” goes back to the time when the Plague was rife, as sneezing was a symptom of catching the Plague which frequently frequently ended in death

I always heard it was because when you sneeze your heart momentarily stops. I have no idea if that’s even true or if that’s the origin of “bless you.”

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