Comments on: Beginner Lesson S3 #8 - Unagi Road Trip 1

by: 亀井

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:56:12 +0000

私にはジャパ二ズポッド１０１を去年二月から聞き始めました。

by: Naomi

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:36:11 +0000

DK-san
Great question!!
You can use either おわる and おえる in formal situations.
It’s just that おえる has more formal connotation. In a casual conversation though, おわる is more common.

For だす and はじめる, they are often interchangeable. However please remember that だす CANNOT indicate your volition.
For example, you can say およぎはじめよう “let’s start swimming.” But you CANNOT say およぎだそう.

I hope this helps.

by: DK

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:52:39 +0000

You said ～おわる　is more casual　than　～おえる. So then should we never use　～おわる in formal sentences?
Also, this is my first encounter with ～だす. Does ～だす　replace　～はじめる　often?

Thank you ^_^

by: MP

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:08:05 +0000

Okay - thank you!

by: Naomi

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:12:52 +0000

MP-san
Right. Ze adds force or emphasis to the sentence.
The usage of “ze” is covered in Particle series lesson 13. So please check that lesson too.

by: MP

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:32:08 +0000

I noticed a new sentence-ending particle here, “ze”. Is it another general emphasizer, or…?

by: jenchanted

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:16:57 +0000

I’m not so fond of unagi because they have so many tiny fish bones.

by: Ercan

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:56:49 +0000

Tsugi no Nihon ryouko, Unagi ga tabetai desu.

by: timt.

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:01:52 +0000

Unagi daisuki desu! tabe dasu!

by: Greg

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:19:10 +0000

I hope our heroes don’t end up on a dinner plate.

Maybe it’ll be a finding nemo kind of a deal…

by: ジャービジ

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:18:37 +0000

I agree with Steve that freeloaders hardly have the right to complain, and the fact that his first contribution to the site is about something like this speaks volumes

Putting advertisements mid-lesson is only going to frustrate people, which probably makes the lessons less effective, so maybe this company should rethink its marketing strategy. The short messages at the start and end of the lessons before were much more tasteful and to the point.

by: Abrassart

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:50:11 +0000

Well, with audiobook, they don’t have much choice. They must have something in the middle of the podcast.

Meybe it could be a little bit shorter. Like one line.

Or make comments about books talking about Japan an Japanese inside the audiobook library.

by: StEvE AuStiN

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:59:56 +0000

Seems to me if you’re not a paid subscriber, you can’t really complain too much about an ad. I mean, it’s not like you’re paying to support their hard work.

But I’m definitely glad to hear the ad is not permanent because you are right about the ad in the middle of the lesson… that was annoying.

by: Naomi

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:51:31 +0000

うなぎもおいしいですが、「うなぎパイ」というお菓子も美味しいですよ。
Unagi mo oishii desu ga, “Unagi-pai” to iu okashi mo oishii desu yo.
I love Unagi(as food). There’s a snack called Unagi-pie. It’s yummy.

by: frustrated

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:22:28 +0000

Thank you for the reply and the information, Japanesepod101 person. It saves me from having to try to edit the file in Garageband.

For the record, I never minded the sponsor announcements for Airclarin (or however it was spelled) in the early days. You need to make money and something brief and tasteful is understandable. It’s just that other annoying company has ruined many podcasts by insisting (apparently based on the empiric evidence) that their long winded sponsorships appear at the beginning and in the middle of podcasts. I have stopped subscribing to some podcasts because of the intrusive “sponsorship announcements” by that company.

Although I’m not a paid member just now I have recommended this podcast and Spanishpod101 to many people. I have all episodes from the very beginning. I hope to keep listening. Thanks.