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March 11th, 2008 | help Need help?

Learn Japanese on Your Own Terms at JapanesePod101.com! Today is our final chapter in the unagi story. It seems that having arrived in Japan, our slimy friends have found nothing better to do than play pachinko (what else would unagi do in Japan?). As we already introduced how to use shi hajimeru and shi oeru to describe beginning and finishing actions, we will now look at -te shimau, which is used to describe actions which are fully completely - often with a tinge of disappointment. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

Voice Actors: Nori, Take | Hosts:
Category: Beginner Lessons (S3) |
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10 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #180 - B3: Unagi Road Trip 3”

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, I don’t know about you, but all this talk of unagi has made me really hungry! :lol:

avatar クリス says:

:mrgreen: よかったね。ウナギ死んだなかったやね。  :lol:  

avatar Eric says:

僕もうなぎを聞きすぎるとお腹が空いてる :mrgreen:

皆さん質問があるんですけど
リーチって他の場面で使うんですか?例えばパソコンのゲームをしてる時とか。

:dogeza:

avatar kitty-chan says:

The combo-track is really psychedelic! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

avatar プチクレア says:

私もお腹が空いてしまいます !!!ウナギを食べたいですよ!

Ok, a rather naive question : I thought you couldn’t directly win money at pachinko ? I’ve always heard that you won prizes that you …could…exchange for money, even though it wasn’t legal. Is that right ?

avatar João Paulo says:

僕がうなぎを食べたことはありません。でも、ほしいはないでうよ。

It’s nice to hear that “bubble” sound conversation again. Are you planning to record future lessons under water??? That would sound really nice :lol: :lol:

avatar ジャービジ says:

I saw something on TV about that. You win the ball bearing things and exchange them for tokens at the parlour, which you then take round the corner to a little kiosk where can “buy” cigarettes and other things (I think yen as well) with the pachinko “currency”. Since you’re not winning the money at the parlour nobody can get busted.

avatar rigo says:

sugoi lesson i have studied about te-shimau before but i didnt know about
the unwillingness nuance
very good

avatar Abrassart says:

What the heck, this story ends without the unagi beeing eaten by some japanes hungry people. I can’t believe it :lol:

avatar Yuichi says:

Ericさん
「皆さん質問があるんですけど、リーチって他の場面で使うんですか?例えばパソコンのゲームをしてる時とか。」

→他にリーチを使う場面は、「ビンゴ」をするときに必ず使います。
When you play bingo, you definitely use the word “リーチ”.

リーチは「あともう一つで、そのゲームで勝てる」という時に使います。ビンゴの時に2つのリーチがあれば、「ダブルリーチ」、3つだったら「トリプルリーチ」という風にも使えますよ。
Riichi is used when one more point is needed to win the game. When you have two riichis, you can say “ダブルリーチ”, as for 3 riichis, “トリプルリーチ.”

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