Comments on: Beginner Lesson S3 #10 - Unagi Road Trip 3

by: 亀井

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:06:20 +0000

私たちは会議を準備しまいました。。。

by: eagle

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:36:43 +0000

Hahaha, this is the strangest, but also coolest conversation to date!

by: Naomi

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:05:06 +0000

DK-san
Well…the usage [te form of verb]＋しまう is a bit complicated.
It indicates completion of an action or event.(=finish -ing) It also indicates the speaker’s regret.(=Unfortunately…)

Please also check our beginner series season 6 lesson 2 and 3.
Beginner series season 4, 5 and 6 are more grammar oriented than beginner season 3. I’m sure you would find them more useful.

by: DK

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:28:49 +0000

So it seems like　～てしまう is simply used to emphasize a verb right?
The casual forms really helped! I hear them all the time >_

by: Yuichi

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:45:13 +0000

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.”

by: Abrassart

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:14:08 +0000

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

by: rigo

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:09:37 +0000

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

by: ジャービジ

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:05:22 +0000

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.

by: João Paulo

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:51:25 +0000

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

by: プチクレア

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:22:09 +0000

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 ?

by: kitty-chan

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:47:04 +0000

The combo-track is really psychedelic!

by: Eric

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:11:19 +0000

僕もうなぎを聞きすぎるとお腹が空いてる

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。

by: クリス

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:01:54 +0000

よかったね。ウナギ死んだなかったやね。　　

by: JapanesePod101.com

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:30:48 +0000

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