Have Fun Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today Tom is still harassing Junko in the cafe. He’s definitely a persistent fellow. We’re going to continue looking at yō ni, but today we’ll talk about a plain form verb followed by yō ni which is used to express purpose. This is a really useful grammar point, so you don’t wanna miss this one! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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13 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #67 - LI2: Getting to Know You 3”
JapanesePod101.com says:
March 20th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, what do you think about Junko’s strategy to blow off Tom? More importantly, what do you think about the way Tom instantly tested Junko’s phone number?
kitty-chan says:
March 20th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
What a freak!! 
He actually had the balls to call her right then and there and just waited! 
How do you say “restraining order” in Japanese? 
アレックス says:
March 20th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I feel for Junko, I tried the same trick on an おじちゃん trying to hustle me for cheap private lessons. I gave him one digit wrong but didn’t realise he was going to call me there on the spot!
Anyway after I gave him the right phone number he never tried to call again. Hopefully the same happens for Junko, but judging from Tom’s persistence, I doubt it!
markystar says:
March 20th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
i’ve heard this a hundred times and the ibaraGi accent never gets old.
i crack up uncontrollably when i hear it!
and i agree, tom is annoying. 超annoying. hahahaha
ブラッド(not Pitt) says:
March 20th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
This was really funny, in Orlando there is a number just like the “Rejection Hotline” you were talking about Peter. Mostly girls give it out but I’ve had a couple times where I had to use it too. I’m pretty sure it died out a year or two ago just because of how popular it got, kind of loses the effect when the person you give it to already knows whats coming
ジェーピー João Paulo says:
March 20th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
This guy is REALLY boring.
She was really insightful, great technic!!! I was rooting for him, but he’s been showing to be such a “sticky” person. Therefore, I hope she can get out of this situation fast. 
sTeVe aUsTiN says:
March 20th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Tom is totally irritating to the point of being comically tragic.
The grammar points in this series have been excellent, tho.
And I believe I’ll never forget the various of uses of ように because of Tom.
プチクレア_ says:
March 21st, 2008 at 5:05 am
I never gave anyone a wrong number or e-mail adress on purpose, but as I have 2 cell phones and 2 main e-mail adress, and in each case one that I use more than the other (one personal and one professional phone, one usual e-mail and one spam e-mail), I usually give annoying people the ones I don’t check or answer so frequently…
Anthony Elia says:
March 21st, 2008 at 7:57 am
Sorry if this is not the right place to post this but I don’t know where else to if there is a better place please let me know thanks. But what I want to say is thank you so much to the Jpod team I was a know nothing listener before but thanks to your wonderful Podcasts I have come such a long way I cant express this enough Thank you so much you are the best!
markystar says:
March 21st, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Sorry if this is not the right place to post this but I don’t know where else to if there is a better place please let me know thanks.
here is as good as any place! thanks for the kind words! 
awwwww yeah!
giovanni says:
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 am
Can I point out that both are obviously not that smart. Somebody “trying” to memorize one word a day can hardly be described as studious! Especially if you are majoring in Japanese…. At that rate, just to learn the 10,000 words you need to get the level 1 JLPT test it would take more than 27 years! (Not to mention the 2000 kanjis with all the readings and all the grammar structures you need to know.)
According to the paper, How Many Words Do Japanese Know?, by Diane Fukumoto, and Eleanor Horii in The Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, an average Japanese knows 63,000 compound words, which means at that learning rate, it would take 172.6 years!
Giovanni
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Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S2) |
Grammar: suru yō ni, yō ni | Function: stating purpose | Topic: dialects, flirting, Ibaraki, nampa | Politeness Level: formal, Polite
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