Mina-san, are all onsen towns as dangerous as Dōgo Onsen? What your onsen town experience?

Church bells ? And… sub-machine guns ?… uh-oh….

吾輩は猫である is on my books-shelf, and glaring at me every time I goes by because I bought it and haven’t got around to reading it yet…

Are you allowed to wear kevlar in an onsen? Sounds a bit risky if not

Isn’t there something wrong with the date of this lesson. It is supposed to be 3/24/2008 not 3/25/2008.

I was surprised to hear Rebekah talking about going to an onsen in Kurayoshi, because I’ve been to one there as well, back in 1984 or ‘85. My mother-in-law comes from that town, and so we were visiting relatives (it was my first trip to Japan). I had to chuckle that the Onsen promoted the fact that there was some radioactive isotope (very low levels, of course) in its water. Having recently completed a Ph.D. on DNA repair, this claim did not make me more eager to get in.

But the 「お腹が痛い」 comment did remind me of my son, who back when he was about 3 years old, held is shoulder and told us “onaka ga itai”. We pointed out to him where his stomach was, and then he proceeded to hold his belly and repeat the line. As I recall, he received no sympathy. . .

Hello,

Nani ga kirai desu ka? Shitsurei na hito kirai desu….

Since you ask… just a comment on this Fabrizio character that seem to surface once in a while in introductions and lessons. I am a sure that there are a lot of Italians that sound like complete morons just as this Fabrizio does. I am sorry to hear that at Japanesepod you have met Italians that speak with such a ridiculous accent and sound like complete imbeciles. I would like to ask where do you meet these people? I think I can tolerate quite a bit of abuse, as I am well aware that idiots abound everywhere, but after a while, with al the best will in the world, it really starts to sound quite offensive. Sorry about this outburst… I am not asking you to stop, I am sure the community would lose a much loved caricature, just to consider a wider range of stereotypes in the future. Actually, if I were you, as revenge for this “affront'’, I would call the character Giovanni from now on and have him complain all the time

Giovanni

Giovanni

I love Fabrizio! He’s so cute!

I like the subtle background noises added. In the airport episode recently, one guy was screaming at the very end - nice and surreal.

Great lesson. Both of you girls make my walk to the tube station, en-route to work, a pleasure, and something to look forward to.

いい写真ですね！！！ Great photos!!!!!
本当にありがとうございます。Thank you very much, Bob -san

In the vocab section the romaji of neck is given as kukbi instead of kubi.

Distinction between leg and foot or are both ashi?

Maxiewawasan,

Thank you.

Are there any words for thigh or calf or other ways of differentiating different parts of the leg?

Peter-san,
Thank you for letting us know the error in the vocab section of the PDF.
I fixed it.