Comments on: Premium Lesson #17 - SS13: The Pasta Viking!

by: Brian

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:15:22 +0000

Chigusa has a very cute and pleasant voice, I hope we can hear it more often!

by: スコット

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:10:59 +0000

That’s what I thought, it would have made a cool logo too. According to Wikipedia it does come from 灯台.

These lessons always make me hungry

by: markystar

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:23:27 +0000

not sure about a contraction, but could it be from 灯台？ (light house)

i often here 東京大学 (tokyo university) contracted to 東大

by: スコット

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:46:12 +0000

We have an all-you-can-eat sushi place in the US called “Todai”. I wonder if this is a contracted form of 食べ放題? Does anyone know? They have pretty good food and the price is reasonable. I don’t recall if there is a time limit, I’m usually beat after and hour of stuffing my face with sushi though!

by: Kyle

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:05:09 +0000

I’ve been to this place in Harajuku! I went there about a year ago. I was actually surprised at how good it is and would recommend it to anyone looking for a cheap place to eat in Tokyo.

For those of you wondering about the location, I’m almost positive that it’s located at the end of the pedestrianized shopping street (running parallel to the main Harajuku street) that leads away from Harajuku station and is just before the intersection with the major road that the GAP store is on. Check it out!

by: markystar

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:20:33 +0000

she works at interfm.

here’s profile (and you can find a link to her blog there too):
http://www.blenda.jp/radio/personality/

i doubt they have a podcast as podcasts haven’t really caught on in japan

by: Greg

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:20:50 +0000

We don’t hear enough of chigusa these days, she rocks. What radio programme does she appear on? Does it have a podcast?

by: Liz21

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:05:26 +0000

Hearing Chigusa-san again is just awesome!

by: Michael

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:56:12 +0000

“Smorgasbord” comes from the Swedish word “Smörgåsbord” wich literally means “A table of sandwiches”, I don’t know why or how this word came to be used in English, but for me it’s really cool since I don’t know of that many Swedish words being used in English. But yeah, in Japanese the word バイキング is much easier to pronounce than スモルがスボルド so let’s stick to that

by: Bob1

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:44:39 +0000

Since the JPod crew was too busy to explain why an all-you-can-eat restaurant style is called 「バイキング」(Viking), let me suggest that this is because the word is much sharter and easier to pronounce for Japanese than “Smorgasbord”, which would come out 「スモルがスボルド」if transliterated into Japanese. But be sure to hit that final “gu” syllable; otherwise the word comes out ｢黴菌』 which means germs, bacteria, mold, and sometimes refers figuratively to vermin. This is similar to a few New Yorkers I knew who pronounced “Long Island” as “Long-gu Island”.