Start Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Fuyuka and Fabrizio are still hanging out in Dogo Onsen, and today they’re doing some shopping when suddenly a celebrity walks into the shopping center! Then much zaniness ensues. We’ll talk about describing body parts and people using wa and ga. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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12 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #68 - Nihongo Dōjō - Style You and Beyond 13”
markystar says:
March 31st, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Mina-san, the Video Vocab is currently unavailable. I’ll post when it’s been updated. Sorry for the invconvenience. 
プチクレア says:
March 31st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I’ve never met a Japanese celebrity… The last celebrity I met was New Zealand rugby player Jonah Lomu, who is in Paris at the moment and who gave a speech at a symposium my boss had organized just last week.
But I’d really love to meet 村上春樹 !!!!
markystar says:
March 31st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
i’ve met plenty of famous dj’s and producers and a few rock stars.
but i’ve only met 1 japanese celebrity and that was BoA.
the fake celebrity in this story kuroda kurumi is based on the real singer koda kumi (or kuu-chan as she’s known by her fans). i’m a big fan and so i hope at some point i’ll get to meet her! 
oh… actually, i met a famous enka singer, but since i don’t like enka, it doesn’t really count. 
ジェーピー • João Paulo says:
March 31st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
僕はブラジル人バスケットボールプレーヤーを見ましたが、話しことはありません。
そして、ブラジル人卓球（たっきゅう）オリンピックプレーヤーと一緒に働きました。この仕事は大好きでした。 
Stewart says:
April 1st, 2008 at 12:12 am
The practice questions are very helpful. 大好きです。
In my work I have met many famous atheletes in Ameriaca but I haven’t met any Japanese celebrities.
I would love to meet Chigusa-sama. 
ジャービジ says:
April 1st, 2008 at 1:01 am
I saw Paul McCartney drive-by in his car once (not that these types of people actually drive the cars themselves 
) when I was in line to see a band once, all his head was “rock on” or something like that
I always thought 超 was just pure slang, but it’s also used as a more serious prefix in words like 超大国 ’superpower (i.e. global superpower)’, and 超党派 ‘non-partisan’. 超オモロイじゃん!
maxiewawa says:
April 1st, 2008 at 8:10 am
In Chinese, 超 has somehow crept into slang. It’s so weird because it’s pronounced so differently!
maxiewawa says:
April 1st, 2008 at 8:12 am
Oops, pressed submit before I was ready.
数回ピータ先生とSkypeをしましたよ。My closest brush with celebrity!
確かにオーストラリアは全国、海がきれい。来て見てください。
Naomi says:
April 7th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Since our office is located near TBS (Japaneses TV station), I have seen some TV announcers on the street. 
Taurus says:
May 26th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Thanks for another entertaining lesson - although I do think it is a bit of a missed opportunity to explore what the onsen experience is like for westerners. The first time I went to one there were four or five 16-year-olds in there and my girlfriend reckoned she could hear the uproar from the women’s baths (the first time my girlfriend’s nephew saw me taking a bath he was so shocked that he could only respond with ‘kedarake?’ - which I’m told means, ‘hair all over?’). 
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Category: Newbie Lessons |
Grammar: ga (subject marking particle), wa (topic marking particle) | Function: describing body parts | Topic: describing people, dialects, famous people, Osaka Dialect, shopping, sizes, yukata | Politeness Level: Polite
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