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16 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #69 - LI2: Getting to Know You 5”
JapanesePod101.com says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, bet you didn’t see that ending coming! Erm, actually, neither did we…. But there was a lot of good stuff yō stuff in this series, so hopefully you can refer back it to it many times.
OkayamaS says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Working fine here too. 
Yeah, I agree with JapanesePod101.com, I didn’t see that coming. Where did the mask come from? She talked to this freak for that long and he was wearing a mask the whole time?? Was it one of those George Bush masks? 
kirinban says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Interactive to the question of today.
どうして日本語を習っていますか。
色々な日本文化を了解するためです。
rigo says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:57 am
hello there . what a great lesson !
yubikirigenman i’v seen this thousands of times and i was shocked to know about the history behind it
thanks for your hard work
ジェーピー • João Paulo says:
April 4th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
俺はあそぶために日本語を勉強してる。
トムクルーズのことはびっくりした！すごいぞ。
It really was a long series about YOU NI
1) you ni + naru
2) you ni + suru
3) you ni
4) you ni iu/tanomu
5) tame ni vs you ni
Thank you for all this amazing information!!!
Naomi says:
April 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am
kirinban-san
>>色々な日本文化を了解するためです。
すごい!
I think 理解/rikai（to understand) is more appropriate in this case.
色々な日本文化を理解するためです。
ジャービジ-san
>>日本語を勉強している理由は、もちろんピーターほどかっこうよくなれるためです!
へぇ～。
If you say「ピーターみたいに格好よくなるため」, that sounds more natural.
ピーターさんよかったですね。カッコいいって言ってもらえて。
João Paulo -san
>>俺はあそぶために日本語を勉強してる。
遊ぶために日本語を勉強？すごいですね。 
Greg says:
April 7th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
who would have thought Tom Cruise’s Japanese was so good?
Although he was the “last samurai” and all…
or maybe his “inner alien” spent some time in Japan.
のり says:
April 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Greg-san
Actually, in the movie “The Last Samurai”, when Tom Cruise used Japanese we needed subtitles…His Japanese was really bad
ジャービジ says:
April 8th, 2008 at 3:10 am
直美先生、訂正ありがとうございました。Originally I used ピーターのように and なる, but then I started thinking in terms of English, which is always a disaster!
How can Tom Cruise play a samurai with no topknot and that beard? I don’t know how people still take him seriously after all that ridiculous Scientology stuff anyway. L. Ron Hubbard - mediocre science-fiction novelist turned Messiah.
Jason says:
April 8th, 2008 at 5:43 am
This is off-topic, but doesn’t “Scientology” sound like something some loser would make up to try to sound impressive?
“Yeah, baby! I got *my* doctorate in Scientology!”
Greg says:
April 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Someone ought to make some kind of funny youtube clip entitled “hollywood actors who had a crack at Japanese, but didn’t do too well…”
add Sean Connery and Uma Thurman to the list
Not that I’m dissing Sean Connery, I mean, how could you?
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Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S2) |
Grammar: tame, tame ni, yo, yō ni | Function: stating purpose | Topic: dialects, flirting, Ibaraki, masks, nampa, Scientology, Tom Cruise | Politeness Level: Polite
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