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Have Fun Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Today is the exciting conclusion of our 5 part series covering yō ni and tame ni. Tom has been trying and trying to get Junko’s attention to avail. Will he finally succeed and win her heart - or will she call the police? Stay tuned for the answer to this and other exciting questions and after listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com to leave us a post!

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This entry was posted on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Lower Intermediate Season 2 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

21 Responses to “Lower Intermediate S2 #13 - Getting to Know You 5”

JapanesePod101.com says:

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.

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mieth says:

the lesson audio is partially cut off and not complete.

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Eric says:

its working fine over here :neutral:

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OkayamaS says:

Working fine here too. :mrgreen:

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? :lol:

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Hugo says:

I works fine here too. :grin:

Great lesson! :dogeza:

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kirinban says:

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。

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ジャービジ says:

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! :lol:

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rigo says:

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

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ジェーピー • João Paulo says:

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!!! :mrgreen:

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Naomi says:

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。 :grin:

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Greg says:

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu

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のり says:

Greg-san

Actually, in the movie “The Last Samurai”, when Tom Cruise used Japanese we needed subtitles…His Japanese was really bad :mrgreen:

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ジャービジ says:

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.

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Jason says:

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!”

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Greg says:

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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Inuzuka says:

I found an interesting video:

http://yubikiri-genman.269g.net/

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Yamanchu says:

Hi Guys,

I know I’m a little late talking about this lesson, but I’ve been working my way through everything and only now gotten this far.

I couldn’t stop laughing about yubikiri. This is what my wife says to me when I promise her we’ll do something special that she’s looking forward to. So while I understood the general meaning of the saying this certainly clears things up for me.

Anyway, great job guys, this is certainly the ‘real deal’ when it comes to the Japanese language and something we’re not likely to learn in any textbook!

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Mayumi says:

Yamanchu-san,

Now you understand the original meaning of “yubikiri” song, I’m sure you will try hard to keep your promise with your wife. Good for your wife! :lol:

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Tess says:

When we were kids we’d link our little fingers while we swore to something. Actually, I think I even remember once my friend and I drawing blood on one of our fingers and touching the blood together while making our promises. Now we’re all grown up and sign contracts!!! I think our kids’ swear was something like: Cross your heart, spit to die!

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wael says:

is tameni used with plain form only
or can use after formal form

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Naomi says:

wael-san
-Tame ni only follows informal form.
The usage of -tame ni is covered in beginner Lesson 62. So please check that lesson’s PDF.
-Tame ni will be also covered in beginner season 6 Lesson 15 which will be published on August 1st this year. So please check that lesson too. :wink:

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