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.

its working fine over here

I works fine here too.

Great lesson!

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!

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!!!

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

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.

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?

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!