Have Fun Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! We’re continuing to take a look at asking and giving directions in Japanese. Yasumi has started his journey and is going to change trains at Ikebukuro station (one of the 3 busiest train stations in the world!). There are a lot of different types of trains, including local and express. So he’ll have to ask which is the right train to take. Our grammar point is nara, a conditional form of the copula. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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9 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #71 - L2: Party in the ‘Burbs! 2”
JapanesePod101.com says:
April 14th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Mina-san, have you ever jumped on the express train when you should have taken the local and ended up in absolutely the wrong place?
sTeVe aUsTiN says:
April 17th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
This is turning out to be a really useful series!
Making conditional statements, asking/giving directions, different types of trains.
Can’t wait to see what the party is like!
プチクレア says:
April 18th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Big problem, taking the wrong train… I’d rather ask multiple times and make sure I’m on the right one. Especially since there are so many different trains in Japan.
I never took the wrong one, but once I had to get from Narita to Asakusa, and for some reason (well, I thought it was way too expensive…) I didn’t take the Skyliner but some local train. I got to Asakusa all right, but when it was time to leave Japan, I never did find the train going the other way… (so I finally ended up in the skyliner…)
Rhys says:
April 18th, 2008 at 6:36 am
In the conversation, the 乗客 says, そう思いますけど、But I thought that correct was, そうだと思いますけど、
のり says:
April 18th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Rhys-san
そう思います and そうだと思います are both correct and the meaning is also the same.
mieth says:
April 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
speaking of trains please kill fabrizio off in a terribly bloody train accident. I am think a cockroach comes near his feat and in a panick he loses his balance and falls on the tracks of the yamonote sen. In its place please make lessons with 1kyu and 2kyu grammar. Thank you.
Naomi says:
April 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
プチクレア-san
本当に、成田へ行く電車は本当に分かりにくいですよね。I hate taking train to Narita.
I searched on the Internet and found out that they do have a train goes to Narita from Asakusa.（1060yen) But they don’t run very often.
maxiewawa says:
April 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Whenever I see a lost 日本人 in 上海 I try to help them out. They always look a bit embarassed though, and respond with いえいえ、大丈夫です, no matter how politely I conjugate my verbs. 
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Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S2) |
Grammar: conditional, copula, da, nara, nara conditional | Function: asking directions | Topic: crazy party, Ikebukuro, Kawagoe, Saitama, suburbs, trains, types of trains | Politeness Level: casual, Polite
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