Comments on: Premium Lesson #21 - SS17: Lost Property http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/ Learn Japanese with Daily Podcasts from Tokyo Whether you are Japan-bound or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at Japanesepod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever! Yoroshiku O-negai Shimasu! Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:43:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Mayumi http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-311232 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:11:42 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-311232 ラヒムさん、 I'm so happy to hear that story as a Japanese!!:smile: ラヒムさん、
I’m so happy to hear that story as a Japanese!! :smile:

]]> by: ラヒム http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-311220 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:22:27 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-311220 Alright, so I'm behind on the lessons since I've been traveling, so I just got to this lesson and I doubt anyone will read this comment since it's been so long since this lesson was posted, but I'll write it anyway. This actually happened while I was in Japan around the same time! I was in Tokyo for the first few weeks of April for the hanami, and my friend lost his wallet somewhere in Ginza. To make matters worse, he didn't even realize he lost it until we were at the Tokyo tower later that night! We ended up having to go back to Ginza and retrace his steps (asking the people in the train stations along the way, just in case he lost it on the train). By the time we got to the Sony store (one of the places he visited earlier in the day), they were closed, but the guard on duty told us that he had found it and turned it in to the police box across the street. After filling out some forms and showing his passport, he had his wallet back with everything still in it! The whole ordeal definitely put my Japanese to the test! Allan: he was also amazed by how honest people in Tokyo are. If he had lost his wallet in LA, I'm pretty sure the story would not have ended happily... Alright, so I’m behind on the lessons since I’ve been traveling, so I just got to this lesson and I doubt anyone will read this comment since it’s been so long since this lesson was posted, but I’ll write it anyway.

This actually happened while I was in Japan around the same time! I was in Tokyo for the first few weeks of April for the hanami, and my friend lost his wallet somewhere in Ginza. To make matters worse, he didn’t even realize he lost it until we were at the Tokyo tower later that night!

We ended up having to go back to Ginza and retrace his steps (asking the people in the train stations along the way, just in case he lost it on the train). By the time we got to the Sony store (one of the places he visited earlier in the day), they were closed, but the guard on duty told us that he had found it and turned it in to the police box across the street. After filling out some forms and showing his passport, he had his wallet back with everything still in it! The whole ordeal definitely put my Japanese to the test!

Allan: he was also amazed by how honest people in Tokyo are. If he had lost his wallet in LA, I’m pretty sure the story would not have ended happily…

]]> by: Abrassart http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-295266 Tue, 06 May 2008 05:36:27 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-295266 Hi, nice lesson as usual. I have a bike, but... hum... it's not registered. So if the cops ask me if it's my bike, what should I say? Any advice? "I don't speak Japanese"? Hi, nice lesson as usual.

I have a bike, but… hum… it’s not registered. So if the cops ask me if it’s my bike, what should I say? Any advice? “I don’t speak Japanese”?

]]> by: markystar http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-291591 Thu, 01 May 2008 18:00:19 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-291591 thanks for that! it's an interesting idea, i'll discuss it with the others today! thanks for that!
it’s an interesting idea, i’ll discuss it with the others today!

]]> by: Sasquatchua http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-291534 Thu, 01 May 2008 16:08:52 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-291534 Markyさん, I was thinking something similar - except that with my tiny Nano I don't think I can read PDFs. I was thinking of asking if the artwork screen accompanying the track that usually has the JPod101 meiko picture could be replaced with the premium picture being discussed. Then I could click over to the picture while still listening to the lesson! Markyさん, I was thinking something similar - except that with my tiny Nano I don’t think I can read PDFs. I was thinking of asking if the artwork screen accompanying the track that usually has the JPod101 meiko picture could be replaced with the premium picture being discussed. Then I could click over to the picture while still listening to the lesson!

]]> by: markystar http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-290586 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:51:18 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-290586 markobe8さん、it's a great suggestion! i'll look into it! :dogeza: markobe8さん、it’s a great suggestion! i’ll look into it! :dogeza:

]]> by: markobe8 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-289880 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:48:59 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-289880 hello japanesepod101.com hmm for me, so far my most expensive thing that i have lost is my celphone.. not only one, not two.. but five :cry: (well im unlucky when it comes to celphone, almost every two years i accidentally lost my celphone) btw.. premium lesson is really great, also known as sights and sounds, each lesson ia a full packed especially in the pdf section.. thanks for the details in each of every lesson, me too i have also suggestion in pdf section with regards to premium lessons.. hmm i dont know if this was already suggested but anyway here it is.. Is it possible to add the pictures in the pdf file? maybe it will be a good idea to include the picture in the pdf, to have a smooth and simultaneous review/study of each premium lessons.. Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu markobe8 :smile: hello japanesepod101.com

hmm for me, so far my most expensive thing that i have lost is my celphone.. not only one, not two.. but five :cry: (well im unlucky when it comes to celphone, almost every two years i accidentally lost my celphone)

btw.. premium lesson is really great, also known as sights and sounds, each lesson ia a full packed especially in the pdf section.. thanks for the details in each of every lesson, me too i have also suggestion in pdf section with regards to premium lessons.. hmm i dont know if this was already suggested but anyway here it is.. Is it possible to add the pictures in the pdf file? maybe it will be a good idea to include the picture in the pdf, to have a smooth and simultaneous review/study of each premium lessons..

Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu
markobe8 :smile:

]]> by: Naomi http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-289749 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:59:55 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-289749 VGcatーsan I think it depends on how it was stolen and whether it's one's first conviction or not. I've just sent e-mail to my friend who works for Tokyo metropolitan police and asked how much the fine would be for stealing money. So ちょっとお待ちください。 :dogeza: VGcatーsan

I think it depends on how it was stolen and whether it’s one’s first conviction or not.
I’ve just sent e-mail to my friend who works for Tokyo metropolitan police and asked how much the fine would be for stealing money. So ちょっとお待ちください。 :dogeza:

]]> by: Liz21 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-289542 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:47:43 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-289542 When I stayed at a hotel in Tokyo in 2004, I left a mostly full package of cigarettes in the hotel room. I had given up smoking, but the events had been so exciting and I was alone so I bought a pack of cigarettes, which I could barely smoke because my lungs weren't used to it. I left the cigarettes there, thinking that the maid might like them. Lo and behold! In a few weeks I received a visit from my friend in Japan, from my former host family, whose address I had given at the hotel. To my acute embarrassment, he had a package with the cigarettes in it! :shock: :oops: Also included were tourist items WHICH I HAD NOT BOUGHT!!!:shock::mrgreen: Another guest had probably left them. Anyway, the hotel had contacted my former host family about these items, had sent them to their house and my friend brought them to me! This could NEVER happen in America ("Finders keepers losers weepers"):mrgreen: When I stayed at a hotel in Tokyo in 2004, I left a mostly full package of cigarettes in the hotel room. I had given up smoking, but the events had been so exciting and I was alone so I bought a pack of cigarettes, which I could barely smoke because my lungs weren’t used to it. I left the cigarettes there, thinking that the maid might like them.

Lo and behold! In a few weeks I received a visit from my friend in Japan, from my former host family, whose address I had given at the hotel. To my acute embarrassment, he had a package with the cigarettes in it! :shock: :oops: Also included were tourist items WHICH I HAD NOT BOUGHT!!! :shock: :mrgreen: Another guest had probably left them. Anyway, the hotel had contacted my former host family about these items, had sent them to their house and my friend brought them to me! This could NEVER happen in America (”Finders keepers losers weepers”) :mrgreen:

]]> by: Allan http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-289493 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:45:15 +0000 http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/04/26/premium-lesson-21-ss17-lost-property/#comment-289493 When my family and I were visitng a tourist shop at a popular castle in Kyushu, I left my wallet with about 100,000 yen on the counter. I didn't realise until a couple of hours and about two hundred kilometres car travel had gone by. In Australia, I would never see it again. However, a ccustomer had noticed the wallet and handed it to the staff who kept it for me until three days later when I could drive back and collect it. I've travelled in a few Asian and Pacific countries and was very impressed with the honesty of everyone we met in Japan. :grin: When my family and I were visitng a tourist shop at a popular castle in Kyushu, I left my wallet with about 100,000 yen on the counter. I didn’t realise until a couple of hours and about two hundred kilometres car travel had gone by. In Australia, I would never see it again. However, a ccustomer had noticed the wallet and handed it to the staff who kept it for me until three days later when I could drive back and collect it.

I’ve travelled in a few Asian and Pacific countries and was very impressed with the honesty of everyone we met in Japan. :grin:

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