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15 Responses to “Upper Intermediate Lesson #17 - Karoushi - Working to Death 1”
Friday at 8:30 pm
Mina-san, could you imagine this happening in your country?
Friday at 9:06 pm
12 hours a day , 6 days a week for about 5 years is the ” hardest” i worked in my life , no more overtime for me unless under extreme circumstances
Friday at 9:17 pm
i’m lucky if i get more than 4 hours of sleep a night
but it’s a labor of love
Friday at 11:55 pm
How many hours does the average Jpod staff member work?
I just finished my last week of school. To graduate I had to write about 56 pages to finish my classes. I almost felt like doing karou jisatsu. Anyway, everything went well and I am free!
Recently, I bought a new computer and a premium subscription for a year as a gift to myself for finishing school. Im love the My feed feature becuase now all the PDFs are perfectly organized for me. Now that I dont have anymore text books to read ill be going over your PDFs everyday. (by the way, the PDF’s have been REALLY great) I like the new hosts alot as well.
Also, we have a language exchange in Philadelphia that meets every Sunday. Last week I went 4 hours without speaking one word of English and constant Japanese. Ive only taken 3 semesters of formal classes, so I really owe that ability mainly to you guys.
Saturday at 3:50 am
How is the character 疾both defined as: swiftly or a long time ago, and also associated with the very different variety of sicknesses?
Saturday at 9:25 am
Oops! there is a mistake in the audio version of this podcast. For the English translation of the sentence 「そういえば、英語でもそのままkaroshiで通じるって聞いたことがあるよ」 you say that it is “incomprehensible.” However, in your PDF lesson notes you have it correctly translated as “comprehensible.”
Saturday at 11:34 am
申し訳ありません!直ちに直しますので、なにとぞご勘弁を。
ていうか、マーキー頼むw
Saturday at 2:04 pm
TempleUniJPさん、
thank you for the kind words!!
to be perfectly honest, i have no idea how much a typical jpod101 employee works. even myself. after i leave the office, i continue to work. today is saturday, but i’m back at the office. even when i’m out with friends i’m brainstorming (i believe it was lunch at a sushi-ya when the wasabi kunoichi idea came up. lol). i think everyone here is equally obsessed.
毎日一所懸命頑張るぞ!
planbattackさん、thanks for the heads up! not sure how we missed that one, but we can re-record on monday and upload a new mp3!
仁居流さん、
on monday, naomi-sensei or yuichi-sensei can answer this ☆
they are kanji gurus!
Saturday at 7:21 pm
This lesson was reminiscent of the classic Destruction of Nature
Saturday at 8:19 pm
ジャービジさん、そうですよね!
The worst I ever did was 126 hours in one week, including 72 hours straight without sleep…
Monday at 3:25 am
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
People need to take breaks for their sanity!
That said, I probably work too much too.
Monday at 12:39 pm
仁居流-san
Inside the Kanji of 疾, there is 矢(arrow9. So it is said that this kanji originally means arrow wound.
But in modern Japanese, the basic meaning of 疾 is sickness, illness and it usually means serious sickness.
With the lapse of time, this 疾 started having the meaning of hatred, severe, swiftly etc.
Monday at 4:43 pm
過労死の現状や社会的な背景などうを思ういますか?
Which camp do you belong to “work to live” or “live to work”? The latter could be called work to die.
Tuesday at 1:48 am
プチクレアさん、126!
Would you like to send in an application?
Friday at 3:11 pm
TempleUniJP,
I’ll be moving to Philadelphia and attending Temple in the fall. I’d like to ask you some questions about Philly, Temple, and Japanese speaking opportunities in the area but I can’t seem to figure out how to send you a private message. If you can figure out how to send me one, please do so. If not, I guess just post it as a response.
Japanesepod101, you guys need to make the username database a little more user friendly.
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