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9 Responses to “Premium Lesson #23 - SS19: Meeting up with my Friend”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, have you ever stolen a car to avoid taking the train to a meet up?
Saturday at 11:12 pm
welcome back Sakura san
very fun lesson today
Saturday at 11:22 pm
Hmm… wait, I’m thinking… NO !!!!
The part about the license plates was very interesting ! It would have been nice to have a line or two in the PDF about it, as a cultural note. I’ve always wondered what the kana on the plates meant…
Saturday at 11:29 pm
Can someone explain this sentence found in the PDF, 確か、サトシは7時に来るって言ってたと思うよ。
I don’t understand the た in the sentence. Why is it 言ってた and not 言った?
Sunday at 12:18 am
Sakuraさん
congratulations on the 2.5
Trains aren’t usually so bad (usually), but buses make car theft seem like less of a crime
Does watermen’s point have anything to do with progressive tense being more commonly used in Japanese? 確か, that point hasn’t really been covered.
Sunday at 1:26 am
言ってた is the spoken form of 言っていた , the past progressive of 言う.
The いる part of the progressive tense is often shortened to just -る
(言う->言っている->言ってる->言ってた)
As to why it’s the past progressive instead of the plain past … hm, I guess it’s because the speaker is talking about the result of the 言う action (”I thought he said he would be here at 7″ ie: we have this information as a result of his saying so) rather than simply describing the fact that サトシ said something (7時に来るって言った : he said “I’ll be here at 7″)
I’m not sure if it’s right and/or clear….
Monday at 3:19 am
I agree with ジャービジ , I think the て いる forms are used more than the progressive English forms. It’s kind of a mistake to think of them as the same thing probably.
Saturday at 11:39 am
Hi. I’d like to invite everyone to re-visit the following old forum thread requesting for “ruby characters” (furigana) in the main “kanji + kana” transcripts, instead of having a separate “hiragana-only” section, which has always a bit counter-intuitive to me:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17982#17982
If you would like to see furigana in the main transcript, please use this opportunity to make yourself heard!
Since I shall be posting identical comments in other levels as well, I do need to apologize in advance to anybody who sees it as “spam”. Thank you so much, everybody!
Wednesday at 5:17 am
where can I find the link to this video that is mentioned in this lesson?
thanks….
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