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This entry was posted on Friday, July 11th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Upper Intermediate Season 2 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
20 Responses to “Upper Intermediate Lesson S2 #1 - Moving In Japan - The First Big Step 1”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, how many times have you moved?
Friday at 8:52 pm
this is probably the most useful upper intermediate lesson
it will definitely help when I move to Japan next year
thanks again, JPOD Team
Friday at 9:48 pm
moving is such a pain
by the way great lesson today
Saturday at 1:14 am
I kind of like moving as long as I keep my possessions to a minimum. I’ve moved 7 times in the US and will be moving to Japan in 2 months. I can’t believe the prices in Tokyo! I hope that I get a dormitory room because they are ~10% the average price of apartments in Tokyo. My wallet hurts already
…
Thanks for the lesson!
Saturday at 3:05 am
Please excuse me. What is DK and LDK?
Saturday at 3:37 am
And the answer is:
LDK is an abbreviation frequently used in the world of Japanese real estate to describe apartments. It stands for Living, Dining and Kitchen area, and is preceeded by the number of rooms. Some examples are:
1K = one room apartment with kitchen
1DK = one room apartment with dining and kitchen area
1LDK = one room apartment with a living, dining and kitchen area
Saturday at 10:42 am
Next week will be the 5th move I have made in Japan in about 7 and a half years!
And I did stay in one place for about 4 years! You can do the math with the rest.
It is n’t so bad as long as you can keep you possessions to a minimum.
Saturday at 11:34 pm
This lesson really comes in handy. Me and my wife were thinking about moving to Japan this coming month……..
Sunday at 5:52 am
I’m impressed at how often you guys move… I’ve only moved once, when I left my parents home to get a place of my own… and as far as I know my parents only moved once since they got married 30+ years ago、and that as about one year before I was born…
Then again the lesson is great, because even though I haven’t mived much yet, I too plan to move to Japan in the coming years…
仁居流さん、説明して本当にありがとうございます!
Sunday at 5:59 am
Natsuko-先生、Naomi-先生,
It’s easy! 1 square meter is 10.7 square feet, so if you want to get a rough idea, you just divide by 10.
So a 700 sq.ft. apartment is more or less 70 square meters (65, actually, but more or less.)
Now with 畳 mats, I heard that these are actually a different size in Kansai than in Kanto! That’s kkkkkrrazzzeee!!
Monday at 9:04 am
My son is a graduate student, and his professor recently moved from the University of Tokyo’s Kashiwa (half way between Tokyo and our home in Tsuchiura) to the Hongo (main) campus in Tokyo. It is just too hard to commute so he has a tiny 1K apartment, not even big enough to keep his desktop PC there. So I learned a new word. うなぎ寝どころ (unagi nedokoro = place for an eel to sleep). This provides tremendous motivation for him to graduate and find a job.
Monday at 10:53 am
sounds like my place.
lol
Monday at 2:37 pm
Mina-san, how many times have you moved?
私は何回も引っ越したことがあります。
Tuesday at 6:57 pm
Love this lesson!!
I guess a lot people here are living in Japan already. This is so useful~~
Wednesday at 8:50 am
Great lesson as always! Many thanks!
But… I have a question.
The name 彩 SAI
Is written as Aya in English.
As I was reading along the podcast this name seemed not to match the PDF.
Could you clarify the reading and usage of this kanji?
Thank you.
Wednesday at 1:18 pm
Spidey-san,
The kanji “彩” can be read as “aya” or “sai,” but in this dialog it is used as “aya.” I’m sorry that the PDF was wrong. Thank you for pointing it out.
I fixed it.
Wednesday at 12:51 am
下北沢にこだわているわけじゃないことはない。
コッメントしたことないけど、長い間使っているのに、すぐに払います。Upper Intermediateとか四字熟語がすごく便利です。
I use so many resources for learning Japanese that for my first year here I couldn’t keep using the site consistently but now that it’s set as my homepage, I’ve trained myself. Also I’ll finally have a salary haha. Thanks for everything so far.
I would love if you added one of the following series (I’m sure someone else would appreciate them too)
1 Casual (preferably intermediate or advanced level)
2 Business (although this can wait, theres enough keigo in the intermediate and upper intermediate.
3 日本語能力試験 (2級、1級, It’s hard to find anything for these online)
4 大阪弁 (楽しそう!)
This site (and other pod101 sites) is great. You seem to really care about providing a good service. I hope you won’t get bought out by Apple or Viacom or something anytime soon. Keep it up
Thanks again.
Oh and hope you read comments to older posts !
Thursday at 9:38 am
zack-san
フィードバック、ありがとうございます!

Thank you very much for your valuable feedback!
これからもがんばります!!
We’ll do my best to provide you with fun and useful lessons.
Sunday at 4:58 pm
Hello!~
…かなと思っています.
ここのかながという意味ですか?
勉強したいです。誰が分かると、教えてください。
Thursday at 11:29 am
Tracy-san
例文がないと訳せませんが、I wonder とか I’m wondering とか だと思います。
I’d hard to translate without any context, but “—かなと思う” is often translated as “I wonder” or “I’m wondering”. Again depending on the context though.
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