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23 Responses to “Beginner Lesson S4 #2 - Japanese Etiquette: Visiting a Home”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, have you visited a Japanese home? Did you know these phrases?
Wednesday at 5:19 am
Tackling the concepts of うち and そと head on in lesson 2 ? Wow, that’s ambitious !!!
Another very useful lesson, though. I especially liked the way the mother giggles… As if she was already getting ready for the wedding. I guess 大空さん went through the first step successfully!
Wednesday at 8:45 am
This lesson covers some of the most important Japanese any visitor should know.
I have a question. This name is used in two different ways in this lesson.
大空 春 HARU (CONVERSATION)
大空 晴夜 SEIYA (KANJI PRACTICE SHEET)
Could you clarify the reading and usage of this kanji?
Thank you.
s
Wednesday at 11:06 am
No video vocabulary this time? I finished Beginner Season 1 and am now going through 2 and keeping up with 4. Season 2 seems much easier than season 3 was…
after 2 I will go back to finishing 3.
And then start on the Lower intermediate lessons! I gotta start buckling down for the JLPT in December, just 144 days left~!
Wednesday at 1:09 pm
Phil from Montrealさん、
there was a little bit of a delay getting the video vocab up, but it’s available now! JLPT頑張ってくださ~い!
Wednesday at 1:27 pm
Spidey-san,
Haruya (晴夜) is correct. The Kanji PDF and lesson PDF (Romaji section) was wrong. I fixed the PDFs. Thank you for letting us know.
Wednesday at 4:39 pm
皆さん、コメントありがとうございます。
Mina-san komento arigatou gozaimasu.
What is the most common gift to give when people visit someone’s house in your country?
Wednesday at 5:13 pm
Is Kieth a frequent misspelling of Keith in Japan?
Wednesday at 6:00 pm
retropunk-san
Thank you for pointing that out. We’ll fix it right away.
Wednesday at 8:50 pm
Namiさん, isn’t the most common gift some sort of food? Something like cookies? I remember a culture class on visiting a Japanese home from a while back.
Thursday at 5:17 am
In Italy, or at least in my region,
the most popular gifts when you visit somebody’s house are
chocolate (or other types of sweets) or alcohol, especially wine.
Wine is particularly good when people invite you over for a meal.
Unlike what I heard happens in Japan, the bottle is usually opened
right away for everybody to enjoy during the meal
Thursday at 5:47 am
Gabrieleさん!
私も イタリア人ですよ。
私の出身は トレヴィソ です。
Gabrieleさんの出身は どこですか。
I am so happy to know you are here!
By the way, I think that in Italy everything that can be ate is welcome as a gift ^__^
Great lesson as always


XD
Peter
Naomiせんせい
Takeさん
Thursday at 5:51 am
Im sure I will definitely use this when I go to Japan next month, as I am staying in my friends home there. Also does anybody have any good ideas for omiyage to give?
Thursday at 7:19 am
Angieさん!!初めまして!
私の出身はペルージャです。でも、今アメリカで住みます。
カリフォルニア大学の大学院生です。
どうぞ、よろしくお願いしまう!!
How long have you been studying Japanese?
We should practice together sometimes!!
Thursday at 12:41 pm
Eric-san
I think it depends on what your friend likes.
As バロン-san kindly mentioned in his comment, a box of cookies or crackers is probably the most popular Omiyage among Japanese people, but anything which is from your hometown would be appreciated, for sure. Rebekah explained Japanese Omiyage culture in Nihongo dojo-beyond style you lesson 17 and 25. I thought her explanation was really good. So please check out those lesson too.
Thursday at 8:22 pm
Gabrieleさん、 こちらこそ、初めまして。 どうぞ、宜しく お願いします。
会社員 です。
私は二ヵ月はん まえから 日本語を勉強しています、けど、一人では ちょっと むつかしい です。 英語も 一人で勉強しました。 でも、英語と日本語は 大ちがいます。
私は大学ではありません。
–> Surely there are many errors, Naomi Sensei please don’t read ^__^'’
Do you ever partecipate to Jpod101 forum? My nick there is SywenArk
I wrote just today two posts. My first two posts!
Tuesday at 1:28 am
Angieさん Gabrieleさん、その調子「ちょうし」!
Ericさん、がんばってください!
プチクレアさん、毎度!Yes, this is big challenge for us! 応援してください。
Spideyさん、すごい!
バロンさん、food is definitely common!
Saturday at 10:49 am
2 questions.
1) what exactly does わざわざ mean
and
2) i’m having a difficult time searching for some of the referenced lessons such as “nihongo dojo style you and beyond 16″ in this lesson. Where can i find this? I use the search engine but to no avail.
Thanks.
Monday at 3:17 pm
jack-san,
1) わざわざ means “all the way” or “bother to do something” as in わざわざ外に行く which means “to bother to go out.”
2) We are sorry that we had changed the lesson names of old Newbie series. “Nihongo Doujou style you and beyond series” has been changed to “Newbie Season 3.” So, “nihongo dojo style you and beyond 16″ should be “Newbie Season 3 Lesson 16.” We are going to come up with something to avoid any confusion caused by this name change. Thank you so much for letting us know this issue.
Friday at 8:18 am
Thanks so much Mayumi! I was getting confused too, but you answered the last question.
Sunday at 2:30 pm
hey, is it okay if i just learn how to reconize kanji? Thanks
Wednesday at 11:18 am
jacob-san,
It is actually up to your goal to what extent to learn kanji.
If you like to read books in Japanese, recognizing is enough.
Whenever you feel needs to write kanji, that would be good time to lean it.
I hope this helps
Monday at 11:54 am
はい、子供の頃、日本人の家に来ました。すかし、この言葉が知りません。
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