Comments on: Beginner Lesson S4 #2 - Japanese Etiquette: Visiting a Home

by: 亀井

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:54:32 +0000

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。

by: Motoko

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:18:36 +0000

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

by: jacob

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:30:45 +0000

hey, is it okay if i just learn how to reconize kanji? Thanks

by: Charms

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:18:57 +0000

Thanks so much Mayumi! I was getting confused too, but you answered the last question.

by: Mayumi

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:17:26 +0000

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.

by: jack

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:49:07 +0000

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.

by: Peter

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:28:50 +0000

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!

by: Angie

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:22:39 +0000

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。
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。　　会社員　です。
–> 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!

by: Naomi

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:41:30 +0000

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.

by: Gabriele

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:19:31 +0000

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!!

by: Eric

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:51:14 +0000

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?

by: Angie

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:47:03 +0000

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
Peter
Naomiせんせい　
Takeさん　XD

by: Gabriele

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:17:20 +0000

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

by: バロン

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:50:53 +0000

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.

by: Naomi

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:00:51 +0000

retropunk-san

Thank you for pointing that out.　We’ll fix it right away.