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19 Responses to “Newbie S4 #4 - How to Greet People in Japanese”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, hajimemashite!!
Sunday at 5:46 am
Just to let you know… this lesson (Newbie Lesson 4) is posted under Beginner Lessons… (and so, it’s also under Beginner Lessons in the iTunes feed too)
Sunday at 3:45 pm
Katherine-san: Whoop! Thanks for letting us know. It’s now posted under the correct category.
Tuesday at 1:51 pm
I always get つ and す mixed up when spoken. Also, it’s hard to hear the pauses “っ” in words.
Tuesday at 3:48 pm
capt.strugglebunny san> Yeah, つ and す are sometimes hard to identify with especially in a spoken conversation, and so as small っ sound. I hear for English speakers the hardest Japanese pronunciations are “Rya Ryu Ryo” as in “Ryuugakusei” or “Ryokou” and “Tsukareta”. I’m sure you will learn as you become more familiar with Japanese daily conversations! Ganbatte kudasai
Tuesday at 9:30 pm
Good point capt.strugglebunny.
The small tsu generally sounds like either a sharp pause or a quick burst when speaking, but it can easily become nearly inaudible when the conversation is very fast. The best way to get used to it is to listen to the dialogues while reading along with the script.
Wednesday at 1:38 am
After listening to this episode and thinking a lot I finally thought of a similar phrase in English to よろしくお願いします. Cheers. Not in the toasting sense. In British (informal) English ‘cheers’ has a similar (not exactly but similar) meaning.
Wednesday at 10:05 am
はじめまして。*bows*
Wednesday at 10:51 am
Kate-san
>>In British (informal) English ‘cheers’ has a similar meaning.
そうですか。知りませんでした。ありがとうございました!!!
Sou desuka. Shirimasen deshita. Arigatou gozaimashita!!!
Wow, is that right? I didn’t know that. Thank you so much!
So maybe よろしく!”Yoroshiku.” can be translated as “Cheers!” in British English then.
Thursday at 2:11 am
About tongue-twisters: Not only does English have Lori (or Laurie) and Larry, there’s also the (Welsh?) name Rory, and the word that they use for “truck” in England, “lorry”. So how about:
Hey Rory, let’s take Peter Lorre Laurie’s lorry!
“Lorry” even causes trouble for English speakers; “Red lorry, yellow lorry” is a tongue-twister that’s been around a while.
Thursday at 11:47 pm
Hi!
Where is Newbie Lesson #2 - S4? I can’t find it anywhere! If you navigate to “Newbie” from the front page, you only get the older Nihongo Dojo series. In My Feed, I didn’t get the other tracks from lesson #2 (dialog, review, etc.) so I’m searching for them. Lessons 1, 3-4 show up in the category “Newbie lessons (S4), but not lesson #2. 勉強したいです!(can you say that?)
thanks,
m.
Friday at 3:06 am
Naomi先生、
For example:
A band performing may introduce their song, say ‘we hope you like it’ and then say ‘cheers’ as if re-affirming their hope for your approval.
That’s as good an example as I could think of but there are probably better ways of showing its use.
Thursday at 8:35 am
This was my very first lesson.
I liked it a lot.
I would like to subscribe so I can download mp3 to disk and listen to lessons while I drive, and for my mp3 player when waiting at airports.
Thank you
Furiku-sho
Thursday at 9:44 am
Furiko-shoさん>
Thanks for the comment! We hope you enjoy the other lessons!
Wednesday at 9:17 pm
Dear Eric-san and Naomi-san,
!!! It is much easier to learn.
thanks for this great lesson. It was fun
You both are great actors
ja ne
Friday at 3:26 pm
laura -san
ありがとうございます!Thank you so much for the kind comment!
Monday at 6:43 am
ありがとうございます for the lesson , it really helped me a lot to greet properly
じゃ、また。
Monday at 9:54 am
Ruben-san
We’re glad to hear that. Good luck on your Japanese study!
Monday at 8:06 pm
初めまして、ロリです。よろしくお願いします。らーりさん。らいじゃありません。ロリです。すみません、ロリはまですか。ハンマじゃないです。私の名前はロリネイラデス。
また、ね
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