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24 Responses to “Yojijukugo #5 - Are You Really Interested, or Is It Just Lip Service?”
Monday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, can you try out either of these words in a sentence of your own? Give it a shot!
Monday at 7:13 pm
興味津々でJPODを聞いています。
Monday at 10:36 pm
I really, really like these lessons.
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Monday at 11:38 pm
Eric-san,
とても良い文ですが、ちょっと惜しいです。
“興味津々”は「初めての事」「まだやったことの無いこと」に使えますよ!
だから、“興味津々でJPODを聞いています。”だと、「Eric-sanははじめてのリスナーですか?」って思います。
“興味津々” can be used for what you’ve never done before or what you are about to do.
If you said “興味津々でJPODを聞いています。” , it implies you are a new listener of Jpod, it’s the first time to listen to it.
Tuesday at 12:35 am
Ericさん、great try! Please know you had the office and half the translation upstairs working on your sample sentence. Yuki did a great job of replying!
Yuki先生ありがとうございます!
A person, thanks! These lessons are really fun to do. Please keep the feedback coming.
Tuesday at 1:23 am
Is it just me or is lesson #5 missing, because I couldn’t find it…
Tuesday at 1:28 am
Never mind what I just said.
Tuesday at 1:42 am
very good lesson i REALLY enjoyed it
Tuesday at 3:04 am
These lessons are pretty useful; I’ve been adding one example sentence for each idiom in my Anki idiom deck for recognition practice (great for learning kanji readings).
My idiom dictionary has a bunch of 四字熟語, but also other idioms like those using 気, 頭, 口, etc, which seem to be more widely used, but harder to look up in a regular dictionary. Maybe these lessons could incorporate a variety of idioms at some point. Just a thought
Tuesday at 9:06 am
興味津々で「興味津々」という四字熟語を使ってみてます。
当てますか?
Tuesday at 10:08 am
YUKI先生ありがとうございます。
Tuesday at 10:30 am
grey-san,
完璧ですよ!日本人っぽい
Eric-san
どういたしまして!
My sentence with 興味津々 is…
「興味津々でみなさんの、例文をお待ちしています。」
Tuesday at 11:01 am
These are great, thanks! I decided to practice my listening and tuned into Odoroku TV and guess what word immediately jumped out at me? Kyoumishinshin!!
Tuesday at 5:03 pm
興味津々で新しい漢字の学びのソフトウェアを試しに使っています。
Tuesday at 6:03 pm
I’ve just found a software to practice 四字熟語 and other difficult kanji readings… it’s a mac-compatibled donation-ware called 漢字力. There’s also an iPhone version (both full version, which I think is about $4.99, and a “mini version” with only 1000 question which is free).
The program shows you a kanji-written word, and you have to give the proper reading. Aside from 四字熟語, you can also be quizzed on names, animals, etc…
It’s fun, but VERY high-level (so far I’m failing miserably at 99,9% of questions…)
Tuesday at 7:19 pm
Vickie345-san
“odorku TV”は 何ですか???
プチクレアさん
その調子です!
Wednesday at 5:58 am
プチクレアさん、
Where can one find a copy of 漢字力? I did some searching, but could only uncover the iPhone version.
Wednesday at 2:32 pm
I just started following this yojijukugo series, and I must say they are really amazing! As mentioned, this is a great way to learn kanji, grammar, and get into the japanese way of thinking. Hope you guys can keep on bringing us a new lesson for this series every week! Thanks Peter and Natsuko, you rock.
Wednesday at 8:08 pm
Lexさん,
the website’s URL is macer.jp (no www., no co.jp)
and you will find 漢字力 under 学習.教育.
Saturday at 6:32 pm
Peterさんはおもしろいですね。
Isn’t 興味=interest?
Sunday at 5:18 pm
今、興味津々で北京オリンピックの体操の予選を見ています。日本チームは強い!頑張れ~日本!
these lessons are fantastic! i’ve always been interested in 四字熟語 because they are so similar to yet so different from chinese four letter proverbs which are called 成语(cheng yu)! i’ve been studying chinese since young and it is linguistically and culturally enriching to listen to all these lessons(: I have used one or two during japanese class and my teacher was pleasantly surprised
i’ve even recommended this site to my year four classmates who take japanese
thanks peter and natsuko and the jpod101 team, you guys absolutely rock!
Friday at 6:12 pm
この四字熟語レッスンは超面白~い!これは社会辞令ではない
次の四字熟語レッスンを興味津々で待ってます♥
Friday at 8:04 pm
Yuzzo san> Thanks for listening and your comment! Keep your request/comments coming so we can better serve you!
ジャビンsan> そうですね
Peterさんはいつもおもしろいです
興味=Interest、 そうですね
ゼンsan>私も、興味津々でオリンピックを見たいのですが、テレビがありません
watashi mo kyomi shinshin de olympic wo mitai no desu ga, terebi ga arimasen.
(I want to watch the Olympics too but I don’t have a TV.)
キーシャsan> Great comment! 使い方が上手いですね!
Sunday at 5:17 pm
特に面白かったね!
These lessons are so fun, keep it up!
– Nigel
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