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What is that thing? It’s an important question and today we’re going to teach you how to ask it! We’ll also learn how to use the Japanese sentence ending particles, ne and yo. You’ll be seeing these in every Japanese conversation for the rest of your life, so it’s best to master them now. We’ll also review how to use the question particle ka. These are the 3 most essential particles used in Japanese.

Learn how to ask questions in Japanese!

Learn Japanese at JapanesePod101.com!

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This entry was posted on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Newbie Season 4 . 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.

21 Responses to “Newbie S4 #5 - How to Ask What Things Are”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, do you have bakajikara?

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watermen says:

PDF not working?

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プチクレア says:

Unfortunately not… I probably have ばかり弱さ instead… :cry:

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プチクレア says:

I meant, 馬鹿弱さ… :oops:

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Eran says:

waterman - Sorry for the broken PDF link. The issue is now resolved.

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Enrico says:

The learning center is completely broken.
The first page is not usable, it has on the background hundreds of grammar point :shock:
When I click the quizzes button I get 800/900 questions.

I think this is due to the maintenance of the system

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Bea says:

Minna san konnichiwa!

I can’t get the audio in Itunes, is anybody else experiencing the same problem?

Arigatou gozaimasu!

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Eran says:

Mina-san,

We completed our scheduled maintenance earlier today. Thanks for everyones patience and support.

Enrico-san, the Learning Center link should be fixed now.

Bea-san, I am able to get the audio in iTunes. If you’re still having problems, please give it a few more hours. It should should up shortly.

Should you come cross any issues, please report them in this post.

Thank you!

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Tachikawa says:

What’s with doing the Learning Center’s quizzes only in Japanese characters with no romanji. Folks, I would like to remind everyone that there are some out here that aren’t too advanced. This is also “Newbie”, not more advanced levels. The way the quizzes are done for this lesson makes the quizzes useless to me. Please give us both forms. Thanks

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Tachikawa says:

Erin,
I only get a page full of coded numbers and letters for the Video Vocab page for this lesson. Can you fix it?

Thanks

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capt.strugglebunny says:

Instead of complaining about broken things (because I’m too cheap to actually be a member yet anyways, so I can’t get into the learning center,) I’d just like to add a goofy little anecdote:

Whenever I surprise my Japanese teacher, she exclaims with a half uwe/wow hybrid of “uWOW! Sugoi!”

I guess it’s funnier if you hear it.

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capt.strugglebunny says:

err uwe=uwa

うわ!

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Liz21 says:

Capt. Strugglebunny-san, “Haha!” :grin: That’s a good one! I love hybrid languages! I wonder if others have funny examples like that? :mrgreen:

Back to complaining, the video vocab no longer opens up in a new window of the broweser, which I liked. Now, it wants to be opened in iTunes or saved to the desk top. These are not convenient. I like the old way better. :mrgreen: But, hey! - thanks for all you do. I love all the features of JPOD. :kokoro: In fact, there are so many I can’t really use it all! :mrgreen: But, it’s all there waiting for me when I want it! :dogeza:

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Yuki says:

最近の日本は馬鹿暑い!!!!! :hachimaki: :hachimaki:

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Yamanchu says:

Bakajikara - what a word and explanation! It’s because of things like this that I still listen to newbie lessons when they come out, even though I’ve progressed past this point.

Thanks again to all at JPod101 for your work.

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Hiroko says:

Tachikawa san> Apologies to you and all the faithful listeners! :cry: No romaji is due to some errors on the technical maintenance. The team is working really hard to fix all the problems asap! Thank you for your patience :dogeza: and thank you for the comments!

capt.strugglebunny san> Haha, sounds like a funny/cute teacher!

Liz21san> Thanks for your insights! Hope you will be a Jpod101 expert one day :wink:

Yuki san> ああ、馬鹿暑いからYukiさんはそんなに面白いのか! :cool:  
aa, baka atsui kara, yuki san wa sonna ni omoshiroi no ka!
ah, that’s why (because it’s so stinkin’ hot) you are so funny these days!

Yamanchu san> You are right! I think this Yojijukugo lesson is really fun to listen too!

プチクレアsan> Oh, when do you use 馬鹿弱さ (baka yowasa)!? :razz:

Mina san, Have you ever been in a situation where you had to use Baka-jikara?
I used my baka-jikara when I was caught between doors trying to catch the last train one night!

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Ruben says:

This lesson has a lot of kanjis to remember.
Yes I have bakajikara, specially pushing people inside the bus when I get to my work. :razz:

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Mike says:

Hmm, this lesson’s MP3 file has NO tags. None.

The tagging for this season so far has been really hit-and-miss… makes importing and sorting very difficult.

I think I’m going to like Eric, though; he’s got a good sense of humor. I will miss Rebecca-san though! :-(

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Wytse says:

みなさn こんいちわ

About bakajikara,
in The Netherlands we have the same word or expression. We call it
‘dommekracht’ it means litteraly the same as bakajikara. Stupid power.
But it has really a meaning: it’s a jack! A device to lift heavy things with
little effort. But it also has a figurely meaning end that is a very strong
but brainless person.
So, a bakajikara is a jack or a very strong but stupid person in my language.
This makes listening to these lessons so worthwhile!

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Naomi says:

Wytse-san
That’s very interesting!! :razz:

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王凱 says:

これはロリさんのスーツけすーですね、大きいですよ。よいしょ、痛い。重いですか。普通です。馬鹿力。私は馬鹿じゃないです。ろーりさんは馬鹿じゃあれません。馬鹿力です。馬鹿力はなんですか。

またね。

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