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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”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, do you have bakajikara?
Sunday at 1:43 am
PDF not working?
Sunday at 3:28 am
Unfortunately not… I probably have ばかり弱さ instead…
Sunday at 3:31 am
I meant, 馬鹿弱さ…
Sunday at 6:23 am
waterman - Sorry for the broken PDF link. The issue is now resolved.
Monday at 4:43 am
The learning center is completely broken.
The first page is not usable, it has on the background hundreds of grammar point
When I click the quizzes button I get 800/900 questions.
I think this is due to the maintenance of the system
Monday at 8:39 am
Minna san konnichiwa!
I can’t get the audio in Itunes, is anybody else experiencing the same problem?
Arigatou gozaimasu!
Monday at 9:00 am
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!
Monday at 10:51 am
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
Monday at 10:56 am
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
Monday at 1:36 pm
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.
Monday at 1:37 pm
err uwe=uwa
うわ!
Monday at 5:07 pm
Capt. Strugglebunny-san, “Haha!”
That’s a good one! I love hybrid languages! I wonder if others have funny examples like that?
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.
But, hey! - thanks for all you do. I love all the features of JPOD.
In fact, there are so many I can’t really use it all!
But, it’s all there waiting for me when I want it!
Tuesday at 10:03 am
最近の日本は馬鹿暑い!!!!!
Tuesday at 11:56 am
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.
Tuesday at 4:40 pm
Tachikawa san> Apologies to you and all the faithful listeners!
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
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
Yuki san> ああ、馬鹿暑いからYukiさんはそんなに面白いのか!
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)!?
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!
Monday at 6:52 am
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.
Tuesday at 10:20 am
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!
Friday at 9:19 pm
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!
Monday at 10:10 am
Wytse-san
That’s very interesting!!
Monday at 9:25 pm
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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