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This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Beginner 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.
31 Responses to “Beginner Lesson S4 #6 - The Plot Thickens”
Tuesday at 5:05 pm
Mina-san,
Golf is extremely popular among Japanese businessmen. Is it popular where you live too?
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, あなたは何が得意ですか? Anata wa nani ga tokui desu ka? 何が苦手ですか? Nani ga nigate desu ka?
Wednesday at 9:11 am
なんとなく!
Oh my. 誰が諦めたんですね。なおみ先生の勝ちだと思います!
I laughed so hard. Thank you so much. It’s just what I needed after a long day at the office. 「いい薬」
Wednesday at 11:51 am
日本語が得意! 苦手な事はない。
Wednesday at 5:52 pm
私もパッターが苦手です。。。
でも語学がある得意です!
Wednesday at 7:49 pm
トム-san
よかったです。
Yokatta desu.
Good to hear that!!
Maxiewawa-san
本当ですか?
Hontou desu ka?
Is it really?
プチクレアさんはゴルフが好きですか。
Puchikurea-san wa gorufu ga suki desu ka?
Mina-san.
Mr. Yamakawa’s son Hyou is actually famous!!! Please check our upper intermediate lesson #29!
Wednesday at 9:10 pm
そうっすよ!jPodのおかげで。
Thursday at 11:21 pm
Great lesson, as usual! I’ve looked all over the internet, and you guys are absolutely the best at this.
One question: I recently got an iphone, and wanted to take advantage of the “my feed” option I always hear Peter talking about. Is that available to freeloading listeners like myself?
I’m trying to focus on the beginner/lower intermediate lessons, and would love to customize my podcasts around that…
Anyways, thanks again thanks for these awesome lessons!
Friday at 12:03 am
When nominalizing verbs in a sentence, how do you use multiple verbs? Does の go after each verb?
Friday at 12:25 am
The Romaji and English interpretations are incomplete…They are sut off following the comment “I’ll call my second born son”
Friday at 12:26 am
Thaat should read “cut-off”
Friday at 10:50 am
Watashi takusan no koto o suru no ga suki, TENISU o asobu koto toka, nihongo o manabu koto toka, Japanesepod101.com o kiku koto toka!
Just wanted to once again say how much I love Japanesepod101. I’ve never had a class, but I’ve taught myself since the 4th grade, and this is a phenomenal tool for studying! I started a Japanese club at my high school (where I teach Japanese) and I’ve highly recommended this to my 10+ students.
Mata ashita!
Friday at 11:49 am
Nice to hear you’re having fun! Just remember that “asobu” means “play” as in “have fun” but not “play” as in “play a game”.
Ganbatte kudasai!
Monday at 1:44 pm
Another すごい Lesson!! Thank you!!
I’m having a little problem, when I click on the Video
Vocab for this Lesson, the Video Vocab for Upper
Intermediate #25 shows up instead… Is it just me?
Wednesday at 11:23 pm
watashiwa gorfu no ga tokui desu. Nice That chills I lkie saying that
Thursday at 12:17 pm
先生。。。私まだ 「は」と「が」の使うのほうが よく わからないんですけど。。。
どんな時 「は」ですか? どんな時 「が」ですか? 教えてください
Friday at 3:39 pm
beandesu-san
For example, when you answer a who or what question, you’ll use が in place of は.
Q:明日、誰がここにきますか。
A:太郎が来ます。(×太郎は来ます。)
Q:きょうは、何が安いですか。
A:くだものが安いです。(×くだものは安いです。)
Hope that would be of any help!
Wednesday at 10:54 pm
私も寝るのが好きです。
Wednesday at 1:15 pm
Oh, verb+の is a gerund? I’ve seen this pattern a few times before and never quite understood it. Thanks for this lesson!
夏休みがほしいです。テニスをするのが好きですけれど、苦手です。
Saturday at 9:04 am
Ok, I listened to this lesson again and I have a question.
Is these a difference between these two sentences?
アメリカに行きます。
アメリカに行くのです。
Monday at 12:03 pm
Sebastian-san
>>Oh, verb+の is a gerund?
>>夏休みがほしいです。テニスをするのが好きですけれど、苦手です。
→ This の is called nominalizer in Japanese grammar term. It’s like English gerund “-ing”.
As you may have already realized, “Verb(dictionary)+no” change the verb into a noun.
>>Is these a difference between these two sentences?
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>>アメリカに行きます。
>>アメリカに行くのです。
Meaning wise, there’s no difference.
However [verb] のです or [verb] んです is used when the speaker’s explaining something, so when the speaker is answering a question such as “where are you going?”, the speaker tend to say アメリカに行くんです or アメリカに行くのです。 . (1st sentence アメリカに行きます is still OK as an answer though.
This grammar is covered in beginner series season 5 Lesson 3. So please check that lesson too.
I hope this helps.
Thursday at 9:10 am
ありがとうございます、Naomi先生。 It will take me some time to get to Season 5, but I look forward to it
Tuesday at 11:04 am
せんせい、ワシングトン、dc に ゴルフはとても人気です。私はゴルフプレーするが苦手です。
Tuesday at 12:35 pm
亀井-san
私もゴルフをするのが苦手です。I’m not good at playing golf either.
ゴルフをプレーする or ゴルフをする = To play golf
Wednesday at 8:07 am
なおみ先生、
どうもありがとうございます。
私はゴルフが名詞しか忘れてしました・
I think that is right for “I forgot that golf may only be a noun,” unlike English where it may be both a verb and noun.
頑張ります!
Tuesday at 11:13 pm
私は日本語を勉強するのが大好きです。直美背性と亀井さん、もゴルフをすろのが苦手です。
I love to learn Japanese. Naomi-sensei and 亀井-san, I am also not very good at golf.
ゴルフはゲラネダにポピュラーではありません、でもアメリカにポピュラーですよ(アメレカは私の出身です)。
Golf isn’t popular in Grenada, but it is in America (which is where I’m from).
Wednesday at 7:51 am
Whoops, I meant, “I love learning Japanese”.
Thursday at 12:31 pm
マイさん
That’s good! We will help your learning!
By the way, Grenada is グレナダ.
Keep listening and learning.
Tuesday at 11:54 am
私はエンジニアです。ゴルフクラブは道具です。この道具は、掘削のために意図されています。私はゴルフプレーする時は、ゴルフ地は新しい穴を取得します。。。
Wednesday at 11:34 am
亀井さん
ゴルフクラブであなを掘りますか
ゴルフをプレーするのは難しいですね。
Thursday at 10:42 am
素子さん、
はい、そうです。事件がある、そしていつも起こりました。ゴルフプレーするは苦手です。
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