Mina-san, do you find Japanese verbs difficult?

I believe Japanese verbs are easy compared to other languages.

They just get complicated when one starts attaching suffixes or even other verbs in the end. Transitive and intransitive verbs are also a bit complicated, in my opinion!

João Paulo-san, transitive and intransitives….yes, very tough. We have quite a few series on them, but probably could never get enough. Hehe.

manny thx to your podcast
it really helps me in listening

thx for all ur kindness ^^
arigatou sensei

kt-san

>>would it be anata wa shinde kudasai?
Technically, yes. Sounds very very funny though. It’s like saying “Die please”

Angie-san

お帰りなさい。Okaerinasai.
Welcome back!

ah ha haa

バロンsan

そうですね。日本語の助詞はむずしいですね。
Sou desu ne. Nihongo no joshi wa muzukashii desu ne.
Yeah. I agree. Japanese particles (wa, o, ga, ni, to, de, no…etc)　are confusing.

でも、英語の前置詞もむずかしいです。
Demo, eigo no zenchishi mo muzukashii desu.
But English prepositions are difficult too.

Japanese people speak like the Peanuts teacher sometimes too?

For American English, what Peter said was right. If you asked for the “loo” you might get some peculiar looks, but because we’ve seen movies with English characters we’ll probably get what you mean.

A further cultural difference is that in America, the toilet and the bath are almost always in the same room. We call them bathrooms even if there is no bath in there. Some people will call the bathroom with just a toilet and a sink a “washroom”, realters will call them “half-baths”, proper people may call them “powder rooms”, but everybody knows them as bathrooms. You don’t have one room for the bath and a separate room for the toilet.

It can become a bit of a problem though when you live in an apartment with one bathroom and more than one person. You have to be really comfortable with the other person to let them in to use the bathroom while you are in the shower…. It seems to always lead to the first marital frustration, “Honey, don’t lock the door when you take a shower–we’re married now, it’s ok”.