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”.

Sivasakthivel-san

Thank you for posting a great question!!

Air conditioner is　called 冷房（れいぼう）
I think this word is from the verb 冷やす(ひやす）”cool down”
Heater is called 暖房(だんぼう）
It’s from the verb 暖める(あたためる）”warm up, hot up”　
房means “room”

Since they both have same ending 房（ぼう）”room”, they just use the first character to save the space for the controller.

Jpod-san
With this kanji, I have learned some interesting words
1. 囹圄　－－Ｈａｒｄ　word
( very interesting )
２　　冷暖房　
heater and cooler
わたしの　会社で　書いて　います

sorry mistake again 　　read as 令語

先生
　　I have checked in Jisho.org
冷語
　
I am not good at typing Kanji using computer. Thats what I made multiple mistakes sorry.
よみかた　は　　れいご　です。
They have mentioned that hard word. I could understand that since you have mentioned in this lesson that a person who is not friendly, we can use 冷たい　人
。　 A word that is not friendly is れいご

Ｉ　will send the link later. I could not see the same word again in jisho