うんてんするのがきらいです。だからにほんへいくとJRPassをかうつもりです。

Ps. Now I know how to reach you all
uah, へ行きたいです！

does 雪男 really means what I think it means? X°D

unten suru no ga suki desu ka!

demo, shitsumon ga arimasu.

What’s the difference between “me” and “dai” in the formation of ordinal numbers?

Is ichi me and dai ichi interchangeable? Can they be used together (dai ichi me)??

Thank you in advance!!!

Rufus-san, there’s no reason. It’s just one of those things about Japanese you have to remember.

Hello. Though I thoroughly enjoy most lessons. There are a few recurrent issues that trouble me. One is about the so called “literal'’ translations you seem to love so much. Another, is the claim that grammar precedes the spoken language. What is apparent in this lesson is the problem of insisting to consider “no” as possessive, instead of a generic noun modifier, and forcing what you call a “literal'’ interpretation. Why is a “literal'’ translation such as “the next’s intersection” of any use? The intersection belongs to next? Here it’s more like a descriptive relationship. This supposedly “literal” interpretation can lead to meaningless statements or worse: completely wrong ones. In fact, often it can result in wrong interpretations. Once you used the same “literal” device for “Tonari no totoro.” The neighbor’s totoro? Even the “convenience store’s corner” supposedly helpful interpretation is actually not a possessive case. I do not think that perpetrating this approach, now also in the PDF files, even at the beginner’s level, is of any benefit to anyone learning the language.

Maxiewawa, what I mean is it seems more intuitive that “de” would go there since its describing what in English would be a prepositional noun phrase, as opposed to the object; that is, being used exactly as I expect “de’ to be used. This is exactly why I want to know how to say “to turn an intersection.”

Anyone have something more constructive and specific than “just something I have to remember?” Are there instances where “de” and “wo” are interchangeable?

rufus709 san> Woops! I meant to reply to your message
As introduced in this lesson and NihongoDojo Style you 22, for indicating locations you use de.
You may use de in this case too: tsugi no shingō de migi ni magari masu.　

My explanation for the differences of the usage would be like this: Even though de is commonly used to indicate locations, for showing directions on the street, o is more commonly used, such as tsugi no shingo o migi ni magaru“turn right at the next light” or koko o massugu itte kudasai“please go straight here”. So, both “turn right at the next intersection” and “turn the next intersection to the right” can be tsugi no kōsaten o migi ni magaru, and as I mentioned above, using o sounds more natural when talking about directions on the street.
Therefore, o and de are not interchangeable in other cases such as hirugohan o kōen de taberu “I eat lunch in(at) the park”, you can’t say hirugohan o kōen o taberu.

It sounds complicated, but did that help you?

giovanni san> Thanks for the insight! It’s added to JPod101 Idea bank!
With that, let me explain a little about what you mentioned for those who may be confused with this “possessive” description of no.
no has more functions such as “for”, “to”, “of”, “on”, “in” etc. as case particles. in today’s dialogue it was used as case particles for showing location/ordinal number.