Comments on: Beginner Lesson S4 #11 - Three’s A Crowd

by: 亀井

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:21:32 +0000

素子さん、

はい、as in “I have and am continuing to have.”

よし、わたくしは運転するのが大好きです。私はフォルドF−２５０を持っています。楽しくて、強くて、大きなトラックですよ。

by: Motoko

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:51:49 +0000

亀井さん
運転するのが好きですか。　いいですね～！
We say ～を持っています as “to have/possess something.”
This series Lesson#13&14 covers this grammar pattern

by: 亀井

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:13:58 +0000

はい、私は運転すろは大好きです。私はフオルドF−２５０が持ちます。

by: Motoko

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:14:00 +0000

Jack-san,
You have a really good ear.
Actually we pronounce g-sounds after other sounds like between /g/ and /n/.
When g-sound comes at the beginning of a word, it doesn’t happen.
ex)学校　gakko
小学校　Sho”ga”kko
but recently this differences is disappearing and /ga/ is taking up initiative.

by: Jack

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:42:36 +0000

This question has been bugging me for a while, and I noticed it again in this audio. It seems to me, that for some native Japanese speakers, the “g” sound sounds like an “n” (or at least is very soft)? The first word in this audio, 次　（つぎ） doesn’t sound like “tsu”-”gi” to me. More like “tsu”-”ni”. I noticed it again in the vocabulary when Naomi pronounced “ma-ga-ru” slowly it sounds more like “ma-na-ru”. Or do I just need to get my ears checked?

by: Sebastian

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:50:06 +0000

ありがとうございました、Motokoさん

by: Motoko

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:17:22 +0000

Sebastian-san,
Yes, 言って and 行って are correct.
Actually, people are sometimes/often confused 行って and 言って but we can understand the difference by the context

by: Sebastian

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:56:49 +0000

I’ve been practicing the -て forms of all the verbs I know. If I understood correctly,
行く (iku) becomes 行って (itte), and
言う (iu) becomes 言って (itte).

Is that right? They’re both pronounced the same? (And does that ever get confusing? )

by: Mikeydo

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:44:22 +0000

Thank you Naomi-san, that’s very helpful

by: Naomi

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:00:21 +0000

Mikeydo-san
Tomaru is an intransitive verb whereas tomeru is a transitive verb.
Both tomaru and tomeru can be translated as “to stop” in English. However the usage of Japanese Tomaru and Tomeru are different.

Tomaru means “to stop” as in “The car stops”-Kuruma ga tomaru. Who did stopped the car is not mentioned. It’s just stating the fact the car stopped. The thing stopped is marked by particle “ga”.

Tomeru, on the other hand, is a transitive verb. So you need an object.
Watashi wa kuruma o tometa. Please notice that the subject is marked by wa and object is marked by o.

We haven’t introduced “intransitive verb” and its usage in this series yet.
The difference between transitive and intransitive verb will be explained in beginner series season 5 lesson 18.