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This entry was posted on Saturday, October 11th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Newbie 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.
23 Responses to “Newbie Lesson S4 #14 - Do you know how to Get What you Want?”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, Let’s make a request using o onegai shimasu!
Sunday at 11:12 am
全て家庭の靴を買うなら 迫る誘惑が どうしようか
Sunday at 6:21 pm
26?!? うそでしょう!!!!!! I can never find even 25cm shoes!! 25センチ靴の店をお願いします。
Monday at 12:37 am
@Jenny- I know how you feel Jenny, it’s hard enough trying to find size 28-29 anywhere.
Jenny wrote: uso deshou!!! 25 senchi kutsu no mise wo onegai shimasu.
@lisa- What’s the temptation lisa? to buy shoes for your whole family? How come?
Lisa wrote: subete katei no kutsu wo kau nara semaru yuuwaku ga dou shiyouka
Monday at 10:47 am
Naomi-san and Eric-san
Thank you for the excellent explanation of kudasai versus onegaishimasu. It was very helpful.
Arigatou gozaimasu,
Steve from St. Louis
Monday at 4:13 pm
返事をお願いします。
Monday at 4:17 pm
^説明をください。間違った!
Monday at 11:33 pm
ゆうべ 夢のなかに 車を売られた 野菜食べたいとき 市場に売却してた やむおえず 耕す農夫を買うしかないそうです。サイズが迫るにしでも 平気です
Tuesday at 7:29 pm
Mina-san
こんにちは。Konnichiwa.
いつも、ありがとうございます。Thank you so much for listening to our lessons!!!
If you have any questions about the lesson, しつもんおねがいします。Shitsumon onegaishimasu!!!
Wednesday at 11:31 pm
I like the newbie podcasts. Naomi is great.
I have a question though.
Why do you continue to let Eric do these podcasts? He’s not very good. He’d probably do a better job if he cut out all of the lame jokes and stories and let Naomi do all the explaining. Simply put, he’s just not funny at all. Also, he should try speaking like a normal person and quit the exagerated voice fluctuations. It’s really annoying.
Thursday at 6:47 am
The voice fluctuations are good in getting the pitch accent right. I agree through the jokes are not as funny as when Naomi先生 and Peterさん are together.
Thursday at 8:40 pm
This podcast was not one of Japanese pod 101’s better efforts. Doesn’t seem to have been very well planned and thought out.
First off, the shoe department clerk was obviously a man. Yet, for some reason Eric kept referring to him as a woman by using words like “she” or “her”. This made things kind of confusing and hard to know whether eric was referring to Laurie or the clerk. Since Naomi never bothered to correct Eric about this, it makes you wonder if either one of them even listened to the dialog before adding their explanations. Not very professional.
Then, Eric says that the expression お待ちください is not standard and is only used in stores and places like that. Ok, fine. But, in the very next sentence he starts talking about how common it is and how often you here which makes you wonder how he defines “non-standard”. Again, Naomi doesn’t pick up on this. She should know that the お+masu-stem+ください form is a polite form that is used alot in a variety of situations so it would seem to be pretty standard to me.
Also, the explanation of the difference between ください and お願いします was very 中途半端. On one hand, Eric says that they are different and that ください implies that the speaker is somehow lower in position than the listener. Yet, in the dialog the customer (Laurie) is the one using ください. This seems strange because I would guess that even in Japan the customer would be higher up that the staff.
Also, while Eric is saying these expressions are different, Naomi is giving examples (これをください and これをお願いします) that she says mean basically the same thing. Naomi also gives examples like コーヒーをください and メニューをください and Eric say you need ください because コーヒー and メニュー are tangible things. But, the very next example Naomi gives is アイスコーヒーをお願いします which confuses things because how is an ice coffee less tangible than just plain old coffee. Again, very confusing and it doesn’t seem like Naomi and Eric discussed this lesson in advance and worked out any possible wrinkles before they did the podcast.
Finally, I have to agree with Alan Smithee and Jenny. Eric’s jokes are kinda lame and really don’t add much to the podcasts. He’d be better off not trying to ad-lib so much and just stick to moderating Naomi’s explanations. Also, this podcast had nothing to do with pitch accents. I think what Alan Smithee is talking about is that Eric seems to go over the top a little bit when speaking in ENGLISH not Japanese. A little too emotive and dramatic which gets annoying. He’d be better off just “speaking” like a normal person instead of trying to “perform” as if he were on stage or something.
Friday at 11:21 am
This episode has really cemented for me the difference between kudasai and onegai shimasu. Thankyou.
Actually, in terms of Eric’s accent, it would seem to me that he needs to realise that not all english speakers speak American english. Sometimes I have no idea what he’s talking about!
However, I still love the lessons and get a lot from them. Naomi is brilliant and so was Rebekah when she was doing it. What happened to her?
And who’s the new voiceover in the Review files today? An Aussie?
Friday at 11:37 am
MIna san> Thanks for all your feedbacks! We will try making our lessons more fun and valuable. You know that the students are the teachers’ best teachers!
Thank you!
Friday at 11:16 pm
Rebekah, Aussie, HE! HE! long time not contact these rooters. Are their phones still working?
Sunday at 11:52 pm
Tess Dasey-san,
The voice in the review track is Enis. エニスさんです。 He is doing RussianPod101 stuff, but also started doing the review track for JP101 lately.
よろしくおねがいします
Monday at 5:55 am
Well I think Eric is funny. He is one of the major reasons I still listen to newbie lessons after advancing to higher levels.
Friday at 10:56 am
I agree with Mark.
What a lot of nonsensical criticism of Eric. His easy going, understated style
is excellent although obviously unappreciated by some.
Wednesday at 3:28 pm
I dunno… I love Eric’s voice.
Saturday at 3:09 pm
Oh no. Why are you picking on Eric? Hahaha. I have to agree with Mark, Peterm and Wingcharm. Eric makes my day. 1st time I listened to the podcasts, it was Naomi and Peter. I thought no one could top their tandem but I was wrong. Eric/Naomi tandem was great too. BTW, I love Eric’s voice. I bet he’s hot in person. Hey Eric! Where in Florida are you from? I had just visited a friend in Tampa last March.
Friday at 4:49 am
すみません。この靴は大きいサイズお願いします。
サイズは何ですか。
ちょっと、分かりません。
じゃあ、足お願いします。二十六です。 お待ち下さい。
サイズはどうですか。
ちょうどいいです。これおください。
また
Wednesday at 7:33 pm
I was 17 when I started listening to podcasts here. I skipped the newbie lessons at first but now I started listening to them. I love Rebekah-san’s voice, where is she? And seriously, I think Eric’s voice is hot lol. I think some of his jokes aren’t really that funny too. But it doesn’t matter, he makes my day
Wednesday at 5:06 pm
Definitely Eric’s jokes over Peter’s “jokes.”
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