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This entry was posted on Friday, October 17th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Upper Intermediate Season 2 . 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.
11 Responses to “Upper Intermediate Lesson S2 #14 - Battle of the Classes 1 - Bring on the Sophistication”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Minsa-san, is there an event similar to 運動会(うんどうかい)where you live?
Saturday at 6:54 am
Ideas may have after further understanding.
Saturday at 9:11 am
Other words used, but not fully defined:
体育祭 - taiikusai - physical education festival
撮影 - satsuei - photographing
撮れる - toreru - to be photographed
校門 - koumon - school gate
アンケート - questionnaire (from French enquete))
値上げ - neage - a raise in price
Saturday at 9:38 am
Not trying to be critical, just helpful. There is not time to do all the words.
You all do a fantastic job.
Saturday at 2:03 pm
Gah! This lesson was too hard. When the dialog came up again at the end of my first listen I was still lost. Second listen? A little better. Third listen did the trick…
I don’t know if it’s just me, or if it’s a problem inherent to teaching people on all different levels of exposure, but I sometimes feel like JPod101 still has trouble keeping lessons within a given level to a comparable standard of difficulty. The last Upper Intermediate series seemed a lot easier than this! This week’s audio blog, I got 98% of it, three weeks ago, more like 55% of it!
I’m just complaining at random here. Of course, if it takes three listens to “lick” a given lesson, that’s not a legitimate reason to complain…that’s a legitimate reason to LISTEN TO IT THREE TIMES! Right?
Saturday at 2:35 pm
AndamanIslander If you understand the lesson the first time you here it, that means you have nothing to learn from it.
Sound preachy and all knowing don’t I. What a joke!!
Saturday at 4:14 pm
仁居流-さん、
Well, I guess what I’m saying is that the ultimate JPod101 Sweet Spot is when you listen to the dialog at the beginning of the audio file and can’t make heads or tails of it, but then listen to the explanation, vocab, grammar, and then by the time the dialog repeats at the end of the audio file you realize this time you do understand!
Those are my favorite kinds of lessons, anyway. With the last series (the one about Finding Work in Japan) they hit the Sweet Spot in every lesson. This one? Took a bit longer…
Tuesday at 4:36 am
Great lesson! I love it when you use a lot of numbers and dates and ‘news-like’ language, because that is so hard to follow but so necessary for JLPT ^_^
And yes, we do have 運動会 in Holland as well, although they are more low-profile, I think…..
Tuesday at 8:32 am
The lesson itself is fine but it’s also another example of a lesson that wastes the listener’s time with unnecessary sound effects. Students have to listen to these things over and over, so why should they forced to do so with things like the music that begins this exercise?
Wednesday at 6:45 am
In the “Expansion with Audio” part, only the first 3 Words have ALL the Japanese and English sentences with Audio, after the first 3 words, only the Audio of the new words are given, but no Audio was given for the Japanese and English sentences. I was really looking forward to all the Audios because for me they are a great help for my studies! Please keep the good work and give us all the Audios! ありがとうございます!
Friday at 9:46 am
CoffeeJPN-san
Kon’nichiwa.
Thank you for letting us know.
We’ll fix it right away.
Thanks again
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