Oh man, this is one VERY useful lesson. “ずに” is SUCH a blindspot for me.

Actually, for a long time I’ve noticed my spoken Japanese comes sputtering to a halt whenever I have to express “without なになに”. Cuz there is also 無しで, and I think a few other close relatives, and I just never know which is which. Mostly, I need to drill this stuff.

Come to think of it, a series covering the different ways of expressing “without なになに” is something we can’t do without!

今回PDFを読まずにこのレッスンの文法をすく分かった！
用いる点は先生から上手に説明をされたと思う。

ﾋﾟﾀｰさん　おたんじょうびおめでとうございます。

なおみせんせい。　Thank you for the tip about the iPod center button. Any chance of having the same text added to the premium dialog file?

very interesting use of ちょっと at the start of the lesson. this word is so diverse, it seems to tell us that intonation is everything in all languages!

＾拾子はアメリカ的になったね！

このような会話、今夜彼女とやって見ようか。

Quick question, in the line “12ji ni anata to wakareta tte ita wa yo”, I don’t understand the use of the ‘tte’ here. I thought to quote someone you would use “dialogue” TO iimasu etc.

Thanks all.

Phil san> you are right. this “tte” is used as “to” but in a casual form.
ex) “wakareta to ii mashi ta”
“wakareta tte itta”
タチコマ san> “kizuku” in today’s dialogue is 気づく not 築く. The part you got confused was きづく and きずく. 気づく(to notice) is a shorten form of 気がつく。so you add　voiced sound mark to つ and it becomes づ.
Am I confusing you even more?? so when you type きづく（notice) you type “kiduku”.

タチコマ　san> Good question! yes, “も” is used for adding an additional item in the sentence, but that’s not the only use for “も”
も in this sentence is used as a particle to emphasize a negative phrase such as れんらくもせずに. it has an intention “you could have called, but you didn’t even call”.
Another example, “There is not a second to lose.Can’t waste even a second.”=いちびょうも　むだ　に　できない。　(ichi byo mo muda ni deki nai)
Clear?

Tom-san,
You are correct. Both forms are identical to each other. However, the grammar bank states …”it should be noted that “zuni” is primarily used in formal speech and written Japanese. In addition, the “zuni” form for suru-verbs is not “shizuni”, but “sezuni”. “