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13 Responses to “Upper Intermediate Lesson S2 #18 - Japanese Superstitions 1: Fact or Fiction?”
Friday at 6:30 pm
皆さん、占いや風水を信じますか?
Friday at 8:57 pm
I loved the idea of the Lesson Notes Lite!!!
I’ll be able to use Preview to read the PDFs again!!!
Thank you very much!!!
Friday at 11:34 pm
João Paulo-san,
That is right, all our lessons going back to the recent change in PDFs will soon have the Lesson Notes Lite. Please use these, and let us know if you have any problems (you can leave a post in the technical support forum if you do).
We are planning to add this new extra PDF to MyFeed, so that users have the option to download this PDF instead of the standard one.
Thank you for your patience,
Charles
Saturday at 5:29 am
feng-shui is, I have learned, the English way of writing what is pronounced as fung schway. So is it really English?
奥さんは風水をしたいけど僕は信じません。そんな事で僕はいつも病気だかなあ?
Saturday at 11:19 am
I don’t believe superstitions, but they are certainly interesting. All people have primitive fears and beliefs lurking in their cultural dna.
Some superstitions are based on common sense…bad luck to walk under a ladder..could be!! haha
Really, I just wanted a forum to express my appreciation of the fantastic job done by all at japanesepod.
Peter in particular is inspirational with his passion for teaching and language.
I just got basic membership and it has opened up a whole world of fantastic resources. Mikis blog used to be a frustrating indicator of how little I understood, now it is a wonderful resource. ( Ithink I have a crush on Miki, don’t tell her!) Thanks a lot from Oz.
Saturday at 12:31 pm
仁居流, it’s from standard Chinese. It’s actually pronounced ”fēngshuǐ“ (see the little accents?)
Sunday at 6:56 pm
Speaking of wind, water and feng-shui, I hear it may not be a good idea to build a house below sea-level in New Orleans.
Or near the edge of a cliff that”s eroding along the California coast . . .
Anyway, interesting lesson, and a grammar point that was completely new to me. I liked the dramatic tension, too.
Monday at 10:37 am
仁居流 san> I don’t believe 風水 either but I’m pretty healthy
Paulstephen san> Wow! sounds like you are learning Japanese really fast
You’ll be surprised with what you can do in Learning Center, so check that out too when you get a chance!
Bob1 san> Hahaha
exactly! and according to feng-shui , for me, maybe it’s not a good time to spend too much money on junk food
Tuesday at 2:02 pm
this was a great lesson. It had a tight focus and introduced a lot of interesting vocab you wouldn’t normally hear in everyday conversation.
Wednesday at 8:28 pm
The pronounciation of fengshui in English is exactly the same as in Chinese.I guess it comes from Chinese.
Thursday at 10:42 am
The “click here to listen to the entire conversation” button plays an entirely different lesson, so I have to go to the dialogue pop-up to hear this lesson. I wonder why no one else has noted this. Is this a glitch at my end or yours?
Thursday at 12:47 pm
kabukiguy -san
ありがとうございます。
Thank you for letting us know.
Friday at 11:08 am
kabukiguy-san
The audio has been fixed!
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