Comments on: Beginner Lesson S4 #21 - Who are You Being Compared To?

by: マイ

Sat, 12 May 2012 03:39:34 +0000

山川先生の息子はすけいそつの人ですね？
Dr. Yamakawa’s son is inconsiderate, don’t you think.

He didn’t seem like a easy guest. Calling the daughter of you hosts serious isn’t the best way to start. His father thinks his son ruined the opportunity he gave him.

すみません、それが日本語で言いませんでした。。。まだ。
Sorry, I can’t say all of that in Japanese… yet.

レッスンにはありがとうございました。
Thank you for the lesson.

by: 亀井

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:18:30 +0000

山川雪男さんは都南事件に関与していなかった、彼は天道雷三さんと会ったんでした。

by: DUCHENE Bernard

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:35:26 +0000

The lesson notes don’t seem to work.

Please help me.

by: Naomi

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:24:56 +0000

Archernar-san
そうですね～。情けないですね～。
If you use 助ける instead of 手伝う, your sentence sounds even more natural.
助ける means “to help” and is used when helping someone who is in trouble.
手伝う　is more like “give a hand”

I hope this makes sense.

by: Archernar

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:41:05 +0000

山川先生の息子さんが情けないです。天道さんを手伝いませんでしたから。たぶん。。。
Sorry if my Japanese is messed up… is 手伝う the correct verb to use here?

by: Frank

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:51:47 +0000

No problem. Wait, an audio mistake? You mean you have a data bank with recordings of your hosts pronouncing individual syllables, which you autotune for new vocab lessons? That’s crazy!

by: Mayumi

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:55:31 +0000

Frank-san,

Thank you for your great catch! It’s an audio mistake. It should be たいいん. We’ll fix it.

by: Frank

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:57:22 +0000

I’m a little confused as to why Naomi broke 退院 down as た - ん - い - ん. Am I missing something?

by: Kobukuro

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:56:00 +0000

本当に、今日は昨日より暑いですよ　　！
そして、犬は猫よりかわいいです。犬が大好きです。

by: Yuki

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:06:03 +0000

JKid-san,
すばらしい! Perfect answer!

by: JKid

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:20:47 +0000

Tess-san,
I think in this case, から means “because”. I can’t remember the dialogue of this lesson well because I listened to it a while ago but it seems as if this is an answer to a question “Because my pet(s) are cuter than Raizou-san”.

It is also possible から could be part of a ですから conjunction. If it is, the ですから would mean “therefore”. That seems a little strange though so I’d go with the first option

by: Tess

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:03:31 +0000

In the following sentence, what function does the “kara” at the end of the sentence have. What does it mean?

ペットはらいぞうさんよりかわいいですから。

by: Hiroko

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:46:50 +0000

Charity san>Great! Let’s wait to see what’s going to happen next! おたのしみに　

Arthur san> シャローム　（私はこのあいさつが大好きです　　)
ところで　ピーター　さん　昔のレッスン　は　”カタカナ　は　漢字　と　ひらがな　の　より　難しい　です” と　　もう　一度　言いました　から　（international katakana day) ：）　本当にカタカナは時々ちょっと分かりにくいです。ありがとう　ございます　レソン　に　は。ー＞レッスンをありがとうございます。もし　日本語で間違えがあれば直して下さい。
yes. for newer katakana words, it takes a while to figure out what the original meaning/accent/words were in English/Portuguese.

by: Arthur

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:51:05 +0000

シャロム！shalom(HI in hebrew)

ところで　ピタ　さん　昔のレソン　は　”カタカナ　は　漢字　と　ひらがな　の　より　難しい　です” と　　もう　一同　言いました　から　（international katakana day) ：）　本当にカタカナは時々ちょっと分かりにくいです。

　by the way Piter, you said that before in another lesson “katakana is harder in reading, than the other systems” , katakana is really alittle hard to understand because of the accent and the pitch.

ありがとう　ございます　レソン　に　は。

もし　日本語で間違えがありますか直して下さい　：）

アーサー

by: Charity

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:58:59 +0000

Thanks for this lesson I was just thinking about how to compare things in Japanese today!

京都は　東京より　静かな町ですから、　京都は　いいところですよね！
Kyoto is a much quieter city than Tokyo and that’s why I enjoyed my visit to Kyoto so much!

Thanks again, excited to find out what happened to Yukio-kun!