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12 Responses to “Upper Intermediate Lesson S2 #20 - Japanese Superstitions 3: Thanks to this Lesson, You’ll Speak Japanese like a Pro!”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, is there a special lucky day for big events such as building houses and weddings?
Saturday at 6:31 pm
大安で〜す
I’m obsessively methodical. I’ll get to these eventually– still plowing through LI Season 1. Still, I couldn’t resist having the chance to be the first to comment on a lesson.
Happy studies, all!
Saturday at 8:42 pm
I always wondered where the 縁起を担ぐ人 were when 四国 was named
I liked this lesson, but the grammar was a bit off the pace of recent ones. Anyway, おつかれさまで~す.
Sunday at 9:57 am
Japanesepod101.com のおかげで日本語が少しずつ良くなってきました。
ありがとうございます。
Monday at 8:53 am
なつこさん、
棟上げは建前ですよ。飲み会は本音です。
Monday at 10:34 am
Psy さん> Glad you are back Psy san!
ジャービジ さん>どういうことですか?? すいません
タネさん>よかったです
がんばってください
Bob1 さん> 笑笑笑
Monday at 11:34 am
ジャービジ-san
面白い!!! Since 四 is a homophone of 死 right?
Bob1-san
That’s a good one!!! I love it! 賢いジョークですね。
Tuesday at 9:09 am
Naomi-san,
すべてJapanesepod101にお知られた言葉のおかげですよ。
Wednesday at 1:50 pm
Jkidさん:どうもありがとうございます。したらかするならの件ですが、(飲んだら、乗るな・乗るなら、飲むな)という例の通りで、ニールはパートナーに言われた(謝るなる、するな)という言葉も気になりました。
For me したら seems to imply a definite sequence of events: drink and then drive - which is surely illegal.
On the other hand, 乗るなら、飲むな seems better translated as “if you are going to drive, then don’t drink” - as in: you can drive to the party (if you want to) but then if you drink - you better not drive.
Comments welcome.
Neil
ps. I’m not going to tell you what I was doing to elicit ”誤るなら、するな” - so too bad.
Wednesday at 1:56 pm
Sorry - I think that should have been 謝るなら、するな
Wednesday at 8:03 pm
Hello,
A comment on the 六曜 (six days). This is actually not a “Buddhist calendar”, but actually more of a Chinese systems of days based on Taoist beliefs in cycles, and miscellaneous folk beliefs. Japan imported this from China during the Edo Period, but this survived in modern use, despite the introduction of the Western Calendar in the Meiji Period.
It is true that there is a kind of “Buddhist calendar”, which is really just a lunar calendar used in places like Thailand, Burma and China, but the Six Days are a later invention that were integrated with this. In Buddhism, the death of the Buddha is observed on Nirvana Day (涅槃会, nehan-e), which varies a little depending on Buddhist tradition.
Hope that helps.
Great lesson and dialogue. I always wondered about these six days myself, so I spent some time a while back researching it. Hence the information above.
Keep up the great work!
Thursday at 11:06 am
Doug M -san
Thank you for the information.
I really appreciate the time and the effort you put for the research.
I’ll fix the mistake.
Thanks again for letting us know.
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