Comments on: Beginner Lesson S4 #23 - Please Don’t Do This!

by: 亀井

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:34:18 +0000

へえええ。。。病院にタバコを吸いました．駄目ですよ。

by: Charms

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:49:23 +0000

Thank you so much Naomi!!

by: Naomi

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:59:40 +0000

Charms-san
I said “Watashi o matanai de kudasai.”

by: Charms

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:50:53 +0000

なおみー先生、

How did you say, “Please don’t wait for me?” at the end of the Grammar section, I didn’t catch the word before, “Matanai”

ありがとうございました！

by: Naomi

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:23:19 +0000

Sorry for such a late replay. I have just read the comments.

Bin-san
The translation you wanted to know is probably …　じゃまするな or ふざけるな
It really depends on the situation though.

Taurus-san

Kobukuro-san
Thank you for letting us know the typo. I’ve just fixed it.
And about the “N da”, you’re right.
～んだ　or　～のだ　are the sentence ending phrase used when the speaker is explaining something. The translation would be something like… “The fact is that…” “It is that…” “The explanation is that….” and so on.

By the way I love your avatar!

Jeff -san
Arigatou gozaimasu. Thank you for the kind comment.

by: Jeff

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:44:15 +0000

kono oshie wa omoshirokashii to totemo benrina desu. watashi wa waraimashita. grammar point ga ichiban benrina desu! Anatatachi no yushi wa subarashii desu. honto ni arigatou

by: Kobukuro

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:03:18 +0000

Ah… it should be “…that’s how he came here (you know)? ” !

by: Kobukuro

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:01:52 +0000

Question :

I have found in the pdf’s romaji:
Tendō Kiri-san to issho ni kyūkyūsya de koko ni kita n da.

Actually it is …. koko ni kimashita.

Could you explain the difference of meaning? Is “kita n da” just informal or is it for emphasizing like “…that’s how he came her (you know) ? ”

(Sorry, at work I am not able to type in kana and kanji… )

by: Kobukuro

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:52:21 +0000

What a great and funny lesson!

Today in the morning, while I was driving to my work, I had to laugh loud, when I was listening to this lesson in my car. What a great start in this day !

Peter and Naomi, you are such an awesome team !

by: Taurus

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:38:24 +0000

Just catching up on the shows I missed while I was in Japan over Christmas, and Naomi sensei! I’m disappointed with you! Nothing compares to Kirin! Kirin wa nihon no biiru no naka de ichiban oishii desu!

by: Bin

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:38:49 +0000

konbanwa sensei!!^^
please tell me how to speak”please don’t mess up this think”or “….mess with me” in Japanese!!!please tell me sensei!!!!

by: Naomi

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:50:24 +0000

Raymasaki -san

Well… “Mimi ga itai” also has the idiomatic meaning like you kindly mentioned above. However I’m the one who wrote the story and I meant the actual pain by Mimi ga itai. In the sense of “Your voice is too loud and it’s hurting my ears.”

If Yukio was using the phrase in the idiomatic meaning like you said, it doesn’t really fit his personality, does it?

Thank you very much for the feedback. Your comment gave me the new lesson idea.

by: Raymasaki

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:00:45 +0000

This was funny BUT a slight mistake, Didnt mention.
when yamakuwa san said mimi ga itai.
he was saying an Idiom, mimi ga itai
means Not wanting to hear someone els correct or scold you.
its a pain to hear someone nagging.
( NOT actual Pain in the ear )

by: Hiroko

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:37:57 +0000

Kobolinear san>Do you have Adobe Reader 9 installed?

by: yukiko

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:25:06 +0000

OOps spelled your name wrong , sumimasen deshita Naomi sensei