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This entry was posted on Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Upper Intermediate Season 2 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
10 Responses to “Upper Intermediate Lesson S2 #22 - Critical Japanese Phrases Part 1: Using “In Spite of””
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, have you ever heard of this type of scam?
→!!!! http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?nn20030706a8.htm
Saturday at 1:23 am
That’s a crazy scam! I’ve heard of it, but I don’t think anything THAT simplistic!
とにかく、あいかわらず, good lesson!
Saturday at 10:36 am
Please help me understand why: 年寄をねらうなんて、ひどい話ですよ is translated as: “Its horrible to think they’d go for your pension.” Pension is not mentioned in the sentence. Wouldn’t a closer translation be something like: “Its horrible to think they’d target the elderly.”:???:
Saturday at 5:17 pm
Ah.. This explains the big banner saying “だまされていませれてないでしょか?” near the ATM in my campus, and after I helped my friend transferring money, a person from the bank called him to check if he really intended to make that transfer.
なるほど。。。気をつけてないとね~
Saturday at 5:24 pm
俺、俺。。。俺だ!!
僕も驚いております。そんなに馬鹿正直な方が本当にいらしゃいますか。ご年齢の方は詐欺を働くとは酷いしか何も言えないと思いますが、あのような被害者は誰でしょうか。そんなに人数が多いでしょうか。僕は今の日本では現職期の政府が国策の変わりにあまり些細な問題を誇張されていると思うようになりました。さすが今年は変だと思います。
I find the explanation of every last detail a bit labored in this lesson. I guess it would be better for me to have more sample sentences of the grammar point.
My sentence:
としこは優しいだのにもかかわらず、また殴れてしまいました。
Sunday at 2:16 am
“としこは優しいだのにもかかわらず”
Neil, after i-adjectives, の is optional, but だ is always ungrammatical since i-adjectives themselves can act as predicates.
If you remove the も, the meaning changes to ‘regardless of’, which is closer to the original meaning of the verb, isn’t it? The conjugation for に関らず is a bit more complicated though…
Sunday at 4:57 am
Thank you
っで。。。としこは優しいのにもかかわらず、殴れてしまった。
I guess I like the の - it fits with my accent.
Neil
Sunday at 11:54 am
前の オレオレ詐欺の 振り込め詐欺を 聞たことがあります。
だけど この新しの年金の 振り込め詐欺は はつ耳です。
本とに 酷いです。
さいやくな 人やてるですね。
I’ve herd about the “It’s me, it’s me” fraud before, this the first I’ve heard of the pension style fraud.
Some terrible people must be doing it.
Monday at 11:55 am
John san> Aren’t they horrible!!
仁居流 san> You are right. It’s just that it’s not translated literally.
kitty san>Yes! We see this ad EVERYWHERE now!!
neil.m4 san> としこは優しいのにもかかわらず、殴れてしまった。
ってちょっとこわくないですか!?
spidey san> おひさしぶりです! This kind of fraud sounds impossible to happen especially since everybody talks about it now, but it shocks me to know it still happens alot! I need a special “code” with my grandparents when talking on the phone
Saturday at 12:19 am
The download link to the basic mp3 appears to be broken.
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