机の上にテレビはありませんがモニターはあります。

また

今、サンタさんがいまえん。
Now, Santa isn’t here.

世界の中でたくさんラブがあります。
There is much love in the world.

Does this make any sense?

Maybe not…

Looking at the kanji for samuri and time makes me think about this.

A sumurai’s swords cuts swiftly through time at the temple.

侍さん samuri
じ from 時間 time
お寺　　temple

侍さんの刀は…お寺で。。。時間。。。を。。。よく。。。切ります。

this cast brought up another thing i’ve been wondering about. which is desu vs. arimasu/imasu. You used as an example hima ga arimasu. i also remember a previous lesson where lori is asked by shizuka. ‘hima desu ka?’ (L19 just looked it up). I think there was also a lesson about pay phones early in the newbie series where the person was asking existence of one and the person responded with a ‘koushuu denwa desu ka?’. Although i understand arimasu/imasu is a verb while desu isn’t, i’m sort of trying to better grasp how to understand when to choose between them. I think my confusion is because in most cases the english verb ‘to be’ handles so much and is usually used instead of ‘to exist’. “Does a pay phone exist nearby?” vs. “Is there a pay phone nearby?”. Know what i mean? I’d choose to say 2 before 1 in casual conversation. i guess i’ll stop rambling now.

thx for listening and thx for any tips you can pass on.

i hope they’ll find their way back home without being released from a magic spell

akemashita omedeto gozaimasu, eriksan and naomisensei

greetings from germany
トマス

I’ve noticed some errors in the pdf again this week.

At the bottom of page 4 there’s a page break error, where the past negative of tabemasen deshita is split, and the deshita ends up all on its lonesome on the top of page 5. There appears to be an extra row in the table causing this error.

Page 5: “Kono basu wa doko ni ikimasu ka.” In the kana/kanji above, it say “e” not “ni”.
A: すみません。このバスはどこへ行きますか

This was confusing because, I believe, this is the mistake that ロリー makes in the dialogue. (I haven’t listened to the episode yet– I read first).

Further down on page 5 it says:

A: ありがとうございました。
Arigatōgo zaimashita.

It seems that the kana are written with no spaces. My understanding was that that in the romanization there would be spacing fairly consistently: Arigatō gozaimashita. No?

Then on page 6 it says:

*********Formation*********
★ [inanimate object] ga arimasu. ＝ “there is —,” “there are —,” “I have —.”
★ [inanimate object] ga imasu.＝ “there is —,” “there are —,” “I have —.”

Surely that last line should start:

★ [animate object] ga imasu.＝ “there is —,” “there are —,” “I have —.”

I think that this will be a very useful episode. Can’t wait to walk the dog (where I listen to my iPod and hear the lessons)!

Happy New Year everyone!