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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Beginner Season 4 . 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.
26 Responses to “Beginner Lesson S4 #27 - Nihongo Dōjo: Are You Ready for a Visit to Japan?”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Konnichi wa Mina-san, Have you ever had to deal with difficult people like this tourist?
Tuesday at 6:51 pm
konnichiwa!
hahah.. not yet and hopefully not.. hahah
Tuesday at 7:58 pm
Gilin-san, Konnichi wa!
As for the customer, I have to admit that I’m usually that customer.
Bad for the tour guide; good for my Japanese.
Tuesday at 9:31 pm
このお客さんは大変ですね〜!失礼でしょう?!?!
Wednesday at 1:17 am
as always I love checking in on these lessons, though I focus on my degree aspirations now I cant help but keep checking in and seeing what I can learn. Domo Arigoto!
To sail up to the coast of Japan, dock and start talking that is one of my goals!
A great lesson today and as always , so useful.
Matt
Wednesday at 1:31 am
Matt-san,
Ganbate! Keep enjoying JapanesePod101, good luck with your degree!
Wednesday at 2:15 am
I’ll be honest with you guys. I’m really getting tired of hearing dialogues with so much けんか
in it. It’s refreshing to have one in 15 lessons be filled with dialogues of annoyance, but this is not what is normally heard in Japan, and seems to be some young male foreigners’ sense of revenge against the Japanese norm.
Personally, I’m tired of hearing it, and won’t listen to any more like this.
Wednesday at 4:17 am
Konnichiwa Mina-san!
Great dialog and very thorough pdf file, very nice! I have been busy with Nihongo on and off for about 2 years now and joined your Premium program since December ‘08 and am following the BeginnerS1, up #90, JCC, phrases and Newbies,… talk about FANTASTIC amount of knowledge, really amazing, amazing stuff and what I really enjoy while listening to the audio files is how much fun you guys have doing the dialogs and during the rest of the lesson, Peter san, Sakura san, Natsuko san, Yoshi san and everyone else at Japanesepod101, because you guys having fun while doing the program makes a great atmosphere which actually help us learn more effectively!
V
Wednesday at 4:43 am
Bit of a typo in the pdf:
“to exist
(inanimate)
いるいないいますいません
iru inai imasu imasen”
should be: “(animate)”
Other than that, great work as always!
Wednesday at 7:34 am
はい、殆ど毎日凄く最低な人よく合います。 冗談ですよ!
Yes, Peter I use the PDF whenever possible while listening to the podcast. The PDF help me to concentrate on small details that I’d miss otherwise. I hope to take the Japanese Proficiency test this year and I need to pratice all the kanji I can.
You ought to make a course that deals with the targeted kanji for N2. Please!
Wednesday at 8:19 am
お客さんが大変じゃないか?あのツアーは何の意味ですか?自由時間がいっぱいあると、自由にいろんなところに行きなさいといえば最低じゃない?お客さんが可愛そうじゃないか?
Wednesday at 9:59 am
jsangco-san,
Thank you for pointing it out!
I fixed it.
Spidey-san,
2級の漢字ですね!Thank you for your request!
Wednesday at 10:22 am
neil.m4-san,
僕は、自由時間がたくさんあるツアーのほうが好きですよ。
Wednesday at 10:46 am
この写真はとてもきれいですね。
Wednesday at 2:46 pm
Mina -san konnichiwa.
Fisrt of all, I would like to say that this is a wonderful site to learn japanese language for me. I have been learning many words and sentences in here. Even thought, I could not write it down but I still remember the way of pronoun that words to speak in the daily life and sometime it is very funny. ;D
I have a question that someone here might help me. I am wondering that where I can buy the whole CDs of Japanesepod101 lessons including the texts, audios, kanji-text and etc… from beginner to higher levels. And how much it cost?
I do appreciate your response and helps.
Thank you very much
Cheers,
Wednesday at 5:14 pm
Mizukun-san,
To the best of my knowledge we do not currently offer our lessons or PDFs on CD for purchase.
I’m glad you find Japanesepod101 useful!
Thursday at 9:17 am
Ohayougozaimasu mina-san


akemashiteomedetougozaimasu
Yes, I read the lesson notes while I listen to the podcasts. I remember more when I do that. However, sometimes the notes don’t download into iTunes. Sometimes I just get an explanation of what the lesson will be about without the notes
Any particular reason why that’s the case? So far none of the lesson notes for 2009 have downloaded for me
And thank goodness I haven’t had to deal with this kind of annoying person so far, knock on wood
Thursday at 1:40 pm
Hello! I’m practicing writing the kanji for this lesson with the Kanji Close-Up pdf. However, I don’t feel like I’m doing the stroke order for 歩 correctly. Can you direct me to resource that will show me the correct stroke order? Thanx!
The lessons are fantastic!
Thursday at 10:28 pm
Jasmine-san,
to get a correct stroke order…please go to http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/SortedByKanji2THEnglish?OpenView&StartKey=駅&Count=30
JPP168/Australia
Friday at 2:06 am
Thank you JPP168.
The site is a great help. Have a great day! ^_^
Monday at 1:30 pm
Hi Peter,
In answer to your question, I study both ways. I sometimes listen to the audio lesson first, and then study the lesson notes. However, other times I study the lesson notes completely (learn the grammar and vocabulary, etc.) and then listen to the audio.
Both work, but I’m coming to believe that studying the lesson notes first is the most effective for me.
Thanks for the great lessons!
Monday at 5:27 pm
JPP168-san, thanks for helping!
Hinenoguy-san, thanks for the feedback!
It really helps to know how you learn! Thanks for sharing, and we’ll be sure to pass it along!
Tuesday at 7:58 pm
Hi,
Does jiuujikan mean both “free time” and “for 10 hours” or did I miss the difference somewhere (except of course that the kanjis are different)?
Thanks!
Sylvie
Thursday at 9:45 am
Sylvie-san,
“Free time” is “jiyuujikan” and “for 10 hours” is “juu-jikan.” Of course, the kanji is different. 自由時間(free time), 十時間(10 hours)
The pronunciation is a bit different.
Monday at 1:18 pm
Noticed that the Audio seemed to be cut short from the lesson
Monday at 5:06 pm
Rogerさん,
I checked the audio file, and it appears to be okay. Please try again, and let me know if you still have problems. It may have been a temporary server issue!
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