Comments on: Beginner Lesson S4 #28 - One Word You Can’t Speak Japanese Without!

by: 亀井

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:20:19 +0000

１。あのおお、すみません。写真を取ってもいいですか。
２。すみません。写真を取ってください。
３。すみません。私は成田空港へ行きたいんですが、地図の見方を教えてください。

by: wael

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:15:40 +0000

japanese te-form
negative -te form is kute
it’s used for present and past or what

by: Naomi

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:14:57 +0000

Hajime-san

And of course your sentence sounds much natural!!!

by: Naomi

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:06:21 +0000

Hajime-san

Thank you so much!!
I’ll fix it right away.

>>did you purposefully use 行きたいです instead of 行きたいんですが here?
Yes. Because we haven’t introduced んです grammar in the Beginner Season 4 series.

by: 一 (ハジメ)

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:03:36 +0000

There is a small mistake in the romaji in the grammar section (the English is correct):

すみません。長谷寺に行きたいです。行き方を教えてください。
[Sumimasen. Kamakura ni ikitai desu. Ikikata o oshietekudasai.]
Excuse me. I want to go to the Hasedera temple. Can you tell me how to get there?

長谷寺 == Hasedera

Also, did you purposefully use 行きたいです instead of 行きたいんですが here? I would have used the latter form.

宜しくお願いします。

by: Spidey

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:18:48 +0000

Alain, JKid, Eugene, and Naomi,

Thank you for your kind advice. I’m really glad you could follow my Japanese. Tow of my recent favorite words and phrases come from Peter. He was telling about his favorite 新語流行語大賞 / New Word and Buzzword-of-the-Year Grand Prix.

K-Y (kuki – yomenai) = Not understanding the situation

And

ルネサンス　= Renaissance! This is said as “CHEERS” when drinking. I also use it in my English classes to wake up my students.

Try using：
K-Y or ルネサンス

You’ll get some great reactions.

by: Naomi

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:23:52 +0000

皆さん、こんにちは。
Mina-san konnichiwa.
いつもありがとうございます。Itsumo arigatou gozaimasu.

Spidy-san
面白い言葉？Omoshiroi kotoba? Funny (or interesting )word?
What’s the “omoshiroi kotoba” you recently learned?

Alian-san, eugene-san
ありがとうございます！！

Jkid
おもしろい！！

by: eugene

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:26:14 +0000

yeah I’d say: ” japanesepod101 no jigyou wo kikinagara PDF wo yondeimasu. sosite hanasu TO KI ni, TA KU SA N no atarasii kotoba tukatteimasu ”

or something. because i guess you’re trying to say that you’re doing those two things simultaneously.

by: JKid

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:09:43 +0000

There’s is nothing like て form review at 1am!

by: Alain

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:17:34 +0000

I think nagara means “while doing something, I’m doing another different thing”, so I would rather use “toki” in the second sentence.

by: spidey

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:27:45 +0000

毎日面白い日本語を教えてください。
Please teach me interesting Japanese every day.

私はいつもJapanesePod101の授業を聞いてしながらPDF読んでいます。　　それからまた後で話しながら新し言葉いっぱい使っています。

While listening to JapanesePod101’s lessons I always read the PDF. The I use new words in conversations.

Did I make any mistakes?

Thank you for your help.

by: JapanesePod101.com

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:30:00 +0000

Konnichi wa Mina-san, How about practicing the -te form of verbs in your comments?