このレッシンは簡単すぎます。

I don’t mean I thought it was too easy. But I wanted to ask if that was the correct construction for saying “too easy ” as 簡単 is not like all the other adjectives which are
い adjectives.

このレッソンはやさしすぎます。or このレッシンは簡単すぎます。Would be fine.
For いAdjectives you drop the final い. As for な adj, you have it right! If you want to use verbs, use the stem form (verb in the ます form WITHOUT ます）or you can use the ない form of the verb WITHOUT　い.

Hope that helps!!!

なおみせんせい、しつれいしました。　コメントは二三月からです。しごとはいそがしすぎています。

I do not get to use many of the tools or even reference the PDFs very much these days. Every morning I set up an iTunes playlist so that I can listen to the lesson, review, dialog, and grammar MP3s a couple times consecutively while I am driving to work. Often you ask “do you read the PDFs while listening?” but I think listening and driving and reading a PDF is probably a bad idea — so I will stick to just listening and driving for now.

HI! Thanx, interesting class

graeme san, the ‘n’ (it’s actually ん) in “senpai” is actually spoken as an ‘m’. The ‘n’ changes sound before a ‘b’ or a ‘p’ to an ‘m’. So “senpai” is a literal romanisation of how it’s written, but “sempai” is how it sounds.

The same thing happens in the word “shinbun” meaning “newspaper”. You might be familiar with the Yomiuri Shimbun, Nikkei Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun etc. In each of these cases “Shimbun” is spelt with an “n” (or rather ん) although pronounced sounding like “m”.

みなさん、コメントありがとうございました。
Mina-san, Komento arigatou gozaimashita.

Chris-san
Actually this lesson is designed to review the grammar points we learned in lesson 34,35,36,36 and 37.
—sugiru/sugimasu is covered in Beginner series season 4 lesson 34.

I just wanted to say the writers are really good. These lessons have enough to teach us useful words and phrases, but they’re also entertaining and never too plain or boring.

The soap opera-ness of a lot of the story arcs is funny too, it’s cheesy, but it’s a good thing that some of the characters make it a point that the others are being cheesy to kind of up the humor…

Eric’s acting in the translation was good too. Sometimes the translations seem too flat and it’s hard to get the real meaning of what they’re saying.

Also, whoever names these has a good sense of humor “Too easy japanese” huh….do u mean “Erika is a too-easy-japanese-person”?

リアンさん、Jhalton-san,

Thank you for your nice comments!
Naomi-sensei wrote the stories.

hinenoguy-san,

When you click on the “Explore Core Lessons” and then chick “newbie S1″ on the top of our top page of our site, you can see the list of Nihongo Doujou lessons in the pull down menu. From this list, you can select which lesson you want to see.

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この話はとても面白いです！

ぼくはまいにちでjapanesepod101を聞きますよ

and yes I sincerely apologize for my dreadful Japanese. I only started learning last summer.
The stories are great, the acting’s pretty good!

And of course, I had to comment because now even Naomi-sensei started asking us

is there a difference of meaning between shiru/shirimasu and wakari/ wakarimasu?