なおみさん、
こんばんは。昨日は私の以前のコメントを書きました。今日は平成二十四年三月五日です。

日本語でコメント、ありがとうございます！
Thank you for your comments in Japanese!

これからもコメントしてくださいね！
We look forward to your comments!

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

Domo arigato.

Mayumi-san wa totemo shinsetsu desu!

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.

The lesson notes often refer to “Nihongo Dojo” material, but I can’t find the Nihongo Dojo.

Can someone please tell me where I can find it?

Thanks!

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”?

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.

Richardさん＞ Thanks for the comment

Sarahさん＞Great explanation, thanks!

Thomasさん＞Glad to hear it. And you’re right, sometimes it is shortened like that.

テッドさん＞ Yeah, I think reading and driving is perhaps not the best combination But listening to Jpod101 sounds like a great way to make use of that commute time!

graemeさん＞Thanks for the feedback, sounds like a good way to study! And sorry for any confusion over senpai/sempai… they are actually both correct! Maxiewawaさん explained it very well

Haruko Hinakoさん＞Thanks!

ukeさん＞ Thanks for commenting! By any chance do you mean… どうもありがとう？

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”.

ﾃｯドさん, you need the icar complete with HUD. wait, what year is this?

i think many people are visual learners like myself. my technique is generally to look over the pdf first so i can take my time to aborb the target grammar points and take my time to go through the kanji and hiragana transcripts and only jump to the romanization and english when i’m stuck (which is a lot). Then, when i’m ready, i listen to the cast and am able to focus better on what lesson is trying to be taught. just my 2円.