Comments on: Video Vocab Lesson #9: Bookstore

by: Mayumi

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:50:10 +0000

giovanni-san,

In Japanese bookstores, they have lots of self-help books which are so popular in Japan! People seem to want some kind of guide for their life.

by: giovanni

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:14:57 +0000

Which items do I take a look at when I visit a bookstore? Certainly not self-help books and auto/biographies (like some worthless 20 year old celebrity’s: “my life so far”), which are the trash equivalent of published material. But it’s good to know so one can avoid them…

by: Jessi

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:46:56 +0000

Thanks for the feedback everyone! We’ll definitely take that into consideration

by: Sunnydani

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:15:58 +0000

I agree that the test part of the video was kind of hard to use and in such cases putting the English word could be useful.
But beside this I absolutely loved the content of this video. Since it was a pretty specific topic I got to learn a lot. Thanks!

by: みかん

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:46:27 +0000

勉強になりました
ありがとう！

by: kellysensei

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:56:16 +0000

Ah, so *that’s* what 伝記　means! I remember seeing that in bookstores all the time.

by: Eve Kushner

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:30:26 +0000

I completely agree with Katie (and Juan?). The English should always be there with the test portion of the video, so that we’re only being asked to remember 1 thing at a time.

by: katie

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:57:37 +0000

I agree with what (I think) juan is saying: it was difficult for me to discern/remember which concept was supposed to correspond to the picture in many cases. When the picture is vague, I think it would help to have the English word appear.

by: juan

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:33:00 +0000

How would you say it’s hard to tell which picture corresponds to each image?

by: JapanesePod101.com

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:30:00 +0000

みなさん、こんにちは！
Which items do you take a look at when you visit a bookstore?