Comments on: Lower Intermediate Lesson S4 #9 - A Slight Possibility

by: Natsuko

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:43:20 +0000

> dystopia-san,
宇宙人が存在すると思いますか。どんな宇宙人ですか。いい宇宙人ですか？(my hope…. )

> Mao-san,
Thank you very much for the comment!
We find time to reply here because we’re happy to see comments like yours!

> Dan-san,
Yes, you’re absolutely right!
The reason we don’t say かも知らない IS exactly because this word comes from the verb 知る. As you might already know, 知らない means “don’t know”.
In other words, 知らない conclude already that you DON’T know, and かも shows
the possibility; those two don’t go together.
「かもしれない」’s LITERAL meaning is “perhaps (= かも) un-know-able (= しれない)”.
And this expression becomes (the meaning of) “maybe”,”I wonder”, etc.
Please note that 「かも知れない」 is fine, but the most standard is 「かもしれない」 in hiragana, when writing.

by: Dan

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:25:41 +0000

Thanks for the lesson, good quality as usual!

Why do we use かも知れない and not かも知らない ? I expected that the base of the grammar would be from the verb 知る/to know.

by: Mao

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:17:56 +0000

Thank you again for this wonderful lesson, JP101 team. I learn so much from each lesson. Keep up the good work. And I love how the team finds time to reply to the comments here.

by: dystopia

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:23:46 +0000

宇宙人は存在かもしれないとおもいます。

by: Naomi

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:01:11 +0000

Wai Huan-san
お仕事ですか？

by: Wai Huan

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:43:07 +0000

私は、来年家族と一緒に日本へ行くかもしれません。

では、また！

by: Anthony

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:38:26 +0000

Thanks to a suggestion by Naomi-san to try starting at season 4, I am really starting to catch on to the lower intermediate lessons! I also wanted to say that I like when some lessons are a kind of revisit to older lessons or previously covered words and grammar points. It really helps me to memorize the words and phrases when they are repeated every now and again.

by: Nick

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:48:58 +0000

I love how this series has so much discussion in between the lesson. It really helps to hear explanations of the words in Japanese and allows me to introduce other words into the conversation.

その会話はすごく便利でした。

by: Nick

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:45:29 +0000

今日は私の弟の誕生日です。家族とパーティーがあるかもしれません

by: lara

Mon, 25 May 2009 03:59:06 +0000

ありがとうございます。私は横浜市に住んでいます。jessiさんは？

by: Jessi

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:48:23 +0000

一さん＞
「天才」 means “genius”

giovanniさん＞
Thanks for the feedback

Felixさん＞面白い！

laraさん＞ JPOD101へようこそ laraさんは日本のどこに住んでいますか？

by: lara

Sun, 24 May 2009 15:11:23 +0000

Hi Everyone. I’m kinda new here.
はじめました、ララと申します。よろしくお願いします。

最近、日本は暑くなったね。梅雨にもう入ったようですね。
天気予報によると、明日は雨がまた降るかもしれない

by: Felix

Thu, 21 May 2009 11:17:25 +0000

焼き錦鯉はうまいかもしれません、ね。犯人は羨ましいです、よ。お腹がいっぱいかもしれません。

by: giovanni

Thu, 14 May 2009 10:52:34 +0000

Just wanted to point out that it seems that the beginner’s lessons are now arguably more difficult than the so called “lower intermediate”. Kamoshirenai can hardly be described as a grammar structure.

It must the consequence of some distorting measure of success. Say you look only at downloads or responses in the comments, then of course the majority of beginners will be pleased with easier lessons and the level will be driven down. Though I understand the business arguments, I think you should uphold some minimum standards. Of course, I still enjoy the lessons, but the grammar seems to repeat itself….

by: 一 (ハジメ)

Wed, 13 May 2009 03:33:04 +0000

Spidey-san,

「天オ」何ですか？

眠いですよ。寝るかもしれません。　