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30 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson S4 #13 - Tell Someone Else in Japan to Do This!”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
皆さん、こんにちは★
What’s something you’ve told or requested someone to do? 教えてください！
Wednesday at 8:48 pm
私はPeterに英語より日本語をもっと使って下さい。
私はPeterに英語より日本語を使うように言った。
本当に聞いたくれるかな。。。？
Honestly, I must say that today’s lesson is AWESOME! ありがとうございます！
Wednesday at 11:30 pm
Very good lesson ^^
Wednesday at 11:45 pm
私にとって、このLessonはちょっと難しすぎると思いますが、がんばります
！
社長が、毎週もっと働くように言います。でも、時間がありません。日本語を勉強しなければなりません
。
！
社長へ。。。ごめんなさい
Thursday at 12:00 am
こんにちは。
私の国では教室を掃除することがあります。小学校、中学校、高校にもします。
いつも黒板を掃除していたのは私です。 背が高いので。
日本へ行く前に健康をチェックするように言われました。
先生に私の文章を直してくれるようにお願いします。
Thursday at 12:12 am
hi thank you so much 4 this great web site
i still atthe biging in learning japanses just 3 lessons till now
will actully all I want is to learn how to speak japanese
Thursday at 1:21 am
ゆいち先生、なおみ先生、ジェシーさん、すばらしいレッソンありがとう。
We are always being told to stand behind the yellow line at the train station.
電車駅でアナウンスに黄色い線の後ろまで下がるようによく言われました。
Please correct my mistakes. Thank you.
chin
Thursday at 3:23 am
掃除と清掃の違いは何ですか? これを分かるようにJapanesepod101に頼みました。
Thursday at 3:43 am
サボるは和製英語ですか?
達成感 という漢字は正しいですか?
Thursday at 4:12 am
Thanks for a very useful lesson!
ときどき夫に食器を洗うように頼みます。
いつも子猫たちに「それをしないように」命令します。
Thursday at 5:59 am
Estimados Amigos;
Es todo un placer el oir, las conversaciones en Japones, que con cerrar los ojos se imagina uno lo que esta pasando y el enfasis que le ponen todos los que hacen la conversacion es verdaderamente maravilloso.
Cuando era joven trabaje con un arquitecto, que me dijo que para saber mandar, primero hay que obedecer y para mandar a hacer algo primero hay que saber a hacerlo, lo que aprendi en esta conversacion es que la cultura Japonesa todos somos la compañia para la que trabajamos, ojala que el resto de nosotros aplicaramos esto, el mundo seria mejor. Sinceramente.
Carlos Ruiz Checa
Thursday at 8:10 am
yes i have to say this lesson was awesome
very useful grammar point
keep it up
Thursday at 8:21 am
I’ve been listening to all these lessons in the past month or two, and I’ve finally caught up to the end!!!
Thursday at 10:02 am
Thanks for all the nice comments, everyone
I’m glad you found this lesson helpful!! 
Great sentences too - I’ll leave the final check to our native 先生s 
Thursday at 10:38 am
赤ちゃんはいつも泣くだけ泣きます。
「赤ちゃん！泣かなくなるように言ったよ！」
Baby! I told you to stop crying!
Could I say it like that? Or would I only be able to say: 「泣かないように言ったよ！」 I told you not to cry!
Thursday at 11:22 am
みなさん、コメントをありがとうございます。
Spidey-san
>>私はPeterに英語より日本語をもっと使って下さい。
→You mean to write direct quote right? If so…私はPeterに「英語より日本語をもっと使って下さい」と言った
Niclas-san
ありがとうございます！
Kobukuro -san
Perfect sentences!!! しかも、おもしろい。笑ってしまいました。
メー -san
Great sentences!! Just one minor mistake.
小学校、中学校、高校にもします。→でもします
背が高くて、いいですね。私は背が低いので、うらやましいです。
lolalolitta-san
Welcome to Japanesepod101.com! If you want to learn how to speak Japanese, you need to be exposed to Japanese language. I hope you keep listening our web site.
chin-san
電車駅。。。 駅 itself means train station. So you can drop 電車
仁居流-san
掃除 is cleaning in general. 清掃 usually means to clean public place(not private place.) So …if you want to say “I clean my room every day.” that would be…
毎日家を掃除します。
But not 毎日家を清掃します。
>>>サボるは和製英語ですか?
「サボる」は語源が英語ですよね。でも「和製英語」ではないとおもいますよ。
>>>達成感 という漢字は正しいですか?
正しいですよ。
kellysensei -san
いいだんなさんですね！
子猫は何匹いますか？
Carlos Ruiz Checa -san
rigo-san
Thank you for putting the nice feedback!
Steve-san
Omedetou gozaimasu!!
Thursday at 11:27 am
Jason-san
The second phrase 「泣かないように言ったよ！」 is better.
And if you change the final よ to でしょ？or よね？, that sounds more natural I guess.
赤ちゃんが、いるんですか？
Thursday at 11:47 am
サボる is actually from the French word sabotage (サボタージュ)
But we use this word in English too!
Thursday at 12:13 pm
なおみ先生、
。うらやましいです。 
いいえ。日本の女性は背が低くても可愛いと思いますよ
Thursday at 12:18 pm
Naomi-sensei,
! Thank you for checking them!
I’m so happy to hear that these sentences are ok and that I could made you smile a bit
Friday at 10:45 am
なおみ先生
いつも私と一緒に日本語を勉強します。
はい、長男は3月前に生まれました。
Friday at 10:59 am
メーsan, Kobukuro-san
Jason-san
いいですね～。きっと毎日楽しいですね。
Tuesday at 7:07 pm
みんあさん、こんにちは、
質問があります。
宮島の部著の名前は田中ですね。女の人ですね。それからどうして社長に田中君とよばれた？−君は男の人のいみと思いました。
教えてください。
トーマス
Wednesday at 10:38 am
トーマス-san
君は普通は男の人の名前につけますが、会社などでは、女の人の名前につけることもよくあります。
Some people attach KUN to women’s name in office situation. But be very careful, you can not attach KUN to the name of the person who has higher social status than you.
Saturday at 9:49 am
As of this date, those of us who download the podcasts through iTunes cannot see the Dialogue Transcript on our iPods, as of December 2008. I have been assured through JPOD’s tech support that this will change, at some point. Previously, that is, from 2005 through December 2008, we could see the dialogue on our iPods.
Hasn’t anyone mentioned this problem? Have I missed something?
Thanks to Shiroineko in the Forums, I found a work-around: I downloaded Juice and dictated which podcasts to download through My Feed, using the link supplied there and I can see the Dialogue Transcripts.
Thanks for everything, guys! It all works out in the end!
Saturday at 6:11 am
hmm, so in Japanese middle schools it must be common to have some skanky bathrooms what with students left to that task. Public schools in Chicago back in the day.. you’re lucky to get the boys not to chuck their desks out the window much less bathroom duty.
I started up a conversation w/ my wife: 日本の中学生にトイレを掃除するように言われて。。
she said, Yes she’d done it many times; also at office jobs she has worked. Wow!
Monday at 10:57 am
Bobochan ーさん
I don’t think it’s common to have dirty bathrooms at schools at all.
At least not at schools that I went to. Teachers were pretty strict and students were obedient so the bathrooms were kept very clean.
Tuesday at 4:00 am
申し訳ありませ
Imagine all the cell phones and ipod nano’s accidentally flushed by all those teenagers. なおみさんは「it’s GONE」と言いました。
Tuesday at 10:58 am
Bobochan-san
確かに！ 
覚えていたんですね！！
You remember that story!!!
Wednesday at 11:05 pm
JPOD様
koto yoro
私の 母 小学校 で はたらいって いました。 先生 でした。 母の 学校 で 学生 かれらの トイレ を 自分で 掃除 を して います
私 は トイレ 掃除 を した こと が ありません
今年 も よろしく お願い します
Siva
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