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11 Responses to “Onomatopoeia #24 - What Does Androgyny Sound Like in Japanese?”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
みなさん、 Which onomatopoeia did you like best out of this lesson? We think you’ll hear these ones a lot
Wednesday at 10:22 pm
As a Jrock fan, this lesson amused me A LOT *laughs*
Wednesday at 11:59 pm
I’m a huge vkei fan too, and although I haven’t been following the lessons as much as I used to, when I saw the description for this lesson, I was thinking, “I HAVE to listen to this lesson!” hahahaha
Wonderful lesson!!
Thursday at 12:53 am
Kongari na otokonohito ga suki dakara, “kongari” tte iru no ha ii to omotta. Soshite “gachi gachi” mo ii desu.
Thursday at 4:06 pm
I’m like you, TabzChewy!
I have always loved listening to visual kei and I HAD to download this lesson as well. I’ve been in Aoi’s position as well - having to tell my friends that the band members are guys…
Saturday at 12:06 pm
boys always want to have big muscle lumps just because other boys have it, and girls always like muscular boys just because others say that muscular boys are better than scrawny ones. Both actions are blind-minded.可笑しいですね。
boys should be aware that many intelligent men are with little muscle and girls should trust their own judgement instead of copying others’ choice in blind.自分の判断を信じてください.
私もがりがりな男です。
Sunday at 4:47 am
would someone be kind enough to give me a detailed explanation of how “shita”
is working in this sentence?
ぽっちゃりした子ほうがいいな
i also saw it before in this sentence from Mother’s Talk lesson
きちんとした文章じゃないと
so shita is its own word, different from 下 or 舌, that turns things into adjectives?
does it have any other grammatical uses?
also i think i heard 焼いた as well for suntanned.. is 焼いた more like sunburned?
could one say
焼いた肌はかっこいい
?
Sunday at 11:41 am
Haha, I thought I was hallucinating when this podcast starts talking about v-kei…never seen or heard anything about that in “normal” japanese classes before.
Anyway, it was a really useful lesson I think. I’ve also been in the exact same position, trying to explain that all those girls in the magazine I’m reading are actually boys…
Tuesday at 2:58 pm
ヤドカリさん、
した is the past tense of する. ぽっちゃりした or きちんとした expresses how something is and works in the same way as an adjective. So, you can use the “te-iru” form and say ぽっちゃりしている子 or きちんとしている文章 as it indicates the present condition. But, the past tense is usually used in this case, like やせた人 (= やせている人) or ふとった人 (ふとっている人)
Tuesday at 11:31 pm
what does the picture have to do with thge lesson?
& wow they mention “visualKei” just shows how to popular it is
and IT wasnt X-Japan! IT was EZO! from Hokkaido who were before them. it came from Glam Metal thats where it came from.
to many Newbies think it was xJapan that started it all for J-Rock
when in Fact it was LOUDNESS who released their first us LP in 1985.
Wednesday at 5:26 pm
I liked the “double chin” pneumonic for debu. I have another one … my good friend Debbie (who will never be reading this!) is challenged in a chubby way … Debbie is debu!!
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