About our Printer-friendly lesson notes
Follow along to our award winning lessons with detailed PDF Lesson
Notes! These easy to print notes take a closer look at the grammar
point and vocabulary words presented in the audio lesson. Plus,
read more about
language101 cultural topics related to the lesson.
Re-activate or upgrade your account to access the PDF Lesson
Notes today!
Kanji Close-Up
Take a closer look at the kanji characters used in the lesson
Dialogue with the Kanji Close Up Practice Sheets! You'll learn the
meaning, readings, and stroke order of each character. Plus,
improve your writing with kanji stroke order practice sheets!
Re-activate or upgrade your account to access the Kanji Close Up
Practice Sheets today!
About our Review Audio Tracks
Listen and repeat with the Review Track. Hear the lesson
vocabulary and main phrases and repeat after the native speaker -
it's the best way to perfect your pronunciation!
Upgrade your account to access The Review Track and start
perfecting your pronunciation today!
About our Lesson Audio
Our team of
Japanese language specialists have been releasing new audio and video
lessons weekly since 2005. That's a lot of
Japanese language learning! All lessons are free for the first 2 weeks
before going into our Basic and Premium Archive.
Re-activate or upgrade your account to access every single
lesson we've ever created today!
About our Dialog Audio Tracks
The audio lesson is a comprehensive, easy to use lessons that
makes learning Japanese fun for anyone.
Each audio lesson contains can be downloaded in seconds
to your computer, iPod, phone, or mp3 player so that you can learn quickly and be speaking Japanese in no time at all.
The audio lesson is your ticket to learning to speak
Japanese with confidence and accuracy, and from your very first lesson!
About our Dialog Audio Tracks
Don't have enough time for an entire lesson today? Listen to the
Dialogue Only Track to hear the native Dialogue. Listening to a
little bit of
Japanese everyday, no matter how much, will greatly improve your listening
comprehension. Guaranteed!
Upgrade your account to access the Dialogue Only Track and other
Premium Tools today!
About our Grammar Audio Tracks
Tackle grammar head on with the lesson Grammar List. We break
down the grammar piece by piece so you fully master the structure
and formation.
Upgrade your account to access the Grammar List and other
Premium lesson tools today!
About our Videocasts
Our team of
Japanese language specialists have been releasing new audio and video
lessons weekly since 2005. That's a lot of
Japanese language learning! All lessons are free for the first 2 weeks
before going into our Basic and Premium Archive.
Re-activate or upgrade your account to access every single
lesson we've ever created today!
About our Learning Center
Listen and read the line-by-line breakdown of the lesson
conversation with this Premium Tool. Listen to each line as many
times as you need until you fully understand the conversation and
pronunciation. Line-By-Line Audio Transcripts are the perfect way
to improve your comprehension - fast!
Upgrade your account to access Line-By-Line Audio Transcript and
other Premium lesson tools today!
About our Videocasts
Our team of
Japanese language specialists have been releasing new audio and video
lessons weekly since 2005. That's a lot of
Japanese language learning! All lessons are free for the first 2 weeks
before going into our Basic and Premium Archive.
Re-activate or upgrade your account to access every single
lesson we've ever created today!
This entry was posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Beginner Season 5 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
42 Responses to “Beginner Lesson S5 #1 - It’s Always Sunny in Japan”
Monday at 6:30 pm
みなさん!
Welcome to the first Beginner lesson of 2010!
What’s the weather like where you are right now??
Monday at 9:19 pm
It’s very much fun learning Japanese with JapanesePod, I am enjoying every lesson. The new pdf.lesson file is again very helpful and well arranged. There is only one slight mistake: in Sample Sentences No. 4 at the bottom the Romanji for 最高気温should be “saikou”, not “saitei kion”.
I am looking forward to the next lesson.
By the way: please say hello to Cat from me. I am German and have both visited Scotland and Japan five times so far. They are my two favorite countries for spending holidays
Monday at 11:28 pm
hai
Tuesday at 12:35 am
The weather here is VERY snowy!!! Icy too. Pretty sucky.
Tuesday at 12:58 am
こんにちは、みんさん。
あけましておめでとうございます。今年よろしくお願いします。
great lesson topic.
今日はトロントで少し寒いですけど、雪が好きです。ですから、良い天気です。
Tuesday at 3:51 am
In the podcast, you ask if anyone reads the lesson notes along with listening. In truth, it is the ONLY way I listen to the lesson (unless I’m just reviewing something I’ve heard before). To me, the lesson notes are a vital part of the learning process. I like them a lot.
One other thing today, just to support consistency, the podcast mentioned that the informal form of “nochi” would be presented or discussed in the lesson notes. But unless I overlooked it, it is not there. Just a small thing.
Otherwise, nice lesson. Good work!
Tuesday at 5:10 am
i’ll this language in no time
Tuesday at 7:48 am
度も有賀とございます
I only started the program last week, and am enjoying it so far, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!
Tuesday at 9:06 am
Tuesday at 9:35 am
JoeWippさん,
Thank you very much for the correction! We’ll fix it right away
jiteshさん,
Hai!!
Birdさん,
Wow, where do you live? Stay warm!
graeme.さん,
今年もよろしくお願いします!
寒い天気が好きなんですね~
Thomas Kightさん,
Glad to hear that you always read the lesson note while you listen - we think that it is the best way to learn too!! And thank you for the note about ‘nochi’ - we’ll add it to the lesson notes!
miguelさん,
Ganbatte kudasai ^^/
Aisuruさん,
Welcome!! We’re glad to hear you’re enjoying the podcasts!!
ashleyさん,
It’s very cold here in Tokyo too! But no snow… yet
Tuesday at 4:13 pm
This was a very good lesson, 5-starred, although the title is very very misleading for people who’ve never been there…..
I was there for 2 weeks last summer, wet and rainy almost every day, but if you like cloudy weather (and i do) then it’s great.
Cities in japan are beatiful with all the grey buildings against grey clouds.
Tuesday at 4:55 pm
The Japanese in TV weather forecasts is really much simpler and straightforward for expressing uncertainty than the corresponding English you would hear in the U.S.
“Look for clouds to turn to rain as this weather front moves in tonight . . .”
In contrast, the Japanese is a beginning language learner’s dream.
Tuesday at 6:18 pm
thanks for japanese lesson. I was in japan for 7 month. there was so funny and nice.
I hope my japanese improving by the lesson.
Wednesday at 4:43 am
It is great to see a season 5 starting.
Regarding lesson notes, I’ve found I have listen with and without them. First, I will listen without them because I’m trying to learn simply by exposure and gaining skills coping with “hearing an unfamiliar word”. Later, I will re-listen to the lesson with the lesson notes to follow the dialog transcript. Finally, I’ll follow along in the review track for the vocabulary. But of course, I will re-visit these lessons over and over during the coming weeks to refresh, review and pickup little things I have missed or didn’t understand (usually some off hand remark. lol).
I have tried starting with the lesson notes but I found myself too distracted to actually *listen* to the speech and found I just didn’t retain the vocabulary. For me, it is the audio first then use reading (and simple writing) with audio to glue the info together.
Wednesday at 6:19 am
Weather… Snow we have right now and it’s -5 degree …
hope my Japanese Language study this year 2010 will truly become a masterpiece… help!!!
Wednesday at 9:08 am
ジェさん,
Ohh, it sounds like you were there for 梅雨 - the rainy season!!
Bob1さん,
I know, I’ve thought the same thing before! In Japanese it’s so nice and straightforward
mikatsukiさん,
Thanks for your comment! Were you studying or working in Japan?
Danさん,
Thanks for sharing how to study with us - I think your method sounds really effective and makes a lot of sense!
vanzさん,
Best of luck with your Japanese studies in 2010! Let us know if you need any help!
Wednesday at 10:43 am
Weather right now in Australia is REALLY hot ….. atsui desu. Currently much of New South Wales is officially in drought, however, there has been so much rain in some areas that rivers are flooded and the floodwater is flowing into the drought area! Other parts of Australia are having bushfires due to temperatures soaring into the 40s. So I guess I should be happy that my town is only 33 degrees today!! I can’t beloeve that there is currently so much snow being dumped on the Northern Hemisphere!
Wednesday at 11:00 am
Tess-san
オーストラリアは今夏ですね!Australia wa ima natsu desu ne!
今、世界の天気はとても変ですよね。心配です。
Ima sekai no tenki wa totemo hen desu yone. Shimpai desu.
We have unusual weather all over the world. I’m so worried.
Thursday at 6:16 am
HI Jessi,
Doumo arigatou gozaimase, I will do my best this year and get this study done and to be able to speak Japanese soon.
are you native Japanese?
Thursday at 9:09 am
vanzさん,
No, I’m not Japanese, but I have been studying Japanese for many years now and it’s something I really love
Ganbatte kudasai!!
Friday at 12:27 am
LOVED the graphic on the first page!
Friday at 10:51 am
Konbanwa mina-san,
Thank you sooo much for your website guys it’s exactly what i was looking for to get started. I’ve started two months ago and i must say that the methods you are using to teach us japanese is right on the money.
to answer your question, Ido read the lesson notes every time. First i listen without hte notes to see what i can grasp (not much for now) then i follow with the notes in romaji and say the conversation out loud over and over until i can match the native speed. (lesson newbie15 S1 was a real tongue twister for me but i manage to get it done).
Like i’ve said before, i have to get my ears familiar with japanese. I hunderstand it when i read it in kana or romaji but just to listen to it…well the words just come to fast for now.
ganbatte kudasai
hugues charbonneau
Friday at 11:01 am
Kori -san
Thank you
hugues c -sam
Thank you for letting us know how you study.
Friday at 4:08 pm
Thank you for starting the Beginning Lessons again.
It’s super helpful.
I usually listen to the lesson without reading the notes for the first time, then check on the PDA file, for enhancing my listening skills.
Thank you!!!
Monday at 8:55 am
well i like nice weather also.
shikashi when its cloudy out you can look up & all around without the sun in your eyes. and its good for pictures to.
I live up North so theres snow but not too much.
I like snow sometimes so Hokkaido would be great for me.
Monday at 11:32 am
simon1440-san
コメントありがとうございます!!
Thank you for letting us know how you study.
Raymasaki-san
私も「ときどき」雪が降るのは嫌いじゃありません。
I don’t mind having snowy days sometimes.
Snow turns familiar scenery so beautiful.
Friday at 5:16 am
Season 5! よかった!
Jessi 先生 used one of my favorite Japanese words: 梅雨 ばいう, which is the rainy season. The first character is うめ or plum. So I think of it as the rain that brings the plum blossoms in the early spring.
Saturday at 10:28 pm
Hi Jessi,
can you please give me some hint where to start with my Japanese study? What is the easy way to start en so on….? To be honest with you I hate to start wrongly and en up to know only few words.. Help onegai shimasu.
Monday at 9:19 am
ハジメさん,
That’s a great way to think of it! I like the combination of these two characters too
Vanzさん,
Welcome!! If you are just starting out in Japanese, I would recommend listening to our Introduction lessons:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/index.php?cat=9&order=asc
And also checking out our Basic Japanese videos with Hiroko!
http://www.japanesepod101.com/index.php?cat=7&order=desc
Both of these combined are a great way to start! After that, I would recommend the Newbie Nihongo Dojo series.
Tuesday at 11:17 pm
The audio is spoken far too fast. I cannot understand the dialog, and is all the background noise (music and pounding) really necessary?
Wednesday at 10:25 am
Larry oria-san
Thank you so much for the feed back.
Audio はたしかに、すこしはやいかもしれませんが、「はやすぎる」というレベルではないと思いますよ。
I checked the audio. I would say she’s just speaking in natural speed, but I wouldn’t say she’s speaking too fast at all.
I’m not a native speaker of English and I’m struggling with English everyday here in our office. From my experience, when I don’t understand what the speaker is saying, it’s not usually the speed to hinder my understanding, but something else.(maybe expression, grammar, vocab, pronounciation and so on.)
Also in a real-life situation, it’s rare to hear the speaker without any disturbing noise, isn’t it? Even the JLPT test puts some sound effect in the listening comprehension section.
We have a line-by-line audio in the learning center. There, you can check the audio without any back-ground noise.I hope that function helps you.
Wednesday at 2:18 pm
I had a question about のち。Do you write it as 後 or is it always written with the hiragana のち?
Thanks for the fun podcast.
Wednesday at 2:55 pm
Olivia-san
It can be written as 後 or のち. Both are fine.
Wednesday at 4:19 pm
ありがとございます,Naomi-san. I hope you have a good Golden Week. It seems like the weather will improve tomorrow.
Friday at 2:14 pm
Hello
Where is kanji now imiss his voice
lol hahaha
Cheers guys
Sunday at 9:48 am
Naomi-san, I’m learning something even from reading your answers in both kanji and English, thank you!
Wednesday at 4:58 am
Hello,
what’s the difference in the following sentences regarding
くもるでしょう vs. くもりでしょう
?
As long as I did understand should there be, according to the grammar rule, informal verb + くもるでしょう .
朝は晴れますが、午後から くもるでしょう。
天気は晴れのちくもりでしょう。
Then I’d like to know where the じゃない in the negative sentence example come from, as it seems that something that wasn’t there, like です, has been negated?
ケンは日本人かもしれない。
ケンは日本人じゃないかもしれない。
Last question is the difference between theses two sentences, in which the different form of よる occurs?
ところにより雪が降るでしょう。
ところによって雪が降るかもしれません。
Wednesday at 11:29 am
Dustin-san
>>what’s the difference in the following sentences regarding
くもるでしょう vs. くもりでしょう?
→As you may find detailed write up in this lesson’s PDF, くもる is a verb and くもり is a noun. でしょう expressing speaker’s conjecture comes after either informal form of a verb or noun. There’s no major difference in the meaning.
For negative sentences, “-kamoshirenai/kamoshiremasen”or “-darou/-deshou” comes after informal negative form of verb, adjective or noun.
Ken isn’t Japanese.(Informal) = ケンは日本人じゃない
For the last two sentences, I’d say there’s no major difference in meaning.
ところにより and ところによって are used interchangeably.
However -kamoshirenai sentence sounds less certain. (You can find more detailed write up in the PDF.)
I hope this makes sense.
Sunday at 8:23 am
昨日、雨でした。今日、ニューヨークは晴れるでしょう。朝は晴れですが、午後は晴れ時々雨でしょう。明日、ところによって雪が降るでしょう、風は強いでしょう。
Sunday at 6:31 am
As requested in the audio file, yes… I DO read along the Lesson AND Kanji notes whilst listening to the audio lesson. I couldn’t imagine doing otherwise. If I use review or dialogue tracks on my iPhone, I read the script that comes up as “album info,” which is again, reading the english/ romaji/ kana / kanji while listening to the audio. THIS IS PARTLY WHY I’M USING YOUR SERVICE: ALL THESE TOOLS AT MY FINGERTIPS.
Now… if I could only get my Premium account to work properly, I could access my word bank and grammar bank etc, to save personalized info from these lessons, like i did months ago.
=(
Monday at 10:02 am
Hi ぐらでいしゅ ぐらんとさん,
If you are having trouble getting your Premium account to work properly, please e-mail customer service at contactus@japanesepod101.com and they will be able to help you out
Wednesday at 8:55 am
Listening to the lesson and reading the notes is the best thing, thank you so much for this Japanese101.
Leave a Reply