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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You wake up early in the morning on your visit to Japan, and you’re excited to get to your sightseeing. You call your Japanese friend on the phone and tell him in Japanese, “Are you awake yet? There’s a lot I want to see here in Japan. Are you ready to take me?” He responds in Japanese, “I’m awake. I was just watching the morning news…” You cut him off and tell him in Japanese, “Stop wasting time watching life go by and come by to pick me up! We have lots to do today!” He replies in Japanese, “But…” You interrupt him again and say in Japanese, “I don’t want to hear any excuses! You promised!” He says in Japanese, “Fine, but I hope you brought your parka and umbrella. It’s raining cats and dogs outside.” You whine back to your friend in Japanese, “I can’t stand the rain…you told me it never rains here!”

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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”

JapanesePod101.com says:

みなさん!
Welcome to the first Beginner lesson of 2010!
What’s the weather like where you are right now?? :smile:

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JoeWipp says:

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 :grin:

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jitesh says:

hai

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Bird says:

The weather here is VERY snowy!!! Icy too. Pretty sucky.

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graeme. says:

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。

:twisted:

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Thomas Kight says:

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!

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miguel says:

i’ll this language in no time :) :mrgreen:

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Aisuru says:

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!

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ashley says:

:sad: cold and snowy

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Jessi says:

JoeWippさん,
Thank you very much for the correction! We’ll fix it right away :smile:

jiteshさん,
Hai!! :mrgreen:

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~ :mrgreen:

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 :neutral:

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ジェ says:

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.

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Bob1 says:

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.

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mikatsuki says:

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.

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Dan says:

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.

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vanz says:

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!!!

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Jessi says:

ジェさん,
Ohh, it sounds like you were there for 梅雨 - the rainy season!! :eek:

Bob1さん,
I know, I’ve thought the same thing before! In Japanese it’s so nice and straightforward :smile:

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!

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Tess says:

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!

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Naomi says:

Tess-san
オーストラリアは今夏ですね!Australia wa ima natsu desu ne! :grin:
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. :sad:

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vanz says:

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?

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Jessi says:

vanzさん,
Ganbatte kudasai!! :mrgreen: No, I’m not Japanese, but I have been studying Japanese for many years now and it’s something I really love :grin:

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Kori says:

LOVED the graphic on the first page!

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hugues c says:

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

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Naomi says:

Kori -san
Thank you :mrgreen:
hugues c -sam
Thank you for letting us know how you study. :grin:

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simon1440 says:

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!!!

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Raymasaki says:

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.

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Naomi says:

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. :grin:

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. :wink:
Snow turns familiar scenery so beautiful.

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一 (ハジメ) says:

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. :smile:

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Vanz says:

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. :cry:

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Jessi says:

ハジメさん,
That’s a great way to think of it! I like the combination of these two characters too :mrgreen:

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.

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Larry oria says:

The audio is spoken far too fast. I cannot understand the dialog, and is all the background noise (music and pounding) really necessary?

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Naomi says:

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。 :wink:
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. :wink:

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Olivia says:

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.

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Naomi says:

Olivia-san
It can be written as 後 or のち. Both are fine. :wink:

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Olivia says:

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. :smile:

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Hannie says:

Hello :)

Where is kanji now imiss his voice
lol hahaha

Cheers guys :)

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Eve says:

Naomi-san, I’m learning something even from reading your answers in both kanji and English, thank you! :grin:

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Dustin says:

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。

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Naomi says:

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.

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チィ says:

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。

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ぐらでいしゅ ぐらんと says:

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.

=(

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Jessi says:

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 :)

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Too Paul says:

Listening to the lesson and reading the notes is the best thing, thank you so much for this Japanese101.

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