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15 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson S5 #18 - Please Listen to My Japanese Sales Pitch!”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
皆さん、
Would you consider buying a Herukaro microwave??
Tuesday at 10:53 pm
well yeah if i needed a moicro wave.
do they sell these herokaro Microwaves in the us?
I alway feel confident about Buying JP Brand name
Electronics, but didnt know of any “jp Brand microwaves”
Tuesday at 11:10 pm
きっと昨日は便利なのに、電子レンジの割には値段はちょっと高すぎる。。。
Tuesday at 11:11 pm
昨日 = 機能 <--- ははごめん。
Wednesday at 12:50 am
Can anyone tell me how all of this works i find myself overwhelemd with the amount of material will they give me lessons that i can study cause i find myself learning the best when theres some sort of teacher involved im really bad at self study
Wednesday at 10:41 am
Raymasaki-san
ヘルカロ doesn’t actually exist. I think the story writer was inspired by the very popular microwave oven called Healslo(ヘルシオ)made by Sharp(シャープ). It’s actually a very clever name. へる(=to decrease) しお(=salt) and it sound very similar to ヘルシー(=healthy ) to Japanese people’s ear.It’s available in the US and Australia, it’s called SuperSteam Oven.(They use different name, but same product.)
Steve-san
そうですね。
Wednesday at 11:52 am
whats up with no kana on all those kanji verb examples >_
Thursday at 3:27 am
Another good word to know about microwaves…
チンする Means to cook in the microwave. チン is the ding sound a microwave makes
チンしてください
Tuesday at 5:00 am
ano… I know it is out of topic here, but しつもんがあります。
「責任」と「過失」はどう違うのですか?
Both of them can mean “fault” in context.
Are they synonyms in this case?
Tuesday at 10:09 am
keistas-san
、確かに似たような意味になるときもありますね。
文章がないのでなんともいえませんが
ただ、過失は、明らかに本人が起こした不注意や間違えです。
責任は、結果について責任を持つということで、「間違え」だけではありません。
本人が実際に起こしたこと以外にも使います。
その事故はトムの過失です。
→ This sentence sounds like Tom is the one who caused and had the accident.
その事故はトムの責任です。
→This sentence sounds like Tom is responsible for the accident and has a reason to be blamed about the accident. However, it’s not clear if Tom actually caused or had the accident. This sentence is just stating that (Maybe his child who is still minor had the accident? Maybe Tom forced the driver to drink alcohol? Maybe he put something on the road and that caused the accident?…)
I hope this helps.
Tuesday at 4:08 pm
助かりました。
明らかな説明をありがとうございます。
今は違いがわかりやすいです。
Tuesday at 5:59 pm
keistas-san
。いい質問をありがとうございました。
よかったです
Wednesday at 4:19 am
what’s mean of kasu is irregular.
Thursday at 3:45 am
All the verbs ending with -
reru are intransitive verbs
that mean Passive Form of a Verb is intransitive verbs
and
Causative Form of a verb is transitive verbs
and
All the verbs that end in -su are transitive verbs
that mean Causative form of verb is transitive
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uchi o desu
uchi o deru
if deru Intransitive but why it take o
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how i determine if Change reru into ru or su
Friday at 11:33 am
wael-san,
Unfortunately intransitive verbs don’t always end with reru in dictionary form.
Words have its form and meaning, and meaning often affects its usage and conjugation.
It might seem too much of a bother but memorizing each word’s information would be effective for your study.
I hope this helps.
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