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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! After a long day at work in Japan, you look forward to heading home and watching some Japanese television shows. You usually cook a traditional Japanese dish for dinner and eat in front of the television. Then your favorite Japanese TV characters lull you into a relaxed state. Many nights you wake up at midnight, having fallen asleep with the television on. Life in Japan wears you out! In this lesson, you’ll learn how to make a suggestion in Japanese. Our Japanese conversation takes place at home in Japan. The speakers are relatives, and therefore they will be speaking formal Japanese. You’ll also learn a Japanese expression that you might find useful if your day has left you exhausted. Visit us at JapanesePod101.com, where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
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This entry was posted on Monday, October 29th, 2012 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Absolute Beginner Season 2 . 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.
28 Responses to “Absolute Beginner S2 #22 - Let’s Drink to Learning Japanese!”
at 6:30 pm
みなさん、にほんご を はなしましょう!
at 10:07 pm
Mina-san ohayo gozaimasu
Arigato gozaimasu
Ressun ga daisuki desu!
Sayonara
Samu
at 6:19 pm
Hi Samantha-san,
Arigatou gozaimasu!
Keep listening
Jessi
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 7:01 am
みなさん、2013に頑張りましょう!
I meant to say “Everyone, let’s do our best in 2013!”
Is it correct?
at 1:48 pm
Tekkuro-san,

It’s quite correct, but you might want to say “let’s do our best in 2013 TOO” in Japanese: みなさん、2013年も頑張りましょう!
because you have been doing your best, and hope to continue or do better in 2013, right? Or maybe you were lazy this year??
Just in case…if you want to say in a sence of “I wasn’t good this year, but well, everyone, in 2013, let’s do our best”, then みなさん、2013年は頑張りましょう!
This sounds a lot more like “not like this year”
Which one would you say?
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 2:02 pm
こんばんは!
The PDF says that:
きんようびにおさけをのみましょう。 translates as:
“Let’s have a drink.”
If I’m not mistaken, shouldn’t it translate as: “On Friday, let’s have a drink.”
Is that how you add a specific suggestion of a time or day of the week, by listing 金曜日に。。。 or 月曜日に。。。 to the suggested activity?
ありがとうございます!
Cassandra
at 5:25 pm
Cassandraさん こんにちは。
Good catch! But the days of the week are not covered so it would be better to hide it for this series. Gomen
Yes, as you guessed, ‘ni’ follows the time and day of the week, and add the details.
e.g.
きんようびにおさけをのみましょう。
“Let’s have a drink on Friday.”
6がつにメキシコにいきます。
“I/We go to Mexico in June.”
いいえ! No worries!
Motoko
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 7:43 am
Thanks for the explanation! I keep trying to learn more complex sentences because it feels like I’m at “see Spot run” level.
at 2:42 am
Mimashou? Nomimashou? Nugimashou? Speaking of ‘Shou’, isn’t it also used as names for people? Mainly boys I think.
Like Shou Kurusu!
at 11:49 am
> Cassandra-san,
good luck! Gambatte
> Michelle-san,
true! There are some boys and men whose names (or part of names) are Shou.
There are also girls’ names such as Shouko.
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 9:40 pm
Aa, soo desu ne!
Shouko! Shouko wa ii namae desu ne.
at 8:14 pm
Michelle-san,
soudesu ne!
Michelle mo ii namae desu yo!
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 12:41 pm
It appears that ALL the examples use more formal Japanese.
Maybe I heard informal Japanese used once in “Tonari no Totoro”.
Would the informal forms be used when speaking to small children and
pets?
I am enjoying the JapanesePod101 lessons.
Thanks very much for your replies. It is very striking that there are human beings on your end.
at 5:29 pm
Chuck Young san,
Yes, we do use informal Japanese
Some lessons cover informal Japanese with dialogs between friends and so on.
I love “tonari no totoro”!
That movie is so lovely!!
Thank you very much for a kind comment, too! Hope you’ll continue enjoying with us!
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 11:34 pm
こんばんは 奈津子 せんせい
カラエにいきましょ
コーヒをもめましょ
We should go to the Cafe,
We should drink Coffee!
(I am a complete coffee addict - but I should probably go to bed instead)
コーヒ ぢあつきですよ
I noticed in the lesson notes for this lesson that the Romanji version of the dialogue transcript is missing the “tsukaremashita”. It’s the “Kanji” transcript - but not the Romanji.
ありがとございます
おやすめなさい
Thank you and good night
at 11:45 pm
Oops I meant
コーヒはだいすきよ。
(I) Really like Coffee! Yo!
at 9:40 pm
パアルさん、
こんにちは!
私もコーヒーがだいすきです! I love coffee, too!
いっしょにカフェにいきましょう!おいしいコーヒーをのみましょう
Let’s go to cafe together! And let’s have a delicious coffee!
Oh
Thank you very much for letting us know about mistake in PDF!!
We’ll fix it soon!
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 8:37 am
バアルさん こんにちは。
I’ve fixed the PDF. Thank you for your patience and letting us know!
Keep listening
Motoko
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 2:14 am
Min-na san kon´nichiwa.
Kotoshi nihongo o mainichi benkyoshimasu.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Ja mata.
at 7:46 pm
Edison-san,
sugoi!
mainichi benkyou shimasu ka? Ganbatte kudasai!!
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 1:58 am
みんな、こんばんわ minna, konbanwa (everyone, good evening)
here is one for team spirit
一緒に頑張りましょう。 issho ni ganbari mashou (Let’s do our best together)
at 7:51 pm
LKU-san,
こんばんは
そうですね! みんなで、一緒に頑張りましょう!!
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 12:43 pm
皆こんばんは
コロンビアにいきましょう
美しい所ですよ!
at 12:13 am
Diegoさん、
コロンビア!!いいですね~。行きたいです!
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 4:09 am
A-san: Kon’nichi wa B-san. Tabemashou ka.
B-san: Doumo. Tsukaremashita.
A-san: Onaka ga sukimasen ka.
B-san: Ano…hai. Sushii o tabemashou.
A-san: Yata.
A-san: Hello B-san. Shall we go eat?
B-san: Hi. I’m tired.
A-san: Are you not hungry?
A-san: Umm.. Yes, lets eat sushi.
B-san: Yay!
at 10:20 pm
Adonus-san,
Yatta! I’ll join you guys
brilliant!!
hmm….sushi….
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
at 4:02 am
Arigatou gozaimashita sensei! totemo oishii!
at 5:07 pm
Adonus-san,
dou itashimashite!!
By the way, why “oishii” (= delicious)?
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com