Thursday, July 16, 2009

Day 4: Making up Day 3

JapanesePod101 Season 4 Lesson 2.
Miyu, Ozora Haruya's girlfriend, is introducing her boyfriend to her mother.

久しぶり - ひさしぶり long time no see
つまらない - boring, uninteresting (used to present gift)
彼氏 - かれし boyfriend
犬 - いぬ dog
母 - はは mother
あら - oh, ah
こちら - this person, this direction

Overall, this lesson was pretty basic for me, the only words I didn't recognize were つまらない and ともうします (call, I am called ____ ). Although, I think つまらない might have been introduced in Kevin and Aaron's quickstart Japanese course.

Lesson 3
みゆの母 asks some questions about Haruya.

-才 - さい number marker (years old)
パパ - ぱぱ papa (used by children and girls)
いくつ - how many, how old
一人 - ひとり one person
兄弟 - きょうだい siblings
来る - くる to come
ご家族は - ごかぞくは your family? (how many people are in your family?)

I really like how this lesson enforced some of the vocabulary learned in the first episode where Ozora Haruya introduces himself. Things such as しゅっしん (hometown) and ことし (this year) came up.

Lesson 4
The father comes home in this episode. This episode was a little harder for me to pick up by just listening.

ぼく - I, me (for men)
俺 - I, me (for men, more casual & vulgar than 私 or ぼく)
ずっと - by far, all along, the whole time
お嬢さん - おじょうさん daughter, young lady
金 - かね money
それとも - or, either
一緒に - いっしょに together
欲しい - want, wish (adjective)
君 - きみ you

私はカナダに行きたいです I want to go to Canada
-たい indicates want to do something which is added when taking off the masu stem and adding the たい.
so in this case: いきたい means to want to go

They mentioned the -たい ending very quickly at the end of the lesson, but I think it's an important grammar point to consider. They also said to look back at the Nihongo Dojo series to review the classes of verbs. I might consider finding those in the future.

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