Mina-san, where is your favorite onsen?

マークさん

こんにちは！

コメントありがとうございます。

お風呂 means bath or bathroom.

浴槽 and 湯船 both mean bathtub in home as well as onsen😊

*おばあちゃんを楽しませるために一緒に本を読みます。

Very good sentence!

Hope you enjoy learning Japanese with us:)

Sincerely,

Miho

Team JapanesePod101.com

Is お風呂　the room and this is the tub　浴槽? Is this a big tub in an Onsen？湯船

おばあちゃんを楽しめるために一緒に本を読みます。

Nathanialさん

やさしいコメントありがとうございます😄

理解してくれて、嬉しいです😇

Please let us know if you have any questions :)

Sincerely

Ryoma

Team JapanesePod101.com

ありがとうMiho. 了解！理解できます！

Hi Nathanial,

Thank you for your comment!

As you say, that sentence might be confusing😅

Your idea is unique and the situation would be possible.

I read the sentence and understood that the person had to hurry from the station to his office or school,

as the train he got on was late.

Please let us know if you have any further question:)

Sincerely,

Miho

Team JapanesePod101.com

Hello,

I have a question on this sentence;

電車が遅れたために、僕は走った。

Why would someone run when the train is late? The only context I can think of is the person was not planning on taking the next train because he thought he'd miss it, but when he learned it was late, he decided to run to catch it.

Is this right?

Thanks!

Andy` さん、

こんにちは。どういたしまして！:smile:

こちらこそ、嬉しい言葉をありがとうございます。:innocent::heart:

Natsuko (奈津子),

Team JapanesePod101.com

流石、奈津子先生、

今から「が」の使い方がもっとわかります！

Now I understand more about the usage of "ga".

有難うございます。

Andy` さん、

こんにちは。

Very good!!:smile::thumbsup:

It's always difficult to know whether you need to use は and が, right?

In your second sentence, the very final verb 行きます is about yourself

and the chunk 'if my girlfriend would want to go' is a conditional clause.

In this conditional close, there's no topic required because it's just

a condition you're stating, which takes 'the subject' and corresponding 'predicate'

(in this case here is a verb).

So, the sentence should be:

しかし、彼女が温泉に行きたいなら、行きます。

The topic in this sentence is not said/written, but it's 僕は. :innocent:

Natsuko (奈津子),

Team JapanesePod101.com

僕は温泉あまり好きじゃないですよ。

I don't really like hot springs.

しかし、彼女は温泉に行きたいなら、行きます。

But if my girlfriend would want to go, I'd go.

げいりさん、

どういたしまして！:smile::thumbsup:

Natsuko (奈津子),

Team JapanesePod101.com

奈津子さんー

ありがとうございました. So, instead of 'have' or 'hold', it's more like 'received and still possess'... "did you get one of these little towels (too)?" Makes sense.

No reply necessary.

-芸理

ゲイリさん、

こんにちは。:smile:

It's not a silly question at all!

Sometimes, tense in Japanese and tense in English (both as natural languages) don't match.

This is simply because these two languages are very different and work differently.

So, you're right; 持った in Japanese is in past tense while in natural English we'd say

"do you have...." in present tense. This is because, strictly speaking, 持つ in this case

is understood as "an action". If you imagine someone "took" a towel which was on the table

and "put" it in the bag, the towel "is" in the bag with him/her. This is the connotation of 「持った？」 here.

The action of taking the towel has done in the past and with this 持った, it even embraces the

condition of towel being with him/her now.

It's not totally wrong to use 持って（い）る, but in that case, we don't consider the part taking/bringing a towel

with that person. It only focuses on whether or not that person has it and the towel "is with him/her".

Hope this helps!

Natsuko (奈津子),

Team JapanesePod101.com

Hi-

I have a potentially silly question that I don't see asked or answered in the comments below...

On the first line,「この小さいタオル、持った」is translated by Peter as "do you have this little towel?"

But, the verb is in the past tense in the text, and as the reader read it (so it's not a typo). "Did you have this little towel" doesn't really make sense, because he still has it, and hasn't even used it yet. So, why is it 持った instead of 持っているの、持ってるの, or something like that?

wael-san,

let's correct your second sentence first:

子供の時にやっていたのは、サッカーです。

This の in やっていたのは is same as の in するのが（好きです）。

Natsuko (奈津子),

Team JapanesePod101.com

IS "no" at Formation (~のは Noun です) different from"no" at Formation (~のは i/na-Adjectiveです)?.

(~のは i/na-Adjectiveです)

サーカー　するのがすきです。

(~のは Noun です)

子供のときはスポーツしたのはサーカーです。

.no, which is a particle that acts as an indefinite pronoun,

and works to make the preceding sentence into a noun equivalent.

Hello Lisa san,

Birthday suit means ‘はだかで’ in Japanese.

日本人と [ 話せるようになるために ]、JPODで日本語を勉強しています。 sounds more natural.

Yuki

Team JapanesePod101.com

このぶんは、どうですか。How is this sentence?

日本人と話せるために、JPODで日本語を勉強しています。I'm studying Japanese at JPOD in order to be able to speak to Japanese people.

ありがとうございます。

ゆいち先生のかんちがいはおもしろかったです。:smile:

"Birthday suit" 日本語で何と言いますか。うまれたまま....?

ありがとうございます。

Teabag さん、

もちろん、すぐ分かりましたよ！:smile::thumbsup:

「浴槽」を使うか「湯船」を使うかは、発言をする人がどうとらえているか、

によるので、場合によってはどちらでも正解ですね。

もしかしたら「入浴する前に掛け湯をする」かもしれません:grin:

ところで、「説明」には「お」ではなく「ご」がつくんです。「ご説明」。

この「お」と「ご」は本当に難しいですよね・・・:sweat_smile:

Natsuko (奈津子),

Team JapanesePod101.com