(2016-04-09, 4:35 pm)pm215 Wrote:

(2016-04-09, 3:25 pm)satanael Wrote: What does Hなお仕事 mean?

Hな : indecent/sexual/dirty/etc (it's a na-adjective, compare エッチな which you probably know if this is representative of your viewing material :-))
お : honorific/polite language/etc prefix
仕事 : work/job

(2016-04-09, 7:25 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: I was reading this page on NHK easy on 介護 and couldn't quite understand one of the itens of the survey.

「国などの制度を利用しても十分な介護ができない」

I have no idea idea what they mean by 国などの制度. 制度 seems to have a very specific meaning here and I don't quite get why they decided to use など here either.

(2016-04-09, 7:46 pm)Saginaim Wrote: From http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20160405/k10010468341000.html:

バスを企画した会社の丸木勇人さんは、「試験運行を重ねて知名度を上げて、日本に来た個人旅行客が誰でも乗れるようなバスにしていきたい」と話していました。

I don't understand the second part of the quote -- I was told it means that the head of the person organizing the bus' trial run eventually want to "make it a bus that anyone traveling to Japan can ride."

I don't get how to understand that from the sentence structure, though. So, individual parts that I think I understand/me mentally trying to work through this --

日本に来た個人旅行客 - Would be "tourists coming to Japan on personal travel" (I think in contrast to those coming via tour groups, who would already have transportation organized).
日本に来た個人旅行客が乗れる, I guess, would be "...Tourists can ride."
ようなバスにしていきたい -- Want to make it a bus like whatever is described in the phrase preceding ような.

日本に来た個人旅行客が誰でも乗れる - I think it's the 誰でも that's throwing me off, maybe, especially since it's after が. I had learned that it meant anyone, but in this case it looks like it means "any tourist"? I'm assuming that が is not actually marking the subject here (and maybe vaguely recalling something about it being used instead instead of です in relative clauses?)

(2016-04-10, 4:03 am)Vempele Wrote: That is, if you take two weekdays off. Say it's from Tuesday to Sunday: you'd have to take Monday off to make it nine days and either the preceding Friday or the following Monday for ten.

Quote:On the morning of the 9th, Japan had a solar eclipse that blocked part of the sun. In Hokkaido, there were many areas with clear weather, such as Sapporo, where the solar eclipse could be seen. At 11:18 a.m., 5% of the sun was blocked.

Quote:On March 9th, a solar eclipse in which a part of the sun could not be seen occured. Hokkaido has many spots with clear weather, so the solar eclipse could also be seen in Sapporo city. At 11:18 AM, five percent of the sun could no longer be seen.

(2016-04-10, 1:22 pm)Kuroro Wrote: 赤点が続いて、教師に、親に怒鳴られても笑顔を保つ兄。

Does this mean he kept smiling in spite of those yelling at him?

(2016-04-10, 11:20 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Just stumbled upon a new expression on NHK Easy News and there seems to be a little bit of confusing on /r/NHKEasyNews, so I decided to ask it here. This was about the consequences of an earthquake.

岩手県や宮城県の海の近くでは、今までの１年で地面が約１０ｃｍ動きました。

What does 今までの１年で mean? "So far this year"? Or maybe "within the time span of a year" (the final day of this time span being today)? Or is it something else?

If anyone is curious, here's a link to the post on reddit. The expression was actually used twice in the artcile.

(2016-04-10, 11:20 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: What does 今までの１年で mean? "So far this year"? Or maybe "within the time span of a year" (the final day of this time span being today)? Or is it something else?\

(2016-04-14, 6:46 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: I can't quite understand the second sentence of this news article.

(2016-04-22, 8:48 am)Kuroro Wrote: How do I read the word 世捨人? せしゃにん?
Here's the sentence where I found it:
人類種に残されてる領土で田舎って…そりゃもう世捨人じゃねぇのか

That aside, what does it mean when I find a line of dots next to a compound or a whole sentence? Like instead of the corresponding furigana there are just black dots.