FooSoft Wrote:彼女はもう一度目を閉じて、音楽に耳を澄ませた。ヤナーチェックが個人的にどのような人物だったのか、青豆は知らない。いずれにせよおそらく彼は、自分の作曲した音楽が一九八四年の東京の、ひどく渋滞した首都高速道路上の、トヨタ?クラウン?ロイヤルサルーンのひっそりとした車内で、誰かに聴かれることになろうとは想像もしなかったに違いない。

The other thing I'm struggling with is to understand some of the other uses of volitional. I don't think this is the vol. + と/が pattern to signify ても, because と just looks like the quotation marker for 想像する. What does なろう do here that なる wouldn't?

chochajin Wrote:I guess my deck is old. There are soooo many words showing up in N2 tests, that I have in the JLPT 2 category *sigh*

pm215 Wrote:I think this is the written use that is equivalent to the more usual だろう, ie なろう here is ~= なるだろう. 日本語文型事典 describes it as "書きことば的で、古めかしい言い方".

FooSoft Wrote:

pm215 Wrote:I think this is the written use that is equivalent to the more usual だろう, ie なろう here is ~= なるだろう. 日本語文型事典 describes it as "書きことば的で、古めかしい言い方".

Ah! Thank you, that would make sense. I'm guessing this form can be used with other verbs as well too.

vinniram Wrote:いつもと感じが全然違いますね。

What does "いつもと" mean here?

gyuujuice Wrote:"Ooh! Since "shita" is past tense, does that make the whole sentence past tense? Is that where I'm going wrong?"

Yes, the LAST verb creates the tense of the ENTIRE sentence. So even though "食べ" is technically present tense it actually happened in the past. It's just how the Japanese connect their sentences.

頑張ってください！

yudantaiteki Wrote:食べ is not present tense, technically or otherwise. It's a connective form that indicates completion or actualization (the written version of 食べて, which is also not a present tense). In this case it means that the action of eating is finished, and then the badminton playing occurred. If the last verb were changed to する, it would still mean that the action of eating is finished, and then the playing occurs, but in this case both things would be in the future.

pm215 Wrote:

chochajin Wrote:I guess my deck is old. There are soooo many words showing up in N2 tests, that I have in the JLPT 2 category *sigh*

Er, isn't that what you'd expect? N2 is the same as old JLPT2 level, right?

Asriel Wrote:Maybe not a word/phrase, exactly...but a friend of mine came up to me is like "you know Japanese, what does this say?" and handed me this hanko. Now, this friend is an American, and he said that "his dad got it from his grandpa who got it from someone in Japan."
So maybe it's a kanjified version of the grandpa's name?

Sorry the picture's a little blurry, but that's what I could get offa my phone.
http://i51.tinypic.com/292afjc.png
It's already reversed to be "human readable" and not "backwards stamp" form.

What I can make out of it:
恵 慈
姉
Which, as far as I can tell, doesn't amount to anything...

nohika Wrote:来年外国へ旅行できるといいが、だめのようです。

What does "よう" mean? Dame means "no good"/hopeless, and the full translation of the sentence I have is "It would be nice if I could make a trip abroad next year, but it seems as though I can't [seems impossible]."

chochajin Wrote:承認 vs.承知
I chose the first one, but the latter is correct. What exactly is the difference between them?

Quote:次はレクリエーションの時間だ。 (you're supposed to find the word with the same meaning) 休憩　vs. 娯楽

Quote:人と協力して何かをする経験が人間関係をつくる。

Thora Wrote:

nohika Wrote:来年外国へ旅行できるといいが、だめのようです。

What does "よう" mean? Dame means "no good"/hopeless, and the full translation of the sentence I have is "It would be nice if I could make a trip abroad next year, but it seems as though I can't [seems impossible]."

よう　has several meanings. As used in this sentence, the grammar to look up in your textbook is ~よう　だ. At the end of a sentence it give the meaning seems/appears (likihood or similarity). だめのようです　-　NのNだ

There are a few grammar expressions with よう　（ように、ような、ようだ） and there are other expressions which also have the meanings "seems", so I think it's better to learn them as grammar than to try to grasp their proper use through dictionary definitions.