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December 16th, 2005 | help Need help?

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! JapanesePod101.com is an innovative and revolutionary approach to mastering the Japanese language at your own pace - take the classroom with you, and spend as much time as you need on each lesson! Today’s lesson is designed to give you a taste of our Beginner Lessons series, which will introduce you to the language and progressively build your grammar and vocabulary until you’re ready to move on to the Intermediate Lessons. In this lesson, we work on introductions so that you can start using your newly aquired Japanese skills immediately! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com for more materials, and be sure to leave us a post!

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Voice Actors: Chigusa, Yoshi
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This entry was posted on Friday, December 16th, 2005 at 2:49 pm and is filed under Introduction. 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.

27 Responses to “Introduction Part 2 - First Impressions”

avatar luis rené says:

Hi all,im learning eith your method and its very awesome,im glad,is the first time that i enter in japanesepod101.com, and i like it,may ask you who is my name in japanese?, im from mexico,and i want to live in japan,but i need a lot to learn first,like the culture ,the lenguage etc…getting back to the name,my first name is Luis ,my middle name is Rene , and my last name,is González López,also i love to know how can i write it.

i hope you became the first podcast in the internet.

so bye bye and thanks a lot

avatar Sindy says:

Hey Luis (paisano) Welcome! :wink: Right now we are three Mexicans here Dr Lalo, me and you lets keep it up so we can support each other ok.

About your name that’s what I would like to know too! :lol: Why don’t we both ask on the comments section together to see what happens? :mrgreen: :wink:
My name is Sindy Rodriguez Cisneros nice to know you! S_R_C

avatar Jefu-san says:

It’s probably too late to reply, but your names are the following (If you don’t already have a Japanese language pack in your browser, you’ll need it to display the characters correctly):

ルイズ・レネ・ゴンザレスロペス (Ruisu rene gonzarezu ropezu) - Luis

シンディ・ロドリゲス・シスネロス (Shindi Rodorigesu shisunerosu) - Sindy

Non-Japanese names are written in katakana, a special set of characters for foreign words. Regardless of what your name is, it will essentially sound the same in Japanese, albeit with a bit of an accent. The main difference is how it’s written. Once you learn the basic Japanese syllables, it’s simple. Search online for “hiragana” (a set of characters like katakana, only for Japanese words) and “katakana”, and you’ll get some help. Here’s a site with both the character sets, plus a tutorial on how to write them correctly: http://members.aol.com/writejapan/index.htm

The link provided by Karl is a start, but it’s definitely not terribly accurate. Spend a couple of hours learning the kana yourself, and you’ll be much better off.

avatar triscle says:

Hi!

I just did this podcast so was wondering what my name is in Japanese….my name is Lisa Thomas.

Thankyou!

avatar nachoman says:

:???:wats my name in japanese

avatar nachoman says:

im called jake

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

lisaさん、
you’re トマス リサ (tomasu risa)

nachoさん、
you’re ジェイク (jeiku)

:mrgreen:

marky

avatar Graeme says:

i think i have my last name :mrgreen: , but im not sure:???:,
im Graeme Anderson

avatar Graeme says:

:???:

avatar Graeme says:

neverminde i got it :smile:

avatar triscle says:

ah, thankyou Marky, :smile: and thanks for your time!

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

Graemeさん、 i think i’d write it アンダソン グラム  :wink:

marky

avatar Tony says:

What about Tony?

I always get confused on which syllables need the extra ‘u’ to make them sound longer!

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

tony would be トニー :wink:

avatar Yume-san says:

Konnichiwa Yume desu.. yoroshiku. :smile:

avatar Yume-san says:

watashi wa Yume desu.. yoroshiku ^_^’ heh

avatar Berin Loritsch says:

初めまして。私わ ろりち ばろん です。
宜しく お願い します。

I think there is a printing error in the Kanji Closeup with this lesson. Next to the 願kanji is the practice marks for 山. Next to the kanji for 山is the practice marks for 口. For 山 it’s not such a big deal because that’s easy. However, 願 is a bit more complex.

avatar Faldwin says:

I’m noticing looking at the Romaji, compared to the pronounciation, and I noticed something. the “u” at the end of “desu” and “shimasu” is silent. They pronounce the “u” when the break down the word by syllable, but I can’t hear it when the do the whole word. The male voice also appears to have a “th” sound at the end. So how is it really pronouced?

avatar Ryan says:

how do u say my name in Japanese? its Ryan Bradford

avatar Gabriel says:

Hello, can I still subscribe to the month by month at 8$, even after my free subscription is over? oh yeah and how do I say my name in Japanese? Gabriel

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

Faldwinさん、the う (u) sound in japanese is very weak. even in the middle of words it is often barely said or dropped altogether. often to raise the politeness level “u” sounds that are normal dropped are clearly said. or when spelling things.

Ryanさん、we have a thread in the forum to explain names! there’s lots of other great stuff back there too!
http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=778

Gabrielさん、yes you can!
if you go here:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/member/member.php
you can find all the details :cool:
also, to write your name in japanese, be sure to check out the name thread in the forum:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=778

avatar Carla says:

Hi!!!

I am portuguese and I am enjoying so much hearing and learning japanese with japanesepod101 lessons that I made a blog where you can read what is said in the lessons with the meaning in portuguese.

Anyone interested in Portuguese, visit the above site for a Portuguese translation of this lesson.
http://aprenderjapones.blogs.sapo.pt/2008/01/11/

Doomo Arigatoo :D

Mata ne

avatar Sheylimar says:

:dogeza: Im so happy I found this site out I want to know my name in japanese

avatar Julie says:

Hajimemashite. Watashi wa Julie(Jurii…? lol) desu. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

yay. ;D

avatar Jacqueline ( ジャケリン ) says:

i think Julie is written like this: ジュリ :grin:

avatar Cesar Delgado says:

Hi!
i really want to know how to say my name
in Japanese
plx
=D

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