Kon’nichi wa. Watashi wa Burado desu. Amerika-jin desu.

I am a highschool student, and am fluent in French and English. I am very excited to learn another language, and I wanted to say thank you for putting together a wonderful program. I especially enjoy that you have included romaji and kanji in the lesson notes. Hopefully this will help me out with the Japanese Language SAT II’s.

Arigatou gozaimasu! Jaa mata.

I’m so excited to find a site as this one which can help me to learn Japanese through real life example and in my own pace. Having podcast is one great thing. Having printed material is even greater. Thank you so much!! Doumo arigatou gozaimasu.

Peter-san, Natsuko-san, Sakura-san and Kazunori-san, arigatou gozaimasu! I am an intermediate student of Japanese and am very impressed with Japanesepod101.com. Sugoi! I have been listening to your podcasts in my car during my 40 minute commute to work every day. I live in Jay, NY which is near Lake Placid (both are small towns near the Canadian border in the US). I am also a member of the Japan America Society of Vermont (jasv.org) and we had a discussion about Japanesepod101.com at our last board meeting. I shared the link with everyone and told everyone to check it out and pass this link along to anyone interested in learning Japanese. One board member asked that the weblink be put into our newsletter. I hope that will be OK with you.

Beginners, intermediate and advanced learners can get so much out of your podcast. I am extremely pleased with Peter’s “now slow it down.” and “break it down.” requests of Natsuko, Sakura and Kazunori. As Peter says,”Very, very nice!” Even as a good listener of Japanese and someone who is used to hearing the fast and normal speed of Japanese speech, I highly benefit from the methods of making sure that every listener gets a full opportunity to grasp every syllable. The structure of the lessons is so impressive. I love the direction and of the lessons and how you repeat words from previous lessons to help firmly build and cement the foundation needed to grow in learning Japanese.

I love the PDFs that accompany the podcast. I am wondering if you might be able to have video kanji lessons or if you will include kanji in video lessons someday?

Could you talk about some of the great benefits of being great at Japanese? I think that a lot of listeners (to a certain degree myself) would love to hear some inspiring stories of where this can take us. I myself have it in mind to carry my other skills with me and my Japanese language skills to work for a Japanese company someday. Hopefully one that includes some travel to Japan!

Also, can you talk about JLPT sometime? How is JLPT relevant to today’s workplace and job placements (in Japan and abroad)? I am going for JLPT level 3 this year in case you might be wondering.

I find the show to be fun, entertaining, enlightening, memorable, inspiring, humorous, witty and too many other other ii adjectives to mention here. The mixture of culture into the lessons is spot on with every lesson. Current events and current holidays make for great topics. I just hope that you don’t run out of funds or interest in making what quickly has become my favorite podcast.

Thank you so much. Please keep it coming for a long time. We will keep listening.

Which sentences are the kanji, hiragana and katakana on the pdf?

Konnichi wa,

I am very interested in your site/podcast as I come from a Japanese background but my Grandmother is very reluctant to teach me
I would just like to say Thank-you for this oppotunity to learn this language.

Thanks,
Aaron

P.S: I was trying to view the PDF file for Lesson #1, but it does not load, so is there any alternate source from which I can view this?

Konnichi wa!
This site is so awesome, it has been really helpful to me.
But I need a little help regarding the japanese writing system.
There is Hiragana and Katakana, and there’s also Kanji.

But what should I begin with?
What is the most casual type of writing. Hiragana, Katakana or a mixup of them both? Should I try to learn them all?

Arigatou

Marta Maria-san,

Welcome to the community!!

Wow, we were mentioned in the email? Forward that on over to us Well we’re glad you found us, and hope to see a lot more of you around!

Thanks for the note about the PDF!

Hey there.

I hope someone gets this, but I can’t seem to listen to this file. If I download it it won’t play, and if I click it it won’t play either. Has it been taken down?

I’m starting from the beginning, so could do with this one.

Scott

Possibly the quickest reply ever. When it didn’t work I was about to just give up, like I have done for the past year. But it’s all up and working again now.

Thanks a lot. I’ll be sure to spread the word.

Let the learning begin!

こんいちわ！はじめまして。　私は　ルイース　ブルックス　です。

I just wanted to say that your “shows” are awesome! I’m 14 and from the UK, and Have started to teach myself Japanese, and These podcasts are just the thing to help me keep the things I’ve learnt in my head and give me better understanding of pronounciation.

Thanks again for making such a wonderful programme.

^_^ どうも　ありがとう　ございます。

Liz-san,

Welcome! I just checked in the Apple Music Store, and all of the episodes are showing up for me. If they aren’t showing up in your Podcast list, try navigating to the Music Store (click the little arrow next to JapanesePod101.com in your Podcasts), and then click the little “Get Episode” button to the far right on those episodes. Let me know if this works!

this is great, i\ve always wanted to learn Japanese but never had the time to do so, this will give me the time i need

Doumo Arigatou.

ohayo,

watashi wa imudano desu. yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

pita-san, this site is simply fabulous. please keep up the good work, i’m so glad there’s finally people out there who’s passionate about opening japanese language/culture to the world. bravo!

my only question for now is if you had any advice on how to write and read kana effectively, for beginners ? should i practice writing the individual word as the foundation before attempting to read stuff? is there easy reading stuff you’d recommend for beginners? and if there are other ways that’s more efficient?

domo arigato gozaimasu

ja ne

upsidedown-san,

Welcome to the community! We’re glad you found JapanesePod101.com! We hope to see a lot more of you.

Eran

Sergiu-san,

Welcome to JapanesePod101.com! We are glad you found us and we can’t wait to teach you (as well as learn from you). Should you have any questions, don’t hesitate to post a comment here, on our forum, or shoot us an email at contactus@japanesepod101.com.

Also, be sure to sign-up for the 7-Day Free Trial, which will give you access to all the Premium tools and resource available on our site. Finally, to learn more about what JapanesePod101.com has to offer for Free, Basic, and Premium subscribers, check out our Feature List.

Eran

Shigune-san,

Welcome to JapanesePod101.com! We are so glad you found us. If you think this lesson is great, you will be in for a real pleasant to surprise as you continue to listen to more and more lessons. Over time our lessons have been getting better and better and this is thanks to the fabulous feedback that we have been receiving from our listener community.

Also, be sure to sign up for 7-Day Free Trial which will give you access to all of our Basic and Premium features including our Learning Center, which is packed with tools and resources to help you consolidate, review, and practice everything you hear in the audio podcast lesson.

You can learn more about our revolutionary language training system on this page:

http://www.japanesepod101.com/what-is-japanesepod101com/

Once again, welcome to JapanesePod101.com

Hi guys,

just like to say a big thankyou’ for such a fantastic site! I’ve heard other audio learning tools for Japanese, but yours are the best! It’s really inspired me to keep listening and it’s re-ignited the passion to learn the language!

arigato gozaimasu!

I´m a spanish student, and I have been studying japanese for some years, focusing on writing and reading, so this podcast is the perfect complement for my study. I have just started the lessons, but I´m very impressed. Thanks a lot.

Konnichi ha! ^-^

Rei desu! Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

I’ve been listening to JapanesePod for a while now, but I haven’t had a chance to come to the site yet.
But here I am now and I wanted to say that these lessons are awesome!
I’ve been studying Japanese for about a year and a half now and, having seen many different Japanese language sites, I can say that this is truly the easiest and best way to learn Japanese.
This site is so amazing in many ways!
Thank you for all the lessons! You are all doing an amazing job!

-Rei

Hello,
I just moved to Japan. I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to sign language my way through and luckily was given this site to help me out. It is really going to make living here much more enjoyable. Thank you. I did have one question. I am just staring out on the survival phrases and I noticed that words that end in su when broken down have that s,u sound but when they are sped up, I don’t hear the u at all. Is that typical or am I just not catching it when they are talking faster?
Thank you!

Peter-san, Natsuko-san, Sakura-san and Kazunori-san, doumo arigatou
Your lessons are so much fun.

Since I’m a total newbie I have a question.
I’m totally confused about Hiragana, Kanji, Kana etc.
Which one do I have to learn first?

How or where do I start?

Can someone please help me?!? I saw in almost every lessons people complaining about serious mistakes. I mean, if there are mistakes, how am I suppose to learn well the language? It might be bollox too, but I’d want to be sure before I keep learning here. Thank you.

Konnichiwa!!!

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/2008/01/13/

Doomo Arigatoo

Mata ne

おっす！

I’m a big fan of anime, and all other things Japanese. I had finally decided to really take Japanese seriously, so I looked all around for books and other learning tools. It’s become a favorite for family to give me those things as presents. Needless to say, I think I have more than enough, and still, nothing has helped me more than this.

The thing I think helps the most is the fact that the words are repeated so much within the conversation, which really helps me remember. It also helps to tell a little anecdote, the conversations that they have about random things helps keep it fresh and memorable!!

ps: I ぴいターさん！！
oh, and fabriztio-san’s accent cracks me up!

Joined around 6 months ago and have been so busy have not had the chance to start my studies, going to start from the beginning again now then and glad to see there is a better structure of the site for newbies.

Going to do these first 10 survival phrasese and move onto the beginner lessons, looking forward to it.

thank you Vramさん！

it’s nice to hear positive feedback!
and i’m so happy you want to study japanese with us! we try to make it as fun as possible!

yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

marky

こんにちわ! I’ve wanted to learn japanese ever since I discovered manga and anime but since I live in Texas, schools here don’t offer any Japanese courses even in college. So when I discovered this site I was really happy . Someday I hope to go to Japan and be able to talk like Japan is my native language

Kon’nichiwa…. Watashiwa Ron desu. Filipino-jin desu.
I am truly in love with what you have done here and like to share this with as many people as i can your a great sensei in nihonggo. I am so excited to learn more. My main reason for trying to learn is because it has been a lifelong dream of mine to visit the land of the rising sun and ofcourse my love for anime.

Why can’t i open line to line audio transcript for survival phrases lesson #3? It’s fine in #1 and #2 but #3 and #4 are empty. Please help. I really want to learn it so much. Onegai, minna-san. Arigatou.