Sorry to be of bother, but may I ask how you pronounce Eikoku (England/Britain/UK). Sorry if it is spelt wrong, I have only just started listening. Ive never listened to a podcast before either so its a new experience there aswell. It’s been fantastic so far, and hopefully I do pick up the basics as I would like to be able to speak other languages as the career I am planning towards in some ocassions, needs the use of other languages. Domo Arrigato?

AWESOME! This is really cool. Now when I click the link it says lesson 2. And the recording mentions elements from a previous lesson. Have the lessons been reordered? I want to start from the beginning

sorry for no one answering for a long time, okay like a month , but to answer your questions:
Chris-san, the first lesson recorded was survival phrases #1, making this the 2nd lesson, and so for Gary-san, survival phrases #1 is where they talk about onegai shimasu. And about the dropping the ‘u’ in pronounciation: I think that the ‘u’ sound is not completely gone, but just supressed by the ’s’ sound and is said much quieter to make is sound as if it isn’t there. And i think that the amount of suppression varies from person to person or region to region so that some people pronounce the ‘u’ more, like i think that Hatsumi-san pronounced the ‘u’ in ‘desu’ more than anyone else that i have heard. I am by no means an expert on Japanese pronounciation and the information i just gave is based upon my own understanding so you should probably get someone with a better knowledge of Japanese pronounciation to answer this one before you put this knowledge to heart .
Hope this information helps
Yoroshiku negai shimasu!

Joey-san is correct in his explanation, and there is not much else to add to it… Some people barely pronounce the last “u” at all, and some does it quite strongly… Having the “u” sound at the end makes it sound a bit more polite though, but be aware that when adding sentence ending particles like “ne” and “yo” (like “desu yo”) the “u” is almost not pronounced at all.

Jonas

Wow… what a website! I just found it reading a magazine in Tokyo.
Learning Japanese is not easy. Your method will surely help me. I thank you in advance.
Again… I am very amazed by your work. CONGRATULATIONS.

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Eran

Hi Donovan-san,

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Once again, welcome to JapanesePod101.com!

Eran

Katagana? You mean KataKana, right Peter?

Also, is it such a good idea to teach beginers to say Watashi wa… Watashi wa… Watashi wa… ad nauseum like that? To most Japanese that would sound pretty awkwardly self-centered.

From my own experience, it would be more proper to introduce yourself like “Hajimemashite. (Name) to moushimasu. Dozo yoroshiku. (country)-jin desu.”?

It might also get beginers of the language off on the right foot to mention how Japanese often avoid speaking in full and complete sentences, omitting details that are assumed to be known by both the speaker and listener (another reason, other than the self-centeredness thing, why most Japanese wouldn’t keep saying the “Watashi wa…” part over and over again).

konnichiwa… may i know how to translit “i’ve 3 siblings” in japanese?

I just want to say thank you to everyone at japanesepod101.com! i have always had a strong fascination with the japanese culture and language. because i do so much driving, listening to these in my car on cd is PERFECT for me. hopefully in the next year or so ill be ready enough for my first (of many i hope) trip to japan. ^_^

I’m guessing that it’d be Burandon ブランドン
Bu Ra N Do N 5 syllables.

And Good Luck with learning Japanese.

ganbatte ne!

ANMさん,
Welcome to JapanesePOD101. Please feel free to post if you have questions about the lessons.
John C. Briggs

First, ARIGATO GOZAIMASU for making such a easy-to-follow and easy-to-listen-to series of podcasts. I tried Pimsleur a while back, but got frustrated with it because it was hard to listen to. I really feel like I have a little better grasp on the language even after just a few podcasts.

Second, is it better to start with the Beginner lessons, or the Newbie lessons? I started with Newbie, but I’m only on #3, so it wouldn’t be difficult to switch, if it’s better. Thanks again!

where do u people seem to get teachers?! LOL…wait…ROR! (er…Kinda racist ,… i am sorry.)
Anyway, Where do you people get teachers?
I can’t seem to find one, i never did ether!
I had to teach myself with the PC. TT^TT’ How sad…

hello everyone! Hajimemashite!

I’ve listened to the first week and quickly listened to the second week, and I have definitely learned how to say hello to someone for the first time. However, can anyone give me one (or more) greeings to someone I’m already familiar with? Even just a simple “hello”??
thanks so much.

What’s my name (joan) in japanese

Joanさん、
in Japanese your name is ジョーン！　　

Usagiさん、
kanji is not originally the Japanese writing system. It came from china in the 500’s.
So it has 2 readings, a chinese reading and a japanese reading.
(keep in mind, people were speaking japanese before they learned kanji)

音読み　ＯＮＹＯＭＩ
this is the japanized pronunciation of the chinese characters. this is the closest japanese gets to chinese.
when you put two or more kanji together in one word, you usually use 音読み (ONYOMI).

訓読み　ＫＵＮＹＯＭＩ
this is the japanese reading. like i said before, people were speaking japanese before they had a writing system. so they had to use a chinese system to write their own sounds.
when you combine kanji with hiragana, usually you will use 訓読み (ＫＵＮＹＯＭＩ)　

marky

Dear Marky san

Thanks for clearing my doubts and I am really getting more & more in love with Japanesepod101.com because of you people…Marky san, Peter san, Natsuko san, Sakura san….etc…(sorry for not listing out all the namesl) gomen ne! Once again, you people are really a GREAT TEAM!

Marky san! thanks for your promptness in answering our queries and I really appreciate it!

Happy Hanami Day! (while watching TV at the same time writing this comment to you).

Welcome Kelly-san!
I think you could write your name as: ケリー (Kerii) (English pronouciation: Kehree). In Japanese the L and R sounds are kind of smashed together.

How would u say my name in japanese???

Thanks guys!

brendaさん、 your name would be written ブレンダ (burenda) in japanese.

by the way guys, be sure to check out our forum!
we have an 11 page thread about names in there!
THE NAME THREAD: http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=778

the main forum link is here:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/

marky

Konnichiwa Mr. Galante and associates, and special hello for Ms. Natsuko. This is my first day in here, and so far its been great. I’ve been wanting to learn japanese for a long time, ever since I saw gozira movies back when I was a young’ling. Any ways I think its gona be a fun ride learning the language and the nihon culture. Im passing the word to the rest of my class mates.

I bid you a farewell for now.
Sayoonara…

PS.. sorry for any misspellings im not to good at english… Watashi wa mekishiko-jin desu.

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hajimimashite, i wanted to start with that since its my first time posting , in the lesson you were saying country names , so how would you say i come from syria or i am syrian
watashi wa ??????????jin desu
domo, mata ne

You are assuming a bit more science involved than there actually was. When JapanesePod started, there was Beginner, Survival Phrases, Culture Classes, and Intermediate. Beginner was for absolute beginner. As time went on and things made it to the second year, beginner had progressed to a point where an absolute beginner couldn’t just hop on board. So Newbie was created to fill the gap and be like a Beginner v2, and Beginner Season 2 got started as a refresher for people who’d done all of the Beginner episodes up to that point.

The whole thing is kind of always evolving, so I wouldn’t expect a grand master plan where everything fits together all nice and clean like a set of language workbooks.

Konbanwa, Peta-san. Yoroshiku!

I am an advanced-beginner in Japanese, and it is my dream to move there, and write for a manga. I am going to be listening and learning as much as I can from you, thank you very much.

Maido okini!

Hajimemashite! Watashi wa Anna to moshimasu. Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu!
Domo arigato Gozaimasu.
Just thanks for starting these lessons, they’re so easy to learn and to understand.
Wakarimasu! no way!!! kakoii!!!
By the way, I think ‘ uso’ means, ‘no way’. I know it’s a weird question that doesn’t really have anything to do with the lesson, but is this true?
Arigato!

p.s. apologies for any japanese I got wrong in this message.

boohoooooooo!! It does’nt work!!

Hi teachers!

I need your help!

I have just started at the beginner section, all is OK
but explain where it is noted how to draw KANJI?
I am sure to learn correctly one should know where to start
drawing the sign and how to end it

Many thanks!
Yoroshiku

Laurent Griot-san,

Have you checked “Kanji Mnemonics” in our JapanesePod101 blog?
http://blogs.japanesepod101.com/blog/category/kanji-mnemonics/

I have a lot of experience with Kanji (I read/write Chinese) and have never found mnemonics much use.

This is how I memorise things:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=V6AisYnJ8yU

Hello! I have a question about this: http://blogs.japanesepod101.com/blog/category/kanji-mnemonics/
Is this really Japanese? Or is it Chinese? I dunno but it looks like Chinese to me.

Monica, Chinese also uses Kanji, the writing system used in kanji mneumonics. It’s like saying that French looks like English. They both use the roman alphabet, so they should look like each other.

Monica-san,

Yes, the characters that make up the kanji writing system come from China. Just like how Mandarin and Cantonese use characters with identical meaning but are pronounced differently, making them two separate languages, Japanese kanji have the same meanings as the Chinese origins but are pronounced with Japanese words. In fact, to get extremely technical and accurate, in Japanese, Kanji generally have multiple prounciations - some are considered Chinese readings and some are considered Japanese. For example:

四 - the number four. It can be pronounced both “shi”, which is the same as the Chinese say, or “yon”, which is of a Japanese origin.

Oh I have one more question. I noticed that the symbol for the wa in “Watashi” is different from the wa when it’s by itself. And the symbol for wa by itself it also the symbol for ha. Can anyone tell me what’s up with that?

Hello markystar,

Yea it does help ^^ I wuz just a little confused there. Doumo arigatou!

Konichiwa,

I’m a fresh new to this lesson. I had few question to check:

a) Hajimemashita used only first time meeting? Or each time when you meet the same person, you can use the same phrase?

b) What should I say in japanese that my nationality is Singaporean and I’m chinese? Watashi wa ______jin desu.

c) I intend to take JLPT examination. How should I learn from the lesson to prepare my test. Beginner lesson for JLPT4?

d) For the Kanji, I still confuse of onyumi and kunyomi. Onyomi sound like chinese and kunyomi pronounce as hiragana, is this what you mean? So what normally Japanese pronounce kanji, onyumi or kunyumi? Should I memorise both for the test?

Thank you.
Kath

NaomiさんとPeterさん、

三十百万ダウンロード！

おめでとうございます！

ありがとう for answering comments on almost 3 year old lessons.

JapanesePod101が大好きですよ。

一

nhisan,

Your introduction in Japanese is perfect! I hope that you will have a chance to come to Japan! Ganbatte kudasai!

Megan-san,

Thank you for your introduction in Japanese!!
I guess that “私の初心はアメリカのチカグです。” would be “私の出身はアメリカのチカグです” which means “I’m from チカグ in the US.” Is that right?
Keep enjoying our programs!!

Coreyさん

This is a very common issue for beginners. (I myself had this problem. ).

The topic marking particle は is pronounced “wa”. So the subject “I” is correctly written

わたしは and prounounced “watashi wa”.

Another common problem is the object marking particle を. This is most often pronounced “o” instead of “wo”.

がんばって。 よろしくおねがいします。
(ganbatte) (yoroshiku onegaishimasu).

Kristineさん、

はじめまして！(hajimemashite)
よろしくおねがいします (yorishiku onegaishimasu)

One of the wonderful things about かたかな (katakana) and your own name is that you have some freedom in developing the exact characters to suit your preferred pronunciation. For example, 私の妻の名前 (watashi no tsuma no namae, my wife’s name) is Theresa. This is traditionally タレサ (ta-re-sa). However, she wants to pronounce her name “Ta Ree Sa” so her かたかな is タリサ instead.

Your name has one problematic sound in it. There is traditionally no sound for “tee” in the Japanese language. But there has been an accommodation in かたかな for this. Some characters are used as a “diminiutive”. When written they appear smaller than the regular characters. So the “tee” sound becomes ティ (te i), but notice that the second “i” character is smaller than the first “te” character. When “te” is followed by the diminutive “i”, it is pronounced “tee”.

So, in Japanese, your name would normally be pronounced: ku-ri-su-ti-n, (ku-ree-su-teen) which is spelled クリスティン, but once again, note that the ィ character is smaller than its surrounded character so it has a pronunciation influence on its surrounding characters (in this case the preceding テ).

Finally, you see this diminutive character influencing pronunciation in “regular” Japanese quite often, for example with the character “tsu”, or つ. When tsu is used used as a diminutive, it causes a slight pause and an emphasis on the following character. For example, ちょっと (chotto)、meaning “a little”. Actually, in this example, there are two diminutives, the first one ょ turns “chi” into “cho” and the second one creates a slight pause and makes the “to” sound have a slightly heavier emphasis. You will hear this word often in the lessons so don’t worry about it right now.

Sorry, that was probably way more information than you were asking for.

クリスティンさん、ようこそ！(Kristine-san, youkuso). Welcome!

Hello

As newly registered user i just want to say hello to everyone else who uses this forum B-)

クリステリンさん(Christine-san)
これからもよろしくお願いします！

Antonyo (DJ AH) -san,
Antonyo-sanもよろしくお願いします！！

にほんご、がんばれー！

Thank you guys
i love this site
so much
it help so much!!!
lotts of love

Does the Japanese pronuciation change the way American names are said or does it keep the same pronuciation? I’m curious because it sounded like Peter was modifing his names pronuciation.

kenken-san,

Thank you very much for your nice and warm comments!
Ganbatte kudasai!

J0cker-san,
That’s right, Hajimemashite means “How do you do” or “Nice to meet you.”
When we introduce ourselves, we usually say “hajimemashite” and your name, and then “yoroshiku,” or just say your name and “yoroshiku.” Both of them are a set phrase of greeting to mean “Nice to meet you!”

Hajimemashite. Mayumi desu. Yoroshiku!
Mayumi desu. Yoroshiku!

Ironicさん＞
Hajimemashite! Great introduction Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

I am looking to become an exchange student from australia, how would igo about this and how much japanese would i need to know ?

Arigato I am watching japanese animes to better my japanese

Bleach and Deathnote and Fullmetal Alchemist and my other reason for doing japanese is cause i really like this girl but mainly cause i really wanna be a exchange student

Good advice Scott! I’d be careful repeating anything heard from anime unless you really know how it sounds/what it means first And Rhees, being an exchange student is really fun! Definitely do it if you get the chance!

I don’t know if you still see this comment, but I would really like to know my name in Japanese. My name is Efrain and I think it is derived from the name Ephraim. So please tell me my name in Japanese. This is an awesome site and I really love it. In fact I already know some words.

Thanks, that sounds right to me. I’ll go to that forum too. arigatou gozaimasu!! or so I think that’s how I say thank you very much.

Konbawa desu. i was wondering why in japan they say san,kun, dono, things like that after they say the person name? what does it mean?

一 (ハジメ) -san
Thank you very much for the great explanation!!!!

Hajimashite, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

Can you tell me how to say my name in Japanese?
Its ………. Lyle

“Domo Arigato”

LYLEさん,
Hajimemashite! Your name would be ライル (Rairu) in Japanese

Calebさん,
Welcome to the site! よろしくお願いします。

Dualityさん,
Thanks for pointing that out!! It has been fixed

A very nice website because I was looking for some resources to start with so that I can give JLPT 4 this december.

Hajimemashite

Watashi wa Vipin desu

Watashi wa Indo jin desu
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu

Came to learn easy Japanese but got my brains blown out in the first few lessons. Got anything simpler?

i just subscribed to the premium membership and tried to download the lesson .pdf. However, everything in it was blank. I went to the Beginner Lesson #2 and the .pdf on there works fine. Just this lesson, there’s nothing in the .pdf

the introducing was easy but my sound just carried off
i really know all of these already but im just practicing but thts really nice knowing these…………….

bram-san,

Welcome to JapanesePod101.com!
“Indonesia”　is written as “インドネシア” in katakana.

Richard-san,

Your name would be written in katakana, リチャード and you can pronounce it as “Richaado.”

Paigeさん,
You could say “Watashi wa nihonjin janai desu”. (私は日本人じゃないです)

Edel Ramilo-san

Welcome to JapanesePod101.com!
Thank you for your introducing yourself!

Markkai Stoneさん,
Hajimemashite! Jessi desu. Welcome to JapanesePod101.com

Augustinasさん,
Thank you for joining us and leaving a comment! Japanese appears difficult at first, but there are many aspects of it that are easy compared to other languages. Best of luck!

I don’t get why I can’t read the Lesson notes? Don’t see any letters nor katana, just some sqaures. I am a member, since today and have done the introduction and suvival phrases #1 without any problem. So why can’t I read this lesson note? Could I be doing something wrong?

Love the site btw! really great work

konnichiwaa…..

Hajimemashite.
Watashi wa khawla desu.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
kyou wa kono peji hajimete ni kimasu.

is that right or wrong ???

i really love this site ….. arigatou gosaimasu
i have one question …… what’s the difference between kanji and kana ???

Hajimemashite.
Watashi wa Marko desu.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

I’m glad I found this site and ironically enough I googled “japanese101″ and stumbled upon it . I plan to study Japanese at my local college so this is just perfect to get me started with the basics.
Up until now I learned through anime/manga and it evolved from there, the desire to learn Nihongo. ^-^
I have one question though, if I say it like this (Watashi wa ni-ju-ni-sai desu.), is it correct?

Arigatou Gozaimasu!
Jaa ne

Great lesson, but when testing myself with the written components, it is so difficult to know what Hiragana to type in order to get the correct Kanji. Through the lesson, I now know what the Kanji should look like, to get the correct answer, but I do not know how to find it by scrolling through the drop-down options on software, after typing the appropriate Hiragana. This is VERY frustrating and wasting my precious time, sadly.

Mayumi-san,

Hontou desu ka? Yatta!! I try really hard, and I guess my studying is working!! Doumo arigatou for this site.

what is my name in japanese. My name is justin martindale

This was awesome. Great post.
(I am having some trouble downloading the Lesson Notes pdf)

-yor aoll dingbats-I learnt japanese fluently in 6 months and in september im going to live there!

Hi there~

I’ve always wanted to learn Japanese so I do self teaching methods since I love learning. Not to mention, I’m a huge fan of Anime/Manga. Someday, I’d help translating from Japanese to English. “til recently, I found this website. However, I’m on the introduction stage now. I honestly have no idea how to say or write my name in Japanese. How do I write Nina in Kanji and Kana? Also, I have a question. From what I’ve heard, they say that it’s the best way to learn Hiragana and Katakana because they’re a bit rather easy than Kanji. Is that the correct information? Please let me know, thanks!

~Nina

I just subscribed to this site
I cant use the video vocab
and it don’t work on any other version either

where can i find how to to say all countries in japanese?

Thank you! This lesson was very helpful.

hi I’m new around here. It’s my 2nd day here. but why is it that I can’t open the Pdf files like lesson notes, kanji close-up, etc.? But all those features for premium subscribers work just fine…

Please help.

Hey! My name is Gina Wall, and I’ve just gotten started with the lessons. I’m really enjoying it. How do I say my name in Japanese? Thanks.

Ginaさん,
Your name would be ジーナ (Jiina) in Japanese

Kikiさん,
Please check out this link for info on how to write in Japanese!
http://tinyurl.com/typejp

candleさん,
はじめまして！
よろしくおねがいします

Kasperさん,
To give a very basic answer, “wa” marks the topic of a sentence, “wo” marks the object of a sentence, and “yo” is a sentence ending particle used to emphasize your statement (often used when you are telling someone something they don’t know). Again, that’s just a very basic overview - I would recommend listening to our Particle series to learn more about the usages for these particles

cool lessons arigatou gozimasu

kore wa yoi desune ^_^ doomo arigatou gozaimashita♪
\(^o^)/

yuri-san
Arigatou gozaimasu!

stephanime-san
Arigatou gozaimasu. Douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

arwaさん,
Thanks for your comment!

I’m Arabic = (Watashi wa) Arabia-jin desu.
I’m from Palestine = Paresuchina kara kimashita
I’m from Jordan = Yorudan kara kimashita

I hope this helps

Hey,

Been self studying Japanese for about 2 years, and I still learned new stuff. Question…would you use hajimemashite in an informal setting…like I meet you in a bar and say “hi”? How about the lady behind the desk in a hotel? Do you ever mix konnichiwa & hajimemashite?

Thanks

konnichiwa..I want to learn how to introduce myself in Japanese..can you help me?

im so sorry to leave this beautiful 7 day trial but i don’t have audio so i can’t learn! (like literally, my audio on my computer was deleted -_-) so how do you delete your profile? plz!

Thanks alot for the video!

idk how to learn japanese fast if i cant find the site for it

I have a premium membership but I can’t use the voice record. It say that jaba is not supported, contact webmaster!!!, How can I make it work????. It says ‘’(Please report error to webmaster.
ListenUp version V1.80 (build 356, Tue Jul 17 00:00:00 BST 2007)
Caught: java.lang.RuntimeException: Audio I/O from Java not supported on this system.)'’. Arigatou

Indira-san,
You need to have Java installed on your computer to use the voice recorder.
Please download it here!
http://www.java.com/

When I first started studying Japanese from textbooks I never felt comfortable that I was saying よろしく　correctly. Hearing it said a few times, including slowly, in this podcast has helped me feel more confident in my pronunciation.

ありがとうございます

Sorry……………..but is ther any special way to tell india or indian in japanese?:???:

I’m enjoying this program. It’s very easy to understand. What I can’t seem to figure out is how to download these lessons so I can listen to them on my MP3 players. Whenever I click ‘download’ it just opens a window that plays the lesson, but doesn’t download it:???:

Thanks Jessi. I couldn’t get it to work in Google Chrome, but when I tried your suggestion in Firefox it worked.

Arigatou Gozaimasu

I am getting stronger:Aka and kiiro waites!

I love this site! It really helps me get the pronunciation and stuff right. I’m learning Japanese in school, but we only do it for two years before the Leaving Cert. (massive exam at the end of high school in ireland that determines what courses you can do in college) and we have to be good enough to do an essay, hold a conversation and an aurel tape test. There are not enough periods to learn that much!

Hello JapanesePod101!
I’m just beginning with Japanese, but I’m already in love with the language.
I’m learning Hinayana and katakana and I found something interesting:
One says ‘watashi wa’, but writes　’私は’　(わたしは).
why is there ‘ha’ (は) instead of ‘wa’ (わ)?
Thank you very much!
ありがとう　ございます!

こんにちわ！
Thank you for your replay, I do understand now. Interesting that even ‘konnichiwa’ is written with は.
Japanese is such an interesting language fist great to the people and the country.

カロルさん,
thank you for your comment! It made your point clear!
Keep learning more and more of this fascinating language and don’t hesitate to make more questions if you need some help!

Stefania/JapanesePod101.com

Hi Juan,
are you having trouble downloading the audio file?
Did you try to right click on the “Download MP3″ and then click “Save link as” (for Chrome or Firefox browser) or “Save target as” (for Internet explorer)?

Let us know if you need more help!

Stefania/JapanesePod101.com

Drew-san,
I’m impressed by your positive attitude.
Well, I recommend to learn Hiragana and Katanaka.
Hiragana and its chart, called aiueo chart, help you to learn verb conjugation.
Also you would need Katakana to write down your name in Japanese.
After mastering these 2 letters, you’re ready for learning kanji.
If your goal is to be an intermediate/advanced speaker, I’m sure that you need to learn kanji someday. But for now, let’s start Hiragana and katanaka.
The video lesson “kantan kana” series will help you.
If you have any other questions, please let us know.
We would love to help you.

Shui-san,
Konnichiwa!
“I’m Chinese” in Japanese is;
watashi wa chuugoku jin desu.

Let’s practice!

Natsuko/JapanesePod101.com

Hi Janell,

If you’re premium member, you can enjoy the feature named ‘My Feed’ under the My Tools.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/learningcenter/account/myfeed

Here, you can select the series name and the type of media to download, so that you can download them all at once by using the iTunes.

Thank you,

Jae / JapanesePod101.com

22redroses5760-san,

Hajimemashite! Kat desu. Sukottorandojin desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

You were almost correct with your sentence! To say ‘thank you, it’s an amazing website!’ in Japanese, the most natural way would be to flip the parts round so that you say ‘it’s an amazing website, thank you’ (in Japanese, ‘thank you’ coming AFTER the comment is often but not always the case). Also, because you’re currently on the website in question, you would use “kore” (this) instead of “sore” (that), but in fact you don’t need to use either.

Subarashii uebusaito desu. Arigatou gozaimasu.

“Arigatou gozaimasu” is in the present tense because the “action” hasn’t been completed (the website still exists, you’re still using it).

Hope this helps! Welcome to the site!

Kat/Team JapanesePod101.com

vikki-san, kon’nichiwa.
You’re from Russia, right?
Great! Keep studying and feel free to ask us any questions!

Motoko /Team JapanesePod101.com

vikki-san,
Brilliant!
Hope you’ll enjoy studying both languages with us

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Hello William,

Thank you so much! We’re happy to know that

Cheers,
Neha
Team JapanesePod101.com

Hi Danielle,

Thanks for your feedback. But we hope you also find the value of these features to help you improve Japanese more efficiently. Feel free to check our subscriptions options at http://www.japanesepod101.com/member/member_upnewapi.php to see more useful features that you can get after making subscriptions.

Thank you!

Jae
Team JapanesePod101.com

Anthony-san,
こんにちは
Great! Hope you can make it soon!
BTW, “I’ve been studying Japanese” in Japanese would be
日本語を勉強しています。

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Hi Suzanne,
Thanks for your nice comments!
We’re glad that you’ve found the Absolute Beginner series helpful

Good luck with your studies!

Jessi
Team JapanesePod101.com

マルセルさん、
こんにちは
I assume you already know hiragana and katakana quite well, and even some kanji.
If you want, you can learn kanji using dialog scripts in Lesson Notes.
Other wise we have lessons only focusing on Kanji.
As to “when”, it’s up to you actually. It’s always the best if you could learn
both speaking and writing. So, I’d say “now”

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

マルセルさん、
　The reason I write my name both with alphabets and kanji is because
many listeners (who knows kanji, obviously) wrote 夏子 to address me.
I’m not perfectly sure about my name’s kanji either…奈津子 is quite a common name and most of “Natsuko”s have either 奈津子 or 夏子, but it could also be
菜津子, 奈都子, etc.
My parents decided to use those kanjis hoping that I’d grow up as beautiful as
ladies in antient Nara and as “great” or “big” as the lake Ootsu. But I know
they created such story later…

はい、「も」の使い方は合っていますよ！ (Yes; you used “mo” correctly!)
Great translation for 酒井さん 　I love that! 乾杯

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Laure-san,
thank you very much for a kind comment!
So, you’re studying Japanese at school AND with us? Wow! You’ll be fluent in no time

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Nathanielさん、
goooooooooooooooood luck!!
Take as much time as you need before going to the next step! That’s why we have
many seasons in one level
And, anytime you’ve got questions, just ask us here! We’re happy to help you!

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Piyah-san,
yes; both can be used separately.
It is quite difficult to explain what each one exactly means, but
よろしく is kind of modifying the following expression, like “emphasising” or
strenghening. おねがいします is when you ask someone a favour.
Hope this help!

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Erm-san,
thank you very much for a kind comment!!
And we’re very sorry for the problem!
I’ll speak to our technical team about it.
Someone will get back to you shortly. Thank you for your patience!!

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Wow this is old, they seem so nervous, peters pronunciation really improved over the years

I just dont know what to say, i spent so much time with you from this episode, learning what hajimemashite means,to almost fluent speaking with Japanese friends For all reading my comments: If its boring then just concentrate and watch. First i thought so too but i was so much mistaken If these 1000+ days ago i wasnt charmed by that cute woman that always invites you that would be a biggest mistake of my life. I know that may sound some impolite, but i really consider Natsuko, Peter, Sakura, Alphamale Kazunori and all others as my best friends I imagine meeting you all somewhere, i would give 1000000 dollars for that . We would be laughing like… “This gonna be great lesson right Kazunori? Yes. Right Kazunori? Yes. Right Kazunori??? YES.” that makes me laugh like a best joke.
I just want to thank you all that made or participate in this website. I owe you so much. You are people of greath worth…

And this episode? Its just a beginning…of a legend

> Luke-san,
wow, thank you sooooooo much for such a lovely and kind comment!
We all consider you as our best friend too!
I think your lovely & funny comment would be VERY appreciated by all and any
of our team members!
Thank YOU for joining us, listening to our lessons, enjoying with us and
writing a brilliant feedback which we’re sure other listeners are encouraged
to have patience!
We’ll try our best to keep good work. Please let us know anytime if there’s
anything we can improve

> dipkoren-san,
douitashimashite
Did you enjoy our lesson? Arigatou gozaimasu

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

I —!IT AWSOME

mei-san,
of course we will help you!
Basically you have loads of lessons already available so you have
to choose the lesson you want to listen.
As you chose this one, beginner lesson, you can simply click “play”
to listen to the audio lesson, or “download”.
(you can find those contents above)

You can also check our video guides:

http://www.japanesepod101.com/helpcenter/faqandsupport/videouserguide
Please let us know if you have specific questions, so that we can help you
better! Hope this helps a bit and hope you can enjoy the lesson!

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Mihau-san,
hajimemashite!!
Thank you for a lovely comment and perfect self-introduction!
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu

Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com

Denise san

はじめまして。わたしはみなこです。日本人です。
よろしくおねがいします

Let’s learn Japanese with us!

Minako
Team JapanesePod101.com