Comments on: Video #1 - Meet Kazunori

by: sphynx

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:29:46 +0000

This video feed is such a great idea! Actually I was wondering if someone could help me with something: I noticed in some animes that the hand gesture for ‘come here’ looked upside down to the Western version. My brother says that apparently it’s considered rude in Japan to do it the other way. Is that true? Are there other gestures to keep in mind?

by: Dana

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:09:39 +0000

AHHHHHH!!!! Kazunori!!!!! your too Kawaii lol!! i thought you were an old man too lol your voice sounds alot older than you are like how old are you 17?? lol *gets down on one knee* will you marry me Kazunori-san hehe jk xD

by: Carla

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:54:21 +0000

Konnichiwa,

Anyone interested in Portuguese, visit this site for a Portuguese translation of this lesson.
http://aprenderjapones.blogs.sapo.pt/2008/01/23/

Doomo Arigatoo

Mata ne

by: MH

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:58:25 +0000

Osko,
Let me see if I can answer this one: In Japanese there are no spacing, but spacing is often used in text books for beginner language students to make the text easier to read. Imagine if they wrote “watashiwakazunoridesu”! It would be very difficult to read. There are furthermore no hyphen in お願い/おねがい, but is sometimes used in romaji for beginner language students to empahsize that the “o” is a prefix.

The main point is: romaji is not official Japanese, thus there are no hard rules on how to use spacing etc. Therefore, don’t worry too much about the romaji spelling. Force yourself to learn and use hiragana instead, and forget about romaji. It’s a bit hard in the beginning, but you will be greatly rewarded.

by: Osko

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:18:40 +0000

Hello,
I noticed that the romaji subtitles were spelled different than in the pdf notes from the lesson.

Ex: hajime mashite/hajimemashite and o-negai/onegai.

Are they both correct ways to spell them?
Thank you.

by: Kyonga

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:05:48 +0000

Ha Ji Me Ma Si Te Yoon desu!
Kazunori sang is KAWAII! It’s amusing to see the beer (?) advertisment with Yon-Sama in the room where Kazunori san was since I am Kan ko Ku Jin.
Thanks for the great video!
Kyonga Yoon

by: rain

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:11:42 +0000

Ohayo minna san!

I wanted to suggest that you guys upload more of your videos to youtube, and provide a link to view them that way here. Alot more people will be able to view them with ease that way.

It’s faster than opening up a program on your desktop, and a fanbse there at youtube can also be built, which wil get lots more folks here at japanesepod101.com.

YouTube is great for exposure, you should seriously take advantge of it with the videos.

rain

by: Sindy from NYC

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:44:55 +0000

Hi Mina-san I’m here checking all the videos and they are cool like them I thought that ilove were their first videos but I see you have more but didn’t make that impact like ilove right well then keep it up ok! S_R_C

by: Eran

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:44:20 +0000

Hmmm… Try downloading VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) It’s free and is cross platform compatible. For me it has worked with almost every movie format that I throw at it! Hope this helps! - Eran

by: lulu_chan

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:12:32 +0000

Eran-san

Thank you so much for your quick response,. I do have the most up to date version. Yet, when i play the video there is only audio. no visual.

Is there another way to view it? sorry for the inconvenience.