Like you said, these lessons are from a few years ago (first published in 2006), and the comments at the top tend to be from around that time (oldest comments are at the top, with the most recent at the bottom). But we constantly have new listeners posting questions and comments on old lessons, and we do our best to respond to everything that we can. We use an RSS feed to keep up with comments, which means we see all comments posted on our lessons no matter how old they are.
So please feel free to leave comments/questions on any lesson!

I also recommend that you check out our forum, where we have a lot of active users:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/

Thanks again, and enjoy the site

I am a total newbie to Japanesepod101 and am exploring all around. I have been learning Nihongo for about 2 years off and on and I want to really ramp it up now, so this site seems ichiban to me!

I just had a quick but quirky question: these beginning lessons have been on the site for many years — so with regards to the comments section, how does it stay current? I mean, my understanding is that a year ago, and a year from now, anyone could log on to this website and listen to lesson 23 and then comment on it. But the comments tonight look current. Maybe they aren’t?

I think one important thing for me about a website like this would be to be part of a group of people who are all learning at a similar pace and meeting up on these conversation boards. A community that is working together (in a general way) works great for me online. (Though of course this is an individualized lesson plan — I just like the idea of once in a while coming on the boards and seeing names i recognize and helping each other out…)

So is that the way this works, or are the above comments from many time periods?

Thanks for answering this odd question, just very curious how it works!

一石二鳥です。

また今日ね。

一石二鳥
isseki nichou

Alexandreさん、
this questions up a lot, there some discussion about it in the forum and various places on the site, but i’ll try to give you a quick answer.

that pronunciation is regional, but it’s from tokyo, which is considered standard japanese. while i don’t hear a lot of people use it in daily conversation, people who have excellent pronunciation tend to use it. it’s also the standard for NHK news anchors, so you’ll hear it in a lot of official announcements too, like on the trains.

In the audio, Peter mention that the answer for “Ohayoo Sapporo” would be here. Can someone help me, where exactly is it???

Also I didn’t got if it is “isseki nicho” or “isseki nichoo”. It is funny, when I listened to the meaning of this I noticed that in Portugal we have a very similar expression too, but we say “to kill 2 rabbits with only 1 blow with a sheherd’s crook”

Doomo arigatoo

A big arigato to JapanesePod101 who helped me with that!!

Hope that helps!!!
Ashurii

Oh, and also, if you want to be very polite put a “Watashi wa” in front.

＞＞watashi ga dai seki des

be careful how you pronounce that, SEKI means cough… “atashi wa dai-seki desu sounds something like “i’m a big cough.” lol.
i think you mean, watashi wa daisuki desu.

Kimikoさん、

thanks for joining! i’m sure we’re all having more fun! this language gets a bad rep for being difficult… it’s just not true!

both of you guys and everyone else, check out the whole site we’ve got loads of helpful stuff in the learning center, and the recent lessons are getting really good again!

marky