Wow, you guys really burn the midnight oil! Rug up… its cold out there tonight

Marcus

Marcus-san: We’re burning the candle at both ends here But the work is fun, and the audience is inspiring! Thanks guys!

Steve: Yeah, a headmaster! 学長（がくちょう）is the big man, the head of a university.

Jonas

Great Podcast.

I also love Doraemon…and so does my daughter, Sakura. I wish I had his magic door

I really enjoy these intermediate podcasts…even though they give me a headache I also think it is great that you are now introducing the Kanji.pdf files.

Oh! and I love that sound effect of the door…Made me laugh

O-genki de
Steve

Marcus-san, you were right! It was cold today! Fortunately sleep deprivation numbs the senses.

Steve-san, Jonas-san is right on the money. Glad you liked the door! For me it brought back memories of grade school.

Jonas-san, you’re fast!

アルフォンソさん、should be there. Was released a bit late.

JP101,

Thanks for all of the hard work, as always!

Steve-san,

It is well-known that there are plenty of differences between American-English and British-English (apparently a more contentious word), so I wouldn’t worry about sounding racist In addition to what has been said, I would point out that a “dean” is usually something one encounters in higher education, i.e. university. There is often a dean of the university, as well as deans of departments, e.g. “Dean of Fine Arts”. Many times, “dean” could be equated with “president”, i.e. “University President”. I believe it would be a bit different than the nuance of “headmaster”, which would perhaps be closer to a “principal”, I think. Perhaps you could confirm this.

Alexander-san,

よくない (yokunai) is the informal version of よくありません (yokuarimasen). Adding the です (desu), however, makes it polite as well, so よくないです (yokunai desu) would be polite. I am under the impression that ない+です has a bit of a stonger feel of negation than よくありません, however.

Still the best!!! Seems like podcasts are coming in later than usual.

My head just about exploded trying to keep everything inside. If the lessons are going to contain this much information, you could probably go to an every other day schedule! Thanks!

こんにちは！
私はメロディーです、台湾人で台湾で住んでるけど、台北アメスクで勉強してる。
高校の時、日本語が興味なった。

最近IPODを買ったから、PODCASTをきくのが始まった。そしてJAPANESEPODと知り合った。大好きです！
でも、ちょっとsugestionですけど、もっと難しいの言葉を教えてもいいですか？

Ormo-san.
Well there you go…You can tell I never went to University. I went to art College…That did me no good…

Will check out podcast when I get back to work on monday!
Steve, and well, anyone interested in language, might wanna check out Made in america, by bill bryson, and Mother Tongue.. also by bill bryson..

I assume that since you are learning japanese there is at least some part of you all that are linguophiles! Made in america is about american-english.. and the colourful history thereof, mother tongue is about the english language and why it is so screwed up!

Very easy reading, he is a great writer

Hi everyone.

If I remember correctly, “maniau” from today’s lesson was used to humorous effect in the Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV anime.

The captain of the ship was racing to headquarters to meet a deadline to fill out some important paperwork. The crew back at the ship were anxious, and used this word in a variation on the english “she loves me, she loves me not” prediction game, which involves picking petals off of a flower until one remains.

Except in this case, it was “maniau, maniau nai”. Pretty funny. Was this an invention of the writers?

This is just a quick note to say iv’e just found your pod cast on itunes and think its the “dogs bollox” (english term for the best). I had a japanese girlfriend while living in Australia many years ago and accidentaly picked up quite a lot. I then went to japan for 6 months and obviously learned quite a bit more but since moving back to England in the early 90’s haven’t yoused what i learnt at all so subsiquently thought id forgotten everything. I had tried buying tapes but found then all a bit so so, and gave up, but your pod cast has realy got me back into the swing. Everything is all so well put together, and the presenters seem to enjoy the lessons which make learnig fun too. Its the intermeadate lessons i find most yousefull. I’ve only got 3 of this level on my ipod as yet. Are there any more?? How often do you brordcast these ones??
Keep up the good work, your all stars..!!!!!!!!
Regards from London. Alex Tew.

Alex-san: Nathan-san is correct. Only 3 lessons so far, but another one is scheduled to be released tomorrow! We try to release it every friday.

Jonas

このレッスンはすごかったです！

I began listening to your Podcast a month or so ago and I was impressed, but this one just blew me away - so much so that I had to leave a comment to let you know.

There were a lot of great vocabulary and very useful grammar presented.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Don

This is my first podcast to japanesepod101. I’m about a year behind but slowly catching up by listening to 2 shows per day. I’m not sure if anyone will such a late post but I was wondering about the Japanese word for ‘Dean’. It’s my understanding that a Dean is the head of a department or faculty within a university but is lower in status than the president. I’ve always thought that 学長　should be used for a university president. Would it also be used for a Dean? An online dictionary I looked at translated ‘Dean’ as 学部長. Any thoughts?

I am trying to figure out all of the conversation at the beginning of each podcast. Can anyone tell me what okurishimasu means? THANKS.