皆さん、Today’s location is Hon Kon・香港、ホンコン。 Hello to all our listeners in Hong Kong! Yoroshiku Onegai shimasu!よろしくお願いします！

私もスーパーですよ！

Georgios-san,

Welcome to the community!! Great enthusiasm, keep it up By the way, I checked out your blog, and although I can’t read it, the pictures are gorgeous!! Did you take those? If so, awesome job!!

Amazing!! I’m going to come visit you!

By the way, I had three hedgehogs when I was little

It’s 101!!! yeah~~~

Hi Japanesepod101 gang,

How are you? You guys know that I’m a devoted fan for Japanesepod101 but… I’d like to comment on something that has been bothering me for a while listening to your podcast. So sumimasen first.

For example, the latest culture class kept saying “girls” while referring boys as “guys”. Perhaps because I’m a woman who majored in sociology so I’m sensitive to termologies that are used to all groups of people (esp to women). I’d like to suggest using “gals” or “young ladies” or “young women” instead of “girls” because girls and boys means more like kids, not adults.

Sorry to bug on titles/ wordings here but one of the things I learned about society is that it does judge people by “labeling” or “calling names”. It’s just my 2 cents. Thanks for your attention.

Takaseさん！

You’re the best! You and Yoshi had me in stitches this morning.

Can we start a Takase Fan Club? Can I be the first member?

Still, I’m waiting for the Nagasaki-ben lesson. How about teaching just a word or two each time.

Peterさん！ Amazing, that’s two lessons in a row without saying “very very nice.”

Oh, by the way, I kept hearing you say 絶好調「ぜっこうちょう」。 Seeing as I’m around young kids all the time, I was surprized that you were using a “cool” expression that I don’t know.

But, what I heard you saying is 「ぜいこっちょう」。So, I looked it up in the dictionary, and as you might guess, I couldn’t find it. Then I asked my wife. After giving me a puzzled look, that enlightened look came to her face and she said, “Oh, 「ぜっこうちょう！」

Anyway, keep up the great work everyone! がんばれ！
Daniel

Peter-san,
Don’t worry about laughing because everyone who listens to Yoshi say that is laughing too hard to even hear you!!! I thought it was so funny, too! I love the podcast so much. The jokes are cute, like the price tag still being on the suit.

Do suits really cost that much???

I don’t keep up with high fashion, but I don’t think I want to in that case

number 101!
ichi-maru-ichi!

omedetouuuuuu!!!

ps. I understand what you mean lily, but there is in fact no semi-casual indefinite plural noun word for a collection of “young women”! “Girls” is as close as english gets I’m afraid! There is “gals” but it has an almost tongue-in-cheek quality to it for most countries.

They would have to resort to the more formal “men” and “women” (or young men and young ladies), which I think carries the wrong connotation for both genders.

It’s just the environment in which english evolved! Even now we can use “guys” to mean a group of men or a group containing both men and women, but it doesn’t sound quite right for a group of only women (unless very informal).

My elevator said Japan suffered an earthquake today.
Everyone alright?

Hi Nathan-san, Daniel-san, and Jay-san,

Thanks for your input. I know no one intentionally mean anything by it… that’s why I haven’t mentioned it for a long time until last week’s culture class. I’m neither a scholar nor a politician nor a trouble-maker… just thought I’d bring it to Japanesepod’s attention since a couple of my female friends also asked whether these are “girls” or “gals” that go to Shibuya 109. Thanks.

Hey there folks!
This podcast is awesome!! I found out about it through a friend who is also interested in Japanese. I’m a freshmen in highschool so I’m a youngster I’m sooo glad this cast came out b/c my school dropped Japanese class from lack of intrest and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to take it next year
Anyhoo! You guys are life savers! Especially since I’m considering becoming an English teacher in Japan someday.
Might aswell shoot for the stars!
Thanks Japanesepod101

Nathan-san, you’re the man! ハリネズミ??

Georgios-san, welcome to the community, and yes, the pics are great!

Vicky-san, great to hear from you! Thanks!

Jason-san, thanks for all the posts! I believe your 101st post is rapidly approaching. Please keep the great posts coming.

Lily-san, we can assure you that is was not intentional, and we’ll watch out for that in the future. Thanks for letting us know!

Nate-san, yeah, Yoshi got me a few times. Looking forward to getting him back. Round 2 next week.

Daniel-san, keep the support for Takase coming, as we are trying to get her to come on the show every week! She is an extremely talented person and made for this type of work.
Yeah, I should have addressed the very nice a few months ago, but maybe I just thought I did.
And, Yahoo Japan or Ebay, baby! Authentic Armani suits even cheaper!

Liz-san, thanks! The writing team was really happy when the read your post! And that was really funny. Yoshi!

Nathan-san, soon you’ll be able to buy a whole rack of them.

Alicia-san, thanks for the post! Absolutely made our day! Please keep the great posts coming.

Jay-san, you stole my original reply.

Micheal-san, David just pointed us to this cool page,
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/

Sara-san, thanks for the great post! If there is anything we can do just let us know. Please keep the great posts coming!

Sara-san, have you thought about maybe getting private lessons? Even if you can’t take it at your school, maybe you can work something out with whoever normally teaches it. As great as JPOD101 is, if possible it’s really best to have someone actually physically there to learn from, especially for speaking.

I went to talk to my ex-Japanese teacher about various stuff today. I’d forgotten how much difference there is between just listening and having to both listen and respond. But anyway, I showed her JPOD101, and she was very impressed. In fact, her intermediate class is working on the chapter in Yookoso about shopping, so she said her students could use this lesson.

JP101’s 101

Ohayo mina!

That’s cool, i’m learning so much, even thanks to all those replies (I didn’t even know the word ‘gals’ -_-’)

^^

And Peetaa san, I love your laugh^^ It’s so funny!

you really should think about making some torrents available

Dawn,

Great suggestion! There are a few other featues/enhancements higher up on the list, but rest assured that Torrent support is definitely in the pipeline. Just be a little patient with us.

Thanks,

Tech Guy

When sounds soften (s–>z, k–>g, t–>d etc) it should not be thought of as irregular! Saying sanzen is just more natural sounding and flows better than saying sansen; there’s nothing irregular about that. It’s kind of like when we say certain words in English that are spelled with a t but we pronounce them with a softer d instead, because, for example, saying whaTever with a strong t sound would sound funny. (Actually, maybe that’s just U.S. English, but hopefully I make my point clear.)

Hey!

Although the lesson is quite old (I am catching up on the beginner lessons), there is an error in the lesson notes that still deserves correction. You give all the numbers from 1,000 to 100,000 but you incorrectly translate 100,000 as hyaku-man, where it should be juu-man, of yourse.

Apart from that, I am enjoying the lessons a lot! Thanks, guys and gals