皆さん、（みなさん・Mina-san) hope everyone enjoyed today’s lesson. Okay, some points to clarify,
1) Noriko was pretty close, as she was off by just a few hundred thousand, as there around 20,000 post offices in Japan.
2) Our research sampling is a bit skewed, as all of our research was done inside of Tokyo and at more than a few Mitsubishi Sumitomo Banks ・三井住友銀行. Please let us know what is going on around Japan.
3) Citibank is another option that we wanted to mention, but…..
4) The withdrawal we gave you could/should probably be ウィスドローアル・wizudorooaru. This is not a common Japanese word, but is well known inside the banking business. We came by this word asking about the correct way to ask how to get cash using one’s credit card.

http://www.post.japanpost.jp/english/index.html

Hi everyone… what’s happening?
I don’t see any comments here also the RSS feed is empty
Nobody home? Where are you all? Feels lonely here on the web site without nice comments from you all
Are you Ok? Hey, I KNOW that one: 大丈夫ですか ??
After the bad weather epidemy, now seems something worse has hit the pod?!

I actually wanted just to ask, why isn’t it called survival #16, like on top of the lesson notes?

Saluti a tutti

Ok, now it’s called survival # 16… did I dream all this? Must be the mushrooms I had for lunch…:???:
Sorry for the postings

‘Just came to say hello to you all!

For once I have work to do ^^

Orlina

Noriko!

Millions! That was so great!

Also, 勉強になりました！I had no idea that you can use a debit card at PO ATMs. Who’da thunk? I’m going to have to go check that out.

You know what would be cool? If we could make deposits into our overseas accounts at the PO. Hmm…maybe I’ll fill out an アンケート。

Daniel

Gevorg-san, just tell us what you got. We don’t like those kind of treatment here.

So don’t make us wondering…..

it’s okay, just tell us and we will wait together!

Vickyさん早（はや）!

oops. made a mistake
ordinary savings account (普通預金) (ふつうよきん)
postal savings (郵便貯金) (郵便貯金)

definitely bed time.

Hi みんなさん　
As I’m just a poor student in Thailand. So, I dont know when I can use this new survival sentense . But it is very good one. I also like Noriko voice ( Oh! I like your voice too, Peter )

By the way, how is everyone getting hiragana when they type? I have windows xp if anyone could tell me how to get that I would appreciate it greatly.

Installing Japanese support:
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/asianlanguageinstallation_XP.html

Writing in Japanese:
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/japanese_write.htm

英語の先生/eigo no sensei would work. 英語教師/eigokyoushi would also work.

René Malenfant-san: Great info! One thing I want to mention is that we didn’t forget those phrases, but as the title of this lesson is “survival phrases” we try to keep it as simple as possible, for people who might be going to japan, but dont want to learn the language. Since the ATMs at the post office here has english menues, we didn’t feel it was necessary to include those terms (And I doubt anyone visiting Japan on vacation would be interested in depositing money )

But thanks anyway for adding content! I’m sure everyone reading the comments find it useful (by the way, whats the difference between 普通貯金 and 郵便貯金?)

Jonas

Orlina-san:
哲学・てつがく・tetsugaku
I actually have never used this word in a real conversation! Make good use of it for me

Jonas

Jonas-san, Be assured that I will use it quite often^^
Well I’m going back to school, I can’t wait to annoy my friends with this word (they are all desesperated because I’m always talking about philosophy, they are going to kill me..^^ )

Orlina

Hi everybody.

First post here.

hachimemashite. Michael desu. yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

Just a quick info about money withdrawal from a post office atm with a maestro card - I believe this is what is called a deposit card in the us. Is this correct? In germany this is the eurocheque card, postcard another one here in switzerland.

When I was in Japan last year, this definitely was the easiest and best way for me to get money. Most of the time there was at least one atm where switching the language to english was possible. So, when you go to a post office and you only see atm’s with loads of kanji, check out if you can find others nearby. Otherwise, learn the kanji for hundred, thousend and so on

Another thing: I think I have read somewhere, that ATM’s are not accessible after midnight. Is that correct?

Greetings,
Michael Vogt (suisu)

Liz-san - It`s going great! Although in some places it is impossibe to get the people to reply to me in Japanese, as I guess they are trying to make it easy for me, seeing as it is a bilingual hotel, but at other times, I find myself being offered membership cards to shops and stuff just like I`ve lived there all my life (even if some of the time people are saying things really really fast and I don`t catch a word!) but it`s all a great experience, thank you for asking!

Eeek! Daylight Savings Time means we have to wait another hour before the usual podcast time!

Michael-san, great to finally see you on the board! Keep the great posts coming!

Rob-san, keep us posted on your adventures! We’d love some good stories.

Liz-san, i copy and pasted the link and it worked out okay. Perhaps give that a try.

http://www.post.japanpost.jp/english/index.html

I mean — I was able to link to that site, but I couldn’t find the info on the site. Sorry to be such a pain!

Very cool lesson and I loved Noriko-san’s spunk. Peter-san thanks for getting all this great information. With your energy levels I bet you covered half of Tokyo going from bank to bank or post office to post office. Great workout though I suspect.

Thank you to all the staff for all that you do to make these lessons fun. They have brought many a smile to my face and laughter to my day.

Great medicine.

ネイト

Liz-san,

I’m having trouble finding a good general information source, so let me know if you have specific questions regarding the cash with a credit card. I’ll see what I can do to help you out.

みなーさん、
I was hoping that the lesson notes for part II might include pictures of all the money explained in part I. I think that would be helpful.

Hello,

I started listening to JapanesePod 101.com fairly recently and think it’s a very useful site. Keep it up!

I’ve been listening to the podcasts in sequence and just got up to this one. I was very interested in it as I’m going to be taking a trip to Japan in August and was concerned about money.

A couple of questions… Is the phone number provided to check on ATM card usability still valid. I tried it before posting and it just rang without anyone picking up. If it is still valid, does it have specific hours of operation (which would possibly explain the non-answer I got on my first attempt)?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Erick.

I’d like to exchange some 10dollar to yen, please.
We learned Bank part1, so how do I translate this sentence?
I’m a little bit hard to translate it.