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Minasan, omatase shimashita!
Apologies for keeping you waiting. Today we resume lessons!
Thank you for all the feedback on the new site; we really appreciate it! We’ll be adjusting some things over the next week and would like to thank you for your patience and understanding.
Welcome to JapanesePod101.com Version 2.0!

VIcky-san, we missed you! Nathan says hi! Can you believe he is in Japan with us!

Kaishin-san, thanks for the post! Please keep them coming. How have you been?

Cindy-san, of PDF pro, Jonas, will get back to you tomorrow. It’s 4:30 here now. First thing in the morning. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

BTW, I don’t see where I can click to have replies to this thread emailed to me.

Quite frankly we weren’t sure how many people use the “Subscribe to Comment” functionality. I’ll see what I can do about getting it back in here over the next day or so.

Me too!

Since you asked so nicely, the emergency number in England is 999 - nice and easy to remember! That’s for police, fire and ambulance, although I also hear there is mountain, cave and sea rescue… I think you can get that on the same number. Recently, there have not been enough people to answer the phone on 999, so they recently implemented 112, which does the same thing. Interestingly, if you have your mobile phone on keypad lock, and dial either of these numbers, it still dials it.

When I was in Japan, I had to go to the 薬局, I said to the guy 日焼きしましたから… which seemed to do the trick, although I’m sure there’s a much more elegant way of saying it. Maybe you could put that in the show for next week? I’m sure it’d be a very useful phrase seeing as summer is just around the corner!

Hey, my itune won’t download the new lesson (survival phrases 18)… what’s going on? Help!

Finally got it thru Audio and Video iTune instead of the usual Audio only… mmmmm….

Thanks, Vicky-san.

Nathan-san sounds so young in the news update. Wow, since Nathan-san is so knowledgable on so many things, I thought you must be older! A lot older! But your voice sounds like 25 year old!

Hey Everyone!

I just wanted to say how great it is to hear you guys again. I’ve been listening since day 1 actually so it’s like you are old friends of mine now! I’ve been meaning to post but this is my first post (so busy!). I’ve been learning Japanese for so many years now (a bit embarassing actually!) and I have to say that I think i’ve learned so much more in 5 months than in my first few years! Hope you guys keep up the great work. And I don’t think people should mind paying, it is a very good investment I think!

Mina-san,

Thanks for all of the comments… we had a lot yesterday

Cindy-san, I will have to double check with Jonas-san in a bit, but I know that when we originally designed the PDFs, we included the option to turn the graphics off when printing. I’ll look into how you can do that and get back to you!

Lily-san, Vicky-san is right… I am 23. I don’t know where she got the whole High School thing, though

Mike-san, welcome to the community!! Thanks for listening and let us know if you need anything!

nongton-san, how was your trip?? Sounds like fun… I would like to come to Thailand someday. I listen to the China Dolls a lot - Thai is an interesting language

Quite frankly we weren’t sure how many people use the “Subscribe to Comment” functionality.

I do! \o

Hm… Now I feel stupid. I’ve been scanning the comments for some time, and I’ve always thought that “Mina-san” was a greeting to a girl called Mina… But since I’ve never seen her posting anything here, it must mean something else. Man, I’m ignorant…

Solvi-san, you aren’t the only one feel that way. I was about to ask too but it seems like everybody is busy…..

I hope you feel a better… I’m with ya!

Good night!

Eranさん、

Definitely use the subscribe to comments. Thanks for looking in to it.

-Daniel B

Sølvi-san,
Mina-san is the polite way of saying minna, or “everyone”. Nothing wrong with not knowing everything

Laura-san,
Is that young? The number forwarding info was really interesting - thanks for sharing!

Peter-san,
Thanks for sharing! That’s an interesting one.

Some of the features in the learning centre do not seem to work: eg. the self assessment items and the kanji flash cards. What am i doing wrong?

Hi everybody, to tell the truth the whole site is amazing, again to bad for me to bad the pdf issue, the only critic to the pdf new esthethic is the black boxs, use to much ink if you wish to print the files.:???:

Anyway, again congratulations for the new site.
Nathan-san your are my hero! I wish to be in Japan, any chance to me?

For police the emergency number here is 101, for an ambulance in the street 107, or 136 for a emergency inside the house (this last in Córdoba).

24 hr pharmacies ( and grocery stores) are great when your child gets sick in the middle of the night, although you do learn to just buy one of about everything to have on hand just in case. I wait until morning if I need something, but my kids are a different story.

I suppose having different numbers of the police, fire or ambulance makes sense. For example, I know that in England, if you call 999 and then don’t say anything (for example if you’re being seriously attacked, you wouldn’t be able to speak on the phone, obviously, but you may be able to dial in your pocket…) then (in theory), they’re meant to trace your number, and send all three services, as obviously they have no idea what your problem is. Therefore, if you just have one number for each, then at least you won’t be wasting two of the three people’s time.

Hey!!! If you ever plan to come to Mexico City and you get into trouble, dial 060. I will not guarantee that anything will actually happen, but you´ll feel better in the illusion that a cop could actually show up.

皆さん、thanks for all the posts! It’s now 4am in Tokyo and we’re about to publish today’s lesson. We’re still playing catch, so please bear with us a bit longer.
Thanks for all the posts about the emergency numbers! Very interesting. I ll be back tomorrow to respond properly.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

Hello! Great to hear you again

Here in Sweden we have one emergency number: 112 that goes to an emergency central that sends out required help. Many countries in europe have this number. If not to a central they’ve got it to the police or ambulance and so on.

Longing for the new lesson. Take care.

It seems I may have perfected the art of the conversation stopper . . .

Please everybody, it was meant as good-natured ribbing, not a public flogging!

Carry on!

Bob-san, come on, you know we love you!

How u say Pharmacist in japanese?

Hi mina-san,

As JockZon-san said, in Europe the number for emergency is 112 (firemen, ambulance…). In Spain, the number for the police is 091, but I once had to call and used 911 (I guess I watched too many American films!) and it worked anyway, so no need to remember anything if you ever come to Spain!

Peter-san, I loved the “Oh! Oh! Oh!” mnemotecnics for Australia

Mata ne,
M.