Today’s location is Montorioru・モントリオール！ Hello to all our listeners is Montreal and throughout Canada!

Mt. Fuji is 3776 meters. Kitadake 3192 is second with the third highest mountain just 2 meters shorter.

Has anyone been to Kitadake?

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

Aaah, nice. A new lesson just before bed time. Here (Sweden) is it 23:16. Thank you for lightening up my evening

The 3rd Monday of September is Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday. As you might expect, the news media go out and interview a lot of interesting 100+ year-olds. My favorite of all these broadcast interviews was the time they went out an interview this old man who lived with his son’s family at the foot of Mt. Tsukuba. The man always sat at the 掘り火燵　(horigotatsu; table over a heated pit in the floor of a Japanese-style tatami mat room). Normally, Japanese sit at such a kotatsu during the winter, but no longer heat it during the warm months. This old man kept his heated year-round. He invited the big, somewhat overweight reporter to sit there too while interviewing him. So throughout the interview, the sweat beads were rolling 次々(tsugi-tsugi; one after another) down the reporter’s face, while the old man sitting in the same kotatsu was cool and happy as a bug in a rug.

In the Learning Center, in Transcript for this lesson (The World’s Oldest Woman, Part 2), the line by line audio is just the right speed for me! It was kind of fast on the previous episode. Thanks!
Did the speakers slow down a little? Do Japanese people speak really fast? My Japanese teacher speaks soooo fast!

Jockzon-san, glad we made it! We’ll be a lot quicker next week.

Liz-san, great to hear that! Please keep the posts coming.

Bob-san, thanks for the idea for a future JCC.

CP-san, we’ll look into that. To tell the truth, we actually we’re creating a new format for the PDFs yesterday. We almost finished them, but didn’t make the cut. Hopefully today.

Liz-san, great to hear! Lots of different speeds, depends on the person. No worries though, we have lots more voices to practice with.

Shinichi-san, we’re looking into that. Hmm….the teach team will get back to you. Please check back today, as we should have something for you. Yes, the learning center has sooooo much in there. Recently some of the questions are formatted JLPT style so that people get used to them. Lots of work with the audio, but we feel it is well worth it.

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

CP-san,

The PDF error has been taken care of. That’s what happens when you make PDFs after having been awake for 40+ hours

Thanks for your patience everyone

Praytell Grammar guru, which are you, a professor or a business mogul?

Anyway, somebody who works too many hours without sleeping (like most of the JPod crew right now) is prone to saying all sorts of silly things. But they don’t let pride get in their way, and eventually everything gets fixed.

Janis, thank you for pointing this out to us. Indeed, very strange that it works in one lesson but not the other. Most likely it is due to the higher number of clips/Flash objects in lesson #62 as compared to #61 (17 vs 12). Oddly, both lessons play fine on IE.

We will get a fix for this as soon as we can. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Takaseさん！

Yeah, keep an eye on that guy. He might be a Cylon!

So, when we hear your Nagasaki-ben?

Kudos on the tech team for re-instating the email follow-up comments function.

Peterさん、

Still looking forward to Ben’s Café or Kua’Aina with you!

- Daniel B

My fiancée had no idea what the second tallest mountain in Japan is… but then again, I have no idea what the second tallest in Canada is either… or even in BC, for THAT matter.

It seems that all we care about is who got first place… all the rest are losers. (^_^)

hey thanks tech guy, my itunes jp101 podcast is synced and working fine.

arigato gozaimasu

小林さんは早いなぁ。

I am sure no one will read this now but yes the famous pearl from Japan are Mikimoto….they are actually the ones who pioneered the method of cultivating pearls..that is they stick sand and grit into some clams that they farm which increaseses the probability of them producing a pearl instead of just diving for pearls from clams in the “wild”.

The museum mentioned by Liz is in Toba-shi Mie-Ken close to Isu.

The only reason I know this is that I lived in Mie for two years. Toba is a really great place to visit if you have the chance. There is a famous shrine in Isu which is right around the corner from Toba and there used to be a pretty cool amusement park there called Spain Mura (don’t know if it’s still open or not).

Opss made a mistake…it is ise not isu. I will post in the forums also.

aikawarazu mono sugoku ii desu