Mina-san, today’s location is コペンハーゲン・kopenhaagen! Hello to all of our listeners in Denmark!

And to all of our American listeners, hope you’re having a great 4th of July!

Dear JPOD Team!
Thanks so much for this lesson!! One of the best ever!!
The vocabulary and the dialogue are just what I need and what I want to know! For example, I had been hearing “Doo iu” in some Japanese language things I have listened to and I wondered what it meant!!

Mina-san:
Be sure to listen to the informal track! It’s so much fun to hear Yoshi-san trying not to laugh at Shakespeare Takahashi!!

Internet friends!! What a topic! Did you hear about the young man who “fell in love” with a woman and wrote to her about a year? Then they met. She turned out to be 73 years old!! (Ooops, did I give away tomorrow’s plot???)

On the other hand, I have made friends online for the first time on JPOD!! There are two people with whom I correspond regularly now!! Thanks so much! The people who subscribe to JPOD are very interesting and friendly.

Sorry folks, just need to post here b4 Vicky does.

Will be back again once I’ve listened.

-Daniel B

Yoshi-san, I’d love to join Mixi (I think it’s called.) You are always one of the funniest people on the podacsts, totemo omoshiroi desu.

Just a great podcast today. It helps so to hear the sentences broken down like that. Neat trick to be able to move parts of the sentence around. I just need to make sure to get the particle right.

I truely have a netto tomodachi. I met her online and traveled to Osaka during New Years to meet her. Then she came to the US in May and now I am going back to Osaka in August ( I know, 2 of the busiest times in Japan ). I think we have something going and I look forward to many more meetings. A great motivator for learning Japanese.

Thanks again for what you do,

Anjin

Again, Natsukoさん appears out of the blue. Peterさん, how about introducing her first.

Oh, and なっちゃん sounds like she has a cold. Is that so? If so, かわいそう！ お大事に！

Re: ネット友, the discussion boards here at JP101 are a great place to make internet friends.

Oh, a reminder, I have a review of JPOD101 on my blog. If you click on my name above, it will take you there and you can leave a comment. Kudos to Vickyさん、Lizさ & JockZonさん for your comments. ありがとうございます！You know what would make my day? If Takaseさん left a comment!

I have also started a series on the Kit Kat flavors avaiable here in Japan. If you are not in Japan, you might find this rather entertaining.

-Daniel B

Happy 4th of July everyone!!!!

Ironically I post this on July 5th, but it’s July 4th at home still!!!!
Sierra

How can I get in on mixi? Will Yoshi send me an invite please?

OK, that informal track was the wackiest thing ever… it was so funny listening to Yoshi-san trying not to laugh…

PLEASE bring Shakespear Takahashi back again SOON!

Thanks for another killer podcast.

ジョシさん、「チャラチャラ」は英語で「jingling」ですと思います。

皆さん、日本語の書けは難しいです。遅い、だからmixiしみたくないです。後ででしょう。

アラン

I found the Invite button in mixi

Anyone who wants an invite can leave a message here :
http://sophie-g.net/info/e_messg.php
This way I’ll have their emails without them being available in the comments text.

and I’ll make sure I’ll get you in for FREE!!

Umm…isn’t FREE anyway?

Yoshi-san,

Please invite me to MIXI. Thanks!

Jeremy

RE: informal audio
LOL go shakespear the first time you meet and you want to get married! hahaha your a ledgend!

William-san,

No problem! Just sent me your e-mail address to my address below.

yoshihiro721@yahoo.com

Yoshi

HI Patrick-san,

I’ll do my best. Well, suki can be to like, and daisuki can be to like a lot. If you wanna say to love something or someone, it is “Aishiteru” or basic form is “Aisuru”

Now, in Japanese culture where some things are not straight forward, depends on the situation or a person, you can just say suki or daisuki and you could be so in love with something or someone, too. Aishiteru is pretty strong (to me anyway) and it also makes me itchy in a way. I can say I love you so easily, but when it comes down to Aishiteru, I feel like I have to make up my mind or really desperate to say it.

And also, if you want to say I love Jpod, you can say “Jpod ga daisukidesu.” (It sounds proper to me somehow rather than Jpod wo Aishiteru” It works though! Like …if were from Japan and if you wanna say I love my country, Aishiteru sounds better to me. (deeper sense with your pride. So, I think I’m trying to say that even to love something in Japanese depends on how you wanna say it or how much you mean it and also by its situation. It’s kinda confusing, but I’m sure you just start feeling it as you keep studying. Ok, I hope it helped. If you want to ask more questions, feel free to do so!

Jpod love,
Yoshi

Yoshi-san,

Please invite me to MIXI. Thanks!

Bernard (Hong Kong)

can someone plz invite me to mixi? kashif.salam@hotmail.co.uk

Hopefully someone is still monitoring the feed for this?

Sorry I am late, been playing catchuo with the beginner lessons.

Yoshi-san, can you please add me to MIXI? I am learning japanese but dont have anyone in my circle of friends to practise messaging and I think this would be a great place to meet native Japanese people and improve my learning.

ありがとうございます

ジョンビードール

can’t believe I forgot to add it in my post!

ごめんあさい由さん

ここに私のメールです

johnbeadle@gmail.com

ありがとうございます

Harvさん, will do

I am trying to learn Japanese …umm… could I get a mixi invite please? thanks

My email address is shinikami@comcast.net …dont think too much into the name, heh …i though it sounded cool thanks again

Hi Yoshi-san,

I would love to join mixi. could you please send me an invitation when you get a chance? Thanks a bunch.

Also, to the whole jpod101.com crew: 頑張ってください。
This is the absolute best learning tool I have ever come across.

can some one send me a mixi invitation? thank you very much my email: leung100@hotmail.com

could i get a mixi invitation too? thanks

postman856@hotmail.com

-Greg

Ivan,
Should be in you inbox now.
John

Can I please have an invite to mixi? please. thank you.

hi can i please have an invite to mixi? im going to tokyo in a couple months and would like to meet some new people. thanks! my email is z0mble@msn.com

Hmm… the comment from “Vanja” above seems to be a SPAM. Shouldn’t you delete it?

So glad to see people are still getting invites to Mixi… now… can I please get an invite too? ibaranick[dash]ff1[at]yahoo[dot]com. (So many people left their email addy here… 危ないじゃないの？) Anyway… I really hope I can be friends with Yoshi and Takase! They are the funniest!

Question regarding the informal audio… I simply can’t hear what Shakespear Takahashi said after this sentence: “明日、結婚式に出ってくれませんか？　….”

Sounds like ごしゅうみょおねがいします

If it’s not too much trouble, may I ask for a Mixi invite? Please and thank you!

My email is azngirl132@playful.com

Might be a bit late - still doing my best to catch up - but I would love an invite to Mixi.

Thanks!

Hi all,

An English guide to signing-up and using Mixi is now up at:

http://gaijinwomen.com/how-to-use-mixi/

I made this for my friends who kept bugging me to get into Mixi and be able to use it. Hopefully it can help you to

See you in Mixi^

Leon

Hi Minasan!

I hope your Japanese skill is getting better! Well, unfortunately I don’t work with Jpod101 anymore, so if you want to get into Mixi, I’m sure Mr.Peter is kind enough to invite you in, right? Peter-san (I already got you in markobe8-san!)
I don’t mind inviting people in, but I got other things to do and I might not have enough time to check all the e-mails regulary, so I hope you can understand it. Thanks everyone for having me and I hope all of you the best!!

Jpod forever!! Bye
Yoshi

久しぶりのヨシ先生がいます！
私の心の中で、ヨシさんはいつも先生です！

Hi Yoshi!

Are you still around? I have fallen behind on the lessons so I haven’t heard the latest.

Anyway, I remembered this lesson from over a year ago now and wanted to ask if you can still help me join Mixi. I want to get started using it to help learning Japanese.

Thanks
Jesper

Hi Yoshi-san,

It’s quit late from the first release of this lessons, can you still invite me to Mixi ? or maybe Leon-san can you help me join ?

Onegaishimasu
Jacky

どうも有り難う Leonさん

Hi Amanda,

I’ve just sent you an invite

I hope you enjoy using Mixi!

[…] Acho que a idéia do Tatau nos comentários do meu post anterior (sobre fazer um passo a passo para usar o Mixi) realmente ajudaria muita gente. Eu estou bem perdido lá e imagino que deve ter muitos brasileiros nessa situação. Felizmente alguém já teve essa idéia antes: outro dia achei nos comentários do JapanesePod101 - Beginner Lesson #91 (Going to Meet Someone) um site em inglês (http://gaijinwomen.com - How to use mixi) que ensina como usar o Mixi. Sei que nem todos entedem inglês, mas acho que já é menos assustador do que tentar ler os kanjis. […]

doumo arigatou Leon-san

konbanwa,

Could Yoshi-san or Leon-san please invite me to mixi?
onegaishima-su.

You have to contact somebody who has a mixi account and they can invite you. Yoshi-san hasn’t done anything with JPOD for like a year, so you might want to ask someone in the Forum.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=825

Is it still possible to get a Mixi invite? I think I remember hearing that one needs a Japanese Cell phone number, or something, to join now. JeremyRasmussne85@Yahoo.com. Arigatou

今晩は、　i was wondering if someone can invite me to mixi, my e-mail is jettyke@gmail.com

thank you!

Stephanie,
I would gladly invite you, but you have to have a keitai to sign up for the site. Are you in Japan? Do you have one?

please invite my, ASzynka@gmail.com