Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Tune in to the JapanesePod101.com saturday news for an introduction to our newest voice talent, Naruhiro-san! After that, learn all about what’s hot in Tokyo and all around Japan right now - hanabi taikai, or fireworks shows! If you’re in Japan, you definitely want to make it to one of these! Don’t miss this episode!
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35 Responses to “News #25 - Hanabi”
JapanesePod101.com says:
July 30th, 2006 at 12:18 am
Mina-san,
We hope you are enjoying your weekend!
Mina-san,
We have some big news! We - JapanesePod101.com, our subscribers, our community, our listeners, everyone who makes what we do possible - have all been nominated for the 2006 Podcast Awards in the Education category!
The 2006 Podcast Awards contest is a second annual event that recognizes the best podcasters in the world by allowing the people (listeners and podcasters) to nominate, and then vote for their favorite podcast. Thank you so much for everyone who nominated JapanesePod101.com and provided all of US with this opportunity!
Voting opens at 00:01 HST on Friday, July 28th, 2006 and closes at 23:59 HST on Friday, August 11th, 2006. Each person can vote once a day in each category. Contest award winners will be announced during the Podcast and Poratble Media Expo in Ontario, California on September 29, 2006.
We know how much everyone already contributes and how busy you are, but if you could find a few minutes a day to vote for JapanesePod101.com we would be truly grateful.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
JapanesePod101.com
usagi says:
July 30th, 2006 at 12:52 am
Congratulations! Keep up the great work and have a good weekend everyone 
usagi says:
July 30th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Oooops forgot to say: welcome Naruhiro-san!
Now then, enjoy your studies and stay cool in the heat 
Vicky says:
July 30th, 2006 at 3:09 am
Eran-san, would you please put the direction again on today’s comment as well? So we don’t have to go back and forth. I think it will be really easier to just click from there. Please~~~~ 
I’m listening the news right now. What’s the new guy name?? Yeah he is speak so fast, and I didn’t get anything.
Hope Liz-san, like him!!!
Btw, Vote Kudasai! 
Mark says:
July 30th, 2006 at 4:33 am
Welcome Naruhiro-san!
Vicky-san, I’ll post the directions.
Instructions for voting:
1) Go to http://www.podcastawards.com
2) Select JapanesePod101.com in the Education category
3) Enter your name and email at the bottom of the page
4) Click the ‘Submit’ button
5) Be sure to check your email and VERIFY YOUR VOTE
Have a good weekend everyone!
Rob says:
July 30th, 2006 at 6:06 am
Welcome Naruhirosan! Very interesting name. Don’t believe I’ve run into it before.
楽しむ
sean somers says:
July 30th, 2006 at 6:27 am
My pleasure to be able to vote for you and say thanks in a small, tangible way.
Daniel Beck says:
July 30th, 2006 at 8:16 am
I think it’s Na-o-hiroさん。But the first time he said it, I heard Narohiro. Wow, someone who speaks faster that our Peterちゃん。 I noticed that Peter’s English seemed to speed up during the episode.
Peterさん also said during the lesson that the 花火 is coming up. Uh, actually, it’s already on. And, many 花火大会 are already done. Yesterday, I went with my wife to the 昭和記念公園花火大会 (しょうわきねんこうえんはなびたいかい) in (立川)Tachikawa. You can read about it on my blog (by clicking on my name above). I also have photos linked from that entry. You guys didn’t mention this one. But, according to their claims, 600,000 people went last year! 
It seemed that way yesterday too. I can understand Hero’s frustration. 
After the show, Yumiko & I slipped out quickly, and went to have dinner. An hour later, as we went to the station and the wicket gates, they were still staggering how many people could enter the station from that side to get on the trains.
Daniel Beck says:
July 30th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Oh, BTW, thanks to all who signed my guest map. Here’s some incentive for those of you who haven’t yet. You can enter a URL when you sign. How about putting the link to this site there? You can show your support for JP101!
http://web.mac.com/danielbeck/iWeb/Home/Guest%20Map.html
I had to delete a North Korean agent from my map! Don’t want the CIA knocking on my door or Homeland Security visiting my parents house. 
Oh, Solviちゃん、
I was able to change your mojibake to romaji.
Sindy says:
July 30th, 2006 at 9:08 am
Your going to win thanks to me I gave all my votes to this JP101 so don’t fail me! 
S_R_C
Jason says:
July 30th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Crud. Let’s try that again.
http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/7155/stopposting11051218303002wsqg0.gif
katie says:
July 31st, 2006 at 12:45 am
Danielさん、
I signed your guest map! I zoomed in to the block that I live on. それは楽しかったですよ。
Vicky says:
July 31st, 2006 at 1:24 am
Geez Daniel-san, you changed my name on your map. It supposed to be secret remember?
Daniel Beck says:
July 31st, 2006 at 4:16 am
Katieさん、
よかった！楽しいでしょう？
Our Vickyちゃん、
Oh well. Well, at least I kept secret the identity of that North Korean agent.
Daniel Beck says:
July 31st, 2006 at 7:15 am
Hi Hugoさん!
Are you the Hugo that signed my guest map? Are you in Argentina? 
July 31st, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Japan Podcast Review…
I’ve heard it said that 2006 is meant to be the year of the podcast. Seeing as the number of podcasts out there in many categories has increased exponentially over the past year or so, drawing in a large number of major media producers, such as …
mikuji says:
July 31st, 2006 at 9:11 pm
ただいま！
皆さん、 お早う ございます。 帰っていい！新しい音楽の合宿は最高だったのに、皆さんを寂しかった。
皆さんのポストを読んだでも先週のレッソンをまだ聞くなくて、後で車で聞くことは楽しみにするよ。
kawasakiーさん、この掲示板にようこそ！はじめまして、私はその掲示板の真面目過ぎるmikujiです［他の加盟者より余り可笑しくないですーごめんなっさい！] よろしくお願いします
kawasakiーさんのお名前を漢字でどう書けますか？川崎ですか？
その掲示板に日本人に会えてとてもいいです。英語の問題をしたら、遠慮しないでくださいね。
私もJapanesepod101.comに投票をした。毎日また八月11日まで投票をするつもり。
いつもその面白くて楽しいレッソンにありがとうございます。
じゃ,またね
mikuji
piculum says:
July 31st, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Well, actually you hit three marks. One for the 100th beginner podcast, the other for those comments and the third one for the 200th show…
Jason says:
July 31st, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Sorry about hijacking this thread a bit, but I figure more people read the comments than the forum. I’m leaving tomorrow for Otakon in Baltimore, and will be gone for about a week. I’ll have my computer with me, but will probably be online sporadically. Ya’ll take good care of our Vickyちゃん while I’m gone, ok?
Liz21 says:
August 1st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
To “Recognize Design . . .”
You should mention Japanesepod101.com on your site. I didn’t see it. Did I miss it somehow?
Nate says:
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:14 am
Welcome Naruhiro-san!
Thank you for joining our little group.
Ganbatte kudasai!
ネイト
kawasaki says:
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:00 am
mikuji-san
川崎で合ってますよ、でもここではkawasakiを使っています。
It is correct, but i use kawasaki here so that other people can read.
Is my english right?
MrT. says:
August 5th, 2006 at 12:40 am
I’m curious as to how Vancouver’s Celebration of light compares to Japanese hanabi taikai. (4 different countries compete over two weeks). I must admit though, of all the countries that have competed, I don’t believe Japan ever has.
katakanadian says:
August 19th, 2006 at 10:42 am
I’m way behind and just listened to this in mid-August.
It sounded to me in the podcast like the Gunma hanabi taikai location was pronounced Isezaki. I used to live there and it’s actually Isesaki which brings up the question: Is there any rule for どこどこ崎 being prounced -さき or -ざき? Or even lots of other names which could be said with or without the tenten at the beginning of the second character. e.g. We all know Shinjuku（新宿）but I once passed a small town called 新宿 but the romanization was written as Shinshuku.
sHiRo says:
December 27th, 2006 at 9:23 am
皆さん、初めまして ~
hehe, i have just started listening ta jpod101 (listening ta 10 podcasts a day ta catch up) & i was gonna make my “debut post” after i catch up to the latest podcast, anyways ~
just wanna take part in the info sharin’ & i would like to list the 7 “hanabi taikai” that were being mentioned in today’s podcast ~
first of all, some vocabs ~
fireworks is 花火 (はなび)
hanabi taikai’s kanji is 花火大会 (はなびたかい)
yukata (the summer kimono) is 浴衣 (ゆかた)
the wooden shoes peter-san has mentioned is 下駄 (げた)
shredded ice is 欠氷 (かきごおり)
- most of the time it’s written as カキゴオリ), the kanji form is usually not being used
then the 7 花火大会s are…
1) 隅田川花火大会
- すみだがわはなびたいかい
(sumidagawa hanabi taikai)
this is located in (浅草.あさくさ.asakusa)
- expected crowd: 100,000 people
2) 諏訪湖祭湖上花火大会
(*there are 2 ways to pronounce it)
- すわこまつりこじょうはなびたいかい)
(suwako matsuri kojou hanabi taikai)
- すわこさいこじょうはなびたいかい
(suwako sai kojou hanabi taikai)
the 祭 can be pronounced as まつり or さい
the “official” one should be まつり
but since natsuko’s pronounced it as “sai”, i believe the latter one’s used more frequently (as it’s easier to pronounce, hehe ~)
this is located @ (長野.ながの.nagano)
- 40,000 shots
3) 伊勢崎利根川花火大会
- いせさきとねがわはなびたいかい
(isesaki tonegawa hanabi taikai)
- 35,000 shots
4) 全国選抜長良川中日花火大会
- ぜんこくせんばつながらがわちゅうにちはなびたいかい
(zenkoku senbatsu nagaragawa chuunichi hanabi taikai)
- 30,000 shots
the following 3 are the ones that are located at the kanto area (関東)
5) エクサイチング花火2006
(exciting hanabi 2006)
6) 江戸川区花火大会
- えどがわくはなびたいかい
(edogawa ku hanabi taikai)
7) 市川市民納涼花火たいかい
- いちがわしみんのうりょうはなびたいかい
(ichigawa shimin nouryou hanabi taikai)
if you would like to know more, you could copy and paste the name of the hanabi taikai to the japanese wikipedia ~ (it’ll be in japanese though) ~ but you can always copy and past the info there to a japanese-to-english translator right?
hehe okie that’s it ~
皆さん、 頑張りましょう ~
June 13th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
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