Mina-san,

Today’s location is ルクセンブルグ・Rukusenburugu - hello to all of our listeners in Luxembourg!

A note about today’s lesson: 特別・tokubetsu can be used to modify another noun using either な・na or の・no, although な seems to be more commonly used.

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

This lesson was so much fun!　But I have difficulty to understand the use of auxiliary verbs. Is there something similar in english to relate to.　本当に勉強にありました。

こんばんは！！

I am Miho from Tokyo.
I think this community is great!!! I will do my best to help with Japanese questions.

よろしくおねがいします♪

Miho-san!! You finally made it!! It is great to have you here, and welcome to the community. Mina-san, Miho-san is a good friend from the Ibaraki days! She is really knowledgable about the Japanese language and culture.
Welcome to the community!

こんばんは　Hugo さん

I am happy to hear such a quick greeting !

よろしくおねがいします　

A glad to hear that Miho-san! You can count with a new friend

A question about the video, I’am working in my video to, the format of Windows Media (wmv) is fine? My video is coming soon!

こんいちは　みほさん！　よろしくおねがいします

video question….so we can’t have instrumentals/background music for the singing part? What if we did it at a karaoke video place? don’t we then have legal rights to the video?

Hugo-san, we’re looking really forward to seeing your video! Could you tell us a bit more about the wmv? What capture software and editing software are you using?

Katie-san, even the agency here in charge of copyrights here is not sure. If you like, you can send one of each. If we secure both rights, we’ll use the music version. How does that sound?

JockZon-san, thanks for the comment! Was the info in the PDF of help?

Also, if anyone else is having problems commenting, please contact us at
contactus@japanesepod101.com

Yeah sure, but I still don’t really get it… I am really surprised that my comment came through… It didn’t at first…

みんなさん、
こんにちは
　I have an unrelated question for you. I have purchased a beverage at a local oriental market. The beverage is from KIRIN and is called 午後の紅茶。
On the label is says 低カロリー。 I guess this means low calorie. But what is the reading of 低 ？　Is it just ひくカロリー？

ありがとう　ございます。
ジョン　ブリッグズ

オス！
copyright in movies. For what it’s worth this is my take on it. (personal opinion, not a lawyer, yada yada yada)

Short and easy answer, you need to own any music by being the composer or have licensed the rights from the owners in some way. (The more public and widespread your film gets the more important this is. If money starts to get involved it’s even more important. )

Incidental copyrighted material in movies. If it’s in a public space, not controllable and not the point of the scene/ movie it comes within an acceptable use as far as I know.　(but taking a wildtrack of that music to cover any cuts probably wouldn’t be. 難しいね？)

In a karaoke booth, you’re not going to be able to claim it’s incidental. Both the original rights owner and the karaoke track licensee would have rights in the piece.

That said it’s unlikely anyone would go after you for damages etc in most circumstances, unless you start to attract attention.
But jPod is trying to secure rights to use the song so if they don’t get it(due to cost or the owner just doesn’t want to ) The owner will take a very dim view if the song turns up at jPod anyhow, no matter what form it’s in. who needs that trouble?

hajimemashite Miho-san, yoroshiku.

Liz - san from a comment you made yesterday about someone holding a camera for you… can I just say tripod.

My comments are too long

Liz,
I don’t know if you are into cosmetics, but a good foundation can make a huge different on film. You don’t necessarily need any other make-up except the foundation. The difference can be surprising.
As a guy, I have been reluctant to try this, but a lot of politicians use foundation on film.
My big problem is that I don’t seem to be able to carry a tune. I have memorized the lyrics, but it still sounds pretty ugly. Perhaps I can smooth it out with practice.
Jya mata
John

Liz-san,
ありがとう　ございます
This is good advice. I think part of the problem is that I am trying to sing at too high of a pitch. But I have noticed that loud versus soft can make a big difference.
But I will practice and see how well I can do. Once I don’t have to think about the lyrics, perhaps I can concentrate on the music.
jya mata
ジョン

Regarding music licensing. I’m a bit confused by Peter’s suggestion that he may be able to license the vocal track, but not vocal+instrumental. The reason for my confusion is that even if the lyrics and music are separately licensable, surely if we sing the lyrics, the music still needs licensing. I had a quick search round the web for something fairly concise on the maze of licenses and found this page.
[url]http://www.ourmedia.org/node/214313[/url]

It’s a minefield. Maybe we should look for a traditional song that is out of copyright, or use a modern composition that has a suitable creative commons license.

Alan
(I am not a lawyer)

Licensing Article

Hmm … a question that has nothing to do with today’s lesson, or the video submission, but which has been on mine mind since quite a while now, why is Japanesepod101 “101″ and not “100″ or “102″? is it for the sound? “one oh (only and best) one”? or is there any other meaning behind it?

Lizさん、Beltonさん、

Thanks for the useful tips. While I’m not a music teacher (or a photographer), I’ve found entering the vocal score as a midi-track in garage band and then laying down a vocal track while listening to the midi, very useful. Afterwards I playback both & listen for the bum-notes I had hoped to sing to my own backing arrangement (and have it mostly done The vocal on it’s own without chord support sounds flat to me. Adding chords helps clue my brain in to realising that it’s supposed to be in the minor key.

I’m planning on using a tripod myself so as to avoid that shaky amateur look. I might run through the whole thing twice with different camera angles (only one camera) and then cut between them.

This week is turning into video production week, rather than Japanese learning week, so obviously this is going to be a one off. Still I do want to learn to sing Karaoke, so the speaking (singing) practice is good. Just have to learn to speed read 2000 kanji and I’m home dry.

As per my earlier post, I’m none too convinced about Peter’s comments on just singing the vocals. Is this based on a fair use argument? If so, that works in the states, but isn’t internationally applicable. We don’t have it here in the UK, although many people mistakenly think we do after reading discussions on american law.

“Hmm … a question that has nothing to do with today’s lesson, or the video submission, but which has been on mine mind since quite a while now, why is Japanesepod101 “101″ and not “100″ or “102″? is it for the sound? “one oh (only and best) one”? or is there any other meaning behind it? ”

I’m guessing this has to do /w how most colleges label their classes. Usually the numbers under 100 are for pre-majors and are mostly intro classes, and 101 is where you start taking serious classes towards your major.

Daniel!!!……..San?

I found this site with 56 songs (mostly childrens songs). Apparently these have all been checked for copyright. Should the licensing issues on ‘first love’ remain difficult, could I sing one of these instead?

All these comments & I haven’t listened to todays lesson yet! (clicks play)

Alan

Take Take Take…blah blah blah…

Thank you Vicky-san, Dave-san for your answer! I really should have asked this earlier. Haha, one more mystery solved. Is this a typical American college system then? Is that also the case in Japan or elsewhere in the world?

Hello everybody! I just got to know that my comments was marked as spam so that I couldn’t post.
テスト

I really liked the dialog in todays lesson but I don’t understand the auxiliary verb use because we don’t need that in swedish (nor english, right?) I hope that I could figure it out soon.

Thank you Eran for fixing my problem though you are honeymooning. ありがとうございます。

Alan-san,
Thanks for the nice link to Japanese songs!

Welcome Miho-san! to JP101 its good to have another Japanese helper here I’m Sindy R Nice to know you! I also agree with Hugo here you have a friend who is welcome to tour you Mexico City anytime, anywhere and invite you to my house there if you want to go has a tourist! ok just let me know! I may ask you questions if I need help later on ok! S_R_C

Go JP101 staff Go Go Go Go Go Go!

みんなさん、
Well, I just made mine first two passes on the video. All I have to say is that the TV people make it look too easy.
I tried two different lighting geometries and didn’t like either. But I think I can find a happy medium.
I really need to smooth out the dialog and focus my energy on the people at the other end of the camera lens (so to speak). Right now I am very stiff.
もういちど　やってみます。
ジョン

Mina-san,

Regarding video formats, any major formats should be fine, as long as the video is at least 640×480 and high quality. If you have any other specific questions, let us know!

Miho san

Thanks for your extensive explanation. The reason I asked was my dictionary has the same translation for both words. But it’s all clear now!