Hi everybody! What happened to the e-mail? I reloaded the site by accident and suddenly the lesson appeared Oh, well I won’t complain ’cause this was a really useful lesson.

私はうれしくなりました。

Another great lesson. Thanks
BTW, I think you forgot the “tachi” in the メンバーたち in the Romanji section.
ジョン

Mina-san,

In an effort to deal with our growing community of listeners and to improve site performance, speed and reliability, we will be upgrading our server environment this weekend. We have posted a blog entry about this scheduled maintenance window. Click here to see it.

Please accept my sincere apologies for poor site performance and slow page load times over the last few days.

We thank you all for your continued support, patience, and understanding as we work hard at stabilizing and continually improving our service.

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

Eran
JapanesePod101.com

Adverbs have arrived. Hooray, I love those endings that convert verb to noun, adjective to noun (-sa) etc. They really make my limited vocabulary go further.

@Eran,
Thanks for the update. Loading is pretty slow from here, but sometimes the problem is this end; one of the drawbacks with cable is shared bandwidth

Ah Daniel-san, today is D-day. Good luck on carrying your mission today. I thought it was tomorrow. Looking forward to hear it! Take-san???/

Eranさん！

You rock! We really appreciate all the hard work you put in. Looking forward to the performance of the new server.

Chigusaさん、

Around here, we use 「さん」, as in Peterさん。Again, Peterちゃん is also acceptable.

Junさん、

You are soooo mellow. You really should get to a BBQ though.

Our Vickyちゃん、

D-Day? Well, it is the day for me to carry out my mission. But, I doubt I can do it to the satisfaction of two certain little birds.

Take Take Take…blah blah blah…

Although I probably cannot carry out those two requests, if there are any requests, let me know. What do you all want to see the staff at JP101 perform? We already have Peterちゃん’s dance on the menu.

Mina-san,

I would like to express my sincere apologies again for the brief downtime and overall site sluggishness earlier today and in the last few days. I cannot thank you guys enough for your support and commitment as we fight through these growing pains.

I have just released a new mechanism which caches our feeds and significantly reduces the load on our server by utilizing far less CPU cycles. I am crossing my fingers that this tweak will dramatically improve stability and provide a major performance boost until we carry out the server upgrade this weekend.

Please let me know if you are seeing improved performance and faster response times.

Thanks,

Eran

It does feel noticably snappier.

鬼婆の魔法でうちの猫が化けキリンに成りました
onibaba no mahou de uchi no neko ga bakekirin ni narimashita

Our cat was turned into a monster giraffe by the old witches magic. (I hope thats how the meaning comes out anyway)

Sorry if thats not the use of naru you covered, I’m about to listen to the lesson now.

if that wasn’t the grammar point, I’m including the other one now:
化けキリンのせいで私達は怖くなりました
bakekirin no sei de watashitachi ha(wa) kowakunarimashita

Because of the monster giraffe, we became scared.

毎日日常でも使えるから覚えて置いて下さいね！

We have 2 Daniel-san???

Our Vickyちゃん、

>2 Daniels がいるよ！

Oh, btw, 皆さん、

Don’t you think Our Vickyちゃん should do a video? She’s got the equipment. She’s just a little shy. Let’s give her some encouragement!

I guess we could call NEW Daniel-san??? Welcome!! I didn’t know what you were talking about I got it now.

Old Daniel Beck-san , please bring me a good news.
Nathan-san, me video???

One more vote for Vicky-san video.

Hope everyone’s had a good day!

Vicky-san, yes I know we need to figure it out. Need someone who has the right computer and internet though.

Anyways… working right now. Ah, D-san’s mission is today! Diddn’t know that - ganbatte D-san!

Vickyさん、
One more vote here for a video. I submitted mine. It is always a little scary, but I did.
ジョン

Vicky, you would deny the others of seeing your Hat of Ultimate Cuteness(TM)?

Oh, c’mon Jason - get the trademark symbol right! Though the symbol does show up small.

Hat of Ultimate Cuteness™

Give me a ‘V’
Give me an ‘I’
Give me a ‘C’
Give me a ‘K’
Give me a ‘Y’

What do we have?

VICKY… VICKY… VICKY… VICKY!!!

ヴィーキちゃん、

ヴィーキーちゃんのかわいさの帽子のビデオを見て下さい。

皆さん、
‘hat of cuteness’ は日本語で「かわいさの帽子」書きました。どう思いましたか。

ノグスさん、
化けきりんはとても面白いです。それわ見たいです。

アラン

Oops, that last わ should be a は。

ヴィキちゃんの帽子はどんあ帽子ですか。
私は思いたいです。

I can’t type this morning. For どんあ read どんな。

::looking for my hat::

As encouragement, here is a video of some of my hats.
Voiceover in english I’m afraid, as zero preparation
My hats

Vicky, sorry, but I don’t use any of the chat apps. There is some help on using iSight with iMovie in the iMove help though

[quote]
You can capture live video from your iSight camera directly into iMovie HD.

To use iSight with iMovie HD, you must have iChat AV on your computer. If you can’t use iChat AV, then you can’t use IIDC cameras such as iSight with iMovie HD.
[/quote]

[quote]
1. Open the privacy shutter on your iSight.
2. Click the mode switch to set iMovie HD to camera mode.
3. Click the triangle to the left of the camera mode switch and choose iSight from the pop-up menu.
4. Click “Record with iSight.”
The video you see in the iMovie monitor is recorded as a clip in the Clips pane.
5. Click “Record with iSight” again to stop recording.
[/quote]

I don’t have the iSight myself, so can’t give more of a clue.

Then you need to export the Movie to Quicktime
From the Menu, select File->Share
Click on the Quicktime tab, then select ‘Expert Settings’ in the drop-down selection list.
Then click on ‘Share’. A dialog box comes up where you can adjust the various settings. In particular, check the ‘Size’ setting is what you want. The rest is probably Ok as is. Then accept all the dialog boxes & wait a long time while the movie converts to quicktime. Then you need to figure out how to post the file.

Last question Alan-san, did you sing?

…but since you’re short on time, I’m sure Peter would be glad to have your entry, even without singing. (Actually I sang something different to that requested)

Brody-san,

I just double checked our email, as well as the YouSendIt account and we have received nothing from you. Sorry! The email address looks correct. Perhaps try another site like:

http://www.transferbigfiles.com/Default.aspx

We look forward to seeing the video!

Brodyさん、

Just got back from JP101. Got a glimpse.

That was wild!

The pleasure was mine, JapanesePod101.comさん！

Got some great video & photos folks!

However, my mission is still incomplete. So, I guess I’ll have to stop by again.

Greetings to everybody! To bad what I can’t improve the quality of my first video, well something is somethig, anyway it was very fun!

Eran-san, thanks for the hard work!

Vicky-san, I hope what we can chat a litle more this weekend with Liz-san and everybody!

@Belton-san

I’d like to see everybody’s efforts, but should we wait until after iLove Episode 2, so not as to spoil the surprise? Maybe folks can’t wait that long

Incidentally, I really like the photo’s on your website.

Alan
恥ずかしく成りますね。