Mina-san,

Today’s location is レキシントン・Rekishinton - hello to all of our listeners in Lexington!

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

I don’t think it counts as #1 if you can’t beat JP101.

Oh, and btw, which Lexington is it? I know of at least two.

Lexington, Kentucky of course. Natsuko is a yuuuge horse racing fan.

I personnally always listen to JapanesePod on my iPod while driving to my work in the morning — even sometimes repeating the dialogs with Peter, Natsuko or one of the other folks.
Does the JPod team assume any responsibility for making me so excited in case I crash into a tree or kill some innocent pedestrian ?
Beware: lawyers are everywhere these days !!!

Another good lesson.

Is it just me or has the front page gone a bit weird over the past few days? I have to scroll down a few screens before the text starts….

I think it was when you put the Lesson (Introduction) section in that it changed.

Lexington, Kentucky, of course?

According to Wikipedia, there are cities by the name of Lexington in:

Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts (remember Lexington & Concord from US History class?), Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York (how did you miss that one?!), North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Maryland.

I doubt the listeners from these towns will think “of course, Kentucky”.

Michaelさん、

If I can only get my fees!!!

NickT-san,

I checked the page on IE, FF, and Safari (both Mac and PC) but could not duplicate the issue locally. Can you send me an email at support@japanesepod101.com with the Browser (version) and Operating System that you’re using. Also, you may want to try hitting Refresh while holding down Shift to see if the problem goes away.

Eran

My other trademark:

The Amazing Vicky™

Fees will be accepted by check or cash, U.S. dollars

Liz21さん
I thought the lesson disappeared too, it took me a while to figure out I could still find it if I scrolled down far enough.

Eranさん
I was unable to recreate the problem too, even before I tried shift-refreshing. This is despite having it for the last few days both at home and at work (different computers). It seems fine now anyway, If it happens again, I will do a screen dump and email you the details.

In the meantime, どうもありがとうございました

I just wanted to throw in that I absolutely LOVE how the newer lessons are structured. I like the shorter dialogues, much more depth and frequent sentence structure repeats. It helps make the content much more accessible and relevant, because you’re not so much learning how to speak dialogues, but create sentences with the dialogues existing to re-inforce. Also, I like the informal dialogue in the original audio file and the healthy level of side-talk.

And I’ve got one feature request, if I may. I would love the ability to be able to mark certain podcasts as completed. I don’t use iTunes to listen to my jPod, and I also skip around quite a bit, so I would like to have a checkbox in the main lesson list to click when I finish it. On more than one occasion, I’ve started into a lesson before I realized that I’ve gone through it again.

Keep up the good work, everyone!

Ah thank you Liz-san, You guys having fun with my name? (/ ™) I’m glad it worked out for you. I’ve been chew up from Daniel-san for doing that. He might will do again about this too.

Eran-san, about IE when you asked me for a moment, I thought I’m in trouble. I got scared. I’m so chicken for nothing.

Peter-san, speaking of Shakespeare Takahashi-san, is he ever coming back?? I left a special message for him on the video…..Take-san, hardly ever comes to the lesson these days. Miss him!!

ヴィッキ（now I can write my name in Japanese, katakana, yeah!!!)

Oh yeah, congratulations on your promotion, Yoshi-san!

http://www.kjendis.no/2006/10/12/479528.html

Are any of you people in this picture? Probably not… But still, cool to hear you’ve got a whole day devoted to Tom Cruise each year. And a little weird…

Hanspeter-san
いっしょうけんめい　
As well as noun and adj-na it’s marked as n-adv adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi) in Edict which I presume means it can act directly as an adverb without the usual ni construction of na adjectives for adverbial use.

Barbara-san
I think they must have updated the pdf it reads “dare ga ii desu ka ne” now.

isshokenmei and isshoukenmei
both mean very hard, with all one’s might. But they use different kanji and one has a long “shou”.

一生懸命 [いっしょうけんめい]isshoukenmei　(long sylable)
“one life risking life”

一所懸命 [いっしょけんめい] isshokenmei
“one place risking life”
(also has meaning of sticking at living in one place)

does that make sense? hopefully you can see the different kanji here.

Kanji are difficult for most people. But can be rewarding and satisfying to learn.
Kana are fairly straightforward if a little alien at first. You can get more out of Japanese when you know kana, it’s well worth the effort I think. ganbatte ne!

ヴィッキさん, (long post you may not read this far! )
I haven’t heard Takase-san in a while either (on beginner lessons). What becomes of people after they work for jPod for a while?

Belton-san, hate it when that happens. ごめんなさい。

JapanesePod101.com says:
October 11th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Mina-san,

Today’s location is レキシントン・Rekishinton - hello to all of our listeners in Lexington New York!

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

That is what JP101 was refering I know it Thank You JP101 Rules they always have the best place to greet! S_R_C

Did I ever mention how much I dislike Internet Explorer?

Lynx or bust!

Lexington, Massachusetts is a pretty cool place to visit. Lots of history there. Part of Paul Revere’s ride went through this city. Also though it’s neighbor, Concord, Massachusetts. If you get a chance, go through there. Especially around the Fall when all the leaves have changed color. Beautiful!