I vote for more Survivals phrases!
I vote for Takase-san!

Seriously, I think survival phrases are very important when people arrive in Japan. I’m an intermediate learner, but I really used some survival phrases last month in Japan. It allows to get automatic answers to the daily situations.

Who could say no to Takase-san?
I can imagine the look on her face in those pauses when you’re giving her a hard time. (a who-is-this-guy-and-what-drugs-is-he-on-? look)

I think phrases and situational vocabulary are useful.

Beginner gives you the Rules and Tools. Phrases Season 2 could give a set of linked vocabulary or idiomatic phrases.

if you like atatameru how about atatakakatta ?

JPOD Team:
I am planning a trip to Japan next year, so I will look at all the Survival Phrases before I go, as a last minute review to help me get around, even though I will be with friends most of the time. So, thanks for the Survival Phrases.

omg you scared me. I missed the beginning about the survival classes ending. I thought you were all saying goodbye to Yoshi because he was moving on to something else. =/

The survival classes are good, but I’d be happy with just beginner and intermediate, and beginner s2, and lower intermediate, and culture.

Hi mina-san

I agree with all, I want more survial phases! Not all of us were here when you guys started so I have a suggestion.

Why don’t you do a Survial phases (S2) just like your doing with beginner lessons (S2) that would amazing!

If you want you can do Season 2 to the following too:
Audio Blog
Beginner Lessons
Beginner Lessons (S2)
Blog
Intermediate Lessons
Introduction
Japanese Culture Classes
Lower Intermediate Lessons
Newbie Lessons
News
Survival Phrases
Videos

It would help us alot specially to the newbies and beginners that weren’t here when JP101 started! S_R_C

More Survival Phrases would be OK, but perhaps make them a bit more difficult with a longer dialog. If it is too difficult for some, they can always access past lessions and also learn something from a more advanced lesson. Also, since you seem to have limited time, less English chatting and more usefull Japanese would be great.

Hey, stop giving Takase-san grief.. She’s like little black cloud on a sunny day. In my world that’s a good thing.

Please keep the survival phrases going. Perhaps you could do more on the types of set phrases that are used here. Especially in commercial transactions. I still find myself fairly mystified by the kinds of rote exchanges used with store clerks.

Takase-san has my vote!

Maxiewawa-san,
On my Mac I have a pull down Menu item: Show Japanese Kana Palette. You can select it from there. Do you have something like that? Ganbatte!

Max-san,

Typing di should do the trick

If Peter-san give Takase-san raise, she might come back??

Peter-san you know what to do!!!

Keep the Survival Phrases!

Noooooooooo!!! Don’t stop the Survival Phrases! Pleeeeeaaaaasee!!!!

Please keep Survival Phrases! I’m still using the Beginner lessons, but I find the Survival Phrases to be the most useful lessons of all. For me the content of the Beginner lessons is hit or miss. However I listen to EVERY Survival Phrase lesson many times. The Beginner and Intermediate lessons tend to focus on topics all over the map from my point of view. Sometimes they are useful to me and other times I just skip over them. I am personally less interested in the drama stuff. I want practical information and Survival Phrases have really delivered on that front. Please keep them and expland them! I think we can all make suggetions for material to cover if you need content suggestions.

Additionally, it would be great if you had a way to cover simple sentence structures in lessons that newbies can review in summary form. Something without all the extra conversation your team enages in within the lesson. Don’t get me wrong I love all the banter, it’s a lot fun, but it would be great to have a bundle of phrases that one could take with them on the go and listen to on their iPod and see listed on their iPod in text forma too for drills and pure memorization.

Perhaps you could do a summary of all key Survial Phrases (sentences) to date in one or more audio files, without all the beginnings and endings to the phrases (e..g, exclude: Ohayo, Konnichiwa, arigato, domo, etc). So take the meat of the Survival Phrases and cut out the fat and serve up the meat… after “X” number of Survial Phrases are completed wrap them up in a summary audio/text file.

You all are doing great work! I’ve been listining for the last year and love how your content has evolved! Great stuff! I am planning to move to Japan in 2007 and this is a critical element in my language training for that move. Keep up the good work! Gambatte kudasai!

Richaado
San Francisco, CA

Mina-sama,
Thank you so much for your votes! That really made me happy!
I liked the idea of a pay raise and starting a new series.
Yoshi-san, how about starting a new survival phrase series with a new host?

Takase

Takase-san,

I like the idea of raise and new series, too. Yeah, how about a new survival phrase series for surviving in the Jpod office with a new host?

Yoshi

hmm.. I just finished the survival series today and I would also like to vote for more episodes. I want to learn specific vocabulary for specific situations.

Season 2 could expand on topics already introduced. For example, I would like to know more phrases for hotels than “Chekku in o-negai shimasu”. How about things like: “Is breakfast included?”, “the toilet is broken”, “I’d like another pillow”, etc

Another example is emergencies. After calling for help I’d like to be able to explain something about the problem in Japanese, e.g. “I think I sprained my ankle”, “He is having an asthma attack”, “My wallet was stolen”, etc. I’d feel more confident about traveling in Japan if I knew stuff like this, just in case.

I can provide lots of other examples if you like.

I believe it would be beneficial and convenient if Jpod101 could continue producing practical survival Japanese episodes.

thanks

More survival phrases!!! I’m in Japan for more than a year now but I still find some phrases difficult to understand especially in shops, restaurants, etc. More survival phrases!