Happy Birthday Japanese Pod 101

Harv-san, thank you as always!

JP101, お誕生日おめでとうございます！

Yes indeed you have grown a lot in the last year. Very very nice!

Although, I think I’ll have to pass on the idea of listening to the first podcasts again.

Happy birthday Japanesepod101!

It’s a coincidence, but yesterday was my last basic subscription day. And today for your first anniversary, I’m taking Premium!

I learned a lot japanese with a lot of pleasure this year.

Thank you Peter and all the team!

Iregret not having listened from the start.
Nowadays I won’t miss “my” daily lesson of japanese and I don’ t stop to recommend it to everybody.
Congratulation for the first year; I am astonished that you still find ways to turn your good teaching into better.
It ist great, thank you very much.

Hanspeter

Happy Birthday Japanesepod101!

Its been a great year of lessons (though I’m really behind!). . Maybe in year two we can get photos of the crew of Japanesepod101 on the member introduction page…

Never been to Fukui, but all the photography that I’ve seen has been incrediable. I was told that the crab is very tasty there.

Thank you and keep up the great work!

誕生日おめでとう！
JPOD101 team, congratulations on your 1st birthday!
It’s amazing how fast this year has passed, and by following your podcast since the very beginning, I must say that you improved it day after day in an awesome way!!!
You’re definitely doing such a great job, and I must admit that sometimes you are growing so fast that I’m not able to keep the pace. Great!!!
私を復活させまして、どうもありがとう！！！
頑張って下さい！

カルロ

Happy Birthday Jppod!!

I had such a great time with you all. Thank you so much for everything.

Congratulations again, JPod!

Even more surprising than making it an entire year, is each podcast has retained the energy that drew me to it in the first place.

Peter, I’ll be on Skype!

Happy Birthday Japanesepod101

Very, very nice

Have a great time

Happy birthday Japanesepod101!!!
And thank you for all the great lessons!

JP101, たんじょうびおめでとうございます。

I’ll celebrate mine almost on the same day. It’ll be easy to remeber this date.

André-san: Great job!!! Everybody should start studying Brazilian Portuguese!!

Precisando de alguma ajuda, pode entrar em contato!!!

Yoshi-san… you should definetely come to Brazil. Try to bring all the JP101 team together. You are very welcome!!

By the way, nice “obrigado”. Now you should keep up with your Brazilian Portuguese.

Mata ne!!!

http://www.ncvb.or.jp/achikochi/026/main_e.htm

お誕生日おめでとうございます！

and congratulations! I haven’t been here a full year yet but every lesson is fantastic! But… always trying to catch up.

Peter-san-

If you’re going to Nagoya and you like eating とんかつ you HAVE to check out yabaton. They make the BEST みそかつ.

In Kanazawa you should check out the new art museum. Really interesting stuff there.

And if you’re going to Gifu you should really stop off in 高山市. It’s really a charming city (I’m biased though, I lived there for almost 2 years). It’s sometimes called “little Kyoto” because of all the old buildings. But what’s really interesting, is that they’re not castles and temples, but an 400-500 year old shopping district that’s still in use. Kind of unusual for Japan.

Toyama… eh.

Matsumoto is great.

Tanjobi Omedetou Gozaimasu!!!

Wow a whole year!
I started listening to you guys in January, but it seems like it was just the other day. I can still remember when i listened to your first podcast with just Natsuko-san and Peter-san. Then came Kazunori-san and Sakura-san. At the time i was not enrolled in any Japanese class at school and so you guys were my only link into the Japanese world and you do not know the joy each one of your lessons has brough me! The JapanesePod101.com Team will always have a special place in my heart!
Honto ni doumo arigatou gozaimasu!!!

Sorry, the media link doesn’t appear, but you can find it on the
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/734/
Click on “Media”

Can you clarify the discount rates for Monday’s sale. For example, how many dollars will it cost for a one year premium membership.
Thanks
John C. Briggs

Happy birthday JPOD101.com! wow, a year now… is unbelievable, so many things and so many things to come! おめでとうごさいます！

MINA-SAN, MINA-SAN, MINA-SAN! Hontou ni arigatou gozaimasu!!! Thank you for all the support, all the comments and everything you do for JapanesePod101.com!! You are truly the source of our energy!!
Kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu!!
Will be back later to properly respond.

Mina-san

The truth is that this website is absolutely wonderful. I came acroos Japanesepod101 by chance and I had never thought of learning Japanese. It’s a pity that I am usually very busy and I cannot check out the lessons every day.:???:

But I’ll try to make an effort and I hope I can learn a little of Japanese and have fun in every podcast

Mata ne

Happy birthday japanesepod101. You have made a wonderful difference in my Japanese. And you are so incredibly entertaining. Thanks to the whole team!! Happy Holidays from Minnesota.

Omedetou!

You guys are truly the benchmark against which all other educational pod casts should be measured.

JB

Your an amazing podcast! Take that from anotehr fellow podcaster (even if I am just starting out.) if it wasnt for you I wouldnt be passing My Japanese Class in Highschool So I send my thanks. And If I could Afford it (Being a poor High school student and all) I would Totally spring for the Premium Membership. C’est La Vie.

Thanks for the piles of Lessons and continue the good work.

Happy birthday JP101 !!!

Thank you for a product that just gets better and better. You have come a long way baby!!! Tanjobi omedetou!!

お誕生日おめでとう！

Thanks very much for your work ! It’s been of great help during my internship in Japan. Now they want to hire me because of my progress in Japanese ! Unbelievable !

年間はお世話になりまして本当にありがとうございました！

おめでとう御座います！ keep up the good work, guys!
i’ve enjoyed all the lessons, almost since the beginning!!

that 50% discount is a sweet deal.
i renewed my subscription 2 days ago…. (T T)

Dear Peterさん and JPOD,
Well, what can I say that hasn’t already been said by so many people.
I have been studying on my own for a few years, so I am familiar with most of the Japanese study materials.
One of the more well funded producers of Japanese self-study materials is NHK. They produce both radio and TV materials that are broadcast around the world on satellites and over the airwaves. They have been producing such materials for at least the last 20 years (perhaps longer), starting with a great video series called “Let’s Learn Japanese”. This is a 52 part series of half-hour videos starring a foreign called “Yan.” They also have a couple of series that run on Radio Japan and is available on the web. Clearly, their budgets are quite large and perhaps paided for by the Japanese tax payer.
But the short comings of the “old” model of education are clear, particularly when compared to the JPOD model. Almost all of the NHK materials are nearly impossible to find. They have at least four great video series, but it does not do the student any good because they are not available anyway. They cannot be purchased. They cannot be watched on the web. NHK does have their radio series available on the web, but you can only listen to one lesson per week, and you must do this by streaming. The material cannot be downloaded. NHK is so stuck in the past model, that their efforts are pretty much wasted because their intended audience cannot get the materials. It is a great shame.
By contrast, JPOD is on the cutting edge. High quality materials produced that can be listened to anywhere, any time. The complimentary PDFs add to the experience. Given the (presumably) small budget of JPOD, it is amazing to see how they have surpassed the giants at NHK. Personally, I hope NHK learns from this model and makes their materials more accessable. But I am not holding my breathe.
I have purchased a 1 year Premium membership and I am looking forward to another great year. Of course, I will continue to review the existing materials.
Peterさん, I hope you and your wife are able to take a well deserved vacation. Please enjoy.
Thanks
ジョン

Sølviさん，はい，ノルウェー人です。私もトロンへームに住んでいます。３月ぐらい聞きます。That’s about what I can manage I’m haven’t systematically studied using JP yet, but I’m planning to do so eventually. I’m currently using a textbook and in february I will (re)join an evening class at the university. You’re perhaps attending that as well?

Just wanted to say JapanesePod 101 has meant a lot to me in this past year. I have learned much about Japan and have gained a great love for the culture, language, and people. It is an honor to be apart of something like JapanesePod 101 at the beginning stages and be able to grow along with it. I plan to post regularly this year and be more a part of the JapanesePod 101 community and hopefully make some great friends in the process. Thanks to all of you who make this great experience possible and thanks Peter for the 1 year anniversary gift! It was given to me by my wife as the first Christmas gift of the season.

Arigato Gozaimasu!

Geirさん, yeah, I go to Tuesday class with Yamaga先生! How about you, have we met? Were you at the Japanese party?

Sølvi-san, that’s the one! I went there in 2004 but didn’t take the spring semester.I haven’t been keeping it up since then, but I’ve been studying for about 3 months to be prepared for this.

So no, we haven’t met yet. But in february

Hi Mina-san

I feel much better! I’m not dizzy anymore.

JP101 Congratulations and Happy 1st Unniversay and for the more to come, I’m sure of it. Keep up the good work and Thank you for everything and to all both listeners and JP101 crew specially Eran-san

Well then mata ne and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2007! S_R_C

to everyone at Jpod101:
誕生日おめでとう!!!!!!!!! ^____________^

i was able to get the yearly subscription as a christmas gift, thank you!!! I am soo excited to really divulge myself in everything this brill site has to offer me.

I also passed this onto friends, who are studying, and really encourage them to sign up and listen! i wish you all growing and continued success!

to ピータサン, i have been listening to Andre Barbosa’s cast from the start. when he was first taking suggestions I told him to listen to you guys! I hope it takes off for him. I am half brazilian. and want to get my portuguese back to its fluency again (eo comprehenje todo mas no fala muito)

to Jaouさん：
bon gia! mi pai sou du brasil. ^_______^

よしさん：
貴方はbrazilianでべんきょしましょ！（＾。＾）

Sindyさん、

Happy Unniversay (sic) to you too!

Domo arigato mina-san! I’ve learnt so much and what’s more you keep me sane waiting in the freezing fog for a bus that gets later every day!

Roll on year two!

Japanesepod101.com の皆さん！

お誕生日おめでとう！I’m sorry this is belated coz the internet connection over here was down.

I’d just like to thank you guys for being such a fantabulous team of people, teaching me stuff which I will never learn during Japanese lessons in school, and broadening my horizons and knowledge about practically everything Japanese!My interest in Japanese has grown by leaps and bounds, thanks to you guys.

Ever since I started listening in February this year, I have always anticipated the release of every podcast, and my, I must say that you guys have really grown a lot and the standard of the podcasts has become really high! Great job guys! I’m sure that through the production of this podcast, you have touched the hearts of many listeners, including mine. Thank you so much for all the effort put in to produce such stellar-quality podcasts

Looking forward to another great year with you guys. Congratulations on the job well done, and happy belated birthday once again!

お疲れさまでした！メリークリスマス！

Hey I’m living in Kofu, Yamanashi right now.

If you got time, let’s have lunch!

It’s not a super exciting place, but it’s very beautiful!!1

While I’m making this post for the first time, I should add that you guys really need to add a lot more intermediate content/advanced content also. I’ve taken up to the advanced classes at my university, and haven’t taken Japanese classes in over 2 years now, but I’m finally going to Japan this summer. The intermediate has gotten me back in the groove and has gotten my listening skills back up (I used to be able to comfortably think in Japanese and speak rather quickly - this is doing a good job of getting me back to that level). I’ve been doing this for the past 2.5 weeks now and am on lesson 20 or so. I feel that I’m very quickly going to hit the edge of lessons here, so I’ve slowed down. More content for us advanced listeners! (please ^_^)

happy birthday japanesepod101.
and plz help me,where can i find the happy birthday song by mp3 ?