Mina-san,

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Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

葉 = は
ごめんね

Liz-san,

A teacher once told me that no question is a stupid question If you currently have a subscription you can still take advantage of the offer. Your new subscription will start AFTER your current subscription ends (assuming you are paying with a credit card). So, for example, if you currently have a 12-Month Premium with the following dates:

07/04/2006 - 07/04/2007

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Note: This is the only the case if you use credit card as your payment method as PayPal does not support future dates for subscriptions.

I hope this helps.

Eran

I like the new interaction very much. One of the reasons I took advantage of your distcount offer is to upgrade so I could get flashcards, quizs, etc. The more interaction I can get the better.

Thanks for all you do. すばらしいです!!!

Stewart

Peter-san, Sakura-san, Yoshi-san, Chigusa-san, and all of the awesome people at JPOD101. Sorry I missed the big anniversary, but I wish you all the best for the coming year and a BIG arigatou gozaimasu for all of your hard work in making JPOD101 the best thing to come along since sliced bread.

Have a great 2007!

ネイト

Happy birthday J-pod 101! You’ve come so far in a year! Congratulations!

ohhh I forgot Thank You for the SKYPE tips again I already download it since the last time (ilove video 4 where Yoshi-san was talking to Mike-san).
I love it and enjoy it very much but they would soon going to charge us a fee for using it, too bad! Remember “Nothing is free in this world” S_R_C

Hi Jean-Michel-san,

The audio content (formal / informal) can be accessed from the Lesson Directory within the Learning Center. While this is not the most ideal placement, I can promise you that the new and much, much improved version 2.0 of the Learning Center (due to roll out in the not so distant future) is going to make things a whole lot better.

Eran

I really like the interaction of this lesson. It helps me to think about and own what I am saying much more than only repeating what I just heard. Great feature!

Making me talk back to my iPod - great!!!!

I really like the quizzing - it makes me think quickly and I actually got most of them right. I think some of this is actually sinking in!!

Hearing at the lesson audio again I’m surprise to be learning all about politeness of the Japanese students and teachers I didn’t knew all that!

Now I know that not just the beginners lessons but I also need this Newbie lessons too. WOW! S_R_C

PS: Hey thanks for the drills and for mentioning New York City my actual home sweet home now. Keep it up!

[…] Newbie Lesson #2 starts by going back and covering 「お早う東京」, which was introduced in the previous lesson. […]

Also, “konichi wa” was missing too.

-Robin

Hey Michael,
You’re question about word order is a good one. In Japanese, those two sentences actually mean the same thing–it’s equivalent to “Hello, Professor Smith” and “Professor Smith, hello (how are you doing)”. The word order just gives slight emphasis to whatever part comes first, but for practical purposes, those two sentences are identical in meaning. It has nothing to do with formal/informal language, but good guess, because so much of Japanese does deal with formal/informal relationships!

Brian S.

Hi .. I know this lesson is pretty old but it seems the iLearning center Notes are not pointing to the correct audio file name. The “Play entire lesson” is pointing to “Newbie Lesson #2 - Long Distance Skype” while the mp3 file name is only “Long Distance Skype”. I manually modified the text file titled “FullLessonLink.txt” to point to the right mp3 title and that fixed the problem. I have also seen the same problem with other lessons.

Cheers,
Moh

hey!jpod peolple! love the drills.

who’s we?!

WE like him!

“No” is the possessive particle.

“Watanabe-sensei” is a title. When you address that person, you might address him as “watanabe-sensei”.

But by waying “sensei no watanabe” he is saying “a teacher called Watanabe”. You probably wouldn’t address him that way.

I hope this makes it a little clearer!

Konnichi wa!
I’m slightly new to Japanese, but their lessons are very good. They stick in my head, when other sources are hard to memorize! This lesson is great about the daytime, when I had to greet the person in the peticular way– lovely! More stuff like that would very nice.

Arigato-gozaimasu!

Dean Collins

ohaiyo gozaimasita.
Thank you for your informative lesson. I’m listening to Newbie course over and over. It’s really helpful for me.
I’ll master Japanese.

it’s translated as be kind to me, but it is a common phrase meaning “please” or other things you can’t Translate into English. think of it as You All Come Back Now (but more polite in this Case!!

this site is really amazing! i always thought japanese would be very tough but with japanesepod’s help, it gradually became fun and easy!

merci

oh, you bet. you see, i am very much fond of japanese anime, especially naruto so i thought learning japanese would be much more comfortable than reading the english subtitle.

i really enjoyed every lesson. i wonder if Yamaguchi-sama is single.

i know this is old and this comment wont shape the curriculem (spelt wrong?) but ive been learning japanese just from your site for about 3 days now and ive got a basic volcabulary of about 30 odd words and i can write abit of hiragana so this helped so much and thanks for the help…im sure japanesepod101 is probaly better than any lesson ill find in my area (im 13 so i cant get lessons yet) this helped so much so thanks alot!

Just a question regarding the use of the two ways of saying excuse me that have been introduced in Newbiw Lesson 1 and 2: When would I use ’sumimasen’ (in its apologetic connotation) and when would it be more appropriate to use ’shitsurei shimashita’?

Thanks!