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This entry was posted on Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 6:30 pm and is filed under News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
25 Responses to “News #37 - End of the Year Finale”
Saturday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, Happy New Year from everyone at JapanesePod101.com!
よいお年を!・Yoi otoshi o!
Saturday at 7:16 pm
Happy new year!
Saturday at 9:09 pm
Happy New Year from Argentina!
For a new and bright 2007
Saturday at 10:58 pm
so this is the finale
well all i can say is Yoi otoshi o!
Saturday at 11:41 pm
よいお年を!
Hahaha! Poor Peter! I couldn’t tell the difference either. Sakura-san would have a field day with my NZ accent o.O
Sunday at 12:14 am
よいお年を!
ネイト
Sunday at 12:25 am
I’m sorry I can’t also hear the difference beetween Miki and Miki. Sakura-san, gomen nasai!
And yet for the word “Erlkären” pronunciation, I do hear the difference
Sunday at 12:26 am
“Erklären” meinte ich.
I meaned “Erklären”
Sunday at 1:00 am
after hearing the podcast for the 2nd time i still cant hear a diffrence too, i think Sakura-san been working too hard
Sunday at 1:26 am
Re: the “Save Peter” campaign
Peter, I think you said “Mickey”, like “Mickey Mouse”. No, it’s “mee-kee”, ne?
It reminds me of the time we tried to teach a visitor from Japan how to say “McDonalds”. I finally said: “Say Mick Jagger!” Voila — the American vowel sound emerged!
The next week looks like fun. So glad you are getting a vacation, finally!
Happy New Year!
みなさん
よいおとしを
Sunday at 1:34 am
Happy New Year from Illinois, USA!
Sunday at 2:05 am
Happy New Year from Belgium (Europe).
よいお年を!
Sunday at 4:32 am
Yoi otoshi o!!!!!
I wanna say it again tomorrow. Can I??
This one comes from Brazil.
Happy 2007 for everybody.
JP
Sunday at 8:01 am
Lizさん、
It’s the Save Peter Campaign™. The trademark symbol is required.
But, actually, it refers to our attempts to correct Peterさん’s English. His Japanese pronunciation is a different project.
You’re right though. Like Sakuraさん said, he makes a hard k sound, ミッキ as opposed to ミキ。 But, I wouln’t write it as meekee, because it looks like the vowels are elongated, when they are not. This is the weakness of using romaji to represent Japanese sounds.
Sakuraさん was rather fiesty today.
She really put Peterさん in his place. Especially when he called Takeさん Take.
Sunday at 8:17 am
Beck-san,
But, really, I am concentrating on the vowel sound “i”, not the “k” sound. I find it interesting that there is no short “i” sound in Japanese, so we English speakers have to remember that and alway use a long “i”, right?
Thanks for the correction about the ™. I know you own that slogan.
Happy New Year, Daniel-san!!
Sunday at 9:00 am
I agree with Liz-san that the problem was the “i” not the “k”. He was saying “Meki”/”Mickey” instead of “Miki”, which is why she got him to say “week-i” to get the correct “i”. It still sounds much the same to me though.
Sunday at 9:18 am
Sunday at 9:52 pm
よいお年を!
Sunday at 11:25 pm
Lizさん and Lauraさん、
Um, if you go back and listen, Sakuraさん says “soft k” to Peterさん。Maybe he needs to work on both!
Monday at 2:01 am
Where? I can’t hear that.
Monday at 5:17 am
Around the 6:20 mark, she says “weak ki”, which seems to me that she’s saying that Peterさん is adding a ちさい「っ」 in there.
Tuesday at 12:01 am
Nooo, she’s saying “week-ki” as in “make the eee sound in week”.
Tuesday at 3:37 am
ake ome
Tuesday at 5:20 am
i can’t wait to hear the fairytales!! ^___^
Tuesday at 10:11 pm
I still think Sakura san is referring to the vowel sound “i” in Miki’s name. I heard Peter say, “Mickey”, not “Miki”
When the JPOD Team gets back, I hope they will help us out here!
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