Mina-san, what do you think will happen? Please let us know, and be sure to tune in tomorrow for Part II. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

Hello, everybody.

Mikuji-san, that was very nice of you to post the transcript of the story. I’ll try to read that later.

It was also great to listen to Take-san again - it’s just so bad he doesn’t participate very often in other JP101 episodes.

Mata ne!

doraemon if you have i tunes it has the translation in that:

Translation:
Once upon a time, there lived a gambler. One day after losing all of his money gambling, he was climbing up a hill feeling sorry for himself. He suddenly turned around and muttered to himself, “Aahhh. Today is not my day. I wonder if nothing good at all will happen. I want to go to a big city like Osaka or Kyoto and try to get into a really big game, and not let this small town smother me.”
He then began searching his clothing, and pulled out a small coin with a hole in it. He then said, “Ah, I still have this coin. But just this one I would never gamble.”
The gambler then peeked through the hole and pretended he could see far away places.
“Oh, there it is! I can see Kyoto! Kyoto is such a beautiful city. Now, there it is! I can see Osaka. There it is. Osaka is a jumping town!”
As he was saying this a Tengu appeared and said, “You’re saying that Kyoto appeared and Osaka appeared, but can you really see Osaka from the center of that coin?”
The gambler replied, “Yes, I can. This is my most valued possession. Kyoto, Osaka, I can see any place I want.”
“Is there really such a thing?” asked the Tengu.
“Yes there is.” replied the gambler. The Tengu proceeded to pull out a filthy cloak from his bag. “Oh! There it is. There it is. I can see Edo.”
“Lend me that coin for a bit, won’t you?”
“No way! It’s a priceless treasure.”
“Just for a second.”
“No. Nope. There is no way I’m lending it to you.”
“Alright, if it’s like that, then I’ll lend you my most valued possession. How about that?”
“That filthy thing! That is your most valued possession?”
“This is an invisible cloak, the one who wears it becomes invisible.”
“Really? Is there such a treasure?”
The two went on to exchange their most valued possessions. The Tengu then looked into the hole of the coin and said, “Hey! I can’t see anything! No Kyoto. No Osaka. No nothing! You duped me, didn’t you?” the Tengu turned around, but it was too late. The gambler was nowhere to be seen. He had put on the invisible cloak while the Tengu was looking through the hole of the coin.
At first the gambler was worried that it wouldn’t work, but upon hearing the Tengu screaming, “Hey! Where are you! Give me back my invisible cloak!” He realized that it really worked. Extremely pleased, he scrambled down the hill and went to town.
As he walked through the town, not one person was aware of his existence. He said to himself, “Wow, this is the real thing! I got my hands on something great!”
Upon realizing what he had, he became ecstatic. First he headed to the nearest pub, went in and starting drinking excessively, and nobody noticed. Once he had his fill, he decided it was time to satisfy his appetite, so he headed to the dumpling shop. There he stuffed himself, and again nobody noticed.
On his way home, the gambler stopped by the fine cloth store and stole a kimono for himself and his wife. He then went home, took off the invisible cloak, and called to his wife. “I’m home! Today was my lucky day! With my winnings I bought this.”
and he gave his wife the stolen kimono.
The gambler, being full of food and drink, took off the cloak, threw it in the corner and fell right asleep.

doraemon-san
There is soooo much material to study in all the many, many past lessons! I am surprised! You could never run out of material to study here!

its ok doraemon-san

doraemon-san,
Ganbatte!!

みなさん

It’s nice to see so many people interested in learning Japanese, but JP101 team also deserves some vacation, don’t you think?

Like Liz-san said, there is so much material to study in here and we’ve received so much from JP101, I believe it’s time to thank instead of just asking for more.

Besides, this website is so full of nice people willing to help each other learning. I also intend to use this vacation break to spice up my Japanese, so I’ll be going back and review important things.

I also miss the new episodes, but at least there is new material being published every day.

JP101, 有り難うございます！

みなさん、がんばって！

Hi there,

There is certainly nothing wrong with taking a break at all. They sure deserve it. In fact, everyone does!

Nothing wrong with reviewing past lessons either - as I said I have been here since day 1 so I have been reviewing for a long time now. I did not even mean the free podcasts themselves; these are great and always have been- I am talking about the premium content in the learning center. And as I will not be re-newing my subscription I was simply trying to make the best of it for the last few days.

Not to worry … there are more important things in life!!!

Anyways, best of luck with your studies everyone and keep up the good work.

daniel-san i love your site

Rob-san,
Indeed it is !
Gambatte, ne!!!

Hey JP101 Crew and Listeners!

Great Story, I love it! Keep it up specially the english translation from Peter-san!

The gambler and his invisible cloak remind me of Harry potter’s invisible cloak too! I like stories that are similar to Harry potter or The Lord Of The Rings! S_R_C

Not bad, it really can occur