Right, time to go back to the beginner level, time to go back to the basics, and time to be familiar with the Kanji.

Hi everyone!
I’m Oskar from Spain. I have not heard this lesson yet, because I’m trying to listen previous lessons. I was living in Tokyo some time ago, and since I’m back, I have been studying japanese seriously. I passed Noken levels 4 and 3, and now I’m trying hard for the level 2.
Your lessons helps me everyday to maintain that Japanese atmosphere which is needed for, as Peter says, giving my japanese to the next level.
I’m recording CDs now for listening in my car on the way to office, so I hear four or five lessons everyday.

Ok, enough!!! This post was for telling you a big THANK YOUUUUU!!! Arigatô gozaimasuuuuu!!!!! Graciaasssssss

Yoroshiku!,
Oskar

Nanaka-san I agree with you YEAH!

Chris-san your right they are perfect for all of us too!

Oskar-san Welcome Aboard!

Enrico-san Welcome to the site! You remind me of Enrico from Resident Evil! S_R_C

ぜいこうちょう！

I can’t believe Yoshiさん and Chigusaさん。Well, I guess they know which side of the bread gets buttered, eh? でも、ごますりしないほうがいい。

But, don’t worry Peterさん、I’ll be brutally honest with you.

No. The lessons are planned but the dialog is not scripted at all.

I’d post this back in the New Years episode, but that was ages ago so the comments probably aren’t being read anymore.

Today was the first day back at school and two of my junior high school students said to me: あけおめ．ことよろ．the informal New Years greetings that i never would have known the meaning of had i not been listening to japanesepod101.

It’s not easy to find something to go along with very basic dialog… but after a little poking around on the internet, I came across this fun site with some well-done animations: http://www.how-to-bow.com/

To enter the site, click on “click to view sample movie.” The site defaults to the “make business” section, but to go along with Newbie lesson #3, I suggest switching over to “have a drink” section (the third link along the top of the page).

Once the page loads, click on “start film.”

When the film pauses, just click on the “continue film” link… and you should hear the restaurant owner and one of the customers exchange a few lines that sound very similar to the JP101 dialog! ^_^

No audio files for the vocabulary or transcript in the learning center. Any plans to have these added?

thanks for pointing that out. it’s all sorted now!
sorry for the inconvenience

marky

Hahaha, “sumimasen” means “i’m sorry” but I bet they’ll understand you completely!

Hi everyone! I’m having a really great time with the Newbie lessons too. I was a complete utter beginner before I started them a few days ago and I must say they really help, I love the casual vibe in the lessons.

As far as the ‘on top of the world’ answer goes, i had a few guesses at it but my girlfriend corrected me and told me that the romanji is ZEKOUCHO DESU.

hope that helps!

What is romanji/roomanji? Do you guys mean ROMAJI? (There’s no N in the word).

Kitty-chan, maybe they’re doing as the Japanese do, adopting other languages’ words, adding/subtracting syllables to make new ones.