Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In today’s conversation, let’s take a look at colloquial Japanese. This is the kind of informal Japanese you can hear on the street every day! Also, we’ll explore using no to nominalize adjectives. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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22 Responses to “Beginner Lesson # 162 - YouTube Celebrities”
JapanesePod101.com says:
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, what did you think about Take-san’s character? We we cracking up in the studio. I think he did a great job bringing that character to life! すごいじゃん！
Do any of you have your own YouTube channels? Do you produce video for it?
maxiewawa says:
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:43 pm
If the blog site of jPod isn’t enough maxiewawa for you, have a look at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=maxiewawa&search=Search
Please go easy on me.
Stan says:
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Dear Jpod101 staff,
Thanks for the “colloquial” lesson. I have been studying Japanese for over a year and still find the colloquial Japanese difficult to comprehend. I have been watching some great Japanese dramas on Youtube and would like to stop relying on the English subtitles. I wish you could incorporate some of the dramas into your lessons, but I guess because of copyright issues, that is not feasible.
Also, thanks Sachiko-san, for injecting Osaka dialect into the program as well. Keep up the great work!
Stan
JockZon (JZ) says:
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Great lesson as always but what bothers me is that you almost never go through the grammar point anymore. You just do the dialogue and then leave it. Just to complain a little 
As for you tube, I put some videos there when I played the piano with my friends (playing other instruments of course).
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=JockZon&search=Search
Yoroshiku 
Btw, Maxiewawa, I remember watching your iLove entry and being quite impressed by your japanese 
Miho says:
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Konbanwa!
Hi, I am Miho. I am teaching Japanese in Melbourne and found that JapanesePod101 is such a great program to learn Japanese!!! So I thoght it would be cool to post some of extra vocab for today’s lesson 
Today, I will post some of Katakana vocab related to internet or websites.
ウェブサイト webusaito
Website
コメントする komento suru
to post, write a comment
ブログ burogu
blog
ミクシィ mikushii
mixi
What is “Mixi”?
“Mixi” is the biggest community website in Japan. There are thousands of different communities that you can choose to be member of. Of course JapanesePod101 has its own community!! Some of you might have already been a member 
If you don’t know about mixi, It’s worth to check it out! It would be new way of learning Japanese!
Ja, Oyasumi nasai 
jimbobmcduggan says:
April 4th, 2007 at 12:02 am
and about 99% of the time it’s called ようつべ on the web (because that’s they way it comes out when you type ‘youtube’ in kana)
maxiewawa says:
April 4th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Thanks JZsan! いやいやいやいやいやいやいや。
I’m pretty sure that there would be no copyright issues if jPod used some TV shows in its site.
Copyright owners usually allow people to review/discuss their works, as it usually means more people will BUY their work.
markystar says:
April 4th, 2007 at 9:18 am
JZ, did you check the pdf? there was a pretty good one with this lesson, actually. covered the grammar point as well as the colloquialisms.
mihoさん、again, thanks for the additional info! 
jz & maziewawa, i don’t know the specifics, but even to use clips for review purposes, you have to pay licensing fees. discussion is one thing, but actually incorporating other people’s content is another. maybe we could make a section in the forum for discussing j-drama? i’ll talk with peter
JockZon (JZ) says:
April 4th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I know there were lots in the PDF about todays lesson but usually I get it better when Peter and the other crew actually reviews it within the audio lesson. Maybe it’s just me.
A section for discussing j-dorama could be cool, I guess
丸出し忍者 says:
April 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
This was really cool for me, I don’t see this in text books. Thanks!
J-Drama, huh?
Miho says:
April 4th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
>Markystarさん
No worries mate! My presure 
>Tonyさん
I am teaching at a university
Where are you from Tonyさん？
Miho
Matt says:
April 5th, 2007 at 2:12 am
This still isn’t one the iTunes feed (or at least it wasn’t this morning). All I saw were the .pdfs.
Miho says:
April 5th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
>Tonyさん
Oh Northcote!?
It’s very nice to know a listner in Melbourne!
I am actually teaching at Monash
Miho
Daniel says:
April 6th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Mihoせんせい、would you recommend taking a short course in Japanese at Monash? I’m thinking of doing one, but I’m not sure whether to go with Melb Uni, CAE, or Monash. I’m probably closest to Monash …
Mekon says:
April 6th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
These lessons are all so useful. I listen to every single one regardless of skill level, just to get it into my head. It’s helped me a lot in learning how to make sentences and I hope to start subscribing soon.
marky star says:
April 6th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Mekonさん、
I couldn’t agree with you more. I don’t know what your level is, but even if you’re quite high, you can still learn things from even the newbie lessons. the vocab is always changing up.
Miho says:
April 6th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
>Daniel さん
Couple of years ago, there was a short course in Japanese at Monash. But I think Monash Japanese Studies Centre don’t have that course anymore. I am not too sure if Monash runs short course in Japanese now.
My friend went to Melb uni short course and he said it was ok. But if you already listen to JapanesePod101 and know some Japanese already, Beginner’s course might be too easy for you…
So wherever you decide, it is good idea to make sure if the level of the course was suitable for you.
Good luck!
Miho
lulu_chan says:
April 13th, 2007 at 5:24 am
Markystarさん＿a jdorama disussion board would be a great idea. I know that it helps me further ingrain all the great learning here.
Stan-さん– I can relate. I actually have started to watch some jdoramas raw. it really helps . when i think of my japanese friends (and other foreign friends here in NYC) who have said how watching american TV really helped them learn english and the more colloquial expression, more than their classes.
一緒に がんばりますね。
Maxiewawa-さん、すごいいね！貴方は頭がよくですね。さばらしい！chinese & japanese?? wow. your videos were funny. thanks for the entertainment.
Warren says:
May 12th, 2008 at 7:08 am
I have a few questions about the dialogue in this lesson.
1. “いさみ: さいきんユーチューブ、すごいにんきあるじゃん”
Is the reason why there is no particle “ga” before aru because it is casual speech?
2. “こころのじゅんびはできた？” What does the verb by itself translate to in this sentence?
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Grammar: no, nominalizers | Function: pitching a TV show | Topic: YouTube | Politeness Level: casual
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