Aaah, nostalgic. Now I’ve been with jpod in about a year so I remember when I really tried to keep up with all the past lessons. It was spring and sunny outside but I sat inside in the dark and listened to jpod. The memories

It feels good to listen to these easy lessons so that you feel that you make any progress and understand it all. Good job!

Ps. The site has a lot of layout bugs now. Maybe you are in the middle of some editing though.

Mina-san,
If you have trouble signing in, just hold down Control key as you push Refresh to see this beautiful new page!

皆さんおはようございます

I’ve been listening to JPod for about a year or so, and I’ve caught up with all the lessons, but I like listening to the Newbie series I have a question though, when Peterさん is talking about introducing people that you know, for example 　　友達の内山幸子です can you use the pattern for people above you, such as teachers etc.?

ありがとうございます
-Jordi

Jordiさん ＆Nanakaさん、
it’s great how much formal japanese appears at JapanesePod101.com that never appears in text books、huh?

but as for your question…
when you introduce 身内 you can do like Peter’s example.

but for your superior you have to attach -さん or -様 or -title to be polite, so try this:
こちらは私の先生の山田太郎先生です。
This is my teacher, Mr. Taro Yamada.
or an extreme example:
拙者の上様の徳川慶喜様でござります。
This is my liege lord, Iemitsu Tokugawa.
OK, well, no one would have introduced the Shogun in such mundane way, but if they had to follow today’s manners, I suppose they’d do it like that.

Finally Peter-san is back!!! BTW, we don’t get any lesson on Saturdays????

Love the new banner, something different eh?

ピータ先生！久しぶり！新しいデザインを作りに行っただろ！

I bet that the photos are bought from a firm and not made exlusively for jpod. Unfortunately But I could be wrong.

おひさしぶり　桜さんとPeterさん。Happy to hear you both!
あの。。。。彼女が図書館にいますか？WOW.　いい子供ですね。
I could not imagine my parents calling me during college and finding out what i was up to. uh oh….>.