Mina-san, happy Monday and hope you had a great weekend! Here at JPod World Headquarters we have Survival Phrase Fever! For a few months now we’ve been brushing up on various languages in order to breathe life into our new sister site: www.survivalphrases.com. Getting by in Japan with a little Japanese will get you far, but what if you want to visit China? Korea? Vietnam? Well, hopefully we can make the visit a little easier and friendlier for ourselves and for YOU!

But to celebrate the launch of our new site, we are doing 25 Celebrity Survival Phrases here at Japanesepod101.com. We thought you could have some fun when you speak to your adoring fans in the Land of the Rising Sun!!

宜しくお願いいたします！

im looking forward

Alain-san, thanks for the feedback! Yes, this is precisely why we wanted to cover this! Often lower levels get the most polite stuff out there! The questions from the interviewer are extremely difficult!

Jono-san, thanks for posting! What did you think?

Max-san, what did you think? I thought Take did a great Depp-san!

Deppさんのくせに？そうだ？I think I missed it. Maybe edited out?

ピタ先生, you did a great impression of Chigusa-先生 in the ｢英語がはいります」 part though, it sounded just like her. ばっちりでした。

Good lesson, I thought for a second there that you’d taught Johnny Depp Japanese and were using him as a promotional tool. Nice to hear the lovely Ms Suzuki doing a lesson again as well (oh wait, it’s Mrs isn’t it? ).

I preferred the format of this lesson to some of the old ones as well; I found some of those hard to absorb when I was a newbie. Keep up the good work

MORE survival phrases?! I just got back from Osaka and Kyoto last week, and I brought the entire series of 50 with me! And now I find out that I was potentially still in danger of not surviving?

Thanks for providing these, this was my second trip to Japan and I was far less timid about trying to speak the language this time around. My wife told me she was quite impressed with my ability and actually decided to start learning Japanese herself! I can’t think of a better compliment for your product than that.

初めまして、ERICさんです。

I listen to JPod101 all day at work. Seriously, all 8 hours of it. I used to complain that I didn’t learn anything at work, but JPod101 has certainly changed that for me! Everyday I put just a few lessons on my iPod and repeat them throughout the day till I have it memorized. This is the first time I have seriously tried to learn a language and it is working I’ll stop by and say hello when I finally make it to Tokyo!

-E.E.

hahaha i can quote quite a few too.
we should get a thread somewhere to get the all time best lines!

marky

Hey Marky, my favorite quote from Peter of all time, “Abuse The Grammar!” I will follow his instructions!

Faye, if you like cartoons try My Neighbor Totoro(となりのトトロ). It was mentioned in an earlier lesson. It’s a kids movie, I realized I could understand a good portion of the Japanese without needing the subtitles. You should watch that movie. Most of the beginner lessons cover all the words you will need to know for this movie, even お化け屋敷(haunted house).

E.E.