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39 Responses to “Premium Lesson #1 - O-Bon Kaidan: The Abandoned School House”
Monday at 7:33 pm
Mina-san,
If you have a nice pair of headphones or a really loud system hooked up to your computer, we recommend turning off the lights and listening at high volume. Believe me, working on this story late at night when everyone had left the office was not an easy task. But we definitely think it paid off.
We wanted to do something different to say thank you to all our Basic and Premium listeners. We thought this would be a fun way (and cultural way) to do it! Be sure to check the blog get the full scoop!
http://blogs.japanesepod101.com/blog/2007/08/13/806/
Also, today’s Newbie Lesson 7 is also available!
宜しくお願いしま~す!
Monday at 8:39 pm
恐い!今晩はコンビニへ行かないでしょう。冷蔵庫の残り物を食べます。
Monday at 9:44 pm
Although I didn’t understand at all, I got scared from all the sound effects haha
Monday at 10:58 pm
Wow, he has a very spooky storytelling style. I’m glad I listened to it in the morning.
Monday at 11:15 pm
I am planning to follow the directions and listen at night with all the lights off. I will have it on my iPod. SPOOOOOKYYY!
Monday at 11:39 pm
very good story , i also listened to it in the morning at work
sorrounded by people
still it was spooky
good job
Tuesday at 12:13 am
Jesus Christ you guys scared the living $#!% out of me!


I didn’t think it would ACTUALLY be scarey.
WOW. Great job, JPod Team!!
Kitty-chan
Tuesday at 12:27 am
Great job! The voice acting and narration was really convincing, and the sound effects really helped to visualise it -I especially liked the ‘iiiiiiiiii’
Very professh, I think Mr Inagawa will be pleased. I look forward to tomorrow’s
By the way, is there any sort of special greeting you say to friends on o-bon?
Tuesday at 2:10 am
Really great story!! I just listened now, and it was pretty scary! Not good to listen at night, but at least I wasn’t alone!
Tuesday at 7:57 am
怖い!

物語のお盆は楽しかったです。
でも一人では聞に怖かったかもしれない。
大好きだよ!
Tuesday at 9:09 am
I can’t listen this….too scary to me I will have a nightmare if I listen this, so I will skip…..
Tuesday at 11:25 am
すごい!
Wow, great story. I’m sooo impressed.
Yeah, it’s scary, too. My (Japanese) wife is going to love it!
And that little sound effect at the very end of the second part of the lesson
(just included in the translated part, not the original)…eewww!
Actually, both the original and the one with translation both ended in “eewww”
Great job! Challenging lesson. So creative!
Tuesday at 12:05 pm
JP101 crew/listeners!
I LOVE GHOST STORIES!
Great audio, I agree with all mina-san!
Kitty-chan!
Tuesday at 3:47 pm
scary story. I’m glad! I understood about 80% of it!
also in the vocabulary, the pdf says 目撃者 however in the roomaji column the sha got cut off (or forgotten maybe)
Tuesday at 4:38 pm
lol… hmmm… that’s odd that it didn’t convert the entire word. i’ll look into it. thanks for the heads up!
Tuesday at 6:11 pm
Great ghost story, and lots of challenging vocabulary. Great voice acting too!
Tuesday at 6:12 pm
Great ghost story, and lots of challenging vocabulary.
Great voice acting too!
Tuesday at 9:47 pm
Bob1-san!!!!!!! 久々!We popped the cork on the sparkling wine you brought us last year in honor of KoreanClass101.com! You should come by sometime!
Wednesday at 1:04 am
Bob1さん、that was one of my faves. うまっ!!!
Wednesday at 2:50 am
I got goose pimples from that one.
Great sound effects, and scary narrator!
At the end, when Jun was banging on the door, the Japanese said that Miki は、窓を開けずに、ドアのしたを覗き込んでみろと. But the English says, “Miki was too scared to open the door, so she tried to peer through the window.” Shouldn’t it be more like “Miki was too scared to open the window, so she peered out, trying to see underneath the door.”? I was a little confused there.
Also, I can’t download the PDF lesson notes for some reason.
Thanks!
Marymoore
Wednesday at 4:08 am
PDF is not working?
Wednesday at 3:28 pm
PDF is workin’ now!!
Marymooreさん、hahahaha, you’re right.
Thursday at 10:37 am
Glad to hear that you enjoyed the Spanish Cava. I hope there will be many more occasions that call for it (and I am thinking of subscribing to your multilingual SurvivalPhrases.com, if I can dare to wrap my calcifying mind around any more languages).
By the way, my daughter is back from Spain, performing in the Saitoh Kinen orchestra this month. But just like the hapless character in one of your dialogs, I can’t get tickets either; anything directed by Seiji Ozawa gets sold out practically the same day tickets go on sale, which in this case was this past May.
Thursday at 11:18 am
Scared the crap outta me! Good work on the audio and special effect sounds! The voice talents did an excellent job!
kowai na
Thursday at 7:13 pm
Err .. the lesson pdf is downloadable, but the Romaji transcript seems to be missing …
Thursday at 9:05 pm
Can the first ghost story be downloaded through Apple’s podcasts also?
The last two came through like a normal lesson the first could only be accessed through the www browser and saved.
These are fun.
Next SciFi!
Thursday at 9:38 pm
Michaelさん、
all 3 ghost stories should be downloadable through the Premium Feed (so available to all Basic and Premium subscribers). there was a glitch that let #2 and #3 come through by accident - so some people got lucky.
as for sci-fi, i’d love to cover that, maybe something a la “Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure.”
Shiroi Nekoさん、
the ghost stories are written full blown native level, so we made a decision (also based on popular demand) to skip the romaji. (it would be like a japanese person reading a native english ghost story in katakana instead of the alphabet).
if you’ve got Rikai-chan, you can use the Line By Line script in the Learning Center and get all the furigana plus definitions
marky
Saturday at 7:15 pm
Nice one!
I liked how they picked a story in which a basic understanding of Japanese was needed, even for the translation (the similarity between ‘hoshii’ and ‘itai’).
Tuesday at 6:15 am
Wow! This was a great ghost story!! I’m looking forward to the other O-Bon stories, and maybe you’ll do more like this is October? =P
Thursday at 10:29 pm
it’s about 11:30 p.m. right now and i’m alone in the living room listening to this story.
思ったより恐ろしかったぞ
the sound effects…and the narration…such a spooky voice…you guys should make an o-bon vid and it’d get an oscar for sure.
Wednesday at 3:14 pm
potws-san,
We are glad to hear that it was scary. Why don’t you try this year’s o-bon stories? がんばってください!
Wednesday at 8:14 pm
Wahh… I love it, even if I am not able to understand it all. Who is speaking the narration?!? His voice is so
!
Monday at 2:17 am
Spooky, ne?
Monday at 3:21 am
Yes, totemo kowakute tanoshii desuyo! This is one of my favorite podcasts!
Monday at 2:13 pm
Jason-san,
Kowaikedo tanoshikatta desu ka? Good to know you like it!!
Please look forward another kaidan story this year!
Tuesday at 7:40 pm
FANTASTIC! Why did it take me so long to find this? Perhaps it should be a bit more prominent on the site.
I LOVE IT
Monday at 3:20 am
Simply splendid. Listened to it in bed around midnight, wanted to amuse myself before sleep, wish I didn’t. Really scary.
Friday at 11:53 am
I can’t resist a good scary story and Japanese have the scariest! Reminds me of Juon! I bet the ghost looks like her!!
Saturday at 12:32 pm
Sugoi na! I really like this story!!
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