Mina-san, here is our second kaidan for Basic and Premium members. We got some great feedback about yesterday’s ghost story. We hope today and tomorrow make you all happy (in a very scary way.

Jeez, you scared the living ©Я@ρ out of me again!! First thing in the morning!!

Is tomorrow’s story like this too?? I hope so!!!

Kitty-Chan

Well, this is a treat! I have been using the line-by-line audio while using rikai-chan to “read” the kanji, then scrolling down to English occasionally. It’s really fun! Line-by-line helps me so much! Thanks again for all the fun!!

Another good job! I could picture Ushijima and Miki’s dialogue in a J-Horror; voice acting seems to be second nature for the jpod staff. Everybody survived this time though

Romaji is a waste of space, so I think you made the right choice. If the translation started on its own page and was only one column, it’d save some space/be easier to read though.

I have to skip this again…..

I wouldn’t know I haven’t listen, but I won’t try either. I know it will be very very scary. I’m such a chicken for this, but I really hate having nightmares. I will skip this time….. and next maybe too.

Yeah, Furigana!

I’m not so sure about furigana. I always attempt to read the kanji the best I can, and use the kana for readings that I don’t know. With furigana, it’s hard not to read it when it’s right there, and I think it would end up becoming a crutch for a some people. It’s also quite messy, and inconvenient to the people who can actually read kanji.

The PDF’s are one of the only resources you’ll find with educated native level text accompanied with kana. They also give you the option to avoid using even the kana, and instead look up words with a kanji dictionary (like you would with a book or newspaper).

There are plenty of books and manga available with furigana, I don’t see why it’s necessary for the PDF’s. Except maybe newbie lessons, where people are expected to know next to no kanji, but if it started turning up in the other levels, I’d be pretty disappointed.

>>we’ll be debuting a super secret special series

I guess it’s not so “super secret” anymore, hahahaha!!

Rikai-chan is like furigana, except it doesn’t clutter up things. I like it!

Kitty-chan

Vicky-san
Come on, Vicky-san!!! This is really good Lesson!

And I’m so glad that everyone are enjoying the Ghost stories!

I second the furigana request, it is strange because I still have the first pdfs and there were furigana in these.

I would also like the pdfs to be searchable and ‘copypastable’, meaning the text remain text and not image, and can be copied (very useful to search for kanji in a dictionary for example).

Gave me the chills…

My first comment post. Most of the time I am content to read about what everyone else thinks. However, the subject of “furigana” needs my vote as well. I use romaji as a crutch, do not like just “kana” (It is harder to seperate the words) and would find kana and kanji with furigana the best solution for reading skill development. That said, Thanks for the great learning tool!. I enjoy all the podcasts at all levels.

Marky-san,

Otsukaresamadeshita!

We appreciate all of the hard work you put into the website and you probably don’t hear enough well-deserved praise on these posts. Whenever your o-bon holiday is, you earned it.

Arigato gozaimashita.

Steven from St. Louis