These intros are awesome! Such drama! And they always mange to fit in a jPod promo at the end!
Do they do requests?

Hi there!

could you help me with the first line? I can´t hear the 3rd word, the voice is suddenly gone

I get: ” kino no ….. (blank). ”
If you can hear it, could you share please? Thanks

Am I going crazy, or does the intro say something about eating monkey poo? It could just be me; I’m always thinking of monkey poo…

Yeah, I’m with Psycho, I inferred ‘monkey poo’ from ’saru no XXX’. Then when he said to eat it, I thought ‘nah, they wouldn’t do that’

Javitzy
I’ll second that. It would be nice to understand
And I’d also like notes on the “by the way” comments on the lesson audio.
This just goes to show how much value there is in each lesson. “Why if I were rich and famous, and they asked me to be a spokesperson in an advert, not only would I do so but I’d do it for free!”
(paraphrasing the original Stepford Wives )

henjinさん、you posted right before i finished that mega-post, so i just saw it now.

when you say ‘by the way comments,’ do you mean the banter in japanese?
for example,
なつこさん、今日の会話はどう思いますか？
今日の会話はおもしろかったと思いますね！
that kinda stuff?

if so,
we intentionally limit that in the lower levels (newbie, beginner) and in newbie, beginner and lower intermediate we at least try to get some translation in there. definitely with intermediate we want to keep it mostly japanese.

from a manpower perspective, transcribing a lesson is really time consuming and unfortunately, there are just a few us here (only 4 of us are here every day!), so the honest truth is, well, that’s probably impossible at the moment. but it is a really, really good idea.
that said, there are people in this community who are genki enough to step up to the challenge, i think! and it might be really good practice for us all to try and transcribe what they say and post it here. i think max did it a few days ago.

one of my dreams is for the comment section to become more and more interactive. and recently, that’s been happening. and i try to devote as much time as i can hanging out with community. so, if you and other members start transcribing the japanese portions of the lesson, or someone makes a request (’i didn’t catch what sakura-san said at 07.12.30!!!!’), not only will other people chime in, it’ll get our attention and we’ll also happily chime in!

i think it sounds like a cool idea! (and fun!)what does everyone else think?
should make this a team effort?

marky

(jeez, my posts seem to be getting longer and longer, すみませんでした！！)

Marky, thanks for the response. ～た事がある Was covered nicely in a beginner lesson, and I use this in pretty much every e-mail I send my friend, it’s really useful.

Used with the non-past form of a verb, I understand it can be used to say whether or not an action exists, for example, この仕事は日本語で一日中に話す事がある (in this job, there are times when I speak Japanese throughout the day). I think you can use it to say you never do something as well.

My book also mentions 事にする (to decide on), and 事になる (something has come about or been decided on). It discusses 事 and の being largely interchangeable, although you can’t use の before the copular. Apparently 事 is used for more abstract elements, whereas の is favoured for more empathetic elements, and can come across as more informal.

I’m pretty sure none of this stuff has been covered, and most of it doesn’t come up in the wiki grammar guide either (my book is also very brief in explaining). This is probably quite intermediate stuff, but I think it’s really important in avoiding sounding like Borat when speaking Japanese.

My posts are a bit on the long side as well, but hopefully it gives you some grammar point ideas for the future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3bpKURyPbU
After finishing this, I realised I hadn’t done the latest lesson! Ah well, I hope it’s useful anyway.

Calling all actors!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IhAnmykdCU

And I’ll record the video when I find the time, and send it to you!!

I have one question:

さちこさんはどこですか。

I’m @ work now and can’t see the videos here.

Lookin forward 2 seein’em @ home!!

Marky-san,
Just use any digital video camera. Drop it into iMovie. Go to “Share”. Choose QuickTime. Save movie. You’re done! I assume you have access to a Mac!
Come on, Marky, do it!

Liz san,
thank you sooo much. 本当にまだまだですけど。。。＾＿＾ ありがとうございます！

I haven’t recorded the dialog yet,
but this is something different, my first intro video in Japanese.

http://hyunwoosun.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-post_31.html

なんかすごいなぁ。あぁ〜。その自然な喋り方がうらやましいなぁ。ずるいよ！私はもう４年間以上日本語を勉強してるのに。orz

Jasonさん、Maxさん、ありがとうございます。本当にまだまだって自分でも知ってるけど、少し挑戦してみたかったのでビデオを取って見ました。もっと面白いTOPICがあれば教えてください。　＾＿＾

Hey Miki-san, that was great !! That was a oishii listening lesson for us here in India.