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Free Daily Lessons to Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Next week, our new seasons begin! The office is closed for the New Year’s holiday, but we’re so excited about 2008 that we wanted to tell everyone a little bit about what to expect. Next week we’ll be starting all new seasons and launching a new level, Upper Intermediate. Also, we have lots of goodies for Premium members around the corner. Everybody here is so excited we can hardly contain ourselves! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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32 Responses to “News #54 - New Seasons for the New Year”

JapanesePod101.com says:

New 2008 Schedule

月・Newbie
火・Beginner Season 2
水・Miki’s Blog, Japanese Culture Class, Wildcard Lessons, News
木・Lower Intermediate
金・Upper Intermediate!

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watermen says:

Wow… Business Japanese I like the idea.

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maxiewawa says:

楽しみにしています!

ところで、月=Monday, 火 = Tuesday etc.

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Eric says:

can’t wait for the upper intermediate ! :wink:

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Christopher Thien says:

Looking forward to 2008 from Melbourne Australia

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JockZon (JZ) says:

Oh boy, another season of japanese ;D I hope I will get time for this.

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Liz21 says:

I can’t wait to use the Video Vocabulary!!! :dogeza:

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デボン says:

Upper Intermediate?! Is that the same level as Intermediate now that we don’t have that or could it be higher?!?!?! :neutral:

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デボン says:

ところで、楽しみしています! :mrgreen:

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the dude says:

What do you mean Intermediate that we don’t have? My head spins every Friday, cuz your Japanese is better than mine. Sounds like it’s going to be harder though if they say Upper.

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watermen says:

Is Jpod101 going to stop intermediate lessons?

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Alain says:

Wildcard lessons? I can’t wait for that! What could it be?
Upper intermediate instead of intermediate? We’ll see!
Perhaps can you also write some jlpt practice tests for 2kyuu? And some more for people preparing for 4 and 3 kyu, as there was no new since long.

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rigo says:

wow upper intermediate and business japanese
scary
looks like i’ll have to study harder in order to catch up
looking forward to it

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デボン says:

oops! :roll: I meant to say “Intermediate lessons that we DO have.” I have a horrible problem with never double checking things I type…

I actually posted that comment before even listening to the podcast :oops: ! I was just so excited to hear all the new developments I guess. Upper is definitely going to be harder…

Mina san, Upper Intermediate, Ganbarimashou!

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asahiNYsurf says:

Sounds Like A Plan, I can’t wait for the great lessons to come this year!
:nihon:

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Sindyシンディー says:

Mina-sama! :wink:

Congratulations!!! bring it on. :cool:
月火水木金 :wink:
I also can’t wait for the vocab videos! :dogeza: S_R_C

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デイブ says:

上の方の中級の日本語を楽しみにしている!
これはとっても役に立つよ。

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João Paulo says:

I believe Beginner Lessons are already some Intermediate.

俺も新しいレッスンを楽しみしてます! :mrgreen:

皆さん、頑張りましょう!

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デボン says:

もう来週ですか?ハハ。冗談です。 :lol:

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kitty-chan says:

I always do that too デボン! :evil: :evil: :evil:
It always gets me into trouble :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wow, the anticipation is $&@?¥% killing me!!! :hachimaki: :hachimaki: :hachimaki:
Can’t wiat!! :kokoro: :kokoro: :kokoro:

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_petiteclaire_ says:

I’m looking forward to upper intermediate… But what aboutアグネスちゃん? I was listening again to the very first Tokyo Travelblogue lesson some days ago , and I thought there was supposed to be 30 lessons for her first month in Tokyo… And besides, some of the other ( i.e monkey) lessons were incredible…maybe we could have intermediate one week, and upper-intermediate the other week… I’m very happy that there will be higher-level, even more challenging material, but aren’t you afraid that business Japanese every week is going to be a bit tedious? One of the greatest thing about Jpod is that it’s fun!

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マーキースター says:

don’t worry about the business japanese! :wink:

as peter said in the newscast, the beauty of the new seasons is this:
we’ll be working on series. so instead of 1 story here and unrelated story there, we’re going to slow things down a little bit. you’ll see more interesting characters over the next 6 months, but also having 3-5 stories grouped together gives us a chance to really focus on certain functions and certain grammar.

the business japanese reference doesn’t mean Upper Intermediate is only business, cuz, yeah, that would bore everyone to tears. the great thing about the first 4 UI lessons isn’t the business focus (tho, that truly is useful), but is the use of humble and honorific language. it’s a great way to set the pace for the new level. but trust me, the next 2 series after that are non-business! :hachimaki:

expect to see loads of interesting characters and crazy situations over he next 6 months. some really good stuff is just getting started!!! :kokoro:

よろしくお願いします!

マーキー

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Peter says:

Mina-san, Happy New Year again!

We’re looking forward to another
exciting year of teaching Japanese!
In addition to this, we have some really nice
things coming up!

To address a few of the questions.

Business Japanese will rock. I am really enjoying them
as I am learning a lot about doing business in Japan, which
quite convenient as I am doing business in Japan. (hehe)

Upper intermediate is very, very hard. This will definitely
be challenging! 頑張ってください。

Our levels our a bit misleading as intermediate has always
blurred into advanced. With this seperation we try to make
lower intermediate a little less intimidating and upper a lot
more.:)
Upper will have lots of polite Japanese, that we have to
check again and again before releasing.:)
However, you’ll be surprised how much contact you’ve already
had with this material!
楽しみ!

More JLPT material noted!

Think Marky got the rest.

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デボン says:

well it will be good practice for the 2級試験that’s for sure!

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マーキースター says:

and about the jlpt practice tests. we’ve already had a chat about this before the break. :cool: i personally would like to use those tests! :lol:

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NickT says:

Can anyone explain the phrase used in the podcast, that Peter translated as “Just do it” ? I think it was something like:

始めてよければ全てよし

I have never heard よし used in a sentance before, only as a standalone exclamation. Naomi’s seemed quite suprised at Peter’s translation… is that really what it means?

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MexicanHat says:

私も楽しみにしてます

Upper Intermediate will be good Keigo does not get enough exposure. Even my teacher said young Japanese these days do not know it :(

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Greg says:

upper intermediate, yay!

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Abrassart says:

It’s gonna be strange to not have Peter-san in the Newbie lesson anymore (I know, I know, my actual level is lower intermediate, but I still listen to Newbie because those lessons are so funny. I’m a big fan of Fabrizio :lol: )… :cry:

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キティーちゃん says:

i love using my katakana name now!! :kokoro: :kokoro: :kokoro:

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Josiah says:

was there no lesson yesterday? today? :neutral:

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katakanadian says:

I love the idea of video vocab. I’d like to see it done in a more interesting/informative way than white text on a black background. You could photos of objects and places to show people who have never been to Japan what the Japanese versions look like. Kanji from labels and street scenes could be other sources. A basic example might be if there was a lesson on colours then you could show those that are typical of Japan such as the red used on torii, the jewel-like purple seen in shrines, the indigo used for tie-dye, the range of colour indicated by 青 (traffic lights, apples, trees), etc.

よろしく!

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