Since you included a bonus track from Miki’s, all is forgiven!

僕の出身はセイントルイスです。（アメリカのミズーリ州）
でも、今東京に住んでいます。awwww yeah!

You can just add 出身(しゅっしん) after your hometown can’t you? ロンドン出身です. Although, if it was established that you were talking about hometowns, you could just say「私はロンドンです」. This use can be more interesting if you are talking about favourite food or animals or something 「私はうなぎです」. Out of context, it could mean ‘I’m an eel’, but if the subject/topic isn’t being inferred, then objects, agents, and whatever else usually are, so context is everything

watermen, in the old days (and even in some more modern cases), when a Samurai brought about a great shame to himself or his group, it was customary to commit 切腹 (seppuku), a traditional (and horrendously painful!) method of honorable suicide. Here it’s just said jokingly to express how sorry he is for the tardiness of the lesson.

みなさん　Mina-san
こんにちは　Konnichiwa.

Alain-san
Thank you for the information. Recently my aunt came back form her お遍路（ohenro) trip. She said it was wonderful.
Even though I’m not a religious person, visiting 88 temples in Shikoku is something I would like to do in the future.

Delayed lesson means twice as much japanese on the following day….I guess that more than covers the wait…

I only know about 四国 though 村上春樹 ’s book 海辺のカフカ…it seems quite a strange place !

This was a really good lesson. I have the basic idea of how most of the particles work, but it really helps me going over them again and again and showing their uses in various situations. I got a little worried about the contrasting は, since I had only known it to be a topic parking marticle up to this point. The PDF made it much easier for me to understand.　どもありがとうございました！

I got to see a friend over the holiday that I haven’t seen since the early 90’s. Turns out that he is living in 四国. He gave me lots of useful info about Japan and really boosted my confidence in wanting to try to live in Tokyo.

狸!　I have known this since I was really young! Does everyone remember the tanuki suit in Super Mario Bros. 3 on Nintendo?! 懐かしいですね!

狐寿司と狸寿司を食べない？　

Is nobody doing the Video Vocab? I love having these! I bring it up because somehow this lesson’s video vocab is for the lower intermediate #58 episode - I’m just surprised no one’s mentioned it yet, and I’d like to get the one for this lesson if it’s available.