yeah ~ its finally here

very interesting , just the other day i was reading an article in the Japan Times
about this subject

Guys, a lesson on Yojijukugo is such a great idea! Just when I fought I had seen it all on japanesepod, you still manage to surprise me!
Peter and Natsuko, you definitely rule!

あの、レッスンはとてもありがたいけど、上記の画像上の「以心伝心」の振り仮名は間違っていますよ！
編集役はピーターさんでしょうか（冗談です！）

Great lesson guys, this is really an interesting topic. I asked my assistant teacher in the Japanese class to teach me about yojijukugo but she was very reluctant to, is it hard even for native Japanese?
Also, this lesson isn’t coming through iTunes for me. Is this happening anywhere else?

ノーガスさん
Thank you for letting us know the error in the picture.
I fixed it.

watermen-san,
In this case, 仲 means “relation between people.”

Sorry:

I just began to learn some 3 kanjis compounds in the 6kyuu / kanji kentei on my Nintendo DS.
So I’m very interested with this new feature
Thank you !

In Chinese education, 成语 (the chinese equivalent) is never translated into English as anything other than “chengyu”, so I wouldn’t bother trying to translate 四字熟語 into anything other than yojijukugo.

ちょっとまてください！これをわかりませんでした！chotto mate kudasai! kore o wakarimasen deshita! I find some interesting the words of 4 kanjis but… I don’t see how this is so great I don’t see how this can help me to learn kanjis, to me this is only like a lesson of vocab and expensive to pay for something like that . Japanesepod should try to improve something more interesting… of course you don’t have the obligation of to have my point of view…

Aikawarazu, great lesson!! Biggup to Marky for keeping the intros tasty-fresh!

I was a little bit annoyed by the fact that Peter wanted to translate “ishindenshin” by “thelepathy”, because I’m very skeptical of the existence of thelepathy.

“ishindenshin” for me is more like being so close to someone that you share the same heart, so think really alike.

No need to introduce something paranormal here.

It’s really a perfect and useful category for us. Hope all Japanese learner happy for this valuable series.

Love you all : JapanesePod101Team

if anyone was wondering, the middle kanji with no hiragana under it says yojijukugo. I only know that because I know the kanji for the number 4. i was really confused for a few minutes as to what it was supposed to be.

Great new series - Yojijukugo ga tanoshimi desu!

OK. The dictionary may say that “ishindenshin” can be translated by telepathy. No problem with that. But Peter was introducing some exemples of situation of deep frendship, when people think alike, and then used the word “telepathy” in that context.

If you say: Japanese parapsychologists use “ishindenshin” in their publications, fair enough. But the exemple given by Peter don’t fit the definition of “telepathy” in my point of view.

So what are the other definitions in your dictionary?

My last post on this issue…

Mentioning telepathy doesn’t always mean you’re describing actual telepathy.

In most cases, even in English, we use the word with a metaphorical meaning.

“We share so much in common it’s like we have a telepathic connection!”

と言うことです。

Wow! this was a fun lesson and interesting lesson!

ビリーさん

I thought Natsuko said “Not necessarily .”

There’s a pop song by Orange Range called Ishindenshin, which is where I first heard the phrase. If you take a look at the chorus, the word telepathy IS used… and the form in which the yojijukugo is said (sung, actually) is “bokura wa itsumo ishindenshin”

僕らはいつも以心伝心
二人の距離つなぐ　テレパシー