Yes, and it was almost exactly like Meet The Parents.. no really!

Also in the list of lessons (on the website) an icon for beginner s3 (season 3) and beginner s4 (season 4) might be handy. Of course, I understand there’s not much space there, but this would be good and necessary.

I met my Japanese girlfriend’s parents for the first time the other week. 楽しかったよ。

JP101/Mina-san!

I’m happy that Beginner S4 began! I’m the type of person that need repetion over, over and over again so I can get it in my head, Great job keep it up! S_R_C

Good job! I liked it

Minna-san & JPod101,

I’m excited when I saw the title Beginner #1!! I’ve missed out on all the fun so far and plan to strictly follow this new series. Thank you Naomi sensei and Peter-san for starting this new series. JPod Beginner listeners, isshoni ganbarimasho ne! (I hope thats the right thing to say LOL). See ya!

Mina-san
Konnichiwa

コメントありがとうございます。
Komento arigatou gozaimasu.
Thank you for all the comments.

皆さんの出身はどこですか。
Mina-san no shusshin wa doko desu ka?

Thanks! I am really excited by this structured continuation of Nihongo Doujo. I kinda lost track of the Beginners after the first series so now I feel like I can keep up.

出身はオオストラリアのメルボルンです。

よろしくお願いします。

ーTony

I felt a bit alone, following past lessons, just because I am still at Beginners Season 1. I am still climbing the mountain!!

Peter-san you are amazing as always!!!!
Take-san I am glad you still are with the group, as I’ve already said in a past post, I your voice!!!!! Can’t describe how much I felt happy to hear it
Naomi Sensei, konnichiwa. 私のしゅっしｎは　イタリアのトレヴィソ　です。 ヴェネジアに　とても　ちかい　です. と particle works only with cities as　'’私のしゅっしｎは　トレヴィソとポレガンジオル　です'’ . I just can’t use it between country and hometown, right?

*Markystar when you said : “(we can’t just say, sorry guys, we’re on season four, go back to newbie season 1 and let us know when you catch up!)”.
I thought: Oh boy. That’s exactly what I am doing. Am I strange?
That’s also why season 4 scared me a bit. When I saw the email I thought: okay, now it’s over. So over. Definetly, I am never going to catch them.
Well… I think maybe I should follow these new lesson together to the past ones.
As always, thanks for your *great* *amazing* job!

My girlfriend is going to stay with me in the US for 3 months this fall and she thought it would be a good idea for me to meet the parents to offer assurance that I’m not dangerous. The mother stared me down and asked point blank how much money I make and what I expect her daughter to do the rest of her life. It turned into an argument then cry fest amongst the daughter and mother while the father poured himself another beer and tried to stay out of it. Then the drunk uncle jumped in to try to sooth things over but only made things worse. My advice: 1.) Don’t meet the parents until your relationship is veeeery serious or you plan to get married. 2.) Don’t take alcohol as a gift as it sometimes brings out the worst in good people, and 3.) Be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. Whew! By the way, we’re meeting the parents again next week.

Angieさん、you’re not strange at all!
and you don’t have to go in a straight line either! for example, beginner season 2 and season 3 (and the other upper levels) do not go in a linear fashion. so you have the freedom to skip around (which i recommend to reinforce your listening and vocab, especially using the review tracks!)

Phil from Montrealさん、
sorry to hear that! something similar happened to me on another site the other day!
beginner season 3 is done.
we finally figured out what we want to do with “seasons” and decided that a “season” is 25 episodes (half a year).

Where is Rebecca now? And is some of the Newbie series caracters coming back in this new beginner serie? I hope so. Doesn’t have to be Fabrizio, but just the “Style you team”. I’ll miss them if they don’t come back.

great video maxさん！

everybody should make a video introduction of themselves!

marky

maxiewawa-san

Wow! Great video!!! Thank you sooooooo much!!

Hyunwoo-san

I’m looking forward!!! 楽しみにしています。

It’s taken me a long time to respond…

でも、新たなチャンスでうれしいです。一念発起して、日本語勉強し。読書は一寸難しいですね。

If it wasn’t for the kanji input method with my computer, I couldn’t have written the above sentences. 頑張りましょう。　　よろしくお願いいたします。

I struggled to get to Beginner 130, but I’m feeling totally lost! It’s great to come back to the beginning and “revise”. It’s amazing how much stuff you find you know but didn'’t realise you knew! Does that make sense?
Was it this lesson that talked about the pronunciation of the word “water” in katakana? Perhaps only Americans have that trouble, of trying not to say the strong “r” sound. We Aussies say “wata” anyway!!!!

JPod101 Team great lesson as always. I also started from the beginning and was resigned to the fact I’d never catch up. I’m very happy that the lessons will progress in a linear fashion with season 4.

My experience with meeting my Japanese girlfriend’s (now my wife) parents was very positive. They’ve always treated me very kindly and like one of the family. Everyone is so shocked that my wife’s Father treats me so good!

First time I came to Japan 4 years ago to meet the parents we went to an onsen in Nagano (my first experience). I had only known my wife’s Dad less than 12 hours and we were naked in an onsen! At that point I didn’t know much Japanese and he doesn’t know any English. Was a little awkward at first but easier now that I can speak Japanese a bit more.

Hi Jpod!

I have just started your lessons they are very good, but when I come to learn the kanji you do not include the correct stroke order. I was lead to believe that this is an essential part of kanji learning and was wondering if there is another section I missed that includes the stroke order, or is this just a big oversight on your part.

Thanks.

Tarkonis-san,
Thank you for your feedback! In our Kanji Video Lesson series, which we have started from this year, we talk about the stroke order.