Mina-san, have you been to 成田空港？

（なりた くうこう・Narita Kuukou）　

Is Narita Kuukou still using such an old fashion computer at the custom?

もちろん成田空港へ行ったことがありますよ ！

But contrary go Eric先生, I could never get anyone
from the custom department to speak anything but Japanese. On the other hand, they were always very nice.

Btw, Eric先生はEpod101NewsFlashのEric先生でしょう？

Hi Rhys-san: Yojijukugo and Newbie Lessons Season 4 (this lesson) are new lesson types. You’ll need to create a new iTunes My Feed in order to get them on iTunes. Please don’t hesitate to email us if you have further questions.

So Rebecca is gone? Well, she could have say goodbye.

It is a never ending source of fascination to me that people with the capacity to write kanji should be interested in a newbie series and the first lesson at that.

Eric 先生いらっしゃい！

Peterさん、yeah, a lot of listeners listen to every level across the board. even if you’re an advanced student, you can also learn things when you review the basics.
it’s all about getting maximum exposure to the language!

Thanks Jpod101, I figured it out and all is well.

The lesson might’ve covered the fingerprinting and photographing dragnet that foreign nationals must now negotiate in order to enter the country. That’s my recent Narita experience.

Sean Somersさん、
what is there to “negotiate” about? you just have to do it.
but, well, it’s pretty easy, right? but naomi-sensei who wrote the lesson, will never have to do that since she’s japanese. next time we’ll keep it in mind.

Paul Cabanaさん、
that’s exactly why we started a new newbie series!

marky

Marky,

There’s a tacit political subtext to my little message. Obviously, that won’t make it into the lesson, but I thought it might be interesting for discussion.

Yamato. Yamato. Yamato.

みなさんこんにちは、

It’s an honor to be on board hosting the newbie series. Since I wasn’t caught and deported for smuggling in my pumpkin seeds (joke, joke. don’t call customs), I’ll be with you the rest of the season.

You never know who you’re going to get at the customs/entry dept. It’s a mixed bag. On the other hand, good luck trying to get the ticketing people trying to speak to you in anything but your native language. Back in my eager-student-of-Japanese days, I had whole conversations where I spoke only Japanese and the ticketing agent spoke only English. Neither of us budged.

Yes, I’m the same Eric from the ePod101 News Flash, but over there I’m known as エリック。

よろしくおねがいします

Congratulation on the achievements and the improvements.

I hope also that season 4 will be free of the annoying “take a listen” expression!

Entry from The Dimwit’s Dictionary — Second Edition:

“have (take) a listen An infantile phrase (SEE). listen. As inane as it is insulting, have (take) a listen obviously says nothing that listen alone does not. Journalists and media personalities who use this offensive phrase ought to be silenced; businesspeople, dismissed; public officials, pilloried.”