Mina-san,

Do you have any メル友？ Have you ever met up with them in real life?

マーキーの友達のまにこさんはメロ友が増えると思う！

i know this is going to be a great series. and from the laughs in the banter, i think we’re off to a good start!

ericさん、i like your theory!

mina-san, if you use facebook, we also have a japanesepod101.com application, it updates your page with the most recent lessons.

今日のレッスンは面白かったです！私もこのシリーズはとても面白くて楽しくなると思いす。

ネットで恋人を探すのはちょっと…変だと思いますけど、”普通”なメール友がいて、SNSは実に楽しいですよ！Facebookもミクシィもやってミクシィの方がいいと思います。ミクシィに日記を書けますし、Facebookはアップリケーションがあまり面白くなくて、広告も多すぎますし、ややこしすぎますし。。。

Interesting stuff about Japanese social networking, but I have a question about the difficulty of lessons lately!

It seems like it would be useful to bring intermediate back? Now we have beginner which is super easy, lower intermediate which is also easy, and then upper intermediate which is super hard.

Are you guys planning to bring intermediate back from the dead?

HighBridgeさん、 thanks for the compliments! this is going to be a fantastic series!!

Philさん、 yes!
the reality is we have thousands of listeners at thousands of different levels, so… if we go too easy, the advanced listeners complain. if we go to difficult the newbies complain… so we’re always changing it up.

if you’re missing the intermediate level, i recommend (1) reviewing the old intermediates, (2) continue to follow the lower intermediates and (3) ganbatte on the upper intermediates.

by definition, “intermediate” means “really involved in the middle of things,” so it’s a very tricky space. the non-linear approach that we take for these levels means there is a high degree of fluctuation.

but at anyrate, intermediate will come and something else will go. right now we can only do 1 lesson a day. and there are only 7 days in the week…

however, if you’re looking for someting more focused on what you’d like to personally study, we can do that. FOR SURE.
if that’s the case, consider Premium Plus. then you can do private lessons with a customized curriculum. compared to the cost of taking private lessons or a university course, it’s peanuts. and since it’s one on one, it’s the fatest way to fluency!

>>but they can also smack me down without mercy

hahahahaha
i think we all know the feeling all too well!

we’ll do our best with sakura!! she’s awesome!

＞ジャビンさん

マーキーの友達のまにこさんが書きました It’s a nice picture, lah!

えぇ、Yuichi さんはシンガポールへ行ったことがあるんですか？
すごいね、シンガポール弁が分かってるそうですわ。