I wanna take this chance to really say THANK YOU Jpod101.com crew.
Your learning material is amazingly good and fun!! You guys really helped
me preparing for the Japanese placement test I took here at my university.
So thanks to you not only I was able to start taking Japanese from the
second year class, but I’m also doing very well in it. JPod101.com helps me
review the material over and over and also allows me to be exposed to new
grammar, vocab and kanji before we study them in class. Both these things
are incredibly helpful to me!!
Not to mention that I’m starting to get withdrawal symptoms if I
don’t watch at least two VideoVocabs every week ^_________^

If I think back at what was my level in Japanese only 6 months ago, I am
really surprised at the progress I made. I know there is much more to do, but
I also know Jpod101.com will be there for me!

So again, thank you and please keep up the good work!!

Btw: I also noticed that my new ‘change’ subscription already started today, instead of after my current subscription :/ I’ve just sent a mail for that. Can you verify that? Thx

Thank you Peteeeer!!!!!!!!!
Thank you all Jpod!!!!!!!!!!

(This was a fangirl-attack XD ごめんなさい That’s only becouse I’m Italian… Italians all are like me XD 言い訳です The truth is that I don’t know how to justificate my fangirl attacks XD)

I can’t get a Basic Subscription yet as I’m not old enough for a credit card and as I am learning Japanese in my free time my parents think the purchase would be unjustified. I’ve only got as far as Newbie lesson #15 in S1 - for those who have followed these lessons and S4, I ask: Would I be able to follow S4 Newbie lessons, starting from #16 (this is the first available for free) without having heard the earlier ones?

Thanks for any advice,

Beki

@Arabela-san, please don’t be sad. Please remember if you download everyday, you’ll get every new lesson free.

@ジャービジさん、thank you for the great support!

@Codexus-san, thanks for the great support! (bow) Remember the most recent lessons are free. It rewards the long time listeners, as the had the opportunity to get everything for free. New listeners can get all the new lessons for free, but if you want to access.

@Allie-san, thanks for the support! Remember, just update everyday and you’ll get every lesson moving forward, which will be a lot.

@Will-san, thanks for the support. Grab a basic and grab them all, or pace yourself as you can download the next Newbie season for free by downloading every week.

@Louise-san, great to hear how far you’ve come! Thanks for pointing that out. Looking into it now. For your level Upper Intermediate and Lower Intermediate, Audio Blog all in Japanese and Yojijukugo would be really good.

@Angie-san, thank you for your support, and kind words. We share the same opinion and thanks for understanding.

@Regarding FREE
Remember, all new podcasts are free. Download every lesson from here on out for free. Think of it like TV…watch it for free at it’s regularly scheduled time. Get our stuff in a timely manner and your good if you can’t afford a subscription.
The basic subscription now has a tremendous value, as you get everything for as low as $5 a month. $2.75 while the CHANGE special is valid.

Then, what can I say? I always thought that 8 dollars for a basic monthly subscription were nothing compared with all the interesting audios and pdfs. I agree, 8 dollars is a pack of cigarettes or a pair of coffee.
I was surprised too that all those audio files were free, totally free.

Somehow I agree with who suggested to keep a newbie season free, just to let new users to get through the site and appreciate it..
Also, both the majority of “new users” and “young new users” will not look for material after the newbie level in their first steps, so leaving that free could be a good choice to keep making new users and to allow young users (who can’t clearly pay a basic subscription) to introduce themselves into this wonderful language.

My fear is that storing all the series in a basic subscription, somehow people will not reach jpod anymore because now is not FREE, so no new users can appreciate your work, then no new paying-users, then no jpod anymore
I know I am being “a bit” catastrophic but that’s really my fear.
You KNOW, you really know how much I enjoyed this site, the community, all of you so that’s why I am really scared

In the meantime, you can use the the Lesson Categories links on the right side of the page (below the “Japanese Language Solution” section and above the “Free Public Feeds” section.) Those links are accurate and include all the lessons and levels to date.

I hope this helps. Thanks for your patience and support.

I’ve been a fan of jpod101 for 3 years now, and although not my main learning strategy it played a big part when I was first learning Japanese. Now I’m JLPT level 2, part of a billingual speech club, and take all my grad school classes in Tokyo in Japanese so thanks for everything you did for me.

I actually haven’t been spent any time on your site for over 5 months now, and the reason why was that the buttons on the top of your site that narrow the posts according to category only point to old content.

I haven’t got time to search all the way through the newbie lessons and news and stuff to get to the content aimed at my level so I always just click the top buttons…. and for the past 5 months or so, the upper intermediate button goes to content from July, the intermediate content which I presume you have stopped making now (?!) is from January, and even the lower intermediate that I listen to for quirky phrases that I don’t learn anywhere else points to content from 2007!

Since you have decided to archive all of the old material into subscriber access only, I looked around the site and realised there’s like 15 posts that I missed!

Could you sort this button problem out, and maybe let us know which levels of Japanese you intend to keep doing and which you will not, because I’m teetering on whether to subscribe, but less inclined to if the content is in short supply or if a level is just going to be stopped in the near future….