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This entry was posted on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Audio Blog (S3) . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
21 Responses to “Audio Blog S3 #1 - Introduction: Meet Our New Japanese Blogger”
Sunday at 6:30 pm
みなさん、こんにちは！ Welcome to the first blog entry of Audio Blog Season 3. This blog is written by Mr. Takamura, our first male audio blog writer. Please welcome him with a message here!
ブログ本文：
自己紹介
はじめまして。高村と申します。
イベントの企画、運営を行っています。
また残念ながら現在はクローズしてしまいましたが、4年ほど前に原宿にMOGRAというギャラリーカフェをオープンして、そこに集う楽しい人たちと様々な活動を行ってまいりました。
このブログでは特にそのお店に集まったアーティストの話を中心に、これまでやってきたイベントのご紹介ができればと思っております。
東京は特に多種多様な思惑をもった人たちが多く存在し、それらが同時多発的に活動することで、すさまじいエネルギーとスピードをもって日々変化を遂げる特別な都市です。
私のご紹介する話もその中の小さな事柄かもしれないですが、またそれらもどこかで誰かと繋がっている素晴らしい出来事かもしれません。
Sunday at 8:36 pm
IMHO, this entry is a very good example of what you might consider doing for advanced lessons. The interview format is conducive to bringing out natural Japanese conversation with lots of interesting and helpful expressions for us to learn. This one was done in quite formal style which is fine. Others could be more like causal banter among friends. Just my 2cents
Sunday at 10:47 pm
You think that’s good practice then you should search the podcast directory on itunes. I recommend Suntory Saturday Waiting Bar Avanti
Monday at 6:22 am
JP101!
Great Audio blog! so far so good. Lets see how it turn out later on!
Welcome to JP101 Takamura-san, nice to meet you. 
S_R_C
Monday at 8:08 am
is 集う (つどう) the origin for the number puzzle sudoku?
Monday at 11:04 am
テッド-san
Actually, no.
Suudoku is written as 数独 in Kanji.
It’s spelled in sudoku in English, but it’s got a long “u” sound.
Monday at 1:09 pm
Welcome, 高村さん!
Great start to the new advanced lessons. The people at Jpod101.com made a great 企画. Natsuko sensei, specially, did a very good 運営.
There’s a 多種多様 of vocabulary and my 思惑 is to 遂げる a better understanding of spoken japanese.
特に、I think it was a very good idea to include the word-by-word interview transcript.
Tuesday at 1:22 pm
Awesome!
Finally another guy voice on jpod101!
While the girls all have very nice voices, I feel silly trying to imitate naomi or natsuko’s tone of voice and pitch when i’m a guy with a deep voice.
Please have more of this guy on the show, his voice is similar to mine and I’d like to practice imitating how he speaks japanese so I can speak more naturally.
すごいいレッサンですよ
Wednesday at 10:56 am
Jですさん
So please keep listening to Mr. Takamura and get your Japanese butch! Grrrr! 
Yes!! You have the right idea about listening to more male Japanese! がんばってくださいね! I can’t tell you the number of non-Japanese men I’ve met who sound like girls when they speak Japanese… not their fault, just down to the facts that a) most Japanese teachers are women and human beings learn by imitation and b) that textbooks obviously teach polite (= feminine) Japanese! One of my everlasting memories will be of in first year of university, my (female) Japanese teacher teaching us how to make telephone calls, and having all the guys in the class say “じゃバイバイ！” at the end of the conversation…
Thursday at 10:23 am
高村〔漢字はあってますか？）さん、
自己紹介ありがとうございました。次からのブログを楽しみにしています。ブログ後の会話も非常に良いアイデｲアだと思います。それを続くつもりですか？宜しくお願いします。
jpod101.com へようこそ！
Thursday at 2:27 pm
タネさん、高村さんの漢字はあってますよ！
ブログの後の会話、続けていきたいと思っています。楽しみにしていてください！
Saturday at 6:48 am
I look forward to stories of Harajuku
Sunday at 4:55 pm
初返事です！
2年間jpod１０１を聞いて頂きました。 初めての男のブログはとてもいいですね。
高村さんの発音や抑揚もいいですね。もしできれば、ブログの全てを高村さんいえばいいではないかと思っています。
今までありがとうございました。
スミス
Monday at 5:03 am
@Kat
haha, yea that’s what I’m trying to avoid.
You guys should interview some yakuza, or japanese men over age 50, the ones who always grunt and talk really low. Those accents sound the coolest. I remember one lesson from jpod where yakuza were talking about their kitty charm, but that was it. hahaha
じゃね！
（じょだんです）
Thursday at 1:23 am
せっかくやっと男性のオーディオブロッグです！ありがとうございます！
Thursday at 2:27 pm
Irvingさん
高村さんの原宿のカフェで行われたイベントについての話が聞けると思いますよ～！楽しみにしていてください。
スミスさん、
初めてのコメントありがとうございます！男性のブログを楽しんでもらえて、うれしいです！
Jさん、
Yakuzaさんをインタビューするのは、ちょっとドキドキしますね～。
Inuzukaさん、
男性のブログ、楽しんでくださいね！
Monday at 3:48 am
I searched the internet about these moviemaker Takamura san mentioned in this blog, named マッドシティー and I found a funny clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnL4fjMzsSU
Is that the guy Takamura san wants to talk about?
Monday at 1:02 pm
これはいいですね！興味深い話は聞けるようです。
私はサンフランシスコ出身ですが、今サンフランシスコの日本町に「New People」というギャラリーカフェーみたいな所があります。現代日本文化を中心にしていろいろなイベントがあったり、作品が展示したりします。サンフランシスコに行く方がいたら、ぜひ行ってみてください。
ところで、こちらも初めてのJapanese Pod101に投稿したコメントですが、よろしくおねがいします。
Tuesday at 10:44 am
Steven-san
はじめまして。よろしくおねがいします。是非、これからもコメントお願いします。
Monday at 10:17 am
Now that Japanesepod101.com has finally included a real Japanese conversation (the interview between Natsuko and Takamura)–a giant step forward for these lessons–how about going a bit further and adding a few helpful notes for some of the trickier passages? I’m not saying a full translation is necessary, but there are a few problematic places where some of us could benefit from useful feedback. For example, the word マッドシテイ, which is surely a gairaigo but is not immediately recognizable nor in the dictionary (it’s probably very obvious), or why Takamura says げん担ぎ rather than just 担ぎ. Anyway, it’s something to consider, ね.
Monday at 2:38 pm
kabukiguy-san,
Thank you for your great feedback! I like the idea about adding some notes, and we would like to consider it!
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