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Last Friday, March 17th, Sakura, Takase, Jonas, David and Peter gave a presentation at the Apple Store in Ginza for the Mac User Group, a great group of over acheivers! The presentation went extremely well as the Mac User Group went out of their way to make sure everything went off without a hitch. We would especially like to thank Bob-san (front row, red tie) for the invitation, as this forum provided us with an excellent chance to speak about what we are doing and meet some of our listeners! Quite a few showed up, including one from Florida!! (Although he was in town on family business, we like to think he came to see us!) Afterwards we went to a nearby pub, and chatted the night away! For those interested in Mac, this is the group for... Show more

Please join me in thanking our good friend and devoted listener Athena-San (aka Athara) for taking the time out to register Japanesepod101 on Frappr. For those of you who are not familiar with it, Frapper, which stands for Friend Mapper, is an online tool that lets you map out the city where you live or work, share photos, and leave messages. So put yourself on the map by clicking here.

Dear Listeners, We would like to apologize in advance for any trouble experienced as a result of the major overhaul of our naming system. After the stark realization that our hybrid naming system based on the Dewey decimal system and the direction of the wind blowing on that particular day was not adequate to bring you the best possible product, we undertook the MAJOR task of renaming and standardizing our naming system. Thank you for your understanding. We hope that our new naming system will reduce confusion and aid in the organization of our files. The change in file names should not impact your ability to download our daily podcasts. Please note that podcasts that you have already downloaded may appear as new files in iTunes,... Show more

Last Friday, we received a visit from Favianna Rodriguez a talented and sucessful artist from the Bay Area (California)! Everyone at JapanesePod101.com was wowed by her energy level, personality and the fact that she brought us Ghirardelli Chocolates (Gone in 60 seconds)! We can't thank her enough, as it was great meeting and getting to know her. You can find out more about the talented Favianna-san and her art work by clicking here. Favianna-san managed to track down some more members of the JapanesePod101.com team. So, we would like to introduce you to Sasahara-sensei, Takase and Jonas. Starting from the left: Kazunori (JPod101.com's Alpha-male), Natsuko (holding the Japanese Journal Favianna's art work appeared in), Favianna,... Show more

皆さん、(Mina-san) Apparently armadillos hold grudges!!!! The one that caused all the problems last week was not happy about the way he was roughly escorted off the premises, and he showed up again! And, this time with friends!! Due to the loss of natural predators, their population is uncharacteristically high! This fact combined with our light security crew led to us being overun quickly! The small pack of them did quite a number on us, until we apologized profusely! The end result is that things should be much better now. If anyone is experiencing extremely slow download times with itunes please go to iTunes� --> podcasts, RIGHT click JapanesePod101.com and choose "Podcast Update". This should return download speeds to normal. We have... Show more

Mina-san, hontou ni arigatou gozaimasu!本当にありがとうございます！ We just wanted to take the time to thank all our listeners. Thanks to you, JapanesePod101.com was mentioned in the Japan Times. Thanks to YOU the listeners, our Japanese community will be exposed to a larger audience as a result of this coverage. JapanesePod101.com would like to thank YOU for the role you played in this and for increasing exposure of the language we all love! Thank you! Arigatou Gozaimasu!ありがとうございます！！

Last Friday, Dr. Lalo, a doctor from Mexico and an avid listener, stopped by JapanesePod101.com! He was vacationing in Tokyo and wanted to pay us a visit, and he found us! We were so happy to see him! We went to the local sushi bar together; he tried the UNI (sea urchin), and he loved it!! He did all the ordering himself! Dr. Lalo made sure we took some pictures to share with all of you, so "Hello listeners, here we are!" Starting from the left: Kazunori (JPod101.com's Alpha-male), Peter (holding an o-miyage (souvenir) from Dr. Lalo), Kazu (That face is on purpose!), Dr. Lalo, Natsuko, Sakura(holding another o-miyage (souvenir) from Dr. Lalo), and Hatsumi. This is just the first of many pictures and videos to come. We hope you enjoy... Show more

Learn advanced Japanese with JapanesePod101.com. Today we introduce you to Japanese riddles! This is sure to boggle your mind. Not only did we bring you a great riddle, we brought in a true pro to do the reading! You don't want to miss this chance to get used to a type of voice you probably don't get to hear everyday. Answer in the comments! Good Luck!

Learn Kanji (Chinese Characters) with JapanesePod101.com's New Kanji Corner Archive! We have realized the many requests of our sugoi listeners and have just added a Kanji Corner Archive to our website. Now if you miss a day, no problem! Just check the Archive, they're all there! To access the archive sign up below the Kanji of the day! Don't forget to bookmark the page!

Japanesepod101.com’s Travel Center was carefully designed to provide Japan-bound travelers with essential information, basic linguistic ability, as well as to tips you’d never find in book! From language education to where to go, here we offer something for everyone. Our ex-pat team has carefully sifted through their many colorful experiences and knowledge to provide you with all the information, tricks-of-the-trade, and useful language phrases necessary to make you trip the most rewarding one ever! For any Japan-bound traveler, this is a must see!