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Beginner Lesson #3: Adjectives and the 「の」 particle

Tae Kim — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:09:18 +0000

Beginner Japanese Lesson #3: Adjectives and the 「の」 particle (length: 28:56) and original lesson details. Here is the recording for the third beginner Skype lesson. You can subscribe to this podcast with iTunes from the following link: Subscribe to this podcast with iTunes This time, you can tell it’s spring because of the background noises from the birds. [...]

So many ways to say, “say”!

Tae Kim — Fri, 05 May 2006 03:57:13 +0000

Just when you thought I was making empty promises, here is the third and final post devoted to the word 「言う」 and the wait was worth it because the third post is a podcast!

Various Slang for 「言う」 (length: 14:19)

This podcast features Akina as our guest as we discuss various slang for 「言う」 such as pronouncing it as 「ゆう」 or replacing 「という」 with 「つ」. We also get an explanation of 「というか」 in Japanese as well as looking at variations such as 「ていうか」、「つうか」、and 「てか」.

It’s a bird. It’s a plane! No, it’s yet another podcast!

Tae Kim — Fri, 05 May 2006 01:20:43 +0000

Thanks to the new site update (Thanks Yves!), I have set up the Skype lessons as a podcast. If you’re still stuck in the “early internet era” and is unfamiliar with terms like podcasts, web 2.0, tags, and [add your own meaningless buzzword here], you can get a very informative description of what a podcast is [...]

Beginner Lesson #2: Negative State-of-Being and Referring to people

Tae Kim — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:31:50 +0000

Beginner Japanese Lesson #2: Negative State-of-Being and Referring to people (length: 42:21) and original lesson details.

Here is the recording for the second beginner Skype lesson. The echo is gone only to be replaced by equally annoying static. It gets better later on but if anybody has any ideas on where the static is coming from or how to remove it, let me know. Those of you who are signed up for the third lesson, make sure you are familiar with the contents of the first two lessons.

Beginner Lesson #1: Greetings and Proper Pronunciation

Tae Kim — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:21:32 +0000

Beginner Japanese Lesson #1: Greetings and Proper Pronunciation (length: 31:22) and original lesson details.

Here is a heavily edited recording for the first lesson (mostly to get rid of the annoying echo as much as possible) and my notes. There is a very annoying echo throughout the whole thing, I'm very sorry about that. I will look into having that fixed by the next lesson.