Today's Fun Friday was recorded in Yoyogi park with Alex and Karamoon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Fun Friday: Absolutely Fabulous in TokyoToday's Fun Friday was recorded at Agave in Roppongi with the lovely Liz and Kelly, authors of the "Tokyo in Heels" blog which can be found at the Tokyo Weekender Website. The podcast was spiced up a little with a few frozen margaritas and delicious Mexican food. It's a hard job but someone has to do it. We mostly talked about fashion in Tokyo and the sorry state of my current wardrobe. Here is a basic timeline and list of topics we touched in during the podcast. (00:00)Intro musi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#96 The Latest Craze From JapanIn this episode, Waka sensei teaches us the word "Hayari". It has various uses and meanings including "popular" or something that is in fashion. For more detailed show notes and explanations please visit the main site at http://learnjapanesepod.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Fun Friday For 9th October 2009This week's Fun Friday was recorded in Shinjuku with Jim, Sandra and Miki. For more information on this podcast please visit http://learnjapanesepod.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#95 Show NotesShow notes for lesson #95Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#95 Daijoubu?Waka sensei and Alex are back after a long summer break to bring you the latest Learn Japanese Pod Lesson. This week's lesson is "Daijobu" which means OK or alright. Check out the main site for detailed show notes at http://learnjapanesepod.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Fun Friday for 2nd October 2009Tonight's Fun Friday was held in The Pink Cow, a cool restaurant/bar/artists hub located in Shibuya. I was joined by Daniel, Yukki, Sandra and Jim who all injected some fun into the Fun Friday. Topics we covered included: The Japanese cultural night at The Pink Cow which will be held on 18th October, earthquake prediction, Sandra's Japanese poster competition, John Cusack and R.Kelly. For more information, links, maps and more please visit http://learnjapanesepod.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Fun Friday for 24th September 2009This podcast was recorded at the Namaste India Festival held in Yoyogi on 25th and 25th September 2009. In this podcast you can hear the sounds of the festival and some interviews with people who came along to experience it. A big thanks to all those who appeared in the Podcast. http://learnjapanesepod.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#3 Days of the week (VIDEO)VIDEO LESSON: Days of the weekListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
ALT RapALT RAPLYRICS: HOLBROOK & SANDERSMUSIC: ALEX BROOKEA Cafe Velo productionThis is a fun rap about teaching as an ALT ( assistant language Teacher ) on JET ( Japan Exchange Teaching program ) in Osaka. I tried submitting this to the online JET forum but got banned by the administrator ! Hopefully you JETs might get a kick out of this.Big shout to Rob who appeared in the video and co-wrote the lyrics. Also a big shout out to John Sanders in washington state! We filmed this near Nakatsu by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
gesturesCan you guess what this gesture means ? Check out this video !Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What's your favorite word ?Find out the weird and wonderful words revolving around the brains of those wonderful Kansai people ! äçåã??ã?èèã?ã?ãã?ã?ãã?ïã?ã?èå?ãéèã?äã?è?ã??ã?ã?ã?ãã?ã?ã?ï?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
KANJI VIDEO 1 NUMBERSAll credit goes to artist and designer Stan Fairbank who is collaborating with Learn Japanese to make these great videos for learning Kanji. You can check out his excellent website at www.endless.com This week we are studying numbers.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Drinking with BebIt's Golden week in Japan and the Learn Japanese team are letting their hair down. On an invite by Rob we went to Maruchika, a nice little Tachinomiya (standing bar) near Nodahanshin in Osaka. Beb filmed and edited the video. She also sang and composed the music. We'll be back to our usual program next week. In the mean time, Kampai !Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Makiko JikoshoukaiFind out about the wonderful Makiko in her own words for this week's installment of Friday Fun and Jikoshokai (self introduction). The transcript is here. We will be featuring more self introductions in the future on the Friday Fun segment. If you want to find out more about Makiko's home made soap you can email her hereListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
KANJI VIDEO 2 COLOURSIt's video time again and this week we are studying numbers. This video was created by the multi talented Mr Stan Fairbank. If you liked this video then check out Kanji videos 1, Makiko's self intro, Drinking with Beb, What's your favorite word ? days of the week and the famous ALT Rap ! You can also see a veritable cornucopia of videos relating to life in Japan and more at our sister site News From The Other Side.Yoroshiku very much ! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
KANJI VIDEO 3 NATUREThis week's video is about natureListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Fun Friday"I like meat!"I like this video by the famous El Gringo A.K.A Rob Holbrook. You get to hear some interesting Osaka dialect and see a typical Japanese yakiniku party. This video first made an appearnce on www.newsfromtheotherside.com however El Gringo has kindly lent it to us to use on Learn Japanese. Thanks Rob ! By the way, if you liked this podcast then why not show your appreciation by sending us a small donation to help with bandwidth and other running costs. It's that little cute button on the top r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website