Comments on: Podcasts: Simulate Real Japanese Friends /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: Doug /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-1000035693 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:11:24 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-1000035693 I too found podcasts really helpful for getting used to the flow of Japanese. I found an entire podcast channel through iTunes (ニッポン放送) years ago that has not one, but several shows which you can subscribe to. After a while, I got a feel for the shows I liked and which ones I didn’t.

I remember one show in particular, they talked really fast and had lots of banter going back and forth. After first I’d listen and not understand anything for 10 minutes. But over time, I could follow along more easily until I realized that I could (more or less) understand what they were talking about.

What a nice feeling.

]]> By: erly /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-233670 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:11:20 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-233670 The Stitcher Radio app on iPhone lets you select Japanese programs on-demand, like NHK News, PBS, tons of smaller niche shows… lots to listen to all day.

]]> By: Drewskie /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-53324 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:20:10 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-53324 Yomiuri killed their podcasts at the end of last year.

]]> By: KiTA /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-53303 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:59:12 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-53303 Did Yomiuri kill their podcasts? Get a 404 error on that link.

iTunes now has a pretty extensive collection of Japanese language study postcasts. I’m grabbing an “episode” of each to see what they’re like:
itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewRoom?fcId=272741525&id=33

Some are a bit weird — like the one that appears to be all about learning how to speak with an Osaka dialect.

(Also: The Table of Contents page links to:
/wp-admin/Podcasts:%20Simulate%20Real%20Japanese%20Friends

Which is wrong — gotta kill wp-admin to get it to load right.)

]]> By: Mirmana /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-20630 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:56:41 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-20630 At this moment I don’t know any Japanese, I’m a lvl zero. I started reading your blogs and a.t.m. my E is very high. I’m absolutely motivated. I’ve watched 2 Japanese dramaseries with subtitles so far and while doing stuff for school I listen to Japanese songs on my Ipod. I have the RTK books and started reading in the train but I haven’t used any SNS yet, which I’m going to do after I submitted this comment.

It’s actually learning Japanese about the same way I learned English.

About this blog:
I probably won’t understand a word they’re saying for a very long time – but I’m definitely going to download this. Thank you!

]]> By: Ashman /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-9836 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:29:25 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-9836 WOW! Just listened to the first episode of Marimoe. I love it!!!

Who needs real friends, when you have Rie, Moe and Mao inside your MP3 player!?

Thanks yet again, Khatzumoto.

]]> By: Brittany /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-6213 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:53:17 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-6213 Nevermind, I clicked on ‘download’, right-clicked on the long blue link and ‘save as’ and then just open it in itunes.

]]> By: Brittany /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-6212 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:48:51 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-6212 Wait! For those that have figured it out, how do you do it??

]]> By: Jake /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-5496 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:59:27 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-5496 nevermind! Figured it out! Thanks!

]]> By: Jake /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-5493 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:12:45 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-5493 Hey I am trying to download the podcasts as well and put them onto my ipod. Do you have to have quicktime pro in order to download them? I can’t really read the download explanation clearly enough on the site figure it out. THanks

]]> By: JDog /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-670 Sun, 13 May 2007 04:49:08 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-670 I thought I had tried that before, and it didn’t work, but this time it did work, so thanks! Phew, that saved a lot of downloading and adding hassle.

]]> By: khatzumoto /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-668 Sat, 12 May 2007 15:15:58 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-668 Try marimoeo.seesaa.net/index20.rdf
not sure if it’ll work, but…

]]> By: JDog /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-666 Sat, 12 May 2007 14:52:01 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-666 Is there any way to actually put this podcast on an iPod and subscribe to it like a podcast? I guess you could download all the mp3s separately and put them on that way, but is there an easier way?

]]> By: khatzumoto /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-315 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:23:15 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-315 HAHAHAHA! (爆笑） Wedding videos…

Well, Marimoe is a good apple, I think 😉

]]> By: Alex /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends/#comment-314 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:21:00 +0000 /podcasts-simulate-real-japanese-friends#comment-314 There’s something about amateur audio on the internet that I just can’t come to terms with. Everything they say in the “broadcast” seems so forced, like bad acting or awkward speeches forced on people in wedding videos.

Do you not notice it? Is there something wrong with me? I’m open to the possibility that I’m simply a bad apple.

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