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English Guide For Nico Nico Douga, Part 2: How To Use. Using TV Dramas to Improve Your Japanese (or Any Language) Index. The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre - R. Lifestyle/Culture/Journal/Comedy Lifestyle: - NanalifeRating: 8Ease: Great for all levels, inviting material for beginners.Review: This is a podcast aimed for women with a calm feel to it, but there's nothing wrong with men listening as well. It's very relaxing and most of the topics are related to health, beauty, aroma therapy, horoscopes, aging, etc. Good for if you have a playlist designated for sleeping/relaxing. - Taken down A Piece of LaughingRating: 9Ease: Good for beginners but may lean more towards intermediate and advanced.Review: As far as I can tell, this seems to be very worthy of listening to.

It’s a woman who talks reflectively kind of how the guy in Life is Comedy talks. . - "Tokyo Local" If you want to hear what I consider Tokyo Local at its best, go HERE for the older episodes that still had Manabe and Kakki. . - ラジオ「女子だけ体育館に集合!!」 - 「ラジカントロプス2.0 _ AM1422kHz ラジオ日本」 - “Radio Cantaloupes (?)” - 「寝 るまでまって・・・」- “Wait Until Bedtime...”Rating: 7.5Ease: Intermed. to advanced. Culture: まりもえお! Podcasts: Simulate Real Japanese Friends. Here at AJATT, we (me? I?) Are (am?) All about input. Input, input, input. And that works well for written Japanese. But what about regular spoken Japanese? Well, hang out with Japanese people. One of my favorite ways to simulate having Japanese friends is (was?

By the way, this isn’t another instance of me trying to force gentlemen to talk like ladies :). Perhaps the coolest thing about Marimoe podcasts is that they have the quality of being both very natural (as if you just happened to be listening to three native speakers having a normal conversation), and very professional in that they actually do/did the podcasts on a regular basis; they pick something of a topic in advance and there are no dumb pauses — none of the narcissism and repetition of poorly done podcasts: “うん・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ええと・・・”…I mean, after a while, that just gets too much. Anyway, definitely give it a try. Wow! RhinoSpike : Foreign Language Audio on Demand! ニコニコ動画(原宿) Podcasts for Japanese language learners | yonasu.com. Published on January 22nd, 2011. This is my first (and hopefully not the last) guest post here at yonasu (thanks for the opportunity!)

Moreover, this is the first time I’m trying to post two related articles at the same time, one as a guest post, and one on the NihongoUp Japanese language & culture blog. I hope this experiment works well, and helps our readers discover more interesting blogs about Japan and Japanese. On the NihongoUp Blog, I’ve posted an article on how to use discover, organize, and listen to podcasts on Windows Phone 7 devices. This, the sister article to that post, will focus on selecting the best content to put on your mobile device. Of course, these podcasts aren’t limited to just WP7 devices, and you can also subscribe to them with Miro, iTunes, or download directly on their websites. OneMinute Japanese Although the whole ‘product’ feels quite polished, this podcast leaves a lot to be desired. Japancast JapanesePod101 Japanese with Beb and Alex Osaka dialect.