Welcome back to the Jet 2007 Podcast. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed so far. All 1100 of you! That's huge. We are so thankful to our listeners so keep those emails coming in to jet2007podcast@gmail.com.
This week we chat with much enthusiasm about learning Japanese. Chris, Colin x 2, Brandon and Doug cover methods, books, web resources and throw in a few funny stories to boot.
We quoted some web resources for learning Japanese. The links for those sites are below.
Colin H recommends:
Nihongo jouzu
Chris H recommends:
Jim Breen's Japanese Dictionary Server
Brandon recommends:
The Kanji Site
Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese
Colin J recommends:
Japanese Pod 101
Thanks for listening.
Podcast June 7th
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Episode 5 : Learning Japanese
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I'd like to add a note of reassurance to those new JETs coming over with little or no Japanese ability... At the Tokyo Orientation you will be given a small book called a JET Diary - it is a wonderful and life-saving font of information. One particularly helpful thing for your first week, when you're meeting new co-workers at school and the BoE is a section with all the set phrases you need to know, such as "douzo yoroshiku" (learn that one!). And even more, it has a great little 3 line speech about how happy you are to be in Japan and how you hope to meet everyone and have a good time working together - read it and memorize it - it's a winner!
Good Luck!
-Jason in Taisha, Shimane ken
Good call, the Jet diary is pretty useful, memorize it quickly though as those things have a tendency to get lost in the shuffle with the other ten million pieces of paper youll get at orientation
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