If you look on the home page, top right corner, you’ll see a link menu that offers an English or a Japanese version of ChinesePod. Click on the Japanese link and you’ll be taken to ChinesePod Japan. There, the hosts (one Japanese , one Chinese) take our lessons and deliver them to a Japanese audience.
I think those dialogs are a great way to learn Japanese and Chinese a the same time, if you are so inclined! I don’t understand the instructions but of course you get the translations of the dialogs. At the very least it’s a way to hear some Japanese and get the sounds. I don’t have time to learn Japanese but I love the sound of it.
And here are the hosts of the show, Haruka and Steve Shen:
Haruka
Steve Shen
Ken Carroll 凯恩
Cool, I might give that a try.
Hi Ken,
You must love going to work everyday! Okay, you are really keeping me busy now…if you start a French version I’ll just keel over.
wo zhen xihuan yong Cpod xue hanyu, jia you, ganbare, let’s roll!
我真喜欢用Cpod学汉语， 加油， がんばれ、let’s roll!
はるか先生、リサ先生よろしくおねがいします。今日からぼくはべんきょうがばりましょう！
I think Haruka-san and Lisa-sensei could chat a bit more, maybe after the reviews. I think it would be just as interesting to hear Haruka-san’s experiences with learning Chinese and Lisa’s experience with learning Japanese as between Ken and Jenny. Hopefully this will pickup a bit when they get to a little higher level of Chinese, but I’d still find it fun in these newbie lessons.
我觉得Haruku-san和Lisa 老师可以聊天多一点， 因为我也想知道他们自己的experience，是有有趣，对不对大家？
はるかさんとリサ先生もちょっとしゃべりていとおもいます、あなたたちの自分のこともききたい、みんなさんもそとおもいますか？
Chou Subarashii … I was already forgetting all my Japanese after spending so much time on Chinespod. By the way, another cool thing to try is to listen to NHK’s learn Japanese program in Chinese at http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/ , David check it out, I think they have “learn Japanese” in French as well.
Andreas in NY
David,
You never cease to amaze me - seems you’re a pretty good Japanese speaker too! The Japanese site has it’s own blog at http://jp.chinesepod.com/blog/ and we’re starting to get some visits from Japanese Chinese learners, so feel free to join that conversation too if you want to practice your Japanese.
Steve
You Guys are unbelievable. I am an American living/working in Taiwan for a Japanese Company. I showed the guys here Chinesepod and they said if only it was in Japanese-Chinese. I come to work today and there it is. I am a hero because of your hard work.
The I was thinking about writing a comment to Chinesepodders on how you go about daily going through the site. So what do I find but you propose a way. It would be interesting to see if others follow the route you suggest. Myself I certainly listen before I look at the text for newbie and elementary. For intermediate I print it out if and have it ready if I feel lost. After that it depends on time.
I think this will be good for extra Chinese practise as well, as it forces you to work it out without the English, if you can`t understand Japanese.
It would be even cooler if it was Japanese Pod for English Speakers to learn Japanese!
Heya,
Glad you all like our newest poddies, funny how Ken and I have to look everywhere for our interns, but Jenny, Lisa and Haruka have no problem…strange.
Mike, glad we made you a hero at work…any promotion that comes out of it we’d like a cut.
…and to the final entry, we have friends at http://www.japanesepod101.com/ , good site if you’d like to learn Japanese as well (unless it starts cutting into you chinesepod time, and then we go to fisttocuffs).
Have a good weekend, enjoy the buzzwords.
Aric
I looked several times, but I don’t see the link…can someone post the hard link here? Thanks.
Barry - San Francisco
Here’s the link: http://jp.chinesepod.com/index.....a5d739b0aa
Wowow.. cute Japanese sounds haha. It reminds me of Tokyo Love Story … my fav TV series in elementary school haha. Of course I didn’t quite understand it at that time… anyways, I think it’s great to teach Chinese in Japanese, to explore differences and similarities of another language pairs . Keep it on ! And dont’ forget to make less mistakes in this version.
p.s Sound quality needs improving…
Barry, if you want to subscribe to it as well, the feed is http://www.chinesepod.com/jp-podcast.php
Bazaa…..that feed didn’t work.
Anyway…got to go now…on the road to Phoenix, AZ.
Hi Cpod and Cpod-JP!
FYI, on your podcast, at the end you say please visit us at www.chinesepod.com. That’s without the front “.jp.”. I think it’s not entirely ‘easy’ to find the little language-preference dropdown on the English language site. So anyway, maybe some clue on the English website in Japanese or maybe include .jp in the vocals?
まいにち聞きますので、ありがとに先生たち、がばりましょう！
Barry that feed should work if you paste it into itunes or another podcatcher.
Are there any plans to do a cantonesepod?
I don’t mean to be picky but for those of us who want to learn Japanese is it possible if you could put the romaji on the pdf?
Welcome to the new host, he’s great!
I noticed when I learned Japanese, they like to practice/recite the sentence slowly in one whole string, and that ‘technique’ seems to have popped up in Jpod. In Cpod, Jenny usually makes natural ‘breaks’ even when going over something very slowly. I think this helps a lot with getting a natural feel for the grammar. Many of my Japanese friend’s Chinese pronunciation is quite poor, I think partly b/c of this learning style.
Looks to me like you might have found your ‘guy’ Jenny.
Bazza, no plans to do a Catonese feed for now.
Matt, I’ll see about the romaji.
Steven, the new host, has some real potential. Meanwhile, Japanese CpPod is racing up the charts on Japanese iTunes. He’s going to be busy.
谢谢, Ken!! Also about the Bloopers epiosde please?!! I also posted the questiion to Aric here:
http://www.chinesepod.com/blog.....-feedback/
[The Old Days]
I really think Haruka-san and Chin-san have now captured in Jpod the ‘flavor’ of the old early Chinesepods. It’s a fun, engaging, easy-to-learn from show now. がんばってください！ Great work!
[iPod Tie-up]
Hey! I just heard over in the Cpod-J cast that Shen got a new iPod. うらいまし! When is Cpod tie-ing up with Apple-China? We need it, new iPods for some of those hardworking Cpod-masters and maybe for a few Cpod 迷 !
[Steve]
I am really impressed with Steve, I think he really ‘gets’ it. His explanations, variations and tips are all very helpful. In today’s lesson he introduced time expressions and noted that if you just add ‘fan’ then you get breakfast, lunch, dinner. He also explained the nuance in asking personal information and the difference in Chinese people asking you where you live vs. Japanese intros. I think this must reflect a lot of his own language studies and he is very well spoken and enthusiastic.
He’s really ramped up the blog comments, I think it would help drive some listeners there if at the end of the podcast they mention the Comments Tab and Blog.
If there’s time, why not invite him over to the ‘advanced’ Cpod cast.
zheee wei 再见！
David,
We couldn’t agree more, he’s really doing a good job. You might have noticed a few weeks ago, when he stopped by the studio to lend his voice to the dialogs, a few people actually wondered if his “booming” sound was computer generated.
I think bringing him over from time to time for the advanced feed is a definite possibility.
Aric
Hi Jpod,
Like most things in China today, things move pretty quickly.
Looks like Lisa-sensei has moved on. Although it’s a bit overdue,
if possible, I’d like to extend my thanks as a listener for her time at Jpod and say a proper good-bye.
ありがとう、リサさん。元気でね。
Great job Cpod crew. You must be comended for such a good service. I listen daily and Im making progress in my zhongwen. When I was younger (20yrs ago) I was inlove with female jazz vocalists, and often the voice of the female djays who hosted the radio jazz show. However I now find my self loving Jenny\’s beautiful accent, voice and spark. You both play of each other very well. Hen Bang!
Checking out this page for the first time, nice pix. Lisa is the one wearing the tie, right?
いつも楽しく中国語ポッドキャスト聞かせていただいています。以前上海と北京に留学していたので、大体中国語は分かっていると思いましたが、ここで聞いていると文法の勉強になりました。歌唱什么什么など単語を逆にするところは本当に勉強になりました。
お酒のことで、中国の代表的なお酒を紹介してください。中国人のお客さんがいるのでいろいろ理解したいので。
Umm…is Jpod just going thru an upgrade or is it coming to a close? I didn’t have time to read the Japanese notice before it re-directed to Cpod, and it looks like Jpod references are all disappearing.
What does that mean?
Hi Matt, you’ve seen the info on Jpod’s sabbatical to study economics and open up a pet store? How does everyone make that nice ‘quote’ indent when posting?
http://www.chinesepod.com/blog.....hinesepod/
What do you mean by that? A pet store and study economics? Uh!! Explain that please!!