Summary

It's difficult to "summarize" the booming expansion that has occurred with the Kaufmann crew since "The Linguist" appeared on Free Language over a year ago. That is why Free Language has numerous articles on the various websites and resources available through multilinguist Steve Kaufmann's web entelechy, including the many LinqQ [liŋk] podcasts, the LingQ method, revisiting The Linguist on Language and why not throw in a little thelinguist.com love, too. :)

This particular podcast is JapaneseLingQ, a roughly weekly podcast with mp3 audio content for Japanese language learners. Transcripts of the podcasts are available through LingQ.

From Website

What is JapaneseLingQ?

First of all, the name itself (which is pronounced Japanese Link) needs a little explaining. The first part, “Japanese”, is fairly obvious since we teach Japanese. LingQ is the name of our online learning system which you can find at LingQ.com. At LingQ you’ll study many different languages in a fun, community atmosphere. The “Ling” in LingQ comes from TheLinguist.com the people behind LingQ. Lastly, the “Q” is important because it forms the speech bubble in our logo and throughout our site and because it makes “lingq” sound like “link” (we think!) which is what our system does for you.

At JapaneseLingQ...

. we LingQ you to a world of real Japanese content
. we LingQ you to our revolutionary learning tools
. we LingQ you to a community of fellow Japanese learners

Our podcasts may contain interviews, articles, or audiobook excerpts but are most often just general conversations in Japanese. We will usually talk about topics of general interest. Please do send us feedback and topic requests. We’re always happy to hear from you.

After you listen to the podcast, sign up for a free account at LingQ (l-i-n-g-q.com) and study the full transcript using LingQ's revolutionary learning tools.

At LingQ, you may also want to submit writing for correction or join live 1 on 1 and group discussions with our tutors. Plus you will find thousands more podcasts with transcript. Come and find out what LingQ is all about!

Of course, even if you don’t decide to become a member, you can continue listening to the podcasts as long as you like.

Visit JapaneseLingQ.com

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Summary

This is a cute and funny podcast where a father and son have a dialog in which they translate funny phrases into English and Japanese.

I have added this in the Learn English as well as the Learn Japanese sections since it can be entertaining to students of both languages.

From Website

I’m an American who has been living in Japan since 1990. My other podcast, Herro Flom Japan, is listened to by hundreds of very nice people around the world. I work in Tokyo but live in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Tony is my 10 year old son. He likes video games, playing with his friends and his little brother Andy, dodge ball, card-based games and saying anything with the word “poop” in it.

Tony and I like to play a game where one of us says something totally insane and ridiculous in our own native language, and the other has to translate it. This is us, having fun with silly phrases. Caution: Podcasts may contain any of the following words in Japanese and/or English: booger, fart, dingleberry, poop, buttface or wee-wee. (Well, probably not wee-wee.)

Visit the Japlish Podcast.

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From the site:

"World Nomads present a series of podcast language guides. They are yours to download for free and contain all the essential phrases to keep you travelling safely.

We hope that in 2007 there'll be time to produce a few more guides, so feel free to leave us a comment or send an email with suggestions for the languages you'd like to learn."

Comments

This podcast, along with other podcasts by World Nomads, has nice entries with world-traveler action and a transcription to boot.

Visit World Nomads Japanese Language Guide for your iPod.

From the site:

"Learn Japanese with our free Japanese lessons in podcast format. We use examples from anime and everyday conversation to teach you Japanese that is useful for everyday life. Hitomi-sensei is from Tokyo and will teach you to speak with the most common Japanese accent. If you are watching an anime now and want to know more about a word or phrase you have heard, post a comment or send us an email."

Comments

Cool site with a good podcast that's been around since 2005 and offers a wide range of podcast topics and learning levels.

Also lots of other good resources on the website, including info about "Weird Japan", JPop, Anime and Japanese study guides and books.

Visit Japancast.net

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Lots of content on this podcast. They have episodes that touch on such topics as holidays, seasons, a trip to the doctor, classroom talk, weather info, family, sake, beer and hanging out with a flamboyant hairdresser! Practical stuff, of course.

You can even learn how to yell at your children! And a lot more, obviously.

Also, keep in mind that this podcast feed is also interspersed with blog entries, so not every entry is a podcast.

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