This lesson is for you intermediate listeners and you beginners who want to test your vocabulary. Listen carefully and write down any words you don't recognize. Japanese Lesson #74 As I mentioned in the show, here are links to follow us on various social sites: Paul Facebook Twitter FriendFeed MySpace Hitomi Facebook

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This week's episode is brought to you by the brand new Japancast Friends Network. Head to http://friends.japancast.net and sign up for your free account today to meet Japanese girls and guys who are looking for penpals, language partners and more. In this lesson we cover the often confusing phrase "yoroshiku onegaishimasu". With no direct literal translation, this phrase can often be confusing to learn. We hope you enjoy the lesson. Japanese Lesson #72 As I mentioned in the podcast, we're testing out "User Voice" which gives you the chance to give us ideas and then have other users vote on those ideas. Check out Japancast User Voice.

This week's episode is brought to you by the new Japancast Friends Network. If you're looking to find a Japanese friend, penpal, language partner or even boyfriend or girlfriend, head over to http://friends.japancast.net and sign up now. We hope you had a wonderful Easter. We're on spring break in our school district, so the kids are home making Hitomi's life a bit more busy than usual. We hope you enjoy this lesson. Japanese Lesson #71

Thanks to everyone who's donated to keep this podcast going. We truly appreciate your support. This lesson is based on some suggestions in our forums. Remember, our listeners determine the direction of our lessons, so keep those suggestions coming! Japanese Lesson #70 Over on the right you'll find a widget with a bunch of photos in it. Click that to head over to the new Japancast Social Site. Remember, anyone who creates an account over there AND uploads their photo gets Lesson 70's shownotes. Just send us an email once you've created an account.

Thanks to a listener for coming up with an idea for this weeks lesson. Remember, if you have an idea for a lesson you can create a short (less than 60 seconds) MP3 file and send it in for consideration. Thanks to everyone who donated to make this show possible! Japanese Lesson #69

Hitomi is busy eating bon-bons and drinking martinis at the moment, so you're getting a bona fide lesson for beginners. Thanks to everyone who posted suggestions over at the Japancast Social site. If you haven't visited them take a moment: Japancast Social Finally, here's Beginner Lesson #04

Thanks to everyone for putting up with all the changes and issues over the past couple of weeks. For those of you who only get this in the podcast, we've got a totally new "social" site. Check it out here: Japancast Social. Thanks to all of our supporters as well. Without you, this site would not exist! Japanese Lesson #68

Greetings everyone! Time for our first video podcast. Of course, this didn't go off without problems. Noticeably are the following: The sound just stinks. I left our big screen TV on in the room, so you can see flickering on us. Also, because we're not encoding the show live it took a few days to get it put together. Adobe Premier couldn't read the file generated by our camera, so I ended up bringing the files to work (shhh don't tell my boss!). Hopefully despite all the shortcomings you enjoy our first video podcast. Japanese Lesson #67

Wow - what a delay! Sorry it's taken so long. Well, in this lesson we cover one of the biggest and most common mistake we see our listeners making. Listen carefully! Also, we're giving away a prize in this lesson, so make sure you listen to the entire episode. Thanks for making 2007 so great! Stay tuned for the new Japancast penpal service coming soon! Japanese Lesson #66