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Today we want to thank Minty Fresh-san and Frank-san from Canada for providing two great learning resources!

Minty Fresh-san provided us with this hilarious video! I didn’t know if they were serious or not, until half way through. Very, very funny! (first video)

http://homepage.mac.com/pockyrevolution/Personal25.html

You definately want to see this! Thank you Minty Fresh-san! Please keep up the great participation!

Frank-san provided us with this great article related to “Osu”. This is an amazing article, well written, informative and well worth the read! We highly recommend that you check it out. Thank you Frank-san! Please keep the great participation coming!

Appropriate Usage of “Osu”
by: Rob Redmond

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2005/08/29/appropriate-usage-of-osu/

From everyone at Japanesepod101.com,
Happy Lunar New Year!

Learn Japanese with podcasts and Videocasts! Yes, Japanesepod101.com videocasts are back and better than ever. Today we introduce you to the Japanese taxi, which we covered in Survival Phrases #5. This is some rare footage that you don’t want to miss!
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The newest edition to our team, Kazushi Takada, a graphic genius came up with our new logo! Please let us know what you think of it!

Today Natsuko and Sakura said: Osaka(Oosaka)・おおさか・大阪

Located in the Kansai region, located in the middle of Honshu Island, it is the third largest city in Japan with a population of 2.7 million. Osaka is the historical commercial captial of Japan. People are proud of and speak with a distinct dialect, Oosaka-ben, akan and honma are two popular words.

In today’s lesson Sakura said, “Ohayou, Sapporo!”

Sapporo・さっぽろ・札幌 - located in and is the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture, the second largest island and the largest prefecture of Japan. Famous for Sapporo beer, miso-flavored ramen, and the Sapporo Snow Festival held every year in February.
Thank you for listening!

We have amassed some really good video footage that is scheduled to be editted very soon, so Mou chotto matte kudasai. I actually got footage of a Japanese cab and of how the door opens. You don’t want to miss this one. So just a little longer.

We received this great information about “Osu” from John-san in NY.

“A little information on the word “osu”. I have studied karate in New
York for 8 years and osu is the way that karataka greet each other
both in and out of the dojo.”

We will be looking into the orgin, so if anyone has any info, please keep it coming!
Arigatou Gozaimasu!
Thank you John-san

Peter

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Thank you everyone!!!! It was brought to my attention yesterday by Sergio-san that we are currently ranked in the US Apple Music Store’s Top 100 Podcasts!!! At last glance we were #61!!!
We want to thank everyone out there for making this possible. 本当に有り難うございます！

Hello Everyone, back for some email reveiws. First up is イギリスのクリスさん, Kris-san from the� United Kingdom. He sent us a great email with of story about using Japanese. Thanks Kris-san that is just the type of stuff we feed off of! ありがとうございます！！Please keep them coming.

マービンさん、東京から今晩は、というとこんにちは、ですね。リンクの件でありがとうございました！助かりました。 Thank you so much for our first German review! We loved it! That line is classics about getting it translated at Erklaren. どうもありがとうございました。

Alexander-san, thank you for the email and the kind words! It is great to know that you are picking up words, we do try to include a lot of what regular Japanese tend to say, as opposed to what is in textbooks. Interesting question about what’s next! We have to see what develops, but could be something in the works, sooner than you think!
As for Natsuko and our Alpha-male, they’ll be back! Last few weeks were really hectic, but we’ll get Kazu and Natsuko back down to the show.

Peter

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