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February 2010 Social Media Contest Winners!

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Every month, we are giving away great JapanesePod101.com prizes to 4 lucky listeners. Sign up to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or JapanesePod101.com to be eligible to win. Increase your chances of winning by following us on all four sites!

Here are February’s winners:

Facebook: Andrea
Youtube: Jaydub1810
Twitter: zmdane
Twitter: xylose

See your name here? Email us at contactus@JapanesePod101.com to claim your prize. Check back next month for March`s winners!

January 2010 Social Media Contest Winners!

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Every month, we are giving away great JapanesePod101.com prizes to 4 lucky listeners. Sign up to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or JapanesePod101.com to be eligible to win. Increase your chances of winning by following us on all four sites!

Here are January’s winners:

Facebook: Shoshana Stein
Youtube: giampaolo74
Twitter: Shigekoi
JapanesePod101: helokitti3188

See your name here? Email us at contactus@JapanesePod101.com to claim your prize. Check back next month for February’s winners!

December Social Networking Contest Winners!

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Every month, we are giving away great JapanesePod101.com prizes to 4 lucky listeners. Sign up to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or JapanesePod101.com to be eligible to win. Increase your chances of winning by following us on all four sites!

Here are December’s winners:

Facebook: Maria Falco
Youtube: guterbol
Twitter: JackiJinx
JapanesePod101: Hybreedz

See your name here? Email us at contactus@JapanesePod101.com to claim your prize. Check back next month for January’s winners!

2010 Lesson Schedule for JapanesePod101.com!

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Hello everyone!
We here at JapanesePod101.com hope you are enjoying the holiday season!

We’d like to let you all know about the great lessons we have coming up for you in 2010. Here is our 2010 lesson schedule:

JapanesePod101.com
2010 Lesson Schedule


Mondays: Newbie Season 5 /Beginner Season 5 (rotation)
Tuesdays: Lower Intermediate Season 5 /Upper Intermediate Season 4 (rotation)
Wednesdays: Particles /New JLPT N4 Prep Course (rotation)
Thursdays: Old lessons from the archive
Fridays: Video Lessons
Saturdays: No Lessons
Sundays: News / JCC / Japanese Children’s Song / Audio Blog Season 3 (rotation)

After a break in the second half of 2009, both the Newbie and Beginner series will be coming back for a fifth season! These series will rotate on Mondays.

Tuesdays will see the continuation of the Lower and Upper Intermediate series.

Wednesdays will feature two new series: one that focuses on the usage of particles, and one that is aimed at those taking the new JLPT level N4 test (the equivalent of the old Level 3).

On Thursdays, we will be putting out old lessons randomly selected from the Jpod101 archives. Take a trip down memory lane with these older Jpod101 lessons!

Fridays are reserved for video lessons. We have a great team working hard on making fun, educational videos for learning Japanese as well as Japanese culture. You never know what kind of video you might get!

Saturdays will be a break; no lessons will be coming out on this day.

And lastly, Sundays we will be seeing a variety of lessons! Along with the News segments and Japanese Culture Class lessons, we will also see new Audio Blog lessons. The Audio Blog will be going into its third season, and will feature new blogs written by the first male writer for the series! Another series coming out on Sundays is the Japanese Children’s Songs series. Don’t miss these interesting lessons that teach the meaning behind popular Japanese songs!

There you have it - the JapanesePod101.com 2010 Lesson schedule. We look forward to bringing you fun and effective lessons all throughout the new year!

JapanesePod101.comを来年もよろしくお願いします!

November Social Networking Contest Winners!

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Every month, we are giving away great JapanesePod101.com prizes to 4 lucky listeners. Sign up to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or JapanesePod101.com to be eligible to win. Increase your chances of winning by following us on all four sites!Here are November’s winners:

Facebook: Jason Horner
Youtube: StylishAssassin
Twitter: ColtonOsborn
JapanesePod101: mieth

See your name here? Email us at contactus@JapanesePod101.com to claim your prize. Check back next month for December’s winners!

November 2009 Newsletter

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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3. Best Lessons and Blog Entries for November!  - Find out what’s popular this month! The blog has some great content for you to see.

Welcome to theJapanesePod101.com newsletter. These periodic newsletters will deliver  to  you  all  the  exciting developments that are going on at JapanesePod101.com.  With  each  issue,  you  will  receive  the latest announcements, promotional offers, blog news, and forum news, while getting a  rare glimpse of the behind-the-scenes life at the JapanesePod101.com office!

Read and Enjoy! And as always, if you have any comments or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at contactus@japanesepod101.com

JapanesePod101.com Team

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October 2009 Newsletter

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Introduction

  1. Awesome new upgrade available for the iPhone/iPod Touch application - WordPower Japanese and now available for Android (the Google phone).
  2. Social Networking Monthly Giveaways! - Every month, JapanesePod101.com will give away one 3-month Premium Subscription, one 3-month Basic Subscription, and two of our phenomenal iPhone applications. Become a subscriber to JapanesePod101’s YouTube account, follow us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook, or have a free lifetime account at JapanesePod101 to be eligible to win!
  3. Best Lessons and Blog Entries for October! - Find out what’s popular this month! The blog has some great content for you to see.

Welcome to the JapanesePod101.com newsletter. These periodic newsletters will deliver to you all the exciting developments that are going on at JapanesePod101.com. With each issue, you will receive  the latest announcements, promotional offers, blog news, and forum news, while getting a rare glimpse of the behind-the-scenes life at the JapanesePod101.com office!

Read and Enjoy! And as always, if you have any comments or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at contactus@JapanesePod101.com.

The JapanesePod101.com Team

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[ IMPORTANT ] Back to School Special - JapanesePod101 September 2009 Newsletter

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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  3. Best Lessons and Blog Entries for September!  - Find out what’s popular this month! The blog has some great content for you to see.

Welcome to the JapanesePod101.com newsletter. These periodic newsletters will deliver  to  you  all  the  exciting developments that are going on at JapanesePod101.com.  With  each  issue,  you  will  receive  the latest announcements, promotional offers, blog news, and forum news, while getting a  rare glimpse of the behind-the-scenes life at the JapanesePod101.com office!

Read and Enjoy! And as always, if you have any comments or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at contactus@japanesepod101.com.

JapanesePod101.com Team

2009 Contest Ends, and Everyone Wins!

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Our $10,100 contest came to an end on August 31st,
and the winners were announced!
The contest was such an overwhelming success…

we feel everyone should be rewarded. :)

In total, almost 30,000 people participated!

160 won FREE subscriptions, but
we were so happy with the turnout,
we wanted to do something extra. So…
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Prove Us Wrong and We’ll Pay You and Your Friends $120 Million!

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

That’s right; we said it! We don’t think you can do it! Oh, don’t get us wrong, we believe you can do anything you set your mind to here at JapanesePod101.com… but how hard will you really try to bleed us of our money? Hmm… I guess we’ll see at the end of August. What are we talking about?

Our $10,100 Summer Giveaway, that’s what! And what is THAT, you say? Well, first of all, we are giving away many, many, MANY free subscriptions - $10,100 worth of FREE Premium and 101 Basic subscriptions to be exact! And entering is a piece of cake!

You can enter in JapanesePod101.com’s $10,100 Giveaway, by doing one or ALL of the following:

 Follow JapanesePod101.com on Twitter

 Become a fan of JapanesePod101.com on Facebook

 Subscribe to JapanesePod101.com’s YouTube channel

Sign up on ALL 3 for three chances to win - and remember we have TEN sites. Think BIG! If you sign up at all of them, that’s a total of 30 chances to win!

One click - THAT’S IT! Yes, it really is that easy! And we still haven’t told you the best part! Our Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts contain a rapidly growing amount of incredible original content you won’t find anywhere else!

Our Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube pages are such wonderful ways to reinforce your Japanese speaking skills, practice speaking Japanese, and meet and communicate with others that share your love of Japanese.

Okay, okay, you’ve waited long enough - now for the best part! We believe in these methods of learning Japanese SO much that we are issuing you a challenge! If we reach one million TOTAL subscribers for Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube - we’ll give EVERYONE a FREE 6 month Premium subscription!!! Each subscription is worth $120 - and you can take part in the 120 MILLION dollar value for FREE just by following us on Twitter, becoming a fan on Facebook, or subscribing on YouTube.

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