Japanese podcast
August 24th, 2005 by heatherThere’s loads and loads more Japanese language podcasts since I first looked for some in June. I tried listening to the myriad gaijin “whoah look at how wacky Japan is” stuff, but they’re in English anyway.
I do listen to the Nippon voice blog, but mostly it’s over my head. I am starting to pick up words here and there, which is satisfying.
If I was more advanced I might be able to find this podcast useful: tiny bite-sized peices of audio at: Kanda Japanese Podcast
Kanda Podsayings is series of very short 30-second daily podcasts in Japanese about business tips and strategies. Each episode will be delivered with a transcript which can be read on either a PC or MP3 player. This means that these podcasts/transcript can also be used as material for Japanese language learners.
August 25th, 2005 at 12:27 am
Oh boy, this is so much fun! I can’t make much sense of the Kanda podcasts, but found my way, link-by-link, to Podium and various podcasts on it. Huge fun.
And some great new katakana words, too:-
ポッドキャスチング = podcasting
ブログ = blog
サイト = site
タイトル = title
スペースシャトル = space shuttle (seriously)
コミュニチサイト = community site
コメント = comment
ダウンロード = download
トラックバック = trackback (which I don’t understand in English)
マーケチング = marketing
TVプロヂューサー = TV producer
スポンサー = sponsor
All from one web page. Brilliant.
August 28th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
oh by the way, trackback is a great tool. i think it’s developed by the movabletype people.
when you link to someone else’s specific blog post, you can include a ‘trackback’ to say “hey, i referred to and linked to your post”. and on their end, it displays your trackback in amongst the comments.
you know, sometimes you want to comment on a post, but think you’re going to make a tangent, so you put it on your own blog. hence, trackback. it helps tie in the conversations.
technically AFAIK (as far as I know) trackback sends a ‘ping’ (small packet of information) to the blog you’re referring to, and if they have a script which can accept these trackback pings it will be able to display a link back to your site.
August 29th, 2005 at 10:30 am
http://www.voiceblog.jp/
Quite a few Japanse podcasts here. Some are interesting, some are not.
For language study, I like the ones without background music.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:45 am
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