Japanesepod101.com

Infobox Radio Show
show_name = JapanesePod101.com


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other_names = JPod, JapanesePod
format = Educational; language course; cultural instruction
runtime = 10–25 minutes (average)
country = Japan
language = English; Japanese
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television =
presenter =
starring = Peter Galante
Natsuko Kawamoto
Sakura Suzuki
Sachiko Nakagome
And many other personalities
announcer =
creator = Peter Galante, Eran Dekel
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director =
producer = Mark Hobold
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record_location = Tokyo
first_aired = December 2005
last_aired = present
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audio_format = MP3
opentheme = Marky Star
intro_gags = Mark Hobold, Yūki Mori
website = http://www.japanesepod101.com
podcast = http://www.japanesepod101.com/feed.xml

JapanesePod101.com is a language course podcast and accompanying website that offers free lessons in Japanese. [Frenette, Brad. "Around the world in 80 megabytes: Ipod as tour guide: The popularity of travel podcasts", "National Post", 2006-05-13, p. WP14.] The service was founded in 2005.

Overview

JapanesePod101.com provides free daily podcasts with accompanying text expansion exercises and other extensive tutoring aids available to paid subscribers or "premium subscribers". It is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Content

The free daily podcasts range in difficulty from "Newbie" to "Intermediate" level and have an average of ten to twenty minutes lesson time. Beginning in 2007, a short Japanese-only comedy sketch started each lesson with references to Japanese history, customs and pop culture.

It is one of the top-rated non-music podcasts. [Brekke, Laurie. "The language of survival: Learning the basics can enhance trip abroad", "Omaha World-Herald", 2007-10-14, p. W2.] [Roddy, Daniel. "PCs and pods", "E.learning Age", June 2008, pp. 18–20.] By 2006, the website averaged more than 8,000 downloads of its content per day according to "The Japan Times", [Citeweb| last = Marx
publisher = "The Japan Times"
first = W. David
author-link =
title = To learn the Japanese language, get pod-agogical
date = 2006-02-28
year = 2006
url = http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/ek20060228a1.html
accessdate = 2008-07-29] and has been noted in Newsweek. [Citeweb
publisher = "Newsweek"
last = Stone
first = Brad
author-link =
title = Learning a Language on Your iPod: How new podcasts like 'JapanesePod101' are changing the way people learn a foreign language.
date = 2006-08-24
year = 2006
url = http://web.archive.org/web/20060826022346/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14500635/site/newsweek/
accessdate = 2008-07-29]

References

External links

* [http://www.japanesepod101.com/ JapanesePod101.com website]
* [http://erklaren.co.jp/index-e.html Erklaren Inc.]