{"id":9,"date":"2007-01-16T20:13:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T04:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-01-17T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T19:24:58","slug":"conversational-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Conversational Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently discovered the podcasts put out by Japanesepod101<\/a>. They offer a roughly 10-minute lesson each day, and you can access a year’s worth of archives via the iTunes music store. And it’s all free! I’ve taken to listening to a lesson each morning while doing my stretching exercises. It passes the time and I learn a little tidbit of Japanese each day.<\/p>\n

I’m starting with their Beginner archives. I’ve studied Japanese off and on, but it’s been a while, so this is a great refresher. A lot of the basic material they’ve covered so far has, in fact, been familiar (mostly greetings). However, here are a couple of new things I learned (or re-learned). I’m posting hiragana versions of some of the words because a) I can (the Mac rocks!) and b) it helps me practice recognizing hiragana (boy, am I rusty).<\/p>\n