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Dummy Post #2

My Plan A seems to have failed so I'm going to use this here temporarily, and move things off later once something proper is set up. Podcasting is not for the meek, sheesh.

Dummy Post

This is for a new English podcast that I'm having a bit of difficulty setting up.

Pronunciation Practice: I Love My Cat

Pronunciation Exercise
The English:
"I love my cat."
Romaji:
Watashi no neko o aishiteiru.
Kana:
わたしのねこをあいしている。
Full Version:
私の猫を愛している。

Smart.fm's New Clothes

It's all on the .mp3. Listen and enjoy.

Beginner Japanese Course Syllabus

This is the syllabus for my recently completed 10 lesson "Beginner Japanese" course for http://learnoutlive.com/japanese , the Japanese Department at Learn Out LIve. (I am its humble director.)
Please listen and learn all about what I am teaching, how, and why. I explain how these ten lessons build a very solid foundation for learning vocabulary and what I love to call "Cool Stuff" without the nuts and bolts of the language making you trip all over them. By making fundamentals simpler and easier, knowledge is easier to build and reinforce. That's the only real "trick" there is.
きいてください。ありがとうございます。どうぞよろしく。 (Kiite kudasai. Arigatou gozaimasu. Douzo yoroshiku.) Please listen. Thank you very much. Best regards.

The Roots of Tomodachi

Hi, sorry I haven't posted anything here for a while. I've been really busy with http://learnoutlive.com/japanese , where I'm tutoring Japanese privately. I'll be blunt: I need to do it for more people! EduFire has practically given up the ghost, and Learn Out Live is an exciting young effort with some really great teachers, and I'm glad to be part of the team. Anyway, I've created a whole bunch of lessons that are working extremely well and can get someone out of the "pure beginner" stage in a very effective, brain friendly manner. The secret is good explanations that answer questions even before they're asked. (Also, it helps that I have a ton of in-the-field knowledge and a deep awareness of where the pitfalls for early learners exist.)
Anyway, in the middle of creating lesson #11, I realized that I was holding in my hands the twin roots of ともだち (tomodachi), the typical Japanese word for "friend." The roots make it even more interesting than I thought! It sounds deep and profound somehow.

Kana chart pronunciations

I wanted to give people a one-stop shop for helping to memorize the chart by sound. There's also writing kana, but a podcast can't help much with that, so I'm leading with my strengths.

Japanese for Beginners, Pt II Section 3

Section 3
I'm new to a lot of this so, I don't know much about all the sharing options for all this stuff. Feel free to help me out and propagate this widely.

Japanese for Beginners, Pt II Section 2

Section 2.

Japanese for Beginners, Pt II Section 1

This is based on my second Japanese class on eduFire at http://edufire.com/classes/11798-japanese-the-absolute-basics . It's in three sections because I used this for the YouTube videos linked to earlier. Forgive any growing pains with the Podbean format, I'm still new at this. Thanks.