Episode 1 is not available? Why? I was so excited to start!!

This podcast is great. For absolute beginners, I recommend the JapanesePod101 videos on YouTube. Really helps boost learning skills, and is very helpful.

日本語を学んでいる14歳として、このポッドキャストは役に立ちません ヽ(￣д￣;)ノ

I have been learning Japanese on Duolingo for about a 3/4 of a year and I can say sentences such as お元気ですか or 平日はパーティーを行きます and using this podcast to help reinforce some of the words I have learned has really helped. If you only listen to this podcast and aren’t doing any other means of practicing it is not going to help you.

Around 2017 I loved this podcast, it’s funny and very helpful. To some of you, it might not be as helpful because your using it wrong. If you start listening to this podcast knowing no Japanese or very little Japanese you will not learn anything from it. My advice: Learn the Japanese basics and then try listening to this, it will actually make sense <3

This podcast won’t help me to learn a language so DELETE it

The lessons are engaging, and easy to follow along with! I definitely recommend it for anyone who wants to casually learn Japanese.

I’ve yet to find their technical support that can address this problem. I’ve subscribed to their premium and now it seems I can only access their feeds via their website. Such a shame that they’re not keeping up with technology.

Omg I love this so much and want to learn Japanese but it’s sort of hard because it goes super fast and usually only says it once. ( I said usually not every time)

I’m learning Japanese just for the fun of it and this is really helpful

I love this podcast! Thanks so much!

これまでで最高のものです。 YTTにも登録しましたが。 (It’s amazing I love. it I recommend. I have also subscribed to them on YT). ありがとうございます！

This podcast is the absolute best for complete beginners who are interested in learning essential Japanese. I highly recommend it!!! ありがとうございます！

I started your absolute beginners series but can’t find episode 4 and on. When it finishes playing episode3, it plays episode 2. When episode 2 finishes,!it plays episode 1. When I push play next episode, nothing happens. When I click on All episodes, random episodes come up in NO order or specific series. Please how to listen to all episodes in order for absolute beginners series. There should be at least 7 episodes based on episode 1

Great podcast! Your site works so well and the podcast has some great phrases to use! I’m happy I found it ○(≧∀≦)○

The Japanese speaker is too fast and difficult to understand. Why is the English translation louder?

This is a great podcast! However, the episode Survival Phrases #1 - Thank You seems to be from the French series, not the Japanese series.

このポッドキャスト大好きです！

Amazing and fun way to learn formal Japanese. ありがとうございます！

One day I hope to move to japan, but first I have to learn Japanese. This is very helpful I really recommend listening if you want to easily learn Japanese.

Appreciate the content

Lovely Japanese class !!😃

After watching a Japanese romance anime show, which had subtitles, I got really interested in this podcast. I’m a huge Anime fanatic, and I love the beautiful language that is Japanese! You are Amazing! Is there a way to say Camille in Japanese? -Thank you SO MUCH Naomi and Jesse! (Or Jessie)

I’ve listened to some podcast to learn Japanese, but this one is definitely my favorite. It makes Japanese seems so much more approachable and less scary to learn. The youtube channel is also very helpful. Please do check them out.

Good way to learn Japanese. The website is amazing, but expensive. Great podcasts.

My concerns with this podcast have to do with focus. Granted, I understand that this iTunes Store version is simply a "teaser" for their paid services, so I know that not all the content is available here. However, there are some issues that really bug me every time I try t listen. First, in almost every edition of the podcast, there is a cheeseball musical intro that lasts about 35 seconds. If I'm on the train or in the car, I don't have a free hand to skip it. It really is absolutely obnoxious, and it totally turns me off before the lesson even starts. The hosts say the name of the podcast in weird, sarcastic voices that sound like they're not serious. You might say this is an irrelevant issue, but why does the podcast need this musical intro? It does nothing but to take away from my experience, and if they really want to be the "fastest, easiest, most fun way" to learn Japanese, then that's a miss in all three categories. Also, sometimes the hosts will talk about irrelevant stuff, and I lose focus instantly. Please, stay on topic! Please, stay professional! If Peter wants to talk earnestly about his business goals, that's cool, but save it for another podcast. The content itself is very good, though if the transcripts were downloaded with the podcast so I could follow along on the iPhone it would be better. I love studying Japanese, and I would consider signing up for their paid service, but these distractions keep me away.

Great way to improve Japanese. How can I get the whole series ?

it's realy good podcasts but nothing like teacher any way its realy nice

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Useful for learning Japanese either English !

My iPod can't play all the Introdutions :( Cant even load them :( otherwise than the clips I cant hear, The entire JspanesePod101 collection is great :)

I always used the PDFs to supplement the listening. It is a great way to learn fast. Reading along while listening is also a great way to improve your pronunciation.

Listening to this podcast on the train has really improved my listening skills. I like listening to some of the beginner and newbie lessons to review the basics. There are so many lessons; there's always something new to listen to. It's really helped me now that I live in Japan.

i luv this podcast!

This is a great way to brush up on your existing Japanese language skills. I have studied Japanese for years at the college level and for 1 full year in Osaka, Japan at Kansai Gaidai University. After coming back to the US after 3-years in Osaka, I started losing Japanese language skills quickly. This podcast helps me to retain and re-enforce the skills I already have after years of learning.

this podcast is one of the best on itunes for learning japanese and about japanese culture. for anyone going to japan, an anime lover, or just interested in japanese, this podcast is for you!

This podcast is a great resourece for learning new and practical vocabulary. Furthermore, there is ample written material on their website including Kanji and Kana that prompted me to quickly purchase a membership to get all of their podcasts. As I use the program more, however, I do have a complaint: not enough room for practice. It seems that (at least in the beginning levels) I must listen to a 10 minute lesson to hear 9 minutes of English and 1 minute of new vocabulary in Japanese. I would really like a track that prompts the listener to interact and respond to phrases in mock conversations (the Pimsleur program does this, which I really like). This oral practice would really help me solidify the new Japanese that I learn. For me, I'm mostly using this in the car and on my iPod so without the interactive element in the audio lessons, I'm unsure if I will continue with the program. All other elements and resources of this podcast and their website, however, are exceptional.

Does anyone know if this will be free forever... because this is a lot to just download for free. But honestly, I'm not complaining... :-)

Over 20 years ago, I studied Japanese intensely in grad school for research purposes, but ended up not using it so much. In recent years, I've had the opportunity to travel to Japan for brief visits, and this has rekindled my interest in learning Japanese, and then I found JapanesePod101! It's excellent! It has been far more effective a teacher of Japanese for me, though having had intensive study before has helped. JP101's approach also gives you the kind of Japanese you're more likely to hear in Japan as you travel. The enthusiasm and passion of the staff is wonderful; the lessons are fun and to the point: I love it! I listen to the podcasts everyday on my train commute, and the fun and energy that comes through in each episode is truly effective in helping you remember and retain what you learn, and I love the weird stories. Not only are they fun and funny, they get you involved in the characters and this helps you learn. Truly fabulous stuff! The staff is absolutely terrific! Keep it up, and don't stop!

I'm happy with this podcast for the most part. It's easy and helpful, and one of the best ways to learn a language. I do have one complaint though. In the upper intermediate classes I wish the Japanese speakers would only speak Japanese. So many times when they are talking to Peter they will be speaking in Japanese and then suddenly say the "difficult" words in English. I'm sure they are just trying to be helpful, but it's a little frustrating. If you think we won't understand it, have Peter translate after speaking. Here is an example where I believe Natsuko-san is speaking, "Saikin wa 'traditional' na 'Japanese Inn' demo...". This is just one example, and if it were isolated I could live with it, but this is in almost every lesson. Please don't speak English unless you are translating a whole sentence. It's unhelpful and annoying. Sorry for the rant. I do like this podcast.

I am new to learning japanese, this really is helping me ...i would recommend to anyone

i'll admit, its a great idea. the only thing is, the guy has a slight american accent going on.

I love all sorts of things about japan, and my friends are trying to learn japanese they're gunna be jelous plus its free *yay*

I have struggled to learn Japanese with software. It's kinda hard when it comes to phrases such as please (don't ask me to spell it) which is incredibly long

The audio is great. The lessons seem geared towards elementary school children (the speed and tone). I mean it's very very easy. Too much english in the first episode. Hopefully the others will be better. This seems like a great team but give it to me without all the fluff.

Learn Japanese for FREE, and the shows are very entertaining, as well as educational. Excellent Performers, Beutiful Voices. Thank You JapanesePod101 !

THIS is the best pod cast that i have every seen. i was taking japanese at a college and it was really boring because everything are always a one answer sentence. this gave me multiple options to choose from. Also, peter and his crew have that exciting tone that keeps me listening.

By far the best Internet based Japanese teaching program out there. Well done. We use it in our University.

I have never before heard such pleasantness and enthusiasm. I am so thrilled to have found this welcoming and very informative series. I have every podcast available. Short bites that go over the same thing in a variety of ways. Nothing formal about this, but very, very well done and very authoratative. Like learning Japanese with your friends in their living room! A Japanese livingroom! Having an American voice as the "guide" is sure brilliance! I fell confortable speaking (learning) Japanese for the very first time! Thank you! Thank you so much.