On February 4th, 2008 I proudly announced that our Youtube account had 1000 subscribers.  On July 18th, 2008, we got our 2000th subscriber.  I didn’t exactly keep track since then, but today we hit 6000.  I really need to make more videos!
(see Youtube Account to be #6001)

This is based on our Podcast #10 and only covers two countries (US and England!).

For more on this, please see our Flash Countries, Languages, and People page with sound.
By the way–I just figured out how to switch my Youtube channel page to display the video Widescreen. It had been squeezing the video to fit [...]

Here is the latest Yuki no Monogatari Chapter with Video:
第九章
家老の調査
The Chancellor’s Investigation

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Keatonatron from the TJP forums (and elsewhere of course) studies art and video making in Japan. He has an amazing video using time lapse shots of Tokyo.

You can see a better version on his website: www.jmacwhyte.com

Rich has been sending me the English translations quickly and, amazingly, I’ve been quickly working on them. Here is Chapter Seven, 第七章 　買物 Shopping:

For the script and download link, go to the Yuki Chapter 6 page at TJP.

第六章 　都に到着 Arrival at the City

一石二鳥 isseki nichou – One stone; two birds
For more proverb lessons, please see http://www.thejapanesepage.com/vocabulary/kotowaza/animal_proverbs/issekinichou
Today’s example sentence is:
演歌を聞くと、日本の文化に触れながら日本語の勉強ができるので、一石二鳥だ。
Listening to enka, I learn about Japanese culture and I am able to study Japanese at the same time. I kill two birds with one stone.

Chapter 5 now has video! Check out the TJP page here.

Just released! Richard VanHouten’s Yuki no Monogatari–the Video–Chapter Four!