Japanese Podcast Roundup
Written by John Rozewicki   
Saturday, 03 March 2007

今日は! Over the past few weeks I've been very interested in raising my Japanese listening aptitude. I realized that podcasts were a great way to do it. I had tried to find some before, but was never successful. I finally realized the key, search with Japanese terms. I searched for テレビ、ニュース、and 文化, and these are some of the great podcasts I found.

  • 小西克哉 松本ともこ ストリーム
    • TBS Radio Stream Podcast
    • 3 New Podcasts Every Weekday
      • Chat with Shingo, et al.
      • News Round-up
      • 花道 Opinion Column
  • 読売ニュース ポッドキャスト : YOMIURI ONLINE（読売新聞)
    • This is a longer news podcast put out by the Yomiuri Online Shimbun. Usually 20mins in length, and is extremely similar to the next podcast, except in Japanese.
  • BBC Radio NewsPod
    • What's an English podcast doing here? Simple, it is very helpful early on to know what to expect when you're training listening. 例えば、if you hear about the stock market crash effects from China then you know to listen for things like 経済、中国、etc. when you listen to the 日本語のニュースのポッドキャスと。
  • 文化系トークラジオ Life
    • This is a discussion of Japanese culture. It's usually put out once a day, and they discuss a new topic every week. It's extremely interesting to hear native Japanese talk about Japanese culture and their perceptions of it.
  • Japan Talk (Japundit Podcast)
    • This is yet another English podcast in my list, but this one is too good to pass up. It's a weekly review of Japanese news with explanation from an American who has lived in Japan for the last 40 years. It's extremely informative, reliable, and interesting.

The best part about all of these is that they're all available on iTunes, and all of them except Japan Talk are every week day. That's more than an hour of new Japanese material everyday to learn from. Go forth, become linguistically aware. Mazel tov.

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written by Edward Chmura/JP , March 07, 2007

Hi,

Thanks for the nice review of Japan Talk.

One very small correction, though. I have been in Japan almost 40 years (since 1969)!

Thanks again, and I hope we can continue to live up to your expectations.

All the best,

Edward Chmura/JP

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