Help with listening practice. (NOT A REQUEST)

No, this is not a request.

I don't know if this has been posted before, but I can't find it.

OK, so you see people across the 'net not having enough material to listen to. Well if you don't mind patronising english sentences that make no grammatical sense embedded in Japanese then the answer is here.

Basically, japanesepod101.com is part of a link of podcasts. One I have found is
Learn English with EnglishPod101.com
which is basically for Japanese people learning English. Now yes, you get the oppurtunity to wonder why then are learning about how 'in the old days we used round phones that didn't make a dial tone'. However, there is Japanese aimed at average Japanese people and so it isn't slow, however, it isn't quick like news (news is quick due to small time slots I think) and is pretty good.

Thought I would share this with you.

Oh and the website layout is the same as japanesepod101.com so it is easy to navigate. You have to sign up for a 'free 7 day trial' but even when that trial 'runs out' I can still seem to be able to access the mp3s.

Yeh, hope this helps you, it is helping me.

Joe

Thanks for that Joe. Just listened to a few of the free samples on the front page - i'm loving the music, I think I could get down to that.

Getting back to the pods, they're very useful because - as you say - it's faster than perhaps normal Japanese would be and so it helps train your ears.

The news woman sounds like Jodie Foster...