🎙 Podcast Club [Now Listening: 日本語 with あこ - Nihongo Picnic Podcast]

[polv]

iirc, <a href="url" target="_blank">text</a> rather than [text](url) will open link a in new tab.

Otherwise, it’s always possible to right click (hold touch) a link to choose to open in a new tab.

[araigoshi]

My understanding of the problem (and I’m just passing through complaints I’ve recieved);

1. The touch target for the check boxes is too small
2. Also long titles wrap around to the next line, so it’s surrounded on three sides by links.
3. If you try to tap the checkbox, you have a high chance of tapping the link and being taken off the page (even if it opened in a new tab, I think most mobile browser focus the new tab, so this doesn’t fix the problem).

Instead what the users do for non link polls is tap the text of the option which will also toggle the checkbox. But if all the text is a link, then that option is removed.

[Akashelia]

@WeepingWeeb

• Are we fine having the book club-esque arrangement of the person who suggested something running the club? (If not or the person is unavailable I’m fine to do it, or do the first one at least if that’s preferable?)

Sounds good to me.

@WeepingWeeb

• “Each pick will run for 10 weeks regardless of how many episodes the podcast has”. I pulled this rule out of nowhere, does that seem reasonable or would people the number of weeks being higher or lower (still static), or prefer adjusting it on a case by case basis depending on the pick?

Sounds very good to me with 10 weeks fixed! Gives time to adjust to it, to ramp it up if it’s hard, and to see if we like it.

@WeepingWeeb

• And relevant to the previous question, assuming we did a static number of weeks for every pick e.g. 10 weeks for every podcast pick it would make sense for each week to have the same amount of time spent on it. Given the longest episode length of the picks is 1 hour, what time would we want to have per week? (e.g. if it was 30 mins per week the 1 hour episodes would be split in half, whereas say 25 minute episodes would probably stay at 25 since doing 5 minutes of a new ep would be weird)

Hard to say. I think one hour is the max it should be. So maybe ramp up period with 30 minutes the first weeks and see if people agree to push a bit more as it goes?

@WeepingWeeb

• And relevant to the previous question again, if we’re trying to get time spent as close as possible to the stated limit, what would be too far over or under it? (e.g. we want to listen for about 1 hour a week, but a podcast’s episodes are always 40 minutes, do we assign one episode per week so we don’t go over the 1 hour limit, or do we assign 2 episodes per week so we hit the minimum 1 hour?)

I would split the episodes and hit the mark, in your example that would be episode 1 + part 1 of episode 2.

Also I found it hard to vote for only 2 picks, but as we have only 6 nominations I guess it’s fair enough!

[mitrac]

@WeepingWeeb

Are we fine having the book club-esque arrangement of the person who suggested something running the club? (If not or the person is unavailable I’m fine to do it, or do the first one at least if that’s preferable?)

In general I agree but if 4989 wins I would be so grateful if you would run the first one as I’m feeling too swamped to set up a decent format. I will participate!

@Akashelia

Hard to say. I think one hour is the max it should be. So maybe ramp up period with 30 minutes the first weeks and see if people agree to push a bit more as it goes?

Agree! Since we’re not sure how everyone will settle in let’s be a bit conservative at first

From the votes it looks like there is an appetite for early intermediate plus level content so that’s interesting to consider for future nominations!

[Lisaveeta]

I already listen to 4989 American Life and so I’ve voted for it, but I’d be equally happy to go with a shorter, more beginner-listening level podcast. If we start beginner-listener friendly, we can grow the group from the ground up.

[araigoshi]

@WeepingWeeb

Voting will end in one week!

Don’t forget to add your vote back since it was deleted when you edited the poll by the way

[WeepingWeeb]

Aaaaand the results are in! Our first podcast will be 4989 American Life with a whopping voting percentage of 66%! Our highest percentage ever!!! Because its the first vote

I’ve set up the home thread and added a few points underneath. Since we don’t need to order anything for this club I figured the start date wouldn’t matter too much but if people want it pushed back lemme know (Set to start on Monday currently)

4989 American Life Home Thread

Welcome to the 4989 American Life Podcast Club! This club is part of the Podcast Club! [image] Introduction The 4989 American Life podcast is about the daily life of Utaco, a Japanese woman who moved to California with her Japanese husband. She talks about her daily life, travels, impressions of American life and comparisons with life in Japan. Details Estimated Level: Easier end of native Format & Episode Length: Monologue /…

@mitrac Since its your pick if you want to take over at any point after the first week just to copy my format for ease that’s completely fine! And if not that’s fine too I can keep running it

[mitrac]

I love the home thread, I’m so glad you set it up instead of me if you don’t mind running it that would be amazing, I’m definitely participating. I nominated Doraemon to the ABBC a year ago and now it’s finally gone and won, so it’s looking like I’m up for leading that

[WeepingWeeb]

Okay no problem

[Akashelia]

Stumbled upon this post and would really like to submit those two podcasts as nominations here

The N3 Thread

“Let’s Talk in Japanese”, which is badly named as it’s a monologue and not a conversation or conversation practice, is a good one. Tomo grades each episode by JLPT level. In his opening lines he says he made the resource because dramas and movies are too difficult and other stuff is boring. They’re around 10mins each and I really like them. Nihongo Picnic is quite good too, and does have some conversation episodes. For anime, try Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo. The characters are young and the plot…

@rumade let me know in case you are interested in making the nomination posts, otherwise I’ll get around it in a couple of days!

[rumade]

Please go ahead

[WeepingWeeb]

Make sure to get any nominations in before next Sunday as voting will be opening for the next pick!

[WeepingWeeb]

Nihongo con Teppei Original Archives

Summary

The original Nihongo con Teppei podcast for intermediate learners, discussing different random topics every episode.

Website: https://original.nihongoconteppei.com
Format/Episode Length: 11 minutes
Genre: Daily life
Difficulty: N3 At least that’s what a text analyser said
Transcript availability: Yes (Spotify)

Availability

• Spotify
• Teppei Website

Personal Opinion

I really enjoy the beginner podcast, and this one may be the next step up from that along with the longer episodes so there’s more time to talk about each topic. He’s nice to listen to and explains things well.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Step up from beginner podcast
• Spotify transcripts available (though AI generated)
• 700 episodes
• There is a sequel podcast (N4/3)

Cons

• Can be a little uninteresting
• Talks alone
• Slightly limited availability (I think something happened to the storage of the original episodes so they were all re-uploaded as “original archives” to spotify and hs website)

I did not steal my descriptions from Akashelia

[snowwater]

日本語の会話のPodcast

Summary

It’s a dialogue style podcast, where our narrator’s Yamamu and Kibi cover a broad range of topics (mainly involving Japanese culture/lifestyle) of different levels.

Website: https://kotonohanihongo510.wixsite.com/my-site (It’s currently offline though)
Format/Episode Length: Usually 20-30 min
Genre: Lifestyle
Difficulty: Varied
Transcript availability: I think yes, at least on Spotify I am able to see it

Availability

Youtube
Spotify

Personal Opinion

They speak slowly, but also at a natural level. The topics of conversation vary, but are mostly about lifestyle and culture, so easy to follow. It’s also a dialogue style podcast, which I think has some advantages (and disadvantages) compared to monologues - mainly that you can learn about natural conversations, 相槌, etc. But for me, what I really appreciate is that they have different levels of content, and label the episodes based on the estimate difficulty, so it’s accessible to a broader public.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Varied level of content
• A lot of later content is divided into estimated level (N1-N5), so it’s easy to narrow episodes for your level

Cons

• May be difficult to determine what to listen with the club, as the level of episodes can vary a lot

[Akashelia]

Let’s talk in Japanese

Summary

A Japanese teacher talks in Japanese. As a teacher, I try to speak in not too difficult but not too easy Japanese.
日本語を勉強している人のための日本語トーク！日本語教師の友が、難しすぎない簡単すぎない、ちょうどいい日本語で話します。
Any levels of Japanese learners are welcome to this Podcast. Each title has a number from N1 to N5, which shows JLPT level.
タイトルのN1〜N5の数字はJLPTのレベルです。\n応援はこちらまで

Website: https://ruby-s.net/
Format/Episode Length: between 5 to 10 min
Genre: Daily life
Difficulty: Depends, N5 to N1
Transcript availability: Yes

Availability:

• Apple podcast
• Spotify

Personal Opinion

Saw it recommended on this post and has a positive review on Tofugu . Listened to a few episodes, he talks quite slowly (well anyone does when you’ve been listening to 4989 for a few weeks x) )

Pros

• Episodes have different JLPT levels, level is on the title
• Transcripts

Cons

• Can be a bit boring for advanced learners

[Akashelia]

日本語 with あこ - Nihongo Picnic Podcast

Summary

Nihongo Picnic is more than a podcast, they have an online Japanese school with students from all over the world. In the podcast, a topic id picked up for each episode and talked about in Japanese.

Website: https://www.nihongopicnic.com/
Format/Episode Length: around 5 min
Genre: Daily life, different topics
Difficulty: Depends, usually N4 or N3, says in the description
Transcript availability: Yes

Availability:

• Apple podcast
• Spotify
• Youtube

Personal Opinion

Saw it recommended on this post. Listened to a few episodes, she talks quite slowly (well anyone does when you’ve been listening to 4989 for a few weeks x) )

Pros

• Episodes have different JLPT levels, level is in the description
• Transcripts

Cons

• Can be a bit boring for advanced learners

[WeepingWeeb]

Vote for our next podcast!

• Nihongo con Teppei (Beginner)
• Japanese With Shun
• Let’s Learn Japanese from Small Talk
• Heikousen Scramble / 平行線すくらんぶる
• The Bite size Japanese Podcast
• Nihongo con Teppei Original Archives
• 日本語の会話のPodcast
• Let’s talk in Japanese
• 日本語 with あこ - Nihongo Picnic Podcast

Voting will end in one week!

Links

• Nihongo con Teppei (Beginner)
• Japanese With Shun
• Let’s Learn Japanese from Small Talk
• Heikousen Scramble / 平行線すくらんぶる
• The Bite size Japanese Podcast
• Nihongo con Teppei Original Archives
• 日本語の会話のPodcast
• Let’s talk in Japanese
• 日本語 with あこ - Nihongo Picnic Podcast

[WeepingWeeb]

More Polls!

Tiebreaker

• The Bite size Japanese Podcast
• 日本語の会話のPodcast

When to start

• Start the next podcast immediately after the current one ends
• Have a one week break between podcasts

[WeepingWeeb]

crying

[lmichl]

hope i helped