Japanese Podcasts [c/o Charles Kelly]

A list of directories with podcasts in Japanese - Perhaps good to find conversational listening practice.

• www.voiceblog.jp
• blog.seesaa.jp/contents/genre/0271/0001.html
• pod.ladio.livedoor.com
• dedio.jp

Japanese Language Study Links : Podcasts
Blog 表現よみ作品集 - Stories (Audio Book Style)

podcast.yomiuri.co.jp - Daily News

JSL Podcasts - For Intermediate to Advanced Students

• voiceblog.jp/amane あまね☆ごえ
  Female Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but she has a beautiful voice and these are high quality short recordings. Good for repeated listenings.
• Nippon VoiceBlog
  Apparently aimed at non-Japanese. Tanscriptions of the show are on the web site. (Not recently updated.)
• voiceblog.jp/reiki 櫻　怜祈（サクラ　レイキ）
  Female Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but high quality recordings without background music, so good for language study. Sort of an audio diary. (Last updated on December 14, 2006)
• voiceblog.jp/taa 題名未定キャスト
  Male Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but includes a transcription. (Last updated: July 16, 2006, 7:00 pm)
• Japanese Classical Literature at Bedtime
  RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/JapaneseClassicalLiteratureAtBedtime
• Kimama ni Nihongo 気ままに、日本語。
  Female Voice: Words (and sometimes sentences) are read for pronunciation practice. Good quality recordings.
  Some podcasts include French, which can be ignored if you don't understand French.  RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/nihongo

 

JSL Podcasts - For Intermediate to Beginning Students

• www. JapanesePod101.com - Daily
  High quality recording. Dialog, then very slowly for practice, then English (Warning/Comment: One non-native Japanese speaker, wth near native pronunciaton also speaks Japanese.　This probably is not a problem, since all the "listen and repeat" sections have you repeating after the native speakers.)
  RSS = http://www.japanesepod101.com/feed/rss/
  
  

• Japanese.libsyn.com
  For beginners. He uses native Japanese speakers for the sample dialogues, etc.

• Nakama Vocabulary Video Podcast (Satoru Shinagawa)
  See the English, then hear the Japanese.
  Even for those without a "pod" capable of playing video .mp4 files, these are useful if viewed online

• Talk Sushi - Learn Japanese　(Nick Kemp)
  He has a native Japanese speaker on each show. Somewhat commercial, promoting services he sells.
  RSS = http://talksushi.libsyn.com/rss

   

Not really a podcast, but downloadable MP3 files, The Bible in Living Sound