Really sorry about the computer fan and floor fan noises!! Some of the topics mentioned included:

-Thom Jones, Cold Snap
-Andresito and his brother in Japan
-DJing at Cafe Absinthe on Friday
-Cocolo FM, Yaneka in London
-Nippon Premium, Kirin's new brew
-T-shirt messages
-Last.fm
-Bar Bonobo, Jingu 2 Chome
-Fireworks at Jingu at Tamagawa
-209radio.co.uk goes old school FM
-Closing haiku


Now that poet Patrick Widdess is back in England, we've got people on the ground in Cambridge! Here's an online radio program which will be broadcasting on the Marconi soon, called Transmission Failure(?) on 209radio.co.uk. He is requestion music, poetry and logo artwork for his show. Stay tuned for details!

Patrick has also tipped me off to Prairie Home Public Radio, as in a Garrisson Keillor and Lake Wobegon podcast!

Finally, on the homefront (that's Japan), Osaka's Jonny Heartbreaker is now available on Last.fm.

Small green frog taken in Chiba Prefecture by Rob. Posted by Rob.

Tags: (coming soon!)

Alex writes: "It's always good go through old files and see which ones are being downloaded and which aren't. While going through the files I decided to make the top 10 most popular downloads from this site."

Here they are in reverse order:

10) Lesson #5 Asking someone out

9) Lesson #15 Wait a moment Mr Postman

8) Lesson #16 Movie Japanese

7) Lesson #4 Counting

In this lesson we learned to count with Waka sensei.

6) Lesson #14 Mukatsuku

This was my favorite show and has been popular ever since we released it.

5) Fun Friday Kansai Dialect

Recently all the Fun Friday episodes have been more popular than the normal lessons.

4) ALT RAP by Rob (a.k.a. El Gringo)

This rap about life as an English teacher was written by Rob and fellow Osaka ALT John Sanders, and the music was produced by Alex Brooke. This video has continued to be quite popular all over the net.

3) Lesson #2 Basic questions

2) Lesson #1 How are you ?

But wait for it. Drum roll please, the single most popular download on Learn Japanese was...

1) Days of the week Video

You can listen to the latest Learn Japanese podcasts here.