Nina's Nihongo Zone Episode 1: Idioms (Patreon)

Hello patrons! As promised, this is the first of an ongoing series about the Japanese language - I'll talk about interesting phrases, vocabulary, and grammar, things I learn from Gundam episodes, translation, and really anything related to Gundam and learning Japanese. I am also using this segment to learn more sound-mixing and production skills (while I do some of the rough edits for the regular podcast episodes, Thom handles all of the production on those). 

I also hope to answer some patron questions - message me here or email me at gundampodcast.com.

Below are the show notes. Happy listening!

- Nina

- Pages on idioms and proverbs by Languagerealm.com,  the JTB USA blog, nihonshock.com, and BondLingo (a website for learning Japanese). 

- Kodansha has a number of useful reference books for Japanese language-learners, including this one of idioms:

Garrison, Jeff. Kodansha's Dictionary of Basic Japanese Idioms. Kodansha, 2002. Find excerpts online here. 

- I mention the website WaniKani, which I highly recommend for studying kanji.

- The intro song is "The city" by The Kyoto Connection, from the album Kyoto Soundscapes, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

- The outdo song is "Brain Power" by Mela, from the album Mela two, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.