Hokudai/Cast

An Interview with Two Hokuriku Students about a part-time job and a haircut in both Japanese, Chinese, and English. Pro Bono Word/Play and thirsty elephants. Music from gbuc.net: Sayonara to ittakatta and Plasma.

Listen to find out what a "~ectomy" means and how to say "I'm studying Chinese" in Japanese and Chinese. Also, music by Gary Paul Bryant and Middle Distance Runner from musicalley.com

Rhinos and Hippos, oh my! Plus music from kcsaito and Harperactive. Word/Play and the Trilingual Lesson deal with animals and surgery on your nose. Listen. Enjoy.

We have a scary mix from Sect 23 on their song "Revelations" and we have a rock number from DarkWater called "The Ghosts" on our Halloween edition of Hokudai/Cast. Word/Play and the Trilingual Lesson both deal with ghosts and Halloween.

October and octaves play a big part of Hokudai/Cast 130, as does Halloween. Learn to say takoyaki and Halloween in Chinese. Listen to electronica and pop-rock music. All on Hokudai/Cast 130

Hokudai/Cast 129: Oneside plays Chinatown, cd plays Nihongo, and you can hear Word/Play (brush), How Do You Say? (I want to get up at 5:00 AM), and a Trilingual Lesson (get up, etc.).
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Two songs from musicalley.com end our 128th episode which starts with Coins and Getting up in  Japanese, English and Chinese.
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Back with a truly trilingual Trilingual Lesson - this time about being imaginative and creative. Before using our creativity in our three languages, we have a Word/Play dealing with being very happy: ecstatically happy. We're happy we have an Interview in our three languages, too. We ask questions in Japanese and English and get answers in Chinese and Japanese. Allison Crowe's Happy People rounds out our Hokudai/Cast.

Promote, propose, proponent, and procrastinate are the words in Word/Play while the Trilingual Lesson deals with happiness and anger. The music is provided by CSharp and it's called: "No More."

Black Dillinger's reggae tune "Big Trouble" ends our 125th Hokudai/Cast which begins with a fashionable Word/Play followed by a Chinese-English Trilingual Lesson dealing with phobias and philes.

Phobias (fears) and Philes (likes) start our Hokudai/Cast 124. Also, a Trilingual Lesson (about looking for work) and two songs about the end of summer and the start of school. Panda Transport and The Hotrods provide the tunes.

Word/Play and a Trilingual Lesson lead off our 123rd Hokudai/Cast from Hokuriku University. After our Trilingual Lesson we have two jazzy songs: by djbouly and kcsaito. Please listen and please enjoy.

Four Songs to end our sumer of fun with. Yang Chen, Plastic Soul Band, and Naomi Yohani sing and entertain us with music from musicalley.com. Enjoy.

Cast 121 lands us squarely in the funk... of Music. A Word/Play about months, an Interview about learning a foreign language (in Japanese and Chinese) are followed by TV's Kyle, Chi Weapon, and Roadside Kill all playing some funk-style songs - one is live.

 We have three songs today. Summer is the time of music and we have lots of it today. We have a rock song, an electronica tune, and a jazz bass solo song with singing and other instruments.

Along the way we have our Word For Today, a Word/Play that deals with separation, and a Trilingual Lesson about wanting to do things.

Is 'caesar' spelled 'ceasar' or 'caesar'? Does it matter? Only if you want to listen to Word/Play and one of our two songs called "Spell" by the J Pop Rock group Gun. Machinist provides our other song: "Cold in Hot Cities." In our Trilingual Lesson we learn words related to reading - including Manga.

Your dream and your dreams. What's the difference? Listen and hopefully we learn. Two interviews in three languages and a Trilingual Lesson about clothes. Music is by Aratakao and Cyberwaste.

Learn to say 'bicycle' in Japanese, English, and Chinese. Plus, music by Raika from and The Cartwheel Club.

 Cafe Hokudai opens with Uma Foresta on an instrumental 'Streamline Modern' followed by Cat O' Nine Tails singing in Japanese with 'Alice with Headphones.' Next is another instrumental by Reklein called 'Larson.' After 'Larson' comes a song sung in Japanese and some English by Jesushairdo called 'All The Beautiful People.' Next up is Hokudai/Cast's 'Fast Like Mahatma Gandhi' featuring the Dalai Lama on vocals. We end with J. Marie Anderson's 'Introduction.'

A convenient Hokudai/Cast that deals with summer activities like sunburns and ice cream. Two interviews (one in English, one in Japanese), and Two songs (one hiphop, one J. Pop.)

Jackal and Wolf and After the Ice provide the rock music for Hokudai/Cast 115. We also deal with 'polyglot' and 'dreams.' Our interview is bilingual in English and Japanese. Thanks for listening.

Reggae and J.pop songs end Hokudai/Cast 114 but Word/Play - with descriptive words - and a Trilingual Lesson - with words about love and marriage - start us out. Between education and entertainment, we have an Interview with a Japanese teacher who teaches Japanese at Hokuriku University. Music by Kahina (A Book) and NJ (Hatsukoi).

Two alternative rock songs end our 113th Hokudai/Cast but not before we have Word/Play with inventive creative words and a Trilingual Lesson dealing with hunger and thirst. We also have a bilingual interview in Chinese and Japanese. The songs are "Words and Deeds" by Fine Print Pariah and "Come Home" by Dire Wolfe.

Dance (Invisible Green Cabbage) and jazz (Jemu) music end our 112th Hokudai/Cast. We also have, in reverse order, a bilingual interview, a Trilingual Lesson about hospitals, and a possible - or is it probable - Word/Play.

A band with the intriguing name and sound: Secret Archives of the Vatican provides the music with Full Metal Hood in this episode. Our Trilingual Lesson deals with words associated with companies such as boss and hourly wage. Word/Play inspects the past with retro and spec.

DJBouly provides the intriguing music for today's Hokudai/Cast. Also included: Word/Play with 11 words using the letters JACK, an interview with a student, and a Trilingual Lesson about breakfast and carjacking.

Jazzy and quirky "Bazz" by Triplexity from Jamendo.com ends our 109th Hokudai/Cast which also includes two interviews (one about tae kwan do and one about life), an astronomical Word/Play, and an English explanation of what Golden Week is.

We use calculating words in Word/Play that have come to us from ancient Babylon and we learn how to say these words in English, Japanese, and Chinese in our Trilingual Lesson (after a long hiatus). We have two songs today from podsafeaudio.com: J. Marie Anderson's Elephant Romp and Haegers Bend's Jam for Jimi.

Cat-O-Nine Tails provides us with "Kaleidoscope" (a word ending with ~scope - see Hokudai/Cast 106) and Word/Play gives us both 'constellation' and 'antibiotics.' We learn to say "Is there a grocery store near here?' in Chinese and Japanese and listen to Three Interviews with Hokuriku University students.

An Interview with a Hokuriku University professor with a lot of experience in Africa, music from Guinea and South Africa, and our Word/Play and How Do You Say...? segments makes this a lively and informative Hokudai/Cast

Cafe Hokudai Three brings you more jazz from our virtual coffee shop. Music is provided by Sonnyboo.com (Peter John Ross) and FreeSound.org (harri, hammerklavier, and various sounds). The final picture is of Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto. The voices are visitors to this magnificent temple.

Two South African bands finish our podcast today. Before that we learn to say 'I passed a university test' in Chinese and listen to an interview in Japanese.

Canadian rock band Sherry sings 'Donna' while LA songstress Becky Bishop belts out 'Drinking Alone' in Hokudai/Cast 104. We also have an Interview, Word/Play, a Word For Today, and we learn how to say "I have a job" in Chinese, English, and Japanese.

Music fills our feed today as Celtic Fusion, Eric Mornin, and Su-mi provide tunes for a special musical episode. Although the Word For Today is 'competitive,' we are more relaxed today.

Joe Sibol and Pempi are our musical guests as we explore vacations and school trips - Schools are on vacation now in Japan so students are rushing here and there on school trips. In Word/Play we deal with three words related to not going to school and in our Trilingual Lesson we study words about school trips. Sibol sings 'Dance with the Pharoah" and Pempi sings 'Jah Leads the Way.'

Jesushairdo and Shinjuku Zulu provide our music whilst Word/Play deals with introductions. Our Trilingual Lesson teaches us words about business and our Word For Today is 'Beautiful.' This is our 100th episode and we want to thank you all for listening.

Two songs finish Hokuriku University's 99th podcast: Something Else by The Drowning Hundred and Something New by Ben Hammond. Word/Play uses time such as 'lately' and 'ages ago' and our Trilingual Lesson both uses 'recently,' 'family,' and 'unicycle' again. Our Word For the Day is ingenious.

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Learn to say 'unicycle' and 'live' in three different languages. And hear music by Josie Carr (Si Tu Lo Hace) from PodSafeAudio.com.

Groundhog Day is the theme of Hokudai/Cast 97. We interview a Hokuriku University senior who spent time in another country; we learn to say Groundhog (and woodchuck) in Japanese, English, and Chinese; we listen to 11 Miles West of Nowhere Records' song China Walls. Come and listen.

A little jazzy-music for a quiet interlude of relaxation.  With (a lot of) help from FreeSound, especially digifishmusic.com, hammerklavier and simondsouza. Please enjoy.

The 12 Chinese zodiac animals are our topic for our Trilingual Lesson today as January 26th is this year's Chinese New Year. We also have a Word/Play about "If I had...." and a song by the Keath Moon from gbuc.net.

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Excellent, Intelligent, and Snow are among the words we learn in this short Hokudai/Cast from Hokuriku University in snowy Kanazawa, Japan. Music is by Aaron MacDonald and it's called "In the Snow."

Hokuriku University's Hokudai/Cast 94 introduces us to a new feature: Word for the Day. We also learn how to distinction between words that sound very similar but have very different meanings. Several short interviews precede Little Red King's "Moon Flow"

Hokudai/Cast 93 brings you sentences you can use to help you continue a conversation. And art. And music. And Happy New Year. And explains why dead air isn't good when talking to an American. Plus an interview with a Hokuriku University professor who speaks four languages. Music is by Vegitation and it's called "Apart of Me."

Before Ruby Shuz sings "So Sweet" we explore words of taste: spicy, salty, sweet, sour, delicious, awful, and bitter in our three languages of Japanese, English, and Chinese. Plus we have an interview about drama and students ask questions about food. Please enjoy.

Stationery and stationary are our words today. What's the difference and where can we buy it?Plus music by The Little Red King.

We learn about plants and the drama club at Hokuriku University in today's Hokudai/Cast.

Just a little light music for your day.

An interview with a Hokuriku University professor about previous jobs, a Trilingual Time about jobs, and a Word/Play that explains the endings on job titles. Plus music by Vermillion and a How Do I Say... section in Chinese.

Hokudai/Cast 88 has Word/Play using postpone, restore, and essential. Plus interviews about Kanazawa, and an essential Trilingual Time. Music is by Cat-O'-Nine Tails (I'm waiting for the postcard you won't send).

We interview several students who study English and Japanese at Hokuriku University. We find out what they want to do after they graduate from Hokuriku, about tsunami, and about the languages of China. The Interviews are in English and some Chinese and Japanese. The music is by a Japanese indie band called Cat-O-Nine Tails.

We hope to invigorate you with our vigorous Hokudai/Cast 86. Today's episode has music by Eric Mornin, four interviews with students from around the world who study at Hokuriku University, and more parts of the body in English, Japanese, and Chinese. Email us a hokudaicast@gmail.com

The Pop Machine and Eric Mornin bring us the music for Hokudai/Cast 85 which includes an extremely short Word/Play and A Trilingual Lesson about Body Parts

Jazz with Leif Willumsen and Eric Mornin (of Hokuriku University) and words related to money, like salt and salary. In English, Japanese and Chinese.

John Korbel and Eric Mornin provide our music while we learn to say 'arm' and 'leg' in Chinese, English, and Japanese. We also listen to a Hokuriku University junior talk about gender and other things in Japanese and English. Word/Play teaches phrases that use arm, hand, and finger.

Hokuriku University's school festival allowed us to talk with people and listen to lots of music. Eric Mornin provides some of the music and Utaru provides the rest.

Eric Morning and Scottish Guitar Quartet provide Hokudai/Cast's music today. Eric teaches at Hokuriku University. We also have Word/Play with words that use the suffix ~oynm (name) and a Trilingual Lesson with words for the months of the year.

Somebody's Closet and Pensive provide the music while our Trilingual Lesson gives us the seasons in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Also, we have months in Chinese. Meanwhile, our Word/Play gives us the top 50 words in English.

Natalie Brown and Jesushairdo provide the music for Hokudai/Cast 79 which also includes a Trilingual Lesson in counting to 10 in Chinese and English and a Word/Play dealing with words related to 'quad.'

Bernadette Seacrest and Her Yes Men and Tongue of the Dog provide our rain-related music in Hokudai/Cast 78. Bernadette sings "Rain" and Tongue sings "A Little Rain" while our Word/Play describes cats and dogs, a rainy day, and parades set upon by rain. Our Language Lesson focuses on Chinese words for student and study.

Russ Aimz and Ruby Shuz provide the musical entertainment with their Australian-based and Seattle-based rock. Word/Play deals with vacation. contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com visit our blog at hokudaicast.blogspot.com

Space words appear in Word/Play and Trilingual words about schools and study show up in our Trilingual Lesson. Robert Anton of robertanton.com provides the dance music and freesound.org provides the spacy sound effects.

Hokudai/Cast 75 brings you Podcast Reggae from Reggae Far East (Japan) and O Manga from Cumplice (Brazil). We also have a Japanese-English-Chinese lesson about convenience stores and a Word/Play about going to the beach or being at sea.

Uma Floresta and Pensive provide music for our sunbathing pleasure. Word/Play is about suntans and sunburns. And ketchup and catsup. Our Trilingual Lesson is about losing weight, walking, and fathers. contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

Word/Play deals with floods while our Trilingual Lesson deals with African safaris. We have an interview in Japanese with a Hokuriku University professor and exciting reggae music by The KeathMoon, a Japanese indie band singing in English.

Seattle Standard Cafe and Lil Bit give us our two songs for Hokudai/Cast 72. Plus we have Word/Play and a Trilingual Lesson dealing with the bass (guitar, not the fish.)

Word/Play deals with walking, Trilingual Lesson deals with the heat, and we have an Interview with a Hokuriku University professor about translation work and learning a foreign language (she speaks three.) Also, Aldo Leopardi provides us with a rocking song called "Reckless Dreams"

We're running with the bulls in Spain, climbing the Eiffel Tower, and thinking about an appendectomy in Hokudai/Cast 70. Our Trilingual Lesson deals with a vacation in Fantasy while our interview is with Rumi about her music. Check out the videos at http://hokudaicast.blogspot.com

Hokudai/Cast 68 brings you Word/Play about epidemics and pandemics; a Trilingual Lesson about wanting to buy, see, and eat different things (in Chinese, Japanese, and English) and a wonderful song by Michael Slupczynski called "Blue Dream." email us at hokudaicast@gmail.com and visit our website at http://hokudaicast.net

Learn to say useful phrases in Chinese (and English & Japanese); learn about Olympic words; learn about the Project Class at Hokuriku University and how to study for the Eiken, TOEIC, or any other language test. Music is by Jesushairdo and it is called 'Rolling Family.' Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com.

Hokudai/Cast 66 is about law and legal words. We interview a law professor about international laws, contracts, trademarks, and copyrights and then, in our Trilingual Language Lesson, learn how to say legal words in Japanese, English, and Chinese. We also learn how to say 'It's a cloudy day' in Japanese, English and Chinese. The music is by Robin Stine and it's called "Daydream." Other music is by Manzi, a Kanazawa indies band. Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

Word/Play has words related to 'arch' such as architect, arch-enemy, and arch-angel. We also deal with a Japanese word, 'CM' and its English origins. These words are used in our Japanese-English-Chinese lesson, too. The next episode of "Dead Men Don't Travel" has Vicki finally finding Roger and his dog. Finally, we have a nice soulful song "Next Step" by Bob Maus. email us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

Carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore? Which are you? We learn these three words in Japanese, Chinese, and English. We also have an interview about China with an English professor. Also, our Dead Men Don't Travel drama continues. Mt. Paliot's "Train of Tears" is today's music.

A finance professor discusses his class, a Nisui High School English teacher discusses his hobbies, Dead Men Don't Travel continues, and we have a Japanese-English-Chinese lesson on natural disasters. Music is by David Hahn - Oooka Fookoo contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

An Interview with an English teacher; a Japanese-English-Chinese lesson with words about studying and students; Dead Men Don't Travel drama; and music by Seattle Standard Cafe and Manzi. This week's Hokudai/Cast is brimming over with exciting events and words.

An interview with a soccer coach, our first Japanese-Chinese-English lesson of the year, a soulful song by a Japanese group - Cat 'O Nine Tails - and our 'auto' Word/Play of the week - All on Hokudai/Cast 61

Hokudai/Cast 60 brings you a song by Naomi Yohani from Taiwan, Word/Play, our TTS drama: "Dead Men Don't Travel," and three interviews with people about how they learned foreign languages.

We interview five new Hokuriku University students, listen to three conversations in our three different languages and continue our Text-to-Speech drama, Dead Men Don't Travel. contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com visit our blogs at http://hokudaicast.blogspot.com and http://miraisozo.blogspot.com

Words are flowing endlessly like rain into a paper cup at Hokudai/Cast this week. First we interviewed students and learned how to say 'high school' in Chinese. Then Word/Play dealt us a human hand... ugh. I mean, it gave us 'anthro' which means 'human' and can be found in a variety of words including philanthropy misanthrope anthropology lycanthropy and anthropomorphic. Wow, lots of big words.

Hokudai/cast 57 brings you Mt. Paliot's "Lovable Drunkers" and Word/Play's 'ann,' 'enni,' - roots related to Year. We also have Part Three of our Text-to-Speech drama "Dead Men Don't Travel." contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

Hokudai/Cast 56 is about music and prefixes. The prefixes are 'a-' and 'im-' and the music is Seattle Standard Cafe's "You and Me", a rip-roaring song. Contact us at: hokudaicast@gmail.com.

Hokudai/Cast 55 brings you Word/Play in English and Japanese using the Greek root and prefix: proto- meaning 'first', and pseudo - meaning 'false.' We also bring you part two of an experiment: Text-to-Speech drama (TTSD). Our first TTSD was in Hokudai/Cast 51. Nadare, a local indies band here in Kanazawa, provides you with their very good song: "Hands Up!" Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com or go to our website at http://hokudaicast.net

Hokudai/Cast 54 is about the sun, the moon, and music. While most students are on spring vacation and teachers are attending conferences all over the place, we are happy to stay and help you improve your English and Latin. Today's Word/Play deals with lunar and solar words (including lunatic, lunacy, and solarium). Music is by Manzi with their 'Prison Art.' Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

Hokudai/Cast 53 thanks the students from Fushiki High School in Toyama for visiting us. Latin was discussed, especially the Latin found in Harry Potter. Why? Knowing Latin helps us improve our English vocabulary. Music today is by Seattle Standard Cafe and Mt. Paliot's. SSC's "One Ticket to You" is a lively rockin' number while Mt. Paliot's "Repeal the Licensing Laws" is a rollin' instrumental. Great title, though. E

Hokudai/Cast 52 brings you Astronomy, Astonomer, Astronaut, Astrology, and Astrologist. Plus, of course, Astro Boy. These are all related to stars and the universe - Astro. We also present you with "After the Flood" by Manji.

Punk, a teacher, and raamen are all in Hokudai/Cast 51 plus Word/Play shows us a little about words that move from one language to another without the help of translation. An experiment with Text-to-Speech and music by Kanazawa's own Mt. Paliot's (Devil Waltz). Email us at hokudaicast@gmail.com Visit our website at http://hokudaicast.net Visit our blog at http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com

Hokudai/Cast 50 includes words about feelings and emotions (sympathy, antipathy, apathy, and empathy) plus opposites and the same in Word/Play. It also has a short interview about computer-to-computer telephone services (like Skype) and music by Seattle Standard Cafe. contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com and visit our website at hokudaicast.net

Hokudai/Cast 49 has three interviews with people studying Chinese in China. We interview a woman from Korea, a man from France, and another woman from Japan. Also, we talk about habitats and inhabitants on Word/Play. The music is "Wakare-Sake" by Mt. Paliot's, an indies band here in Kanazawa. Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com and go to our website at Hokudaicast.net.

Hokudai/Cast 48 has four interviews with four juniors about their spring time plans: vacation starts soon and they are all off to different places to do different things. Plus, one junior talks about Skype. Finally, we have "Lava" by Manzi, an indies rock band from Kanazawa; the guitarist is a sophomore here at Hokuriku University. Please enjoy. Plus: What's a Fanconi? Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

Hokudai/Cast 47 is about reading (newspapers, manga, and novels) and Word/Play. Word/Play has 'audio,' 'phile,' and 'biblio.' And a little Spanish thrown in for seasoning. We have a song by Seattle Standard Cafe called 'Kata-machi Baby.' Kata-machi is in the central part of Kanazawa and is famous for its many drinking places and restaurants. Natrually, many of the words in Word/Play are in Chinese, English, and Japanese. Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

Hokudai/Cast 46 is about music and snowboarding. Plus Rumiko will sing a duet with herself and we will hear a Kanazawa indies band called Seattle Standard Cafe. Word/Play is about words that are used with music and we will learn how to say such words as "bassist" in Japanese, English, and Chinese. Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com or our website at http://www.hokudaicast.net

Hokudai/Cast 45 discusses English in China, English in high school, English at Hokuriku University, snowboarding in English and the first impressions of Japan by two exchange students in Chinese. Music is by Manji. The lead singer and guitarist for Manji is a Hokuriku University sophomore; he sings in English and Japanese.

Sumo Sisters sing "Everyday with You," Little Red King plays "Dancing with Christine," and Word/Play tells us why the Pacific Ocean is called the Pacific Ocean.

Hokudai/Cast 43 takes place during our Year-end party; but we still have a Language Lesson, singing, interviews about winter vacation, and a song by Nadare called "If You Dare." Our Word/Play section is 'full' of words that mean, well, full. (Wonderful, for example.) Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

Today's Hokudai/Cast is about words and music, especially four prefixes that mean 'not!' such as il, im, in, and un. The music is by a local indies band called Nadare. We're using their music "Message from K-Town" and K-Town must mean Kanazawa.

Today's Hokudai/Cast is all about words (and winter vacation.) Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes can help you improve your vocabulary and spelling. Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com Website us at hokudaicast.net Music is "Low Life" by Mt. Paliot

Hokudai/Cast 40 is all about trains: 新幹線 and others. Like 駅� and ticket machines. We have our language lessons and two interviews with students about trains. The music is by Johnathan Fire and it's called "The Train Ride Across Western Io." It can be found at podsafeaudio.com. hokudaicast@gmail.com

What is your dream? What was your dream when you were young? How would you change your life? Many of these questions are asked and answered in today's Hokudai/Cast. Learn how to say "archeologist" in Japanese, Chinese, and English. Music is by Mocha Lab and is called "My Dream of You." Contact us at hokudaicast@gmail.com

With a song 'A Prayer' by Yunyu, today's Hokudai/Cast has an interview from Australia about the dugong. What is a dugong? Listen and learn how to say it in Japanese, English and Chinese. Plus, learn about its life style, life span, and eating habits.

Josh provides the music via podsafeaudio.com with his reggae-like "Shark Attack." We learn about sharks from Kana in Australia and we learn how to say 'shark,' 'gestation,' and 'sense of smell' in Japanese, English, and Chinese. hokudaicast@gmail.com http://hokudaicast.net

Hokudai/Cast 36 brings you two interviews with two students, one studied in America and one in Australia. Both studied English. contact us at: hokudaicast@gmail.com The music is "Round One" by Evan Tate from Podsafeaudio.com

How do you say "make-up" in Japanese and Chinese? I don't know either. But listening to Hokudai/Cast 35 will teach you. Make-up, eyeliner, lipstick, and mascara. It's a make-up Thursday. Music by Robin Stine. hokudaicast@gmail.com hokudaicast.blogspot.com

Hokudai/Cast has two interviews - both from Australia - and our three English, Japanese, and Chinese lessons. We also have a song by Preach Martin called "Cover Girl" from podsafeaudio.com. If you want to contact us: hokudaicast@gmail.com or hokudaicast.blogspot.com

This Hokudai/Cast includes an interview with a wonderful Japanese singer: Hitomitoi and other interviews at Hokuriku University's University Festival.

Learn 10 words in three languages: listen to the words and the words in sentences. The same 10 words as in Hokudai/Cast 31 but in sentences, too. Chinese, English, and Japanese! Go for it! Also, an interview with three people who just spent awhile studying English in California and Australia. English? In California? Finally, Nobody Famous sings "Break it Down". Listen! Enjoy!

How do you say 昨日ã€?今日ã€?and 明日 in English and Chinese? How do you say 'hobby,' 'watching movies,' and 'talking with friends' in Japanese and Chinese? How do you say 'skiing,' 'judo,' and 'snowboarding' in Chinese? How about 音楽をè?´ã??ã?¾ã?™ in English and Chinese? Listen! Also, after you learn those ten words you can hear an interview with the teacher. And music by Hitomitoi who will come to Hokuriku University in October.

Two interviews today and another song by Hitomitoi. First, we learn about Hokuriku University's school festival coming up. When? Listen! Hitomitoi will be coming to 北大際 this year, so please come. Second, we learn about the new soccer fields. Who will play there and when will it be open? Please listen! Also, please check out our other website: http://www.hokudaicast.net and blog at http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com contact us at: hokudaicast@gmail.com http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com

Jesushairdo is a Japanese musician with some very interesting songs. He can be found at http://www.jesushairdo.orimen.com. Today's Hokudai/Cast is only Sorekara. Short, but fun. Please enjoy. Also, please check out our other website: http://www.hokudaicast.net and blog at http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com contact us at: hokudaicast@gmail.com http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com

Two interviews and two mini-drama episodes. 0 ~ 2:30 Introduction 2:40 ~ 3:05 Sushi (drama in English) 3:10 ~ 4:10 Rumiko's Interview from California. 4:15 ~ 4:50 To The Beach (drama in English) 4:44 ~ 9:00 Kana's Interview from Australia. 9:00 ~ 12:35 Jesushairdo's Pain Rain. 12:35 ~ 13:00 End Music is Pain Rain by jesushairdo at http://www.jesushairdo.orimen.com Also, please check out our other website: http://www.hokudaicast.net and blog at http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com contact us at: hokudaicast@gmail.com http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com

We have three interviews and two one-minute dramas for you today. 0:13 - Introduction 1:15 - Megumi Interviews a Basketball Player. How long has she been playing basketball? What's her favorite part of basketball? One-Minute Dramas (一分�演劇) 2:00 - Drama One: The Barbeque 2:40 - Drama Two: Lost On The Way to Forus. 3:50 - Masumi's English Interview How long has he been in Beijing? Why is listening difficult for him? 5:00 - Masumi's Japanese Interview 6:00 - Ending Also, please check out our other website: http://www.hokudaicast.net and blog at http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com contact us at: hokudaicast@gmail.com http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com

We introduce our new feature: The one-minute drama acted out in English by native speakers of Chinese and Japanese. There will be ghosts, strange people, and ambulances. Also, please check out our other website: http://www.hokudaicast.net and blog at http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com contact us at: hokudaicast@gmail.com http://www.hokudaicast.blogspot.com

May 2, 2007 Music by Yum "Beyond the Horizon" from gbuc.net Masumi interviews someone who is studying Japanese in China while Seki interviews a Hokuriku University student who is on the tennis team. Today's Hokudai/Cast is 7:00 minutes long. Please enjoy.