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.

Dancers at Hokuriku University's School Festival held in October. Students of Hokuriku University doing their dances and enjoying themselves. Part One is over at http://hokudaicast.blogspot.com and can be viewed with Fire! At Hokuriku at http://miraisozo.blogspot.com at anytime and anywhere. Enjoy!

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.

Student dancers at Hokuriku University's school festival a few weeks ago. This is Part One of more than one part. Enjoy.

Dancing with Fire at the recent Hokuriku University school festival.

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).

A simple movie using Hatsukoi by NJ from gbuc.net and scenes from Hokuriku University.

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.