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Hello,

Happy to send you this first message.I’m really interested in learning English.I enjoy all the podcasts.Cotinue providing us with others.

Thanks.

Hello everybody, I discovered these podcasts some weeks ago, and I like them, because the good sense of humour of our teacher (congratulations, John). Usually, I ear the podcasts while driving (a motorbike), but when the iPod finish, the iPod doesn’t star to play the next one, so my english class finish. Does somebody knows how can I solve this?  Thanks and kind regards to you all

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We talk with Charlie from the road about his work with the peace movement.

Charlie’s flickr photos | Charlie’s website

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Hey, it’s our first show of 2007!

We talk with Richard and Diane, who have been living and teaching in Japan, but are soon moving to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).

This episode is available in both audio and video.
The video is on our video page.

Have a healthy, happy and successful 2007.

Lotus

Hello everyone,

Happy New Year 2007!

Some friends are here in Matsumoto visiting us, and, to begin our new year,  we went to a nearby shrine around midnight and got our new year’s fortune. It was cold for sure, but many people were there and it was really a festive atmosphere.

All the best to all of you and your families. Let’s share and learn together in 2007 … yeah!

–John

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It’s our end-of-year show and I hope you like it. In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Happy holidays and Happy New Year 2007!
• You’ll hear a movie review: ‘A Waking Life’
• Our new ‘Wikipedia Profile’ segment: Kwanzaa.
• Three new idioms: home away from home, (sitting) on top of the world, over the top.
• PODnobbin’ with a look at three podcast episodes.
• An extra special interview with Aileen. We talk about the holidays and medical school.

Enjoy and learn!
–John

JAPANESE STEREOTYPES DISCUSSION

The original audio for this discussion is:
ETJ Show 52 (begins at 24:42)
Please see the complete transcript for ETJ Show 52

** Transcript text may differ from audio **
===== Start Transcript: Japanese Stereotypes Discussion =====

This is segment 4 of today’s show and it’s a discussion.
Just this week, I had a nice discussion about stereotypes. From OneLook.com, a stereotype is:

stereotype: something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially : a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment.

We began the discussion by looking at page 17 from a book called “This is Culture” which was written by my friends Greg Goodmacher and his wife Asako Kajiura. The unit is called stereotypes and here is a list of the Japanese sterotypes that are in that unit:

STEREOTYPES
JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE:

1. efficient
2. too polite
3. always give presents
4. wear kimonos
5. shy
6. difficult to get to know
7. not religious
8. not interested in politics
9. clean
   
10. respect parents

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I’m homayoon from Iran

I love english and special the english  john show podcast.

Good Luck

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This is parts 2 and 3 of our 3-part homeopathy discussion.

Homeopathy discussion Part 1 is the final segment in ETJ Show 53.