Hokudai/Cast
A Japanese-English-Chinese Podcast from 北陸大学 (Hokuriku University). Interviews, Language tips, and music.
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Hokudai/Cast 234: 朋友 and Writing Words
We have sixteen words in Word/Play today. They all deal ...
We have sixteen words in Word/Play today. They all deal with Writing. "Script" or "scrib" are root words that mean "to write". Script has four meanings all to itself. For example, any document, a writing style such as a font, handwriting, and any...
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Hokudai/Cast 233: Perimeter
Graduation was last week. Jobs and school start next week. ...
Graduation was last week. Jobs and school start next week. We are on the perimeter between the end of one life-stage (school) and the beginning of another (work). The Music is from gbuc.net and it's by Eddie+Kewpie. It's called No Job Blues. The words...
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Hokudai/Cast 232: Meters
How do you say dictionary - 词典 - 辞書 in ...
How do you say dictionary - 词典 - 辞書 in Chinese? Like this: 你有没有词典？Nǐ yǒu méi yǒucídiǎn ?Do you have a dictionary? 我有词典。Wǒ yǒu cídiǎn. I have a dictionary.你有几本词典？Nǐ yǒu...
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Hokudai/Cast 231: In and Perspire
Word/Play deals with words related to breathing. For example, inspire, ...
Word/Play deals with words related to breathing. For example, inspire, perspire, and conspire. All have breathing in them - the root 'spire' means breathing. 'In' means in, 'per' means through, and 'con' means with. The Trilingual Lesson deals with...
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Hokudai/Cast 230: Leaps and Bounds
Words in Word/Play are leap year light year yearbook leaps ...
Words in Word/Play are leap year light year yearbook leaps and bounds 1582 is the year that leapt 10 days in order to fix the Julian calendar. Now we use the Gregorian calendar and have a leap year and leap day (February 29) every four years....
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Hokudai/Cast 229: What Day Is It?
Music is from Bett Butler and 五月天（Wu Yue Tian － ...
Music is from Bett Butler and 五月天（Wu Yue Tian － English name: MayDay）. Bett sings "I've Got Rhythm" (from IODA Promonet) while Wu Yue Tian sings "Laughter and Forgetting" (from chinesesong.org). Our Chinese Extra at the beginning of...
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Hokudai/Cast 228: Polygamy?
Good morning, everyone. We're late again. Sorry but things are ...
Good morning, everyone. We're late again. Sorry but things are backing up here at the end of the year. Anyway, here is your Trilingual Lesson which is about different kinds of marriage:...
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Hokudai/Cast 227: Confusing Ambition?
Word/Play deals with 'confusing' and 'confused' What's the difference and ...
Word/Play deals with 'confusing' and 'confused' What's the difference and how do you use them? Listen and learn, eh? The Trilingual Lesson gives you Ambition. Are you ambitious? Do you have ambition? Learn to say these and more words in English,...
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Hokudai/Cast 226: Under the Weather
We were a bit under the weather last week so, ...
We were a bit under the weather last week so, unfortunately, we couldn't put together a Hokudai/Cast. But this week we have a Word/Play dealing with weahter; a How Do You Say...? also dealing with weather; and two songs. Unfortunately, we don't have a...
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Hokudai/Cast 225: Dexterity Plus!
Dexterity (器用さ, 灵巧)is our middle name today. Along with ambidextrous ...
Dexterity (器用さ, 灵巧)is our middle name today. Along with ambidextrous (両手利きの, 怀有二心的). But don't worry about it, you'll hear a lot in the next few minutes. dexterity dexterous ambidextrous dextrose are the words in...
