Jalup Listen – Adam & Yuki Show
The biggest request I’ve gotten over the years is for more easy and fun listening material, that is going to help reinforce the Japanese you already know. But that’s not enough! How about if that listening covers interesting news, events, or other fun recent topics? Still need more? How about a Japanese script included, and the ability to discuss and ask any questions “in Japanese” to the person who recorded it?
Jalup Listen is starting now!
On Jalup’s newly revamped Patreon account, for a pledge of $3 or $7 a month, you will get access to one or both of our brand new audio series.
1. Jalup Listen
- A few episodes (of 30-60 seconds each) produced a week.
- Recent topics covered such as news, science, technology, Japan trends, etc.
- The “topic keyword(s)” of each episode explained to you in the audio.
- A full Japanese script
- Downloadable, high quality audio
- The ability to discuss in Japanese each episode with Yuki (the voice behind the series) in the comments section
I’m a pretty private person, but I thought starting my own audio show with Yuki might give me a chance to reflect more upon my own Japanese adventure in detail, including many things I’ve never talked about on Jalup. It gives me an opportunity to be more casual and non-rehearsed, rather than the (somewhat?) polished articles of this site, and you get to hear my Japanese.
- A few episodes produced a month (1-2 minutes each, taken from live conversations)
- Adam and Yuki talk together in Japanese about Japan, learning Japanese, and the many wild adventures Adam has had.
- Get to know the man behind Jalup and a behind the scenes look at his life.
- A full Japanese conversation script
- Downloadable, high quality audio
- The ability to discuss in Japanese or English each episode with Yuki & Adam in the comments section
I’m hoping we can grow this into something much bigger, and really level up your listening. Check out the first two episodes of each series for free.
Jalup Listen 1: Cat Day
Jalup Listen 2: Olympic Figure Skating
Adam & Yuki 1: How Old Were you When you First Visited Japan?
Adam & Yuki 2: First Time Abroad Ever was Japan?!
If more people support Jalup Listen and the Adam & Yuki Show on Patreon it will give me the ability to increase the amount of episodes per month.
What an episode looks like on Patreon:
Founder of Jalup. iOS Software Engineer. Former attorney, translator, and interpreter. Still watching 月曜から夜ふかし weekly since 2013.
This idea is amazing and I’m in it for sure. Hope a lot more people will sign up for it so it can grow and grow. Also it’s not too expensive, 3 a month is really nothing.
Thanks! Yes, I’m excited for it, and hope there is enough support to make it grow.
Yea,cool! It is always a bit of a hassle to find some good audio to listen to. And three dollar a month is a fair price
I’ll max you out on good audio :)
I’m in! :) Currently a bit tight on money, but I think I can manage that much ;) I will put the clips on my mp3-player right away!
Thinking about it some more, 3-5 a week sounds huge, that’s basically every other day a new clip! I really hope this catches on :)
I mean the clips are short but to me that seems just right, especially if there’s new material so regularly.
Thank you!
And if it catches on, I hope to expand this to even more clips, including other voices (male), etc. There’s a lot of possibilities with where to go with this.
It’s a very good idea that could definitely benefit from a male voice too. Also, a back and forth with male and female would rock. Either way, I’m excited!
Maybe I’ll even jump in occasionally with my voice…?!
Sounds great to me! Another idea that may be interesting if you go with having more than one person, is to have episodes where those involved have a conversation (maybe unscripted) about whatever topic. Or even the situations series but with more than one person? One thing I like about unscripted is people make mistakes and speak differently because they haven’t practiced and it sounds more like real life and forces you to try to understand mistakes. Also, people speak more slowly when they are trying to think of something they want to say at that moment which our mind has to adjust for. Anyways, I love this new series idea.
Just some ideas. It feels strange speaking in here after basically 2 years of lurking haha.
Thanks for the additional suggestions. And welcome to the talking (non-lurking) part of the Jalup community :)
This is awesome! I’m going to subscribe right now :’)
Chase lives! And thanks for joining :P
Now, this is something worth listening. ;)
Why did this end? (I’m unable to read the patreon post)
I believe there wasn’t enough support. It appeared to me as if they were essentially working for free (or pretty close).
From the Patreon post:
“Unfortunately, that support/engagement never grew large enough to be able to continue them like we had planned. We had a lot of fun, and would’ve liked to see it go further, but it is what it is.
We will be discontinuing both series at the end of this month (June)…”
I love the idea of listening+reading together, they reinforce each other.
The last bit is speaking+listening+reading. I use Pera for that (heypera.com) which is a really natural AI conversation partner and has been great for that but I might add this too. Thanks!