Re: [tlug] Re: [OT] Japanese Language Podcasts

["Lyle H Saxon" <llletters@example.com>]

On Dec 31, 2007 11:38 PM, Kim Ahlström <kim.ahlstrom@example.com> wrote:
>
> Yomiuri has a daily news roundup podcast. I used to listen to it a
> while back and it was very well produced, albeit with the occational
> English section announcement. As I haven't listened to it for a long
> time I can't vouch for how good it is now, but check it out.
>
> http://podcast.yomiuri.co.jp/

Thanks!  Those are good!  I'll definitely try listening to some of
those on the trains.  Only two complaints: 1) They have an irritating
male English voice saying profound things like "This is the Yomiuri
News podcast".  Grrrrrr... Why-why-why do they *DO* that?? and 2) the
sound is okay, but could be a little bit better - they're probably
over-compressing it to save bandwidth.

Anyway, for news, this is great!  What would also be great is have
something like interviews - does anyone know of a site supplying that
sort of thing?  Some of the stuff on the radio is good - for example,
there's an interview almost every day on FM-Tokyo between 10:00 -
10:30 (with music thrown in in the middle unfortunately).  Does anyone
know of podcasts of radio broadcasts?

In any case, thanks for this link!  It's great for news!

Lyle