Learn Japanese with our free Japanese lessons in podcast format. We use examples from anime and everyday conversation to teach you Japanese that is useful for everyday life. Hitomi-sensei is from Tokyo and will teach you to speak with the most common Japanese accent. If you are watching an anime now and want to know more about a word or phrase you have heard, post a comment or send us an email.
This Friday Hitomi will become a citizen of the United States. This is one of several things on our plate that has really taken us away from Japancast over the past few months. If you’d like to send a message to Hitomi, use either the Contact Us link on this site, or send a Tweet to @Japancast from Twitter.
Thanks to all our listeners for being so understanding over the past several months.
Hitomi is posting a lot on Twitter now, so you can brush up on your Japanese. I’ve added some of her most recent posts to the side of the blog. If you are using Twitter, you can follow her at http://twitter.com/japancast
I just wanted to take a moment to update everyone on the current status here. The latest news is this: Hitomi is becoming a US citizen! We’ve filed the forms and yesterday took a trip to Indianapolis for the first step in the process.
The next step will be the actual citizenship test, where she’ll be tested on civics as well as English. If she passes those tests, she’ll be scheduled to be sworn in within 90 days of the test.
It’s an interesting and exciting process.
But the question is this: If you lived in Japan and had the opportunity to become a Japanese citizen, would you?