Fun Friday 03: Interview with Niko of Nihongo Shark

Learn Japanese Pod

Alex Brooke

Japan, Podcast, Language Courses, Study, Education, Tokyo, Japanese, Osaka, Jlpt

4.8 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Fun Friday Podcast I talked with my good friend Niko who is the creator of Nihongo Shark, a website for learning Japanese.

Niko is a Jedi master of online language self-study techniques which he developed while trying to teach himself Japanese. If you were ever frustrated with your Japanese studies, Niko understands, as he used to struggle too. And that’s what makes him such a great teacher and Nihongoshark such a great Japanese language learning resource. His philosophy is about teaching people how to teach themselves Japanese more effectively and quickly. This is opposed to wanting to curl up in a ball and cry every time you see a Japanese textbook.

Niko is a prolific creator of great online Japanese lessons and some pretty hilarious blog posts. His website has a wide variety Japanese lessons, advice on language learning, a newsletter and language courses for motivated Japanese students.

In the podcast I talked to Niko about his recent travels in Thailand, his experience and advice about language learning and of course how to suck less at speaking Japanese.

For more Japanese language learning podcasts visit http://learnjapanesepod.com

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0:00.0	Hello this is Alex and you are listening to the Fun Friday edition of the Learn Japanese Pod podcast.
0:07.0	In this episode I interviewed Nico who's a good friend of mine from Tokyo and the creator of Nihonko Shark which is a really great
0:14.2	website for students who are studying the Japanese language.
0:17.4	Nico is an expert in online self-study language learning techniques, which he learned while trying to teach himself Japanese.
0:26.0	Nico is a prolific Japanese lesson creator and educator.
0:31.0	His website, Nihonkooshark, has a huge amount of really useful blog
0:36.0	posts, Japanese lessons, advice, a newsletter and language courses for motivated Japanese
0:41.8	students. In this podcast I talked to Nico about his
0:46.2	recent travels in Thailand, his experience and advice about language learning and of course
0:52.1	how to suck less at speaking Japanese.
0:55.0	Anyway, Nico is also giving a special offer to learn Japanese pod listeners.
1:00.0	It's a 32% discount on access to his premium daily Japanese lessons and you can get all the information
1:07.8	for that on Learn JapanesePod.com slash Shark.
1:14.0	So just click on Learn Japanese Pod.com slash Shark.
1:17.8	If you sign up, you'll get access to lessons
1:20.8	with thousands of vocabulary and grammar explanations and audio recordings of sentences and drills made by native Japanese speakers.
1:29.0	I tried this out myself, I thought it was really well put together and it's good for
1:35.2	very motivated students who want to learn more natural Japanese, the kind of
1:40.0	Japanese that you don't usually find in your average textbook. of Japanese pod.
1:47.0	This discount offer is only open for a week, so again, go to learn Japanese pod.com slash shock.
1:51.6	Check it out, see what you think.
1:53.0	There's 100% money back of her if it's not your cup of tea, but I'm pretty confident you'll like it.
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