こんにちは、皆様。ジェイソンです。 Hi, everybody! Jason here to tell you about some enhancements we’ve recently made to JapanesePod101.com.

Due to spam attacks on the forums, we’ve implemented a couple of security features to help prevent future attacks. One is that new users who have less than 10 posts will be required to enter a randomly generated security code when making a post to confirm that they are in fact human and not a spambot. The other is that new users will not be allowed to post images until they have both made at least 10 imageless posts and have been registered for at least a week. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to new forum posters, but we hope you will bear with us as we try to protect ourselves and our members from spam. These changes will not affect established forum posters.

In addition to the forum security enhancements, the word dictionary in the Learning Center has also received some upgrades. You now have 4 search options: Contains (match your search query anywhere), Is (match your search query exactly), Starts with, and Ends with. The dictionary will also now match class 3 verbs (verbs that are made of a noun+する) whether or not you include する in your search query. You can see both of these new features in action in the screenshot below.

Thank you all for your continuing feedback and support! Without it we simply could not do what we do. We hope you’ll like these new features and those that will come. 今後とも、よろしくお願いします！