赤坂？ So, you’ve run out of places and are greeting yourselves?

Those are real place names. I’ve been to the one in wales.

Alanさん、

Maybe if you record yourself saying those place names and send in the file, they can just edit it in for you.

JP101 crew and listeners

Happy Martin Luther King birthday (holiday)
If should have a brown face like the green face!

Chigusa-san I’m also a Jenny-san too very outgoing and communicative (sociable)!

Hello Akasaka Tokyo, I like this newbie lessons because I learn alot from them! S_R_C

It’s hard to know what to write in response to Newbie-level lessons x_x… but in case anyone’s interested, here are some Akasaka-related links in English.

http://www.jref.com/practical/akasaka.shtml
http://tokyopocketguide.com/area-akasaka.html

And a few in Japanese.

http://www.tokyometro.jp/rosen/eki/akasaka/
http://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.jp/1/akasaka/

TokyoQ’s 2001-02 Tokyo Guide (1-88065-54-X) reports: “Akasaka at night is as glittery as the Ginza. Its main drag, paved with colored tiles, is trawled by highly-polished limousines taking masters of industry to their assignations in expensive ryotei restaurants. Between 6 and 7 o’clock, dozens of dazzling hostesses dressed in Dior or kimono make their way on foot from the Akasaka Mitsuke subway station to those same destinations, a voyeur’s treat. In the basement of the Suntory Building, rich wine connoisseurs store their cases of Chateau d’Yquem.”

Lonely Planet Tokyo (1-74059-450-9) notes: “Akasaka is still one of Tokyo’s centers of both explicit and exclusive power. With the Diet just a few minutes’ walk away in the Nagatachou area, it’s not surprising that Akasaka fills with bureaucrats and politicians at the end of the day.”

[…] Newbie Lesson #4 is the last part of the Skype 「スカイプ」 conversation that began in Newbie #2 and continued in Newbie #3. This time the student introduces a classmate from the United States that tries to speak Japanese to the professor, with rather mixed results. […]

Kenny-san,

I am able to hear the lesson over here… Please let me know if the problem persists. Are you having trouble with other lessons as well?

Eran

Where is Lesson #6? I can’t seem to find it…

”絶好調です！” 　大好き！What a great alternative to “げんきです！”

I told one of my students I’d teach it to him tomorrow. (: By the way, is that the correct kanji for “zekkouchou desu”? ありがとうございます！

it’s a 小さい「つ」 “small tsu.” and it usually represents a doubling of the follow consonant sound.
学校　→　がっこう (not がつこう) (gakkou)

so there is a brief pause between が and こう and that’s what the 小さい「つ」represents.

hope this helps!