また今日ね。

Moushiwake gozaimasen! I didn’t mean to single out Aki-san in particular. You were very observant in noticing basically ALL your male voice-actors sound to me like that. The ladies just sound so much more crisp to me! But you’re giving good advice: one always needs to practise one’s weak points; and listening to male Japanese voices is still hard for me (especially when they go full speed).

As a girl, I would want to hear at least a ください (kudasai, “please”) in there. Also, the 俺と (ore to) isn’t necessary, as it’s obvious (hopefully!) who’s doing the proposing; also, a lot of girls dislike the “ore ore” complex, as it’s known, and I have to disagree with Mark here in saying that you’d want to be using informal language; on the contrary, it’s an extremely important (and romantic!) moment, and thus it would not be strange for the man to use keigo (polite language) at all. So simply: “Kekkon shite kudasai!” with feeling!

Iwakura-san
Aki-san actually speaks very clearly, trust me (and I don’t think our other guys “slur” at all?). Remember that Peter-sensei is an American speaking Japanese (and taking care to enunciate!), which is why you probably find it easier to understand! As a man yourself, I really would recommend making yourself listen to male Japanese more (even though I know it’s more difficult to understand than female Japanese) to avoid picking up too many feminine speech traits.

Aki-san’s use of “o-hisashiburi” is not exactly incorrect (although it does differ from the PDF); o-hisashiburi is simply keigo (polite language), and is used in any polite/formal situation, or when the two speakers do not know each other as intimate friends.

Oh, and just wanted to say, more Natsuko-san and Sakura-san, kudasai! And less Aki-San! (the males you choose tend to slur their Japanese badly, really; except for Peter-sensei himself. of course). And when the lesson is being discussed, I think Aki-san says “O-hisashiburi,” which I think is actually incorrect here, as the idea was (if I understood it correctly) that, since the Prime Minister and the Hospital Administrator already know each other, as the one higher in rank/status, the Prime Minister would, indeed, just say hisashiburi, as he does in the PDF.

Oh, and in the Grammar Points of the PDF we also see: “O-yasumi no tokoro, suimasen.” Small typo. Needs to be “suMimasen,” of course.

Just wanted to say, “I really, REALLY like Aki-San!”

I so appreciate having a Japanese male voice on the show as well, alongside Natsuko and the other ladies. But Peter-san is indispensable.. (hint hint).

And Aki-san does sound so nice, very “yasashii”! I like his English too.

Thank you so much!

This guy is not the japanese James Bond, is the Japanese Jason Bourne…

actually we heard this phrase in the 2nd episode of this series:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/2007/06/05/newbie-lesson-26-rise-shine-part-2/

a related phrase:

if you leave the office first, you say to others:
お先に失礼します!
o-saki ni shitsurei shimasu
literally: “excuse me for leaving before you”
loosely: “i’m going home before you, nya nya!” (i never get to say this )

after someone says this, the others will say:
お疲れ様でした!
o-tsukare-sama deshita!
literally: “you are an honored tired person of higher social status than i” ( ) how japanese is that??! ahahha it’s great!
loosely: “you lucky dog, i can’t leave until last train!”

Arigatou gozaimasu.

Nate

実は、この話題はちょっと考えたくない。
Truth is, I don’t really want to think about it.

二十四歳には若すぎるとおもいます。

私はここんなレッソンが好きです。たしかに普通のより有用と思います。
I like this kind of lesson. Definitely more useful than your average lesson.

医者も首相はヴァンパイアかもしれないね。

僕はいつもJPodにヴァンパイアがいるレッソンの意見をあげるのに、ぜんぜん聞かない。iLoveの時にも「ヴァンパイアはどう？」と言って、ヴァンパイアがいなかった。

Let’s just say that I love the wacky lessons. I could probably go to one of a hundred sites on Japanese and read one of a thousand books to get the run-of-the-mill boring stuff (たとえば”How to order Sushi”) but only jPod gives me the zany subject material I need.

Weird, crazy, off-the-wall humour is one of the reasons I like Japan actually. たとえば、ドラえもんとか、らんま二分の一や、those crazy game shows where people injure themselves, Yoshi先生…

Hey I should have put that as an answer in yesterday’s lesson!　I should have put it as an answer to 日本は如何ですか。

「私と結婚なさってください」？