Fabrizio desu! Italiajin desu! That’s great!!
I’m looking forward to hearing more from this character!!

kitty-chan

Yoshikai was hilarious in this lesson Naomi was good too, her voice is very soft and easy on the ears.

The pitch accent stuff was useful as well. Are there any patterns to this, or is it on a word-by-word basis?

I usually try to copy the voice actors, but I’m pretty sure I’ve picked up some less than masculine intonation from Natsuko

peter is totally right. he only gets better!!
yoshikai is my god. every time i have more and more respect for him. and as for pitch accent, yoshikai’s slow readings are completely pitched.

if you wanna practice guy-style japanese, i recommend repeating his lines. i memorize some of his more useful or wittier lines and get 超日本人っぽい instead of the meaningless 上手くなりましたね in reply.

Have you noticed that everybody at “Style you” have a season and a cardinal point in their name?(I remembers me a little bit a manga called ichigo 100%) Fabrizio is the only one who does not fit in the group.

Javizyさん、lol, that’s right!

こんにちはなおみです。//Konnichiwa. Naomi desu.
Thank you very much for the feedback. I really appreciate it.
みなさん本当にありがとうございます。
Minasan hontou ni arigatou gozaimasu.

Dear Javizy さん
コメントをありがとうございます。
>The pitch accent stuff was useful as well. Are there any patterns to this, or is it on a word-by-word basis?

Yes. There are some patterns, but there are so many exceptions and sometime it depends on the speaker’s background. So basically, you need to check the tone word by word.
Foreign words tend to have flat intonation or be lowered at the 2nd syllable from the last. If the word has only 2 syllable, such as ペン lower the 2nd syllable.

Dear Enricoさんand//digitaljoさん
Yes. You are right! I used 東西南北（west/east/south/north) and 春夏秋冬（spring/summer/fall/winter) in the people’s names.
Speaking of しゅう, I have already given him the last name which includes 西（west). But it’s not 西沢 or 西崎. Good Guess!
もっとかんたんです。

Wonderful lesson. I love how Fabrizio(Yoshikai) used 外人弁 when he spoke.

Just read the post about sounding like a girl from natsuko sensei… When I first started listening to jPod, Yoshi-sensei was on almost daily. I have a kind of a ‘lisp’, with the ’s’ sound, which I think I picked up from Yoshi-sensei.
omoshiroi dethu ne!

Musoukaさん

コメントをどうもありがとうございます。
その通りです。よくお勉強されていらっしゃいますね。

ただし、このレッスンは初心者向けのレッスンです。
ポイントは「私はーーーです。」という文法で自分の職業が言えますよ、という例を出来るだけ簡単に口頭で示したかっただけでした。

教師という言葉を既にご存じでしたら、そちらをご使用される事をお勧め致します。

コメントありがとうございました。
直美

Thank you for the comment! That’s right. I personally never call myself as “sensei” either.

However this lesson is designed for beginners. And we wanted to introduce the structure talking about our occupations by using “Watashi wa —–desu.” Ten minutes goes quick, and I simply didn’t have time to explain the difference of “sensei”,”koushi”and “kyoushi”.

If you already know the word “Kyoushi”, that’s great! Please go ahead and use it.

Thank you very much for the comment again. I really appreciate it.
Naomi