Ayaka's Surprise English Lesson: Yoshi Hitomi (2002-09-18)

[star69angle]

It's so scary, how Yossy's so cute !!!

[StabbyMcButterPants]

Hitomi was talking to someone who wasn't there at the beginning. That's such a weird quirk. I love it. :)

[smexyliciouslyhOt]

yohsi is flirting.... my gaydar is telling me..ahaha

[hungoversundays]

@smexyliciouslyhOt

Actually best friends in real life.

[BonsaiFanatic]

@smexyliciouslyhOt Ahaha

Yossi must have a tomboy radar, I think. ^^



[cookiesncream78]

LOL SHES SO ADORABLE! ILU YOSSIE!

[ionglacier]

fack her accent is perfect

[himekoXang]

kaaaaaawaii

i realy loved yossies "hi" at the begining XD

"ayaka its so cute" LOL

[OtattoofishO]

Was Yossie channeling Charmy there at the end?

[MuffinxDream]

I just fucking love Yossie ♥

[HeavenlyKaori014]

the way that hitomi is looking at ayaka at min 1:25 is really weird ^^

[martdelacruz]

1:54 Yossie's a playboy!

[car26081987]

Yeah! Wonderful Yoshi!

[panikos1987]

was the word for "cute" and the word for "scary" the same? it both sounded like kawaii

[ashleyray323]

yeah it is...kawaii=cute and kowaii=scary....pretty close huh ?

[panikos1987]

Man, i want to learn to speak it, i will buy the language cd soon, but learning another language is so hard!!

[bombuchu]

kawaii = cute

kowai = scary

[JTeamjesters]

Addam's Family theme at :47 !! :D

And the whole "It's so cute" part was indeed adorable XD

[maybrook1]

haha she is always hitting on ayaka.

[xXxKuteKimxXx]

Haha, yeahh. xD

[HybridDolphinELPS]

Of course she wouldn't like snakes....you know with Freud and stuff hehe

[Lulexiaa]

Yossie hates snakes.. but then in the 13th Christmas Special with Momusu, they had 2 put their heads near a lizard.. and yet.. she didn't seems a BIT SCARED!

[waitingtobeinspired]

I think it's because lizards have legs...she only seems to be scared of legless slithery things and I completely sympathize with her. Blecht.

[animefreakXDD]

but lizards dont slither

[cheezewheel]

yossi is good at controlling her emotions

[Elliiy]

they are so cute together XD

[KN0MAAD]

I like snakes, I have a Python =)

[brercat]

like it

[JenniferdeGraaff]

it looks like Yossie is flirting with ayaka 0_0

[writerserenyty]

Ayaka's one of Yossy's best friends, so...

I love Yossy! She's great!

[JenniferdeGraaff]

Yeah i also really love Yossie ;)

[pintatura]

They didn't become close until mid-2004 though.

[0diidii0]

I hate snaked too o.O'

Hitomi is so funny, and she said her phrase perfectly!

[alizee]

well, i like Solid Snake (mgs)

[flourlove22]

hitomi is like extremely good at this XD

[qwerty7546]

yossie is SO coming on to ayaka.

[lol0924]

'Yossui is afraid of snakes.'

I've never seen real snakes except I have seen SO many of them at the zoo. Well I've lived in the out of the big town so far but I sadly can't see any sort of grassy place around. Almost no bugs or living creatures.

[alyse0]

hahaha you its so cute lol

[SeyLoveless]

It's so funny. Yossie get's these "eyes" when she says "It's so cute" regarding Ayaka. The same eyes she has in Mr. Moonlight. Lol... She's such a charmer :3.

[Matches10]

Question for Japanese speakers - to American ears their words for "scary" and "cute" sound almost exactly the same.  Is it a similar thing for you? Here Ayaka brought it up, changing "It's so scary" to "It's so cute". Do people acknowledge the similarities between those two words? I guess a similar word pair in English where both are the same part of speech would be "imminent" and "eminent". Hard to distinguish between the two phonetically.

[LoreenapinK]

When you're trained to hear the difference it is really not so bad. They're not exactly the same, the word for scary is 'kowai', whereas the word for cute is 'Kawaii'.

[heyjeySigma]

yeah , u do make a good point there, and as LoreenapinK already pointed out, there is clearly a difference. Just wanted to add that u usually pronounce the Kawaii word "kawa-ii", stressing on the doubles i's, whereas in kowai, there isnt any double ii's there, so it's not that pronounced

[springrollfever]

Furthermore, the "ko" usually leads to an accent on "wa", whereas, as heyjeySigma said, "kawaii" emphasizes three syllables and lingers on the "ii".

[pforvendetta]

They sound similar, but they're different vowel sounds. "Ka" and "ko," and also the double "i" at the end of "kawaii" (cute) as opposed to "kowai" (scary). A closer English comparison would be "bike" and "bake," or maybe "pull" and "pool," depending on where you're from.

[strawberryhugs]

heh heh..growing old XD

[malone86]

Ayaka is from HAWAII

[OOUbberlyPinkOo]

Yay she is awesome. Yossie and Ayaka are, I like the "Its so cute" part

[catty121]

Yossi is my fave but...you have to her facial expressions on: "Oh you! It's so cute!"

[ShogunZX]

this clip is "so scary"

[IndyX]

Wow. Ayaka is very fluent in english

[jakalope3d]

Ok. How does Hitomi Yoshi put up with Ayaka so well? Ayaka's english is poor, her smile false, and somehow thinks she has the right to be strict when teaching English. Wait, Teaching? I should say, spouts off some English phrase with bad pronunciation and expects her student to understand it perfectly. Baka.

[Auron710]

ur lame jakalope3d! its supposed to be fun

[ivana331]

well Yossi, Satoda Mai, and Ayaka are really great friends. What you see here is done in front of the camera, she may be different in reality.

[Hakumei]

A lot of the girls wear false smiles when it comes to stuff like this; it's all meant to be fun. Not to mention that a lot of the pronunciation or wording issues result from the fact that Ayaka's originally from Hawaii, where they often phrase things differently (and certainly have accents). It's not really as though Ayaka expects them to remember these phrases, and some people (like Kei) enjoy learning them anyway.

[ProjectRevolution]

Erm you're not really being fair. You don't know if Ayaka actually likes doing this, or if it's something she has to do. As it is her english is still better than the other members, and it's all for this show anyways. I'm sure Ayaka has better things to do than go hunt down Morning Musume members so that she can teach them english. She doesn't expect her "students" to understand her perfectly, which is why she gives explanations. If they did, she woulnd't have to teach them.

[Arinachi]

Jakalope3d:Pfff... Would you look at this. First off, Ayaka's english is WAY better than most japanese people's, she's a great teacher! Second off, why do you call her "Hitomi Yoshi"? I can see why moebiuz did in the title, but most people would just say Yossie or Yoshizawa... And it's SO lame putting "baka" on the end of sentences when you clearly don't know much japanese despite from that.

[jasonthegreat49103]

Bad pronunciation!? Her accent is flawless. She sounds like a native speaker even though she is not (although she has studied it for a long time).

[siiseli]

Yossies face at 00:52 XDD

[atear101]

I swear...it looks like she's always flirting with her haha

[siiseli]

Agreed XD

[MuahahazZ]

i second that. although i dont really blame her =x

[ddrfan210]

i she like her LOL