Hi Sparky,
I really enjoyed your videos. I admire your efforts to assist English learners with an often overlooked aspect of conversational and spoken English. Kudos to you. I've seen a few of these kinds of videos floating around on the net and actually the format is great, not cheesy at all, quite well polished and well edited.
I have one comment I'd like to make, please accept it as constructive criticism.
The manner of presentation is exciting and engaging, and I think you'll have a readily captive audience if you can get these videos into people's hands. However, for some 日本人 who do not have a native command of English listening, it will be difficult to comprehend the lesson itself. The rate of speech and vocabulary you use are very natural; that is, rather fast and with alot of tricky structures interspersed throughout the lesson.
As a learner of Japanese I've come to realize that even the smallest addition of casual speech into a sentence can completely throw me off if its above my skill level. It only takes one akwardly placed 'desukeredomo' or '-tte' or something to lose me sometimes as I grapple with the grammar. Here's one example I found that I think could pose huge issues for those with poor listening skills, it occurs where 3:07 remain in the lesson.
"Ok how'dja do? Feel good? Alright, lets move on. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you a sample of where you add the 'E' to a consanant to make an entirely new word just based on the one sound."
Makes perfect sense to English speakers but trust me, you'd lose alot of people after 'lets move on'. Even at NOVA (which is currently closing schools left right and center and generally struggling in the marketplace), we were taught to lower the complexity of our language usage quite a bit. Using simple words and structures, repeating things verbatim, and being consistent with our vocabulary choices really helped the weaker students. For lack of a better term and with no offense intended whatsoever, you've gotta 'dumb it down' for them a bit.
So to continue with the above example you'd be better off saying something like "Ok? Ok. Now, lets add 'E' and make NEW WORDS'. After that you used the visual element well with the 'It' and 'Eat' example. Altogether, it would have been easier to follow.
That being said I think the videos are great, please keep up the good work!
