Profile for Yoko61

Nice to meet you all! My name is Yoko and I was born and brought up in Tokyo. I'm looking for language partners who can help me master English. Of course, I will do the same!

Let me introduce myself a bit more...
I studied abroad for one year at the University of Delaware in the U.S. from 2004 to 2005. I also studied in Peru for a month during a winter term.

I love going out for lunch / dinner with friends, chatting and relaxing with friends on the terrace at some nice cafe on a sunny day, watching good movies, meeting new people around the world and learning about their cultures.

I hope we'll become good friends through helping each other learning English and Japanese! :-)

I'd like to become a professional interpreter in the future, so I’d like to work on my listening and speaking as well.

[About My English Accent]
I am aiming for a standard American accent.
For my pronunciation practice, I've started a voice blog below:
http://www.voiceblog.jp/yoko61/

*If there is anything in particular that you think I need to work on, please let me know by leaving a comment. Thank you in advance for your help!

I'm looking forward to making many study buddies from around the world on RhinoSpike. :)

My Hobbies / Interests / Favorites include:

MJ since 1997 / Def Tech since 2005 / Utada since 1997 / Daniel Henny since 2007 / Jung Da-Yeon and her Figurerobics since 2010 / Hollywood movies (I love happy ending stories and funny movies but I hate horror & scary movies) / Morning workouts @ the gym / My Macbook Pro / iPod touch / Eating on an open terrace / Starbucks Coffee (I love the atmosphere of their stores and their non-smoking policy) + Kindle = Happy Reading Hour♥/ Shopping / My handsome Louis Garneau bike / Rooibos tea / Healthy live food: vegetables, fruits, fish > meat (But I have to admit that I LOVE sweets as well.) / Taking and looking at Photographs / Reading books and magazines / Singing and dancing ...

RhinoSpike user since February 27th, 2011