How in the world do you pronounce it?? Tam-EE-a or Tam-EYE-a??? Kind of have a thing going here with a guy from work, he says it one way and I say another. Thanks!

It should be Tam-EE-a.

The "i" sound in Japanese is more often pronounced "ee" than "eye". In addition, "a" is usually "ah".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1nLgt8YFQA

Time 02:44 you can heard how The Japanese say "Tamiya"

As you can notice, the stress is on the first syllable "TA-MEEAH"

Try listening to, using the google translation tools

http://translate.google.it/?hl=it&tab=wT#ja|it|%E3%81%9F%E3%81%BF%E3%81%82


If you're interested to the tutorial look here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72KXUV6LzPI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9K7HBNEvjk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN_BwPEIJoY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXgG8rVrm1s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83C8-5hecLQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HYt24Dljhg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_roUn3DnG9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvPLsY45gTw

Here other STUNNING Japanese totorials

http://sl-blag.blogspot.it/2007/11/gunpla-tutorial-videos.html

Cheers

Holy cow! Thanks for all the replies guys.