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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
Hi!
It is still the sunny...
Yes.
Great.
It's bright day.
Still a good day.
Yeah.
Great weather.
I'd like to go out.
Yeah.
Have some picnic.
Mmm.
Yeah.
Drink a little lemonade.
Oh, lemonade?
Under the sun.
Nice.
I...
You know, there's a big river near here, you know?
Oh, yeah, there is?
Yeah.
I know there's a little coffee shop along the river.
That's very nice.
Weather like this, you can go there and have a little ice coffee or hot coffee and do some picnic.
That's nice.
That would be nice.
That would be nice.
Yes.
So...
Yeah.
This is from Tapitsuru-san.
Tapitsuru-san.
Thank you again.
Thank you again.
Kevin-san, you were finally able to join Netflix on YouTube live stream the other day.
Oh, yes.
I have a message for you.
Yes, thank you.
By the way, I've been into Netflix for five years.
Ah, expert.
Yeah, expert.
Yeah, I've been an expert for five years.
That's a lot.
Kevin-san, you've been watching Modern Family recently.
Yes.
I love it too.
Yes, it's funny.
Modern Family is one of the comedy genres called "mo-cu-men-ta-ry".
Wow.
It's a combination of mockery and documentary.
Wow.
(Speaking Japanese)
Right, right, right.
Yeah, they have that scene.
Okay.
It's called "mo-cu-men-ta-ry".
I didn't know that.
(Speaking Japanese)
Yes.
Gloria.
Gloria.
(Speaking Japanese)
Do you know her?
Yes.
Okay.
(Speaking Japanese)
Yes, the accent is very strong.
Wow.
Yeah.
(Speaking Japanese)
Right.
Thank you.
It's... right.
It's Modern Family.
I have been watching Modern Family.
It's so funny.
Okay.
It's... it's about... wait, let me answer the question first.
Yeah, people from Colombia, they really do talk like that.
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It's a very thick heavy accent.
I guess Gloria is, I guess a little, you know, it's a little filtered.
Yeah.
I guess, you know, I guess it's a little over.
But, you know, I'm not saying most people talk like that.
Some people do actually sound like Gloria is very thick Colombian accent.
Some are lighter.
But yes, it's made some people do actually talk like that.
How is it like?
How do they sound?
How I can imitate it.
Yeah.
(Speaking Japanese)
No, wait, that sounded like an Indian.
(Laughing)
(Speaking Japanese)
Wait.
Oh, no, wait.
(Speaking Japanese)
Oh, you have your books here.
You have to read all your books.
People are waiting outside.
Why aren't you waiting?
That's a little... okay.
I don't know if I did a good job.
I don't think I did.
Yeah, it sounds like a little from people from India.
Yeah, I know.
Okay.
But yeah, yeah.
Also they speak, Colombia must be like a Spanish, right?
Yes.
In the country.
Yes.
Yes.
Little Spanish accent.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Wow.
Modern family is about three families.
Okay.
Right?
And one family is an old man.
Old man?
Yeah.
And a beautiful Colombian young lady that are married.
That's Gloria.
That's Gloria.
Okay.
And then another family.
The wife, husband, three kids.
Three kids.
Okay.
The wife is the daughter of the old man who's married to the Colombian.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
And there's a third family.
It's a gay couple.
Okay.
Gay men.
Another gay men.
Yeah.
And they adopted a baby.
Okay.
So one of the gay men is the son of the old man.
Okay.
Right.
Okay.
Got it.
Yeah.
And it's a story of them.
Okay.
It's pretty funny.
Wow.
Yeah.
Something happens.
Yeah.
Each episode there's a problem and they try to solve it.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's not like suspense or those usual like daily life happening.
Daily life.
It's like family guy.
Okay.
Okay.
No, no, no.
Sorry.
Not family guy.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's just very funny.
Okay.
So who is your favorite character?
My favorite character.
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Hmm.
So it's only the those three families?
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's not that many people.
Yeah.
Not that much.
Yeah.
I would have to say the gay couple.
Hmm.
The one that's not Mitchell.
Mitchell?
There's it's it's Mitchell.
I think Mitchell was the the son.
Okay.
And so the partner the partner of Mitchell.
Okay.
I forgot his name.
Maybe it wasn't Mitchell.
Maybe Mitchell wasn't I forgot but I yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Why why do you like him?
He's funny.
Okay.
He's just the way he talks is very like it's just it's just so like uplifting.
All the time.
Okay.
Okay.
And it's like oh yeah I can kind of imagine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How he treats the babies and like how he handles certain situations.
Yeah.
Really funny.
It's always uplifting and sometimes always like dramatic.
You know over dramatic.
Yeah.
This is funny.
Yeah.
That sounds great fun.
Yeah.
Series.
It's always it's sometimes heartwarming is sometimes funny sometimes culturally like
like making fun of culture.
Yeah.
Like yeah.
Right.
So who is Phil actually the tuition.
Uh huh.
Yeah.
My time here now.
So far as a the husband of the daughter.
Okay.
All right.
The one with the five family.
Yeah.
Okay.
Phil is known for to be like a like a punk.
Yeah.
Like always cut the caterer.
But in reality he can't really he doesn't really get anything done.
He's always he's a chicken.
Wow.
Scared.
He doesn't have balls.
Why.
But he's really kind.
He's really.
Yeah.
He's really kind.
He's really like honest.
He loves his family and yeah right.
He's a very like.
Human full.
He's very heartwarming.
Okay.
Okay.
But he can do nothing.
Yeah.
He's a punk.
Okay.
Wow.
Yeah.
That sounds nice.
Nice.
Series.
Are you on Netflix.
No I'm not.
Amazon Prime.
Uh huh.
Right.
Right.
Hmm.
I've also been watching.
I've also been watching.
Suits Oh I know that name.
Suits the low.
Yeah things.
Yeah.
It's a law firm.
Story of a law firm.
Um interesting too.
It was actually too difficult for me.
Too difficult.
Really.
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Yeah.
So I stopped on season two when season two ended.
I had to rewatch it again.
Because it was too difficult.
What is difficult?
That there was the terminology.
It's so difficult.
Uh huh.
Like affidavit or like whatever.
Wow.
It's it's fast and the vocabulary is really difficult.
Yeah.
And yeah.
Yeah.
I definitely need subtitles.
Wow.
Even you.
Yeah.
Need subtitles.
Yes.
Wow.
Well yeah I can guess that those low.
Battles and all the tricks and yeah not only the vocabulary but like like it's the um like
it's also each episode has a problem and like for example like the client asks the
firm to fix the problem right it's the problem is about like another company is is threatening
us to do something so what the firm does is um try to get information from the guy who's
threatening their client and like they investigate on their past it's just it's just so many
characters the the the characters that they get so complex and it's just a little difficult
yeah but if you really understand it it's a really like interesting film it's it's really
it's well made yes yes yes absolutely yeah wow and i think you can learn a lot of english
from that uh-huh yeah that's nice like a lot of people learn english using suits oh really
yeah it's all online there you go okay thanks for listening guys thank you bye bye
