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This is from Atsuko-san.
Atsuko-san.
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Thank you.
Hello, Kevin's English Room.
Hello.
Hello.
Hello.
Hello.
My name is Atsuko.
I started watching your videos on YouTube and I've been listening to your podcast every day.
I feel like your speaking has improved.
Wow!
Your English is getting better. Thank you very much.
I was listening to the carrot cake and I wanted to try it.
I just left it at the cafe I went in and ordered it.
It's a shop called Dean & Deluca.
There are several shops in Tokyo.
The sweet taste of cinnamon is very good.
It's more of a natural sweet taste than a carrot.
I highly recommend it.
I've been into studying English at a cafe lately.
How about you two?
I'd like to ask you about recommended cafes.
It might be difficult.
I'd like to ask you about how you spend time at a cafe,
how you spend your time at a cafe,
and what kind of places you work and study.
I look forward to your continued success.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hope you're going well with your study in English.
Yeah.
My favorite cafe is Starbucks.
If I were to go to Sakyo, I'd go there.
Starbucks.
Yeah.
If it's a cafe.
Or I'd go to...
Well, now I can't do it because I'm in Tokai.
But when I was in Kanagawa,
I'd go to a family restaurant that's not crowded at all.
It's never a "manseki".
I'd stay there and I'd just order a drink bar.
And then stay there for like 5 hours, 6 hours.
And do whatever.
Do all my studying there.
Sakyo is there.
Yeah, I know there are some "families"
which is, as you said, never be crowded.
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Yeah.
But having, you know,
a "denkentaku" and free Wi-Fi.
It's actually really comfortable to spend time in.
Having the electricity tab is so important.
Yeah.
The plug.
If it's there or not, it just makes such a huge difference.
Yeah.
I wonder, like...
I feel like a lot of people value that so much.
Like if you go to Starbucks, the dengen seats are filled so quickly.
Yeah.
To the point, like, why don't they all make it dengen adaptable?
Like I don't know why anyone would now try to make a new cafe
that doesn't have a dengen seat.
Yeah.
Am I wrong?
Well, I agree with you.
Of course.
But everyone wants that.
Everyone wants the dengen seat.
Yeah.
Why don't they just offer...
Like, they make more, right?
Yeah.
Even if it's like, you know,
the coffee prices get a little higher than usual,
I would love to go there.
Yeah.
If I can use that dengen tab.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
People would stay put for it, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh...
If you had to focus, where would you go?
Would you stay at home?
Yeah, home.
You'd stay at home.
Mm-hmm.
Or...
Uh...
Library.
Library.
Wow.
No dengen cord.
No dengen tab.
Oh, sometimes they have...
They do?
Yeah.
Do they allow it to use it?
Yeah, there's some, like,
just use space kind of...
Uh-huh.
Like, there's a desk and, you know, lights.
Uh-huh.
Partitions.
Yeah.
There's a dengen tab.
Oh, they got them?
Wow.
Okay.
But not Wi-Fi, though.
Uh-huh.
Right, right, right, right, right.
So sometimes I go to study or do something.
It's good.
Are you allowed to drink something?
No, I guess no.
Uh-huh.
Only...
Maybe only the...
The bottle?
Yeah.
If it's in a bottle.
Yeah, maybe.
But you can't have, like, a takeout from Starbucks.
You can't do that, right?
No.
Uh-huh.
No eating.
No eating.
No, like, those drinking.
Uh-huh.
I feel like the library seats...
I've done that before, too.
I feel like the library seats fill up fast, too.
Yeah.
And they stay longer than people at the cafe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, like, you have to get there early.
True.
Get your seat.
True.
And then, like, you have to reserve your seat.
Yeah.
Right?
There's some, you know, oji-chan study people.
They come, like, really early morning and stay there, like, full...
Whole day.
Yeah.
Reading the newspapers.
Uh-huh.
You know, studying.
You can't beat them.
Yeah.
You can't beat the earlyness.
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You just can't.
Yeah.
Where do you go?
I go to...
Recently.
Um, well, recently I made my own study room in the house.
Yeah.
You know, I told you about that, right?
You built the new room.
I did.
I emptied out my closet.
I put, like, a chair, desk, and I go in there.
Yeah.
And now I'm out of oxygen if I stay there too long.
That's the problem that I'm having right now.
But recently that's my workplace.
Nice.
Um, but other than that, I would go to, like, a cafe.
Any cafe is good if it has enough space and a dengan.
And, um, so, like, Starbucks, Familesu.
Uh-huh.
Uh, Burger King.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
They got dengan.
Some of them do.
Uh...
Yeah, actually, fast food restaurant is another huge option for me.
Yeah, like McDonald's.
Yeah.
Mos Burger.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mos Burger is never full.
So, like...
So I can go there.
Do they have, like, taps?
They do have taps.
Oh, really?
They do.
Oh.
Yeah.
It's like going there and just denganing my ass off.
Yeah.
So, um, uh...
Like, right.
Instead of a cafe, go to, like, a fast food restaurant, eat a meal, and then stay there.
Yeah, that's nice.
That's good, you know, merit.
Right.
I don't need a frappuccino when I'm tagging.
Yeah.
But I do need lunch, right?
True.
So...
I...
When I, you know, back to my parents' house, I sometimes stay, like, two nights.
Yeah.
Two nights.
And my father, he is a study guy, actually.
And he returned from his work, like, office work.
Yeah.
And had dinner together.
Yeah.
And go out for studying every day.
Wow, every day?
Yeah.
And recently he's going to McDonald's.
Uh-huh.
And sometimes I go with him to McDonald's together and, you know, had both, like, one little potato fry or, like, hot coffee and...
Uh-huh.
Oh, that's nice.
We study together.
That's nice.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's a good memory.
Uh-huh.
McDonald's is never, like, crowded in those deep night in my...
True.
You know, those, my parents' house area.
Makes me, like, really, like, concentrated.
It's a really, like...
That's a really sweet memory.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
That's nice.
Yeah.
Hmm.
It's not about money.
Yeah.
It's just 100 yen coffee, but...
Yeah.
...you can have really nice and, you know, concentrated time.
So...
What is he studying right now?
Do you know?
Uh...
About...
Not right now, maybe, but, like, a few months ago he was studying about KA.
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Uh-huh.
Like, specifically, like, you mean, like, kaikei or something?
No.
Or, like...
Eho kaikei.
Uh-huh.
You know, there's, um...
Uh...
Shikaku for KA.
Like, you know, those MBA...
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Those things.
Yeah.
I see.
And he's got a certain shikaku.
Mm-hmm.
Is it one of those beikoku...?
Ah, beikoku...
No, not that one.
No, those?
Yeah.
In Japan, it's a...
Uh-huh.
...giyoshin danshi shikaku.
Uh-huh.
And he's got the one, and he...
I guess he kind of work on that field too right now.
Uh-huh.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It's related to his job.
Yeah.
Because not only his, like, interest of, like, pure interest, it's more related to his job.
He has to learn it.
Yeah.
Like both.
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Are you learning something right now?
Mm...
Like, not...
Like, out of pure interest?
Um...
If you don't, what would you want to learn?
I mean, music, maybe?
I'm learning about how to master a track, how to mix a track.
Mm-hmm.
That's interesting.
How to code progress.
Yeah.
That's interesting now.
If you don't have the knowledge, you don't...
You just...
Okay, so if you try to mix a song...
Yeah.
Master a song without knowledge, what happens?
You just...
It will be, like, messed up.
It just doesn't sound right?
Yeah.
Like, it sounds...
It's going to sound weird.
It's going to sound like...
Like, dented, slanted.
Like, it's going to sound like crooked.
It will never be something that you want to be.
Uh-huh.
You can...
If you don't know about anything, you cannot control that.
Mm-hmm.
So you can't...
You can't control it.
You're not going to be able to know why it's causing this weirdness.
Yeah.
You can just, you know, put something on it and, you know, run down.
Run down.
But that's, you know...
You never know the reason why this happened, and you never fix it.
You never change it.
Yeah.
Is it difficult? Is it hard?
Ah, yeah.
Is it? Wow.
And I'm now quitting of learning this because it's really difficult, and you need time.
You need experiences.
So I've got certain knowledge now, so I stopped learning any further on this field...
Uh-huh.
...and try to hire some real professional so that we can make it much more better.
Wow.
Is it like a...
So is it more like a technology knowledge or like more like a musical rhythmical knowledge?
Ah, technology knowledge.
Technology.
Technology thing, like those machine knowledge...
Uh-huh.
...or not rhythmic music, but ears are important.
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Got it.
Whether if you can hear it or not.
Hear the difference or not, you know.
I see.
It's really tiny difference.
Uh-huh.
Even I can sometimes, huh, it's the same to me.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
But if you have professional ears, you can hear the differences and you can adjust that difference.
And later on, that effect really huge.
Got it.
You know how like currently like the music industry are like really getting populated with the streaming things?
With streaming, I don't think it's that good quality.
But still.
But still.
Yeah.
Versus like there's all these like high res audios, right?
Uh-huh.
Where you have like extremely expensive headphones with like extremely high quality audios.
Yeah.
So are the people in those professions pissed about it?
That like music streaming are like getting popularity and the quality of the music.
Yeah.
It got kind of lowered, right?
Versus when you had Walkman, you put the MP3 file in there, it's probably a little lower, right?
Because you're, yeah.
Yeah.
Are they pissed about it?
Yeah.
They are not pissed about it.
But you know, even if they work really hard and make it like perfect song.
Uh-huh.
When you listen through the streaming, you can hear like 60% of that.
Then they will be like, oh, sad.
Uh-huh.
So they want us, they want everybody to listen with great sound quality equipment, like speakers, headphones.
Yeah.
So that we can hear all details.
Uh-huh.
Every details that artist, those engineer want to, you know, express.
Ah.
You can hear it.
So they want everybody to have that, those.
We're running out of time, one last question.
Yeah.
If you get great speakers and if you play your song from YouTube, is that going to ruin everything?
But not perfect.
Uh-huh.
But certainly get better.
Better.
Much better.
Got it.
If the speakers are good, it's so much better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, thanks for listening, guys.
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