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Welcome to Kevin's English Room podcast!
I'm recording this one with the sotokame this time.
I'm trying it.
Okay.
Why?
See if it changes.
Okay.
Cool.
And with the like a wide, because this one has a wide view.
Okay.
It's got like the fish eye kind of.
I think you're still in it.
Ah, cool.
Really?
I think so.
I don't know.
Really wide.
But yeah.
Okay.
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Yes.
All right.
All right.
So can I play this?
Sure.
Voice message from NyanC-san.
NyanC-san?
Yeah.
All right.
What do you have?
Hi, Kevin and Yamachan.
I found your podcast at the beginning of this month and enjoy it every day.
I would like to ask one of the questions for you.
I sometimes meet foreigners accidentally and at the same time I wanted to talk to, but I
reserved around your faces and I missed the opportunities to speak to them.
After that, I feel like I should have tried to say something even if I might take on mistakes.
One of the reason is because I'm Japanese and I feel embarrassed to communicate new
peoples.
Do you have any good ways to get rid of the shyness?
Please take care of yourself and enjoy new years.
Bye-bye.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
I love how she said Yamachan.
Chai.
The chai was like really...
Yeah.
I like that.
Yeah, like a princess way.
Yeah.
Good question.
Yeah, good question.
Yeah.
Okay.
Did she send text version of all or is that...
No.
Not related.
Yeah.
All right.
What do you think, man?
But she speaks really good English.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yeah.
I guess there's no like certain like special way of, you know, getting better at one time
like this.
Yeah.
Just try it.
Yeah.
You know.
Yeah.
Just say hi.
Same here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kind of mindset of like, I think I feel like the way to overcome shyness is to experience
enough failure.
Yeah.
To the point that you're okay with it.
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Sure.
Like you're afraid, you're shy because you're worried about failing.
Right?
You're worried about like being cool.
You're worried about like not looking okay or like embarrassing yourself.
Like once you get to the point where you're not afraid of that anymore, I think you're
you'll get to a point where that's not going to bother you anymore.
Yeah.
Right.
So I guess.
True.
Yeah.
Right.
Do it over and over again.
Don't...
The first few are probably going to be the hardest.
Right.
Yeah.
You're going to have to really like step it up and really muster up that courage and energy
to talk to these people.
But I feel like once you get used to it, it gets easier and easier.
Yeah.
Right?
True.
Yeah.
It's the same like bicycle, riding a bicycle.
Exactly.
You're really scared.
Yeah.
At the beginning.
Or like swimming, right?
Yeah.
You're afraid of the water.
Until you're not afraid of the water.
Or like talking to girls.
Right?
True.
You were first like, oh shit.
What do I do?
You get used to it, right?
You like that?
Yeah, I always like that.
Oh shit.
Shit, they're looking at me.
Shit.
What do I do?
I kind of smile back.
Yeah.
I kind of freeze them out.
Yeah.
You fail, you learn.
Right?
True.
That's important.
Yeah.
Learning the way you fail.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Right.
Learning from your mistakes.
Yeah.
Very important.
Very important.
And I guess that's like the best way to learn or grow, you know?
To like, to like, like if you want, if you want to get rid of that part of you, of like,
oh I'm embarrassed or like, oh I'm scared.
The best way to learn is by experiencing failure.
Yeah.
True.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you know Dora the host?
The host guy.
He once said that I have never made a mistake.
I am on the way of making succeed.
Wait, what do you mean?
That didn't make sense to me.
Oh really?
Why?
I have never made a mistake.
It's just me getting better and making, on the way of making success.
Oh yeah.
It's not a mistake.
Don't call those things as a mistake.
Exactly.
It's just me making success right now.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
I like that.
Yeah, that's cool.
Extreme positivity.
Yeah.
I like it.
Yeah.
That's good.
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That's good.
I mean, that's the exact mindset that I'm talking about.
Nothing is a failure.
Yeah.
It's just you learned something new.
Right.
And just taking next steps.
Right.
And that's all.
So I guess take action.
Talk to a lot of people, a lot of the foreigners.
Yeah.
See what the reaction you get.
True.
Like she's sending us a voice message to us.
Which is already, it takes a lot of courage.
Yeah.
I know.
It's one huge step.
I know.
Right?
So, yeah.
You're doing a good job.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
True.
When you come to Japan, I know you made so many mistakes.
I did.
Like Japanese mistakes.
I did.
I did.
Cultural mistakes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you learned.
I learned.
Yeah.
That's exactly what I did.
Yeah.
And like, the thing is I was kind of really excited to come here.
Uh-huh.
So like none of the mistakes didn't really get me.
Okay.
Like just because I make a mistake doesn't mean like, "Oh shit, I don't like Japan.
I don't want to go back."
That didn't happen at all.
Yeah.
Like I wanted to stay here.
Okay.
Like I made a decision to come here.
So like it didn't really bother me.
Okay.
If I made a mistake or not.
I mean that mistake and everything itself was the, was me being in Japan.
Uh-huh.
It was part of the experience.
Oh, cool.
Part of me being in Japan.
That's nice.
And making mistakes.
Making mistakes.
So.
Yeah.
Making mistakes is part of your, part of you living.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's good.
Yeah.
That's a lot of your best meigens.
Yeah.
I know.
I've been seeing a lot of meigens on this podcast.
Yeah.
Actually, yeah.
I should make like a blog page.
Yeah.
Just only.
Or like, you know, one, you know, calendar.
You know, Himekuri calendar.
That's good.
That's good.
With your facial expressions like this.
That's good.
That's good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can you, can you remember or recall any other meigens I've said?
No, absolutely not.
That is exactly the same thing as me.
I can't remember a shit.
I remember a shit word I've said.
But I, you know, we can, it's on the, on the, uh, everywhere.
Right.
We can listen to the.
It's on the internet.
Yeah.
So we can listen to it again and find those meigens.
Do you remember, how many do you think I've said so far?
At least 10.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
That's more than, more than what I had in mind.
Oh really?
Yeah.
Almost.
Like monthly calendar.
Damn.
Almost.
That's nice.
Yeah.
That's good.
Just need two more.
Yeah, two more.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're on, we're on our way there.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's make it.
Well, heads up for the calendar.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
Bye bye.
Bye.
Bye.
