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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
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Kimi no Koi wo Todokeyou!
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Kimi no Koi wo Todokeyou!
Kimi no Koi wo Todokeyou!
Am I saying "todokeyou" or "todokeyou"?
Todokeyou. Okay. Just let me do the quiz.
Kimi no Koi wo Todokeyou!
Which one did I say? Do you think I said "todokeyou"?
No, I said "todokeyou".
Oh really?
Let me do it again.
Kimi no Koi wo Todokeyou!
Todokeyou.
That is correct.
Correct.
Okay.
Alright. So do you have any DMs for us Yamachan?
We've got a message from YagiYama-san, I guess.
Very katai name.
Yeah. Is that a katai name to you?
Oh no, no, no. It's not a very katai name.
YagiYama. I guess YagiYama.
I'm not sure if there's any other way of reading this.
I guess it's a fence. It looks like a fence.
Yeah, it's written in Kanji. YagiYama.
Okay.
(Speaking Japanese)
Okay.
(Laughing)
(Speaking Japanese)
That's nice.
(Speaking Japanese)
Mmm.
(Speaking Japanese)
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, what do you think?
(Speaking Japanese)
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It's... if you're interested in that language or that culture, just go for it.
So anything that you're interested in.
Yeah. Like if you're interested in Korean dramas or like K-pop stars, then go for Koreans.
Or if you're interested in Hollywood, you know, Justin Bieber stars, then go English.
Or if you like French art, then go French.
Yeah.
That's, you know, because what is important is keep going, you know.
Keep, you know, listening and keep learning.
So the biggest energy for that is, you know, if you're interested in it or not.
So I like it.
Yeah.
I think one of the first questions she had was she's not able to do the audio setting
because the room was too small.
Yeah.
Does that matter?
Like if it's too small, can you not do it?
Oh, you can do it.
Right.
You can still be in a small room, have several speakers set up, and that's good enough.
That's good enough.
Yeah.
Or if you put volumes really high, then you will be like too annoying, but you just, you
know, set up low volume and you can do it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So problem solved.
Yes.
That problem comes from limiting, right?
Limiting the speakers.
Like now that you know that you don't have to limit your speakers, you can put all the
speakers in one room even if it's small.
True.
So just speak right away.
Yes.
Yes.
Speak right away.
Yes.
And if you...
もしいくつかに纏を絞って学ぶとするならどの言語を抑えるか?
Then you know that's...
What you're interested in.
You're interested in.
Yeah.
So if you think about those connections between languages, then those like Latin-based languages
such as like French, Spanish, Italian would be like really close together and similar
connected.
Okay.
Of course English is one of the...
Well, it's actually a little different from those, but it's quite connected.
Okay.
So should we choose a language that's not related?
If you choose those related languages, then you can...
You will be...
You know, it will be easier for you to learn new Latin languages.
If I speak French, it's easier for me to learn Italian compared to someone who doesn't speak
French, but starting learning Italian from the beginning.
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It's kind of...
You know, because words are similar.
You know, the grammars are kind of similar.
Right.
So if your goal is to learn French, so is it better for the selection to be French, Italian,
and whatever similar language there is out there?
Spanish.
Spanish, right?
Those three or should we do French, Korean, Arabic?
Well, either way is fine.
Everything's okay?
Everything is okay.
Either way is fine.
If you learn French, Arabic, and Japanese at the same time, that will be more interesting.
And yeah.
Okay.
Because there are certain distances between those languages so that you can compare and
those languages can affect in a better way, good way, each other.
Okay.
And you know, make some new chemical...
Got it.
You know.
The synergy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
But either way is fine, actually.
Interesting.
Yeah.
山ちゃんがフランス語を留学先に選ばれたのは複数の言語を幼い頃から聞いている中でフランス語が親しみやすかったからですか?
No.
French was the most, you know, farthest language to me at the moment.
So that's why I chose the French.
Which is exactly opposite of what she's saying, right?
I wanted to go somewhere far away, which is completely different from Japan.
Yes.
Which takes a lot of courage, I guess.
Yeah.
But you, at that time, were just really like...
Yeah.
Were energized and had that courage back then, right?
True.
Speaking about that, if you are in a completely different environment, sometimes it's really
comfortable and easy to live in, actually.
Because it's completely different and everything is new to you.
How does that make it better?
Like, you don't have...
There's no thing that you can compare, you know.
Everything is brand new, so I don't have any measure to measure me.
You know, if you go to another tenko, to a new school, then you can easily compare from
what before and now.
Right.
So you kind of, you know...
Right.
If you compare, it always makes things difficult.
But if you have nothing to compare or measure, it's fun, just fun.
Like a nothing to lose kind of mentality.
Yeah.
True, true.
That makes sense, actually.
Yeah, if you go to space, like, you know, moon, and meet some aliens, I guess it's not tough
at all.
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Right.
That's true.
Yeah, it's brand new.
Right.
You wouldn't be embarrassed of anything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
You don't even know what would embarrass yourself.
True.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's good.
That's good enough.
That was an experience to me.
All right.
Well, that was a good answer.
I like that.
Yeah, thank you.
listening guys. Bye bye!
