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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
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So...
Are you looking through the DMs?
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Trying to find a good topic?
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That one, okay?
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Very teenage.
Oh, wow.
Very teenage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, you don't have to be that much teenage.
Yes, yes.
Yeah.
It's perfect.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
That is so teenage.
Thank you.
Your child will be very...
Yeah.
Very good child, so...
Clever man.
Clever man.
Yeah.
So don't worry.
Yeah.
You've already...
Yeah.
You're good enough.
Yeah.
I think so, too.
You don't need a desk.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If he...
You know, raise him well, I can help.
Yeah.
If your kids have really great parents...
Yeah.
That's way more important than a desk.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Did you have a Benkyozukue?
Yeah.
I have my Benkyozukue.
My Benkyozukue.
Yeah.
I have my Benkyozukue.
Yeah.
I have my Benkyozukue.
Yeah.
I have my Benkyozukue.
I have my Benkyozukue in my room.
And, yeah, I was sitting at the desk and studied.
A lot?
You like reading, though, right?
I like reading.
But, you know, to me, reading is not studying.
Yeah.
Reading is, you know, just...
It was fun for you.
...or like, you know, wherever.
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It was enjoyment for you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But when I study, I think I did it with my desk, basically.
I think.
But if I have some questions or, you know, some help, I needed some help with my, you
know, by my parents.
I did it at the living room.
Yeah.
So that I can have conversation with and ask for some advices.
But, yeah, basically I was at the desk as far as I remember.
Yeah.
For me, I studied at the living room.
Studied in the living room.
Without desk, you didn't have your own personal desk.
Yeah.
I remember you told me that you don't remember anything about when you were shougakusei.
Yeah.
However, I think I had it.
Oh.
I think I had myself a desk.
Okay.
Yeah.
But it...
But I think it was the living room that I studied in.
Yeah.
I didn't...
Like in the US, when I was in the school, when I was in US...
Wait, what am I gonna...
When I was a US student, I really didn't have to study that much.
The test wasn't that difficult.
I just had to memorize several vocabularies.
It wasn't like...
Oh, I have to understand this.
Oh, I have to understand this.
It was more like flashcards.
Yeah.
Like this.
The word.
Meaning.
Word.
Meaning.
It was just that.
So I just sit on the couch and just flashcard it.
So it was just really simple and easy.
And the only time...
Well, in homework, I had to...
I just did it in the living room table.
I guess I didn't really use that much of my benkyouzukue.
But in Japan, I used benkyouzukue a lot, I think.
Yeah, I think I used...
High school?
High school.
High school was a lot more demanding.
So...
I studied at my tsukue as well as my juku.
Yeah, I went to a juku.
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Oh, really?
I didn't know that.
When you were a high school student?
Yes.
Okay.
Towards the end of high school, where I started...
People...
Where my parents started to wonder, "Wait, are you not going to be able to graduate?"
That's when they were like, "You should go to a juku."
Yeah.
And get to the classes, tests.
Right, and that's when I started to study at juku as well.
Not only my desk.
Yeah.
So...
Okay.
Yeah.
That's what I remember.
In hindsight...
Oh, yeah!
Using that one-word challenge!
Yeah, that's...
Yeah, in hindsight, what about it?
When you were in elementary school, an elementary school boy, you had your own room, right?
No?
I had my own...
When I was an elementary school boy?
Yeah.
Elementary school boy, yeah.
You had your own room and you had your own desk.
But not...
Yes, I had my own room and I had my own desk.
Yes, I did.
But you studied at the living room?
Yes.
So, did you use the desk?
Or just...
Yeah, actually I don't remember using it, my desk.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, you just put things on it?
Yeah, I put my PSP...
PSP?
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I really don't remember using my desk.
Okay.
Well, in Japan, we have so many assignments, even if you are an elementary school boy.
Oh, yes.
So, I remember I was sitting on the desk.
Well, I was sharing my room with my younger brother.
Yeah.
So, there were two desks like this, touched, and sitting at the desk and studied, did assignments,
sometimes write diaries, those things.
Yeah.
And I've got my own place, so I put my books, I put my pencils, those little audio machines,
or secret letters, you know, in the desk.
Yeah.
So, that's pretty important to me, like my place.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, she thankfully says that, "Sannin no you ni kashikoku suteki na dansen ni natte hoshii na"
But, you know, we are different, so...
Yeah.
I used my desk in China, but you didn't.
So, it's not the desk that matters, right?
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, so, it's the...
Yeah.
There are so many factors, though.
Yeah.
So many.
Yeah.
But I, you know, as you can see, those, you know, "bunshou" are really polite, kind.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The kid will be a really polite guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're smart.
What?
Do you think we're smart?
No.
You are smart.
You and Kake-chan are smart, I guess.
No.
No.
You and Kake-chan are smart.
No.
No, no, no, no.
Okay.
No.
No, no, no.
No, I'm not...
No, no, no, no.
Literally, this is not Kenson.
No, no, no.
Yeah, me too.
This is not Kenson.
Okay.
Kake-chan's smart.
We can both agree that Kake-chan's smart.
Yeah, he's a smart guy.
We agree on that.
Yeah.
He's smart.
He's got the IQ.
He's got the ideas.
He's brilliant.
He can notice small details.
Yes, yes, yes.
That's a skill right there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I'm not a smart guy.
Me neither.
I'm not...
I think...
You understand conversations way better and faster than I do.
Really?
Yeah.
You do.
But to me...
You understand logic a lot faster than I do.
Really?
Yes, you do.
Making logics and those delivery things and combine things.
I'm really bad at those.
I never felt that.
But to me, you are really like kind of logic.
Yeah, I like logic.
Yeah.
I like to think logically.
Yeah.
But sometimes I struggle with it.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Like in the middle of the logic, I'm like I'm lost.
Really?
Yeah.
Because I start talking and I really want to talk logically.
But like in the middle, I'm like, "What?
What am I saying?"
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I've never seen that before.
I've never felt that at least.
Okay, if you've never felt it, well then maybe that's good.
Yeah.
The other thing that I think you're special at is you have like really like patience on
everything actually.
Okay, tell me about that.
When we need to reach one agreement point, like I have no patience at all.
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So, okay, okay, whatever.
Sometimes I'll be like that.
Okay.
Whatever is okay.
But you have really like the power of patience.
How can you describe that?
But you've got that power.
So, you really like start the conversation and discussion and not give those things up
until you reach the goal, until you found something comfortable.
Yeah.
What sort of Kaki-chan?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But to me, he's just smart.
So, he's just kind of rigid, you know.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a little different to me.
You are more like patient guy and kind of always trying to see things flat, kind of always
trying to see the, trying to make yourself being really understood enough.
Oh.
But that's okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think I have no what you're trying to mention.
Maybe know where you're coming from.
But that's not because of the desk.
That's not because of the desk.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
Well, oh, yeah.
So, I think you're really smart.
And also you are really kind.
I am kind.
Yeah.
When you do some discussion or like when you have conversation with people, you are logic
at one point, but you are really kind.
I will, I'll be very proud to say that I am very kind.
Yeah.
That I will proudly say.
Yeah.
You can say proudly.
I am very accepting.
You are really.
Yeah.
You are really kind.
I am.
However.
Okay.
There are some people that I get very angry with.
Yeah.
You know who I'm talking about, right?
Yeah.
You know who I'm talking about.
Yeah.
When we're doing the cafe, I am.
Lady, yeah.
That lady, that obasan.
Yeah.
I am just, just bam.
Yeah.
Like that.
I just go full throttle anger.
Yeah.
Full throttle.
You forgive nothing.
I do not forgive anything that that woman did.
Why was that?
I don't know.
It just, it just ticked.
It just, the fact, I don't know.
I can't, I can't go here.
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Yeah.
I'm going to get angry.
Yeah.
But disrespect is one word that really describes that woman.
So, okay.
I didn't see the respect.
Yeah.
So, yes.
Yeah.
We talked too much.
All right.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
Take care.
