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welcome to Kevin's English Room podcast
hello hello hello so right do you have anything in your mind
no I'm just worried about the microphone covering my mouth oh yeah
I'm doing this now oh great hope this is better now mm-hmm yeah yeah okay so this
is from Nass Ichiko-san okay thank you thank you Nass Ichiko-san I remember I said oh I
deleted the message yeah right I remember that too right yeah
間違って消してしまったとおっしゃっていたメッセージはもしかして私の物でしょうか
もしかしてと思いもう一度同じものを送らせていただきます
and I remember that was about Kyoto and cafes okay in Kyoto so was it this one
maybe this one oh nice thank you wow thank you what a move yeah
今仕事で京都に来ています以前山ちゃんがおすすめしていたカフェこっちからお便りを送らせていただいています
キッシュと玉ねぎのポタージュが感動的な美味しさで山ちゃんがおすすめされる理由を噛みしめながらゆったりとした時間を過ごしています
お店に並んでいる書籍の中からたまたま手に取った池澤なつきさんのクジラが見る夢を読んでいます
今回仕事の都合で京都に来ましたが私の京都のイメージは歴史的な文化財の町で日本史の知識が薄い私には近寄りがたい町というイメージがありましたが
KR の皆さんと出会いここが山ちゃんが住んでいた町かと思いながら歩くと少し違ったイメージを持つことができました
いつかジョージアにも旅行へ行ってここがケビンさんが育った町かと思いながら歩いてみたいと思っています
これからも皆さんのご活躍を応援しております
本当にありがとう! そのメッセージは?
そうだと思うよ コチカフェっておすすめだよね? 東京に行った時に
京都? 京都だよね? 本当だね
いいね! 僕は思い出したよりもたくさんの本があったよ コチカフェ? 読んでるよ
何本か覚えてる? 読んでる?
僕の本を持ってきたからね
それで終わりだね
本当にありがとう! 最後に読んでくれてありがとう
ありがとう
次のメッセージ
山ちゃんケビンさん 春です
春? 春って名前だよ
覚えてる?
名前だけじゃないよ
以前カナダに勉強してたメッセージを送ってた
バンクーバーから戻ってきた
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言ってくれてありがとう
聞いててとても嬉しかった
本当に楽しかった 経験があった
実は英語が上手くなかった
でも友達を出会った
いいね
多くの学生がメキシコからブラジルから来て
彼らは私よりも年齢が高かった
でも英語を勉強したいと思ってた
彼らは英語が上手くて
僕の意見をもっと表現したかった
皆さんに質問がある
どうやって日本語とフランス語を勉強したの?
勉強するのが良いのか?
何かアドバイスがあるか教えてください
ありがとう 春
いいね ありがとう
ありがとう
言うのネイティブなの?
ありがとう
それは僕の言い方
いいね 君の言い方
ありがとう
日本語を勉強したいとは思ってなかった
日本語を勉強したいとは思ってなかった
アメリカにいても日本語を勉強したい
日本語を勉強したいとは思ってなかった
日本語を勉強したいとは思ってなかった
日本語を勉強したいとは思ってなかった
日本語を勉強したいとは思ってなかった
日本語を勉強したいとは思ってなかった
OK
What a quick briefing
Isn't it better to keep doing it?
Versus what?
Yeah
Wait, versus what though?
I guess stop learning
Oh
So, OK, all right
Is it better to stop learning or is it better to keep learning?
Keep learning, of course
Yeah, keep learning is better, right?
Of course
Of course, yeah
What a question is this
Right
I mean, well, to me, but you know, but the studying and using it is kind of same to me
Yeah, I agree
Yeah, so this is to me studying English
I agree
So, it's like it never, it never stop
Yeah
Like
Right
Yeah, I agree, I agree
So, but sometimes it's difficult to find somebody who can speak or use that language with
Because I can speak with you in English so that I can improve my English
But it's sometimes like to me difficult to find French guy or like someone who speaks French
06:00
You know, it's sometimes difficult for me
Right
I don't have that much opportunity, I mean, close to like zero opportunity to have conversation
with friends in Japan
So, I guess my French hasn't been improved since way back
Yeah
So
Do you ever want to live in France?
I do
Yeah
Yeah
You think it's better there overall?
Overall
I mean, that's like a question
Yeah
I love Japan
Yeah
And I love France
So, it's not like which country is better
Okay
Overall
But
Okay
Weather wise
Yeah
I prefer France, I mean, the south side of France is like sunny day, bright always and clear
And dry
Right
So I prefer that
Having beach, having oceans and foods are good in France
So, yeah
Yeah
But will you ever make decision of living there?
I don't know
Maybe in the future
Maybe
When you accomplish a lot of things
Yeah
You get bored and have nothing else to do, you might go to France
Maybe in the future
But
Yeah
I haven't ever thought about this like carefully, like in real
I just dreamed about those things, but never actually think about that
Right
Your job and everything, right?
Yeah
Yeah, like that
The shakai hokans
Exactly
Taxes
Yeah, and everything like that
Yeah
See, in the last episode, I talked about I met a friend who is living in New York
And you know, friends told me that tax is really high
And you know, the friends are living in Manhattan, so the environment is quite difficult to,
for example, have family and raise children
Right
Yeah, you know
The rent is high
Really high
Told me that just one usual, like the usual like one-k apartment
30 million yen basically
Wow
If you want a family type, 100 million yen over, it's a regular price
I mean, it is New York, right?
Yeah
Yeah
So, you know, living in New York sounds cool and sounds great
But if you carefully think about those and also mentioned about those Nenkin things
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Yeah, the friends haven't, you know, decided that living in the United States forever
Maybe come back to Japan or move to different countries maybe, so
Nenkin
So it's like should he join the pension or not?
Japanese Nenkin or like United States like
I see
1k thing
401k, yeah
Yeah
Okay
So that's another difficult point
I never imagined those real things, so
Yeah
A lot of struggles, huh?
Yeah
Well, what does he do?
Consultant
Wow
Yeah
Consultant
A consultant
Researching company, I guess
Wow
In Manhattan, right?
Yeah
Wow, what a killer
Yeah, what a killer, yeah
I'm a consultant in Manhattan, New York
Yeah
Living in the close to the Central Park
Oh my god, what a killer
That's a killer, yeah
Has he, did he meet any like celebrities? Did he talk about that?
No
You went to Famous?
No
Because that's what I hear when you go to New York
In New York?
It's like a lot of like, okay, no
Oh, okay
I didn't mention those, but
Maybe too busy, maybe?
Maybe?
Oh, is he very busy?
But compared to in Japan, less busy
Was he in like one of those really busy companies?
Yeah, I guess so
Okay, I see
Well, good for him
Yeah
Okay, all right
Thanks for sitting guys
Thank you
Yeah, hi.
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