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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello. Hello. Smooth. Fast and smooth. Yep. Trying to make it short.
Yep. Cool. Oh, because I don't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I want to make it as short as possible.
All right. Okay. So this one for today.
This is from Itsumo Manpuku-san.
That sentence right there is very mature.
Don't you think so? I can't write that.
Very mature. That's right. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But let this go. Okay.
Because you don't have to write this.
What do you mean? We're all right for that.
What do you mean? What do you mean?
We're okay for いたらぬ tense.
Oh. From the beginning.
You don't have to worry about that.
Right. You have a different positioning of like, you don't want people right.
I'm sorry if I make a mistake.
Yeah. You don't have to say that.
Because if you... We're all right.
Like, you're not going to make the situation better by saying, I'm sorry if you make a mistake.
If you make a mistake, you make it.
We all know we're not perfect.
Yeah. We all know it.
Right. We don't have to say this.
Right. But I get it.
You were stuck on that point.
Yeah. Yeah.
You're very polite. I get it.
It's like, to me, it's like, it's like, it's like too much for me.
It's like you're appealing your politeness.
Ah, like, hey, like, I, I, I...
Like, not, not in this case.
In this case, he's right, right amount.
It's a good amount, I think.
But if you start, like,
If you start doing that, it's not too much, man.
Don't do that.
It's, no, don't do that.
It's like, why don't you use that energy to fix yourself instead of apologizing it earlier?
Yeah.
Like, apologize beforehand.
Right, right, right, right.
It's to me, like, same amount of arrogance.
It's like, we all know that.
Just be, just be...
Just do your best.
Just be flat as, as usual.
Yeah.
Then you make a mistake, then, then that's you.
Then you just apologize once.
Yeah.
And you're good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Yeah, makes sense.
But in this case, good.
Sure.
Right amount, I think.
Okay.
Great.
What was that?
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Japanese was a little difficult on that one.
Oh, that was my mistake.
Oh, that was your...
Okay.
That was my mistake.
Okay.
I'm so sorry.
Okay, all right.
I'm a Japanese beginner, so if I...
Oh, okay.
Forgive me if I sometimes make mistakes.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, I'm so sorry.
Beforehand, I say I'm sorry beforehand.
Yeah, okay.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, that's terrible.
Yeah.
That's so sad.
That's so sad.
Wow.
Wow.
Mature.
That's so mature.
That's so sad.
Yeah, right.
Very mature.
Thank you for the message.
That this person was writing like that.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wait, so about the teacher and everything?
Wait, what was he trying to do?
He forced his friends to join in the club.
Oh, okay.
Was it him?
Was it a she?
No, no, do not know.
Do not know.
Okay, so this person was trying to force this person's friend to join the club.
Yeah.
And he was like, okay, I'll join.
Yep.
And then ask the teachers to get the new boot, but couldn't find the teachers.
So missed a chance.
Yeah, I think so.
Well, maybe later.
Yeah.
Maybe next day.
Just try again.
It's not just like one time.
It's not a one time thing, right?
Hopefully.
Yeah.
Hopefully.
Hopefully, yes.
Not a one time thing.
And if it is a one time thing, you know, that person wouldn't have stayed long anyways.
So, you know.
True.
Yeah.
But I mean, it's okay to be the only one.
I know.
So we club and, you know, so to go around just one, one time.
Yeah.
It's not bad at all.
Yeah.
Right.
You're right.
Yeah.
Maybe a little.
Yeah, I get.
Yeah.
It is kind of like that little lonely though.
Yeah, true.
I'm sure if you, I'm sure you have he or she have like senpai and kouhais.
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So he's not lonely at all.
At the club.
At the club itself.
But true.
Yeah.
If you divide, separate gakunens.
Get it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really nothing you can do.
Don't you think?
Like it's very rare that you join the club from the ni nensei or san nensei.
Yeah.
So you can kanyu the shinryusei, but it doesn't make any, it's not his or her goal.
Or ask a kitakubu.
To join.
Nice.
Yeah?
Yeah.
But like, if you are not interested in shogi in the first place, well, it is kind of like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is going to be a big chunk of your life, right?
Right.
So yeah.
But if there's people who doesn't know the existence of shogi bu, then there is a possibility
that people are actually somebody who had actually.
Wanted to go.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So still possible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not everybody knows that they have shogi club and then choose not to join in,
but they just don't know it.
So.
Right.
Still possible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you done shogi?
Yes.
But not the full game, just a few times.
Oh, okay.
But mainly the tsume shogi.
Do you know tsume shogi?
I do not know what that is.
It's like, it's like a puzzle, but you have your board.
Okay.
And then your, and your opponent's koma already placed.
And then, for example, koko no joutai kara gote de tsumete kudasai.
Okay.
I get it.
I get it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did that when I was in high school.
Did you?
Have you?
I actually did.
I remember doing it.
Shogi?
Yeah.
Shogi.
I think with my dad, I think.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I remember it being very similar to chess.
True.
Right.
Yes.
Similar.
Right.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I do have an experience playing it.
I don't remember the rules anymore.
Okay.
But yeah.
It's very simple.
Very simple.
Yeah.
You can just have to memorize.
How they move.
Right.
Yeah.
Maybe difficult because it writes kanjis, not shapes.
Right.
It's harder to know it by instinct.
Yeah.
Or like, yeah, first sight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you play chess?
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I sometimes play chess.
Oh, you do?
I do.
I do.
I do a little bit of chess here and there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Go?
I don't think I do.
I bought this like mini game pack for a GameCube or something.
Okay.
And I think Go was in there and I played it once or twice.
Okay.
But that's the only sort of exposure to Go.
Okay.
Yeah.
I play Connect Four.
You know Connect Four?
Yeah, I know that.
You know Connect Four?
Oh, shit.
I had a physical version of Connect Four, I think.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
You got a, like a, how do you say that?
Two, I mean, it's a...
Like a panel, right?
Yeah.
Like a stand-up panel.
Yeah.
Separated in like this.
Yeah.
And we put it in the middle.
Yeah.
And you sort of like, yeah, I actually like Connect Four.
I actually do.
Yeah.
Do you have a favorite board game?
Huh.
Board games.
Because I would say Connect Four would...
I kind of like Connect Four.
Oh, you have a favorite?
I do.
I think that could be my favorite board game.
I'd say...
So all of them are fun to me.
I love all of them.
But the most played ones by me...
Okay.
...would be Othello.
Classic.
Yeah.
I like that.
Yeah.
And Uno.
Like you have a skip and reverse.
Yeah, that's Uno.
Yeah, I think it's Uno.
Those two, I think.
Ah, Uno's fun too.
Yeah, those two would be the most played by me board games.
Have you played Mario Party?
Yeah, I think so.
It's like a board game.
It's like a jinsei game-ish vibe.
Yeah, I think I have.
Oh, do you enjoy playing Mario Party?
Uh, yeah.
It's like you have small little mini-games sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
You dice yourself.
Yeah.
I don't know if you call it dicing yourself, but you roll dices and then you sort of like...
Yeah.
You know, you get six, you move six.
Yeah.
And then every now and then, here and there, you get like a mini-game.
Right, right, right.
Something happens to you.
There's other points and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I remember I played several times, like two, three, four, five times.
Okay.
But I was very bad at playing game itself.
I didn't...
Enjoy it?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I prefer like just the usual board game, like jinsei game or those.
Or like Monopoly or all that?
Monopoly...
Never played it?
Almost twice, yeah.
I remember when I went on for the first shinkan gashiku all together for the sakuru when we were
in university, sakuru.
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Yeah.
And I was with the guy.
The guy?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, the tall, thin, glass guy.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was with him in the same room.
Okay, okay, okay.
And he was like...
Exactly how he sounds.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then all of us, except him, didn't know what exactly Monopoly was.
And then he went to the front desk and then brought the Monopoly.
And then he explained us the rules and everything.
And yeah, we played it.
Okay.
That's the first time I think I played Monopoly.
Yeah, I've never played Monopoly 2.
Is it fun?
I mean, it was fun, but we didn't do as he explained.
I see.
Yeah.
It was fun that he tries to explain the rules, but we don't do that.
Okay, okay.
He tries hard, and that was fun.
I see, I see.
So you didn't actually play Monopoly.
We didn't play properly.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
He would love to play that still now, I think.
He loves board games.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He loves board games.
Yeah.
Yeah, let's play together someday.
Monopoly.
Yeah, let's play Monopoly.
Yeah, he would love to explain the rules.
Last time I met him, you know what I'm talking about, right?
Yeah, a few weeks ago, yeah.
A few weeks ago, yeah.
He was there.
He was not looking so good.
Oh.
He, his eyes were half closed all the time.
He looked very...
What do you mean, sleepy?
Yeah.
He could really use some sleep.
I mean, oh.
He was like, even like drowsy.
He was a little like, y'all good?
Really?
Yeah, he was, he wasn't sharp.
Oh.
He was, his eyes were half opened.
What was happening to him?
He was like, I can't sleep.
Like, I'm having trouble sleeping.
Oh, really?
Yeah, that's what he said.
Why is that?
Like, stress?
His skin problems is making him itchy.
Oh, I see.
He wakes up at night to like, scratch his body.
I understand, I understand.
That wakes him up, so like, he can't sleep.
I get it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So.
And then he was, he didn't have enough sleep.
Yeah.
Yeah, we should, we should get together again.
Yeah.
Hopefully he'll get some sleep.
Yeah.
Then recovered.
And then play Monopoly together.
Right.
Yeah.
All right.
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Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye.