00:04
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello guys.
Hello.
That one?
Okay.
Okay.
This is from...
Okay, pick another one.
Pick another one. Okay, yeah, sure, go ahead.
This is from 抹茶第一主義さん.
Okay, thank you.
Kevin, no offense.
That was pretty offensive though.
That was a pretty big diss right there.
Alright, but go ahead.
That's all.
Okay.
I see.
When did you get the license?
Immediately after I was able to.
So like, as in age-wise.
So I guess, like, right after I entered university?
Somewhere around there?
Yeah.
Like 一年生?
Yeah, yeah.
Like I wanted it as fast as possible.
So, yeah.
So you went to school?
Yes, driving school.
Not like a 合宿.
I had 通う。
Yeah.
So, he or she is saying he or she himself is a 帰国しじょう.
Yes.
And having a, you know, difficulty of, you know, reading all those...
Yeah.
Like, I understand it's difficult.
It's kind of low sentences.
Like, what are the difficult...
Yeah.
It's like a...
It's half a trick question, you know?
Yeah.
You know?
True.
When there's this mark, you have to stop.
Yeah.
That's right.
There are times when you can't stop.
Yeah.
Kind of tricky, right?
Right.
Like, you need to get the hang of it.
Right, right, right.
Words itself are difficult.
And also those tricky questions are difficult.
Yeah.
I don't like those tricky questions.
It's not nice.
It's not nice at all.
It's not practical.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is.
It's really not practical.
They just want to trick us.
Yeah.
That's all.
Right.
Right.
Like...
I mean, generally.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I get it.
So, I get it.
So, it is.
But, like, for me, when I got the hang of that trick question thing, like, then I started
to, you know, sort of like get the hang of it, you know?
Sort of like understand how shit works.
And, oh, there's the keyword of zettai.
Yeah.
Probably.
Chigau.
You know?
Right.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
03:00
Okay.
What about, like, words?
Or, like, vocabularies?
For example, like, what?
Like, ichijiteishi?
Yeah.
Or, like...
Like...
What else?
Ichiji...
Ichiji...
Ippotsuukou.
Ippotsuukou.
You know...
What's the whole things?
For example, like...
Yeah.
Looks difficult, no?
Yeah.
It is.
It looks kind of difficult.
But I was...
You know, I got over it.
Got over it.
I don't remember suffering that much.
Okay.
From the Japanese.
Like, it's pictures.
Right?
True.
Yeah.
True.
Like, I know...
Like, I can imagine when this would happen.
So, like, it was easier to imagine.
It was much more easier than, like, kanbun or...
Yeah.
Yeah, kobun.
In high school.
Yeah.
It was much more practical compared to that.
So, it wasn't bad.
True.
Yeah.
So...
So, that's a...
That's not true.
You were good at it.
I was not bad at it.
Not bad at it.
Yeah.
I think...
I think I passed it just the first test, though.
Oh, that's great.
I think I did.
Yeah.
I think I did.
The...
Both driving and the...
The paper test?
Yeah.
According to my memory.
According to your memory.
I passed it before.
Yeah.
Yeah.
According to my memory.
According to your memory.
I passed it the first time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did we have, like, a driving test in the school?
Okay.
And then you have, like, a...
Like a computer test or something, no?
Like a driving simulator?
Because I half remember what you're talking about.
Oh.
I may.
I may remember what you're talking about.
In my memory.
Yeah.
It's not, like, simulation thing.
Okay.
But it's a test.
Just a computer test?
In the...
Yeah.
It's not, like, a written on-paper test.
It's more like an on-screen...
Yeah.
...click-the-right-answer...
Yes, yes, yes.
...kind of quiz.
And then I have, like, paper test and the actual...
Oh.
Am I correct?
Okay.
Maybe.
Because I remember clicking shit on the screen, too.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't...
I forget everything.
Oh.
Yeah, me too, man.
Me too.
I mean, everything, I mean, how we did that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not the Hiroshiki or anything, right?
Well, let's do a little quiz on if you remember the Hiroshiki or not.
All right.
Okay.
Oh.
06:01
What does this mean?
This one?
Yes.
So it's a red...
Okay.
...circle with a blue filling on the inside...
Okay.
...with an X, with a red X...
Okay.
...with the white font 8-20.
Okay.
So what does this mean?
Okay.
I remember what it means.
You remember this one?
I remember what it means, yeah.
Okay.
So on this one...
Yes.
8時から20時...
Okay.
...停車禁止.
You can't, like a...
How do you say it?
Like stop...
Mm-hmm.
...and park a car.
I mean, kind of...
You can't stop.
You can't stop.
Like a 停車禁止.
停車禁止.
I don't know how should I say 停車 in English.
Yeah, I don't know too, but like...
Not 駐車, but...
Not 駐車, but 停車?
But 停車 too.
Yeah, because it's double.
Okay, okay.
So I think that one is that 駐車.
Mm-hmm.
And if you have two like this...
Mm-hmm.
...you can't even like stop.
Oh.
What happens after 20 and before 8?
You can...
Oh, that's a great question.
Oh, that's a great question.
You can't...
Oh, that's a great question.
You can do whatever you want.
You can do whatever you want.
What's the correct answer?
So the first part, what the literal meaning of this...
Okay.
...you're correct.
Okay.
You cannot park or stop.
Okay, okay.
停車禁止ね。
停車禁止。
終停車禁止か。
And after and before 8...
Yeah.
...there's always going to be a different sign that's assigned to the other time frame.
Oh, that's a tricky question.
Yeah, so you have to check the other sign.
There's always going to be a different one.
Okay.
Yeah.
With this one, you have like just one this...
Just one X, right?
Not a double X, but like just one slash.
Yeah, so usually you're going to have just a 停車禁止の1,
this sort of 終停車禁止の1 slash.
Yeah.
And then right under it, there's the 8 to 20...
終停車禁止。
Yeah.
So if it's outside of 8 to 20, you have to look at the one above.
That has no time limits.
Okay.
Yeah.
So if there's one single this...
One single X.
Yeah.
Not a slash.
8 to 20.
Yeah.
And if there's nothing else, then that means outside of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., you can park.
Yes, you can park.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Wow.
It's confusing.
It's confusing, yes.
09:00
All right.
Let me give you like a...
So that was very practical.
You should remember this if you're going to drive, right?
Because this is a very...
We use it all the time.
That's true.
But let me give you like the one you never see.
Oh, yeah.
Like in the roads.
Okay.
Oh, how about this one?
Okay.
So it's a yellow square, yellow diamond shape.
Okay.
And it's...
What does it look like to you?
It's...
On the first slide, it looked to me like a train.
Okay.
It's a steam train.
Oh, yeah.
But for the second slide, for the second thought...
Yeah, yeah.
It looked to me like some kind of car.
Like a...
Car?
Like a...
Oh, like a old open car?
No, it's like a construction car.
Ah, I see.
Construction...
Construction cars.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
With steam from somewhere in it.
Oh, I see.
Something that works on the ground, you know, like...
Concrete shit.
Like this one.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So...
I've never seen this on the road.
Never.
Wow.
It's like a...
So if it was like a steam train,
it should be like a different shape.
It should be like a...
It's different from the train, I guess.
Okay.
It looks to me like more of a car.
Okay.
There was like walking cars.
Yeah.
Like construction cars.
So that means construction going on ahead.
Okay.
So be careful.
That's your answer.
Yeah.
So like you have to slow down.
Yeah.
Make sure you're ready to stop.
Yeah.
Just watch out for any like cones and...
Yeah.
And a big car.
And big cars just coming.
There's gonna be people on the road.
Yeah.
All right, let's see what the answer is.
Okay, what's that?
Fumikiri?
Fumikiri-ari.
Is it?
Yeah.
Fumikiri-ari.
Fumikiri-ari.
Is it?
Oh, so that was a train.
That's a train.
What is this then?
That's the smoke.
I think your first thought was right.
Oh, like a steam train.
That's the Kikansha no Kemuri.
It's tricky.
It's tricky and it's not...
You never see this.
It's not great.
Not a great picture?
Paint is not great.
It's not great.
It should be changed into like more proper steam train looks.
Yeah.
Maybe because there's two versions of Fumikiri-ari.
The one we're looking at was 207-A.
Okay.
And there's 207-B, which is also Fumikiri-ari.
And this one looks more like a train.
Yeah, that's a train.
Yeah.
Electric train.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe it was like outdated.
So maybe they updated it into a new one because...
I see.
It's a new one.
Yeah.
I guess.
I don't know, but...
Tricky though.
It's tricky.
You know, but we know if we go to Inaka, maybe, you know...
Yeah, you'll still see this one.
12:00
It would still look like this, right?
Yeah.
It's difficult.
It's difficult.
It's difficult.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What is this?
This one?
It's just this one.
So it's a yellow diamond with a exclamation mark.
Yeah.
Big exclamation mark in the middle.
What does that mean?
I mean, you have to pay attention for something.
What is it for?
I think it's a sign where like when you smack it real hard, there's gonna be mushrooms popping out from the back.
And then when you eat it, you get like magical powers.
Oh.
So like I think your goal is like you're driving, right?
You see that sign.
Yeah.
You would turn your car so you would drive directly into the sign.
Oh, I see.
And then you'd get like mushrooms in your car.
Oh, yeah.
I know that.
I know that.
Yeah.
Something you just headbutt it and there's mushrooms coming out.
You've seen it in other video games where you headbutt the shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or you have like hatana mark ones too.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
That's right.
The same thing.
Same thing.
Then I know that.
You know that, right?
Sometimes you get a flower.
Sometimes you get a flower and you can shoot fire, right?
Yeah.
I love that one.
And there's stars.
Yeah, stars.
Yes.
And sometimes you can just get coins.
Coins are not bad.
Yeah.
You can collect coins.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
All right.
The actual answer.
Yeah.
Okay.
What the fuck does that?
What does that matter if you're not going to specify it?
Yeah.
You can just have to be afraid of.
That's so scary.
It's coming.
Yeah.
That is so scary.
That's scary.
Yeah.
If you have this one on the road.
That is fucking scary.
I just have to be careful.
For what?
Makes no sense.
This one.
Makes no sense.
Yeah.
Makes no sense.
Just be right with something.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
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