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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
So we need to do a shout-out?
Oh, yes.
Weekly shout-out for Amazon Music's exclusive show, Kevin's English Room Podcast Plus!
Yes!
That show is a spin-off version of this show. It's a five-minute program, and we answer questions that we get from the audience.
For example, English questions like, what's the nuance of why don't you…何々?
Or like, まさか何々でしょうね?英語で言うとなんですか?
Something like that, right?
Fun and quick show.
Very interesting questions.
Yeah, very interesting questions.
The people that ask us these questions for the show, they give us really great questions.
Things that I've never even thought of, great interesting questions.
It's very difficult to, you know, you'd never find it in the textbooks and stuff like that.
You can't find it on the Internet that much.
It's a fun show, and it's free.
So if you're interested, please check it out on Amazon Music.
All right, there you go. Thank you!
Great. Thank you.
Great shout-out.
Great shout-out. Thank you.
All right.
こんにちは。
So I'm going to read the message for the… not the spin-off version.
Not the spin-off.
But the usual.
But the usual.
Yes.
Normal version of the…
Yes.
Okay.
Of this show.
Of this show.
Okay.
All right.
Nさんからの質問
This is from N-san.
N-san?
Yeah.
Or Na-ho-san.
Okay.
Those are two completely different names.
Yeah, because she writes a pen name section that's N, and then in the message she writes,
こんにちは。
なほです。
So…
Wow.
なほさん。
KRのポッドキャストを聞き始めて、
はい。
早2年が経ちます。
うん。
飽き性な私にとって、これほど長く聞き続けられるのは、いつも楽しいお話を配信してくれるおかげです。
Thank you.
ありがとうございます。
私からの質問は、日本語で言う、あれだよあれ、なんだっけ、と言葉が思い出せないときに言うあれです。
うん。
日本語ではあれと言いますが、英語ではあれに値する言葉はあるのでしょうか。
よくtip of my tongueとは言いますが、他の言葉ではあれです。
私は飽き性であると同時に、忘れっぽいので、何か便利な言葉があれば教えてください。
よろしくお願いします。
あは。
It's a…
That thing.
だね。
That thing.
Yeah.
That thing.
That, that, that thing.
You know?
That, that thing that, that spins.
And that, that thing.
You know that thing?
You know what I'm talking about?
That, it's…
あー。
That thing.
あー。
That thing.
あー。
That thing.
あー。
「あの…あれだよ…あれ」という表現
あー。
That thing.
That thing.
Okay.
This kind of…
I think the important thing is to repeat that.
Yeah.
That…
You know, that, that thing.
Right.
The repetition matters.
Yeah.
Right?
The way you say it.
And like…
Right.
It matters.
Right?
Right.
Right.
You kind of want to do the whole vibe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you want to use the, you know…
Right.
That thing.
If you want to use it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, like you sometimes do that.
The…
The…
Yeah.
I do that too.
The…
The…
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The…
The…
Or you could say a thingamajig.
Do you know?
What's that?
Have you ever heard of that?
Thingamajig?
What?
Thingamajig.
What's that?
Thingamajig.
Yeah.
Is a very…
It describes something that you don't know the name of.
Okay.
So, for example…
Okay.
Okay.
We're in a room.
Okay.
And right across the table, let's say that there is some sort of a machine that we've
never even seen.
Okay.
Like don't even know the name of.
All right.
Right?
And then if you want to mention that…
Mm-hmm.
We would mention it as that thingamajig.
Wow.
Thingamajig over there.
What do you…
Do you want us to…
What do you…
What do you think we should do with that thingamajig right here?
Do you know?
Oh.
You're saying thingamajig?
Thing…
Of?
Of?
Majig.
Thing of majig?
Yeah.
So, it's a…
Majig is…
It's not like magic, magic.
It's not magic.
It's Thingamajig.
Thing…
Thing of…
Majig.
Majig?
So, thingamajig.
Yeah.
I've never heard of it.
Let me give you the spelling.
Mm-hmm.
Thing…
Um…
Majig…
Thinga…
Thingamajig.
Thingamajig.
Thingamajig.
Thinkamajig.
That's how you pronounce it
Yeah, thingamajig
It makes you want to say it, right?
Thingamajig
Thingamajig
Is that the first time you see the spelling?
Yeah, first time seeing the spelling of it
Ah
This is it
T-H-I-N-G-A-M-A-J-I-G
Wow
Thingamajig
And there's this one
「あの…あれだよ…あれ」という表現
Thingamabob
Thingamabob?
Never heard of this one too?
No
This one is also said
Thingamabob
This one is also familiar
Thingamabob
Thingamajig
Yeah
Thingamabob
Thingamabob
Not thingamabob
It's not for like
Isn't it like childish or something?
No, it's not childish
You can still say
Yeah, don't say
Yeah, don't say
It's not professional
I see
But adults do say it
It's not a baby word
Okay
Even in the office
Yeah
Even in an office
You can say that
Yeah
What was that again?
You wouldn't look professional
But yeah
Thingamajig or thingamabob?
Thingamabob
Yeah
Thingamabob
Wow
Thingamajig
Yeah
Thingamajig
Let me listen to the pronunciation
UK pronunciation
Tnk
I think
Tnk
Only think
That's all it can say
Ah
Alright, then nevermind
Okay
Yeah
Okay
Yeah
Syncopalb
Yeah
Okay
I have this question
That
Mm-hmm
That
Wait, what?
That
Are, what, how do you say that?
The way to pronounce it?
That
The thing
Thing
That, yeah
That
That
That
That um
That um
The bag
That um
The bag
yeah yeah yeah yeah all right okay thanks for sitting guys all right thank you bye
