ケビンさんの英語と女性の模倣
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Hello.
Hello, hello.
So,
ケビンさん、ヤマちゃん、こんにちは。
こんにちは。
在宅ワークのBGM代わりにいつも聞いています。
This is Tom-san, by the way.
質問があります。
ケビンさんの英語は男っぽい話し方なのでしょうか。
たまにお二人の英語の中で気になったフレーズをシャドウィングすることがありますが、
ケビンさんの英語はなんとなく強く感じます。
もしかしたら女の私が使ったらおかしいのかなと思うことがあります。
他の男性の英会話チャンネルを聞かないので完全にただそう感じたというだけなのですが、
女でもケビンさんの話し方を真似してもおかしくないでしょうか。
What are you saying?
I don't...
Well, first of all, in Japan, we have like 男言葉 and 女言葉.
Yeah.
俺。
Yeah, 俺。
私。
そうですわ。
なんとかだわ。
なんとかだ。
じゃね。
なんとかでごわす。
Like historical, like 武士言葉.
And still we have those.
But in English, you don't have that concept, right?
No.
There are few though, there are few.
But...
You think yourself sounds masculine?
I don't...
So if a woman shadowed my English, right?
I'm trying to play it in my head if it's going to sound unnatural or not.
I'm fine.
Apart from me cussing all the time, I guess it's okay.
Yeah, the one thing you do have to worry about is there's a lot of cursing in the channel.
Like fucking, goddamn, bitch, shit.
So I guess you'd want to stay away from that to be safe.
But besides that, I think it's okay.
I guess.
Yeah.
I would want to see somebody talk like me, like a woman talk like me.
I want to see how it feels after hearing it.
I haven't fully rendered it in my brain.
Me too.
I was in this like few seconds, I was trying to...
Like converting your sound into like female's voice.
It didn't sound weird.
I know, right?
Yeah.
But you know, yeah.
Like I'm not 100% sure, right?
So I want to hear it.
But basically, I think it should be okay.
Yeah.
Basically.
Yeah.
Most of what I say is just neutral.
True.
Yeah.
Do you have, not only yourself, but some English that you feel masculineness to very strong or like feminineness?
Really strong, the way they talk or the words.
女性の喋り方のスタイル
Yeah.
Like, I don't know what it's called, but like the cheerleader style.
The many Japanese would know.
Okay.
The ones in...
The Britney style.
Okay.
You know?
Okay.
Yeah.
Little, those...
Yeah.
The intonations?
Yeah, like the end of the words sort of like...
Can you speak like that?
Yeah, I can try.
Yesterday I was like...
Bought this iPad, but it was so bad.
Okay.
How bad was that?
Why was that bad?
Well, the key don't turn on.
Really?
No matter how many times I try to press enter, it wouldn't go.
You mean it's not connected?
I don't know.
I'm sorry, guys.
I'm sorry.
But I get it.
But I get it.
I tried.
I tried.
You know?
Yeah.
You get it, right?
I get it.
True.
Yeah.
Yeah.
With including the facial expressions, too.
Yeah, like the angle of my face and everything.
Yeah.
A little move.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But true, the sounding.
That's more girly.
I see.
I see.
I see.
So if you compare to that versus like very masculine way of speaking, you don't...
No.
No, you wouldn't do that.
You go like...
Yeah, I guess.
I guess.
Yeah, I guess if you're more like solid in how you pronounce your words, I guess that
make it more masculine.
But it's not that there aren't females that talk like that.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
For example, like let's say somebody in the army, right?
Like a female person in the army.
Very solid.
You know?
Very hardcore.
Right?
True.
I guess.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's not only about like sexual things, but it's more like characteristic.
Like cheerleaders, English.
Oh, yeah.
I guess so.
English.
Yeah.
Hip hop English.
Yeah.
Those would be more suitable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
You just said it's not about sexual things.
性に関する議論
Okay.
That's a little...
That English was a little...
So when you say sexual, that means eroi.
Okay.
So you want to say gender-ish kind of thing.
Oh, yeah.
That's what I wanted to say.
Yes.
Yeah.
See, the word sex is a little difficult, right?
Okay.
But it means the act of doing sex and also gender, right?
That both means sex.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Because, for example, like when you write a paper or something, it says like sex, and
you have otoko.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Your profile, right?
Yeah.
That's right.
That's like a seibetsu thing.
Right.
It does mean like that.
Like you can say like, oh, depending on the sex, it's not dependent on the sex.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But like when you put shuo in it, sexual, that automatically makes it eroi, seitekina.
I see.
I see.
So that's a tricky part right there.
Okay.
So in those cases, I should use gender thing?
Yeah.
Or just not say shuo, just put sex.
Okay.
Right.
It's not a sex-related thing.
That doesn't mean seitekina.
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
That's confusing, right?
It's true.
It's hard.
It is a trap.
It is a trap.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
