00:01
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hey guys.
Hello.
So, I found an Aussie question.
Alright, let's go.
Yep, this is from Nanamiru-san.
ケビンさん、ヤマチャンさん、こんにちは。
こんにちは。
ポッドキャストのおすすめに出てきてから、いつも配信を楽しみにしております。
Thank you.
私は外国語大学を卒業し、日本で3年間ディーラーとして働いておりました。
大学生時代に留学に行くことができず、このまま社会人を続けていていいのか、
日本での生活しか知らずに一生このまま生きていくのかと考えた結果、
2023年9月からオーストラリアに留学しています。
こちらに来て5ヶ月ほど経ち、平日は学校に通いホストファミリーと暮らしており、
週に3日ほどウェイトレスとして働いています。
ただこちらに来て思うことが一つあります。
それは友人などとの会話の受け答えについてです。
会話の受け答え。
That's interesting. It's nice.
や、疑問に思ったことを聞いたりなど、そのくらいしか思い浮かびません。
自分の返事がってことかな。
自分が思い描いていたネイティブスピーカーの会話はもっとナチュラルで、
ましてやOGの人たちはすごく会話が好きで、たわいもないことを長く話すイメージです。
自分が他の人の会話に興味がないからこんな受け答えしか出てこないのかな、などたくさん考えました。
何か他の受け答え方法などあるのでしょうか。
そしてネイティブの方でも興味がない話はすぐに終わらせたりするのでしょうか。
現在日本はとても寒いと伺っております。お体ご自愛ください。
オーマイガー
最初から20分間ずっと話していました。
全てのライド?
そうです。
面白かったですね。
彼はまったく息を吸っていませんでした。
本当に?
私はそう思います。
それは本当に会話ではありません。
スピーチのような感じですね。
そうですね。
私は自分の言葉をその中に入れようとしていました。
そうですね。
彼は長縄のようでした。
彼に時間がないので彼の言葉を入れていたのですか?
その通りです。
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私が自分の言葉を入れるようにしていたら
彼は私を聞いていました。
そうです。
私は厚くてアメリカのアクセントで話していました。
厚いアメリカのアクセントを理解しにくかったのですか?
最初から理解できなかった。
I went to the forest side for the tour, that was a World Heritage place, and then we had
a tour guide who explained to us about what's forest, about trees and things.
You know the species names are difficult, like the tree names.
I mean it's already a very technical term.
So that's one maybe, but put beside that, the accent, and they put everything shorter
than it should be.
Yeah I have that image.
Like a breakfast, like what else, like anything.
So that's one difficult thing to catch.
But I found its accent is very cute.
They say nai instead of no.
Oh, they say nai?
Yeah, they say nai.
My image was like, nor, nor.
Maybe that's one type of Australian accent maybe.
But you heard it as nai.
Yeah, at Cairns they said nai, nai.
Exactly, so in the shop, I asked them like, do you have this?
And then they go like, nai.
It sounds like Japanese, you know.
Ah, nai nda.
Oh, nai.
Yeah.
Okay.
Nai.
Or they say darling many times.
Darling?
Darling to many people.
Like a guy or a male or female, doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter, yeah.
Darling, yeah.
Oh, like a good choice, darling.
And at the restaurants, wait a moment, darling.
Sounded very cute.
Very gentle, cute.
Gentle, yeah.
For example, about.
Those like, out sound, they went like, about.
About, kind of.
I can't properly.
About?
Yeah, it's more like about.
About?
Yeah.
About?
Yeah.
So this phrase, about.
You know, one million years ago.
It's like that.
About, like gal.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
But you kind of got the hang of it.
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Yeah, once you get used to it, you can, you know, get it.
You can understand it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's actually the first time for me to actually hear those Australian accents.
Yeah.
English, like in person.
Yeah, it was.
At first it was, oh, this is it.
Yeah, I've never actually, I don't think I've ever spoken to like a fully Australian person, I think.
Not that I remember.
Yeah.
And also, there are many foreign people who, I guess, working in Australia or Wahori, including Japanese people.
Many French, many Italians.
So I talked with French, guy in French in Australia.
Oh, wow, okay.
Yeah, that's many times happened.
Yeah.
But there's one tour guide who came from India.
Okay.
And he has an unbelievably thick accent of Indian.
Okay.
Indian accent.
Yeah.
And he pronounced R sound, like a little sound.
For example, hamburger, hamburger.
Oh, right.
That's Indian.
Which we went to like army dock tour.
That's like army.
It's like riding on a boat and going on a forest.
Oh, A...
Army.
A-R-M-Y.
Okay, okay.
I see, I see.
She said army.
Army.
Army dock tour.
I see.
That's India.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was fine.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
There were many, many countries, I felt like many people, many, how do you say, many nationality.
Yeah.
Many...
It was very international.
Yeah.
Very variety of cultural people were in one place.
Not only like tourists, but like all that are living there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, mainly like Australian, you know, with Australian accents, but Indian people, like
Japanese people, European people, and also like Aboriginal people, like the original
Australian people.
Oh, okay.
I see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then people have very strong respect to those original living people.
I see.
Yeah.
So there are some places you can't touch, for example.
Oh.
Or you can't take picture, or you can't...
I see.
Yeah.
That was interesting too.
That's interesting.
About Australia.
Man.
Makes me want to go more.
Yeah.
Yeah, you should.
Fuck.
You definitely should.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
And they have interesting meat too.
It's off topic, but like a kangaroo's meat.
Oh, really?
Like crocodile's meat.
Kangaroo, crocodile.
Yeah, that's Australia.
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Yeah, I've heard of that too.
Yeah.
That's real.
Yeah.
Shit.
And I ate...
Did you eat it?
Yeah, I had many of those, and I had ants cake.
Like ants?
Yeah.
Like addy?
Yeah.
Ants?
Ants inside the...
The cake?
Cake.
Like a birthday cake cake?
Yeah, like a jelly cake.
You know, it's like a tart cake.
Like a Jell-O?
Inside Jell-O.
A tart?
Yeah.
Like inside...
And then you can see...
That's disgusting.
Like literally ants?
Like the straight up ants in a Jell-O.
I mean, a little bit bigger than Japanese ants.
Oh my God.
That's ridiculous.
That's fucking...
Disgusting.
Those are one of like the weird ones in Australia, right?
That's locally considered like a nastier food, no?
I'm not sure.
It was on the...
I went to Ayers Rock.
Okay.
It's a different place than ants.
Yeah.
And we went on the...
It's like having a dinner outside plan.
Okay.
And they got us like a box of dinner set.
Okay.
And then one of them was that.
The ant Jell-O pie.
Ant Jell-O thing.
Yeah, cake.
And nobody was...
Really?
Didn't...
Any huge reaction to that.
So I was like, wow.
So it's normal then?
Yeah, I mean...
It's like...
In Japan, it's like gyutan or...
Yeah, I think so.
And miso.
Hormone.
Hormone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Miso.
Kani miso.
Yeah, I think so.
Something like that?
I think so.
Fuck.
Damn.
I tasted it.
Yeah.
Good?
I mean, tasted nothing.
Was it sweet?
The Jell-O must be sweet.
Yeah.
The cake, right?
Yeah.
So basically, it's sweet.
Yeah.
But I had a slight feeling of something...
Like a leg?
Yeah, like...
Like the antenna of an ant?
Yeah.
Oh!
Like something that sharp?
No, something like...
Oh, I bite something.
Oh!
No.
It was crunchy?
Well, not to me.
Not to me.
It wasn't crunchy.
Oh, yeah.
Crunchy, yes.
The ant itself was crunchy.
Like you can feel it.
Like the body cracking.
Body itself isn't crunchy.
Yeah.
But the skin, I guess it's a little bit hard.
So it's like...
Kind of...
Oh!
That's disgusting.
Do you think...
Did you feel the juice coming out of the body?
No, no, no.
No juice.
But it must have some sort of juice, no?
Oh, yeah.
I think so.
Was it deep fried?
No.
It's in the cake.
How was it cooked?
Like, is it burnt or like boiled?
I think it's...
They're raw.
They're fucking raw?
I mean...
That's disgusting.
I have no idea how they cooked it.
But it looked raw.
It looked raw.
Yeah.
It looked like you made a jello thing.
Yeah.
You put like ants in it.
You just put...
And they're like...
Oh shit.
It's like putting ants in like a cement or something.
Yeah, yeah.
As time goes by, the liquid solidifies.
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Right.
And the ants can't move and they die.
Fuck!
It looked like that.
That's disgusting.
But it was okay for you.
It was okay.
It was okay. It was just like if you didn't know it was ants. It'd be yeah, if you if you don't look at it
Yeah, you can just have
Good time. Yeah, you know sweet
Okay
That's that's that's fun. All right. Yeah, that's fine
Yeah
Thanks listening guys. Thank you
