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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hey guys.
Alright.
That one.
This is from Natsu-san.
Okay. Thank you.
こんにちは。
Okay.
How do you pronounce this?
Awww.
Awww.
Awww.
Awww.
I don't think there's variations of Awww, though.
Pronunciation isn't like...
It's all the same, I think.
All the same?
Yeah. Hmm.
So, for example,
I think the classic 王道の使い方 is like
まあ、なんか可愛いものを見たときだよね。
Like, for example,
I don't know.
Dogs.
Dog videos.
Well, you don't think it's cute.
I understand it.
You've never looked at a dog video and thought it was cute, right?
I mean, it's funny and cute.
I understand it.
Did you guys hear the words he used to describe the video?
He said it's funny.
It's like you put your dogs in the bathtub.
That's funny.
That's funny.
I'm talking about simple
cute
dog videos.
I mean, I understand animals are cute, right?
I understand the whole concept.
I do.
You understand the concept?
What the fuck are you talking about?
Animals are cute.
But you don't feel it, right?
They sleep and you film it and it's cute, right?
You understand
the logic behind
the act of shooting a video, right?
Because they sleep and it's cute, right?
I understand it.
I know it.
You understand it, right?
Let me choose a different topic then.
What do you think is cute?
Kids.
Babies are cute.
It's the same category.
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Cute, small.
Okay.
Well, I don't think babies are cute.
So let me just...
That's true.
Yeah.
Have you seen
babies when they're born?
What?
Have you seen babies when they're just born?
Just the moment
after it came out of the mother's womb.
Yeah.
Just very like kind of weird.
Yeah, I do.
Do you think it's cute?
I mean, yeah.
Trying hard to breathe, right?
Yeah.
Is that cute?
You think it's cute?
But less cuter than
a few hours later.
Right.
For example,
three-year-olds are cute.
Sure.
Even two months.
Two days.
Two days?
How much do they evolve in two days?
It's just
they get dried.
To me.
But the same
features?
You think it's cute?
Yeah.
You don't feel some?
They look like an alien, though.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't even
understand the concept of that.
You understand the concept
of how dogs are cute, right?
I don't even understand the concept
of how babies are cute.
No, I don't.
Let's find something cute.
Yeah.
That we both agree on.
What about
do you find it's cute?
Some characters?
Yeah, I think.
Yeah, I do.
I like
when I think it's cute.
Pochamu?
What?
Pochamu?
I don't know what it is.
Is that kind of yurikara or something?
It's like a
social media character.
Animated character.
I don't...
Yeah.
I don't think those
are cute.
Let me show you a picture.
Suji-san has it on his phone.
On the back of his phone.
What is that name again?
Pochamu?
Pochamu?
I've never heard of it.
But I mean,
Pochamu.
It's soft-looking, white,
rounded,
and like rounded eyes.
Black eyes.
That's what makes it cute, right?
Yeah, it's cute.
I understand the logic.
Honestly.
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Rounded eyes and
cheek.
Cute cheek.
Wide.
Rounded.
But you don't feel it though, right?
I understand the whole concept.
Find something else.
Find something else.
What about Osmo-san?
I don't think they're cute.
You think Osmo-san are cute?
Sometimes, yeah.
Let me move on.
Let me not get into that.
Yeah, okay.
I think that's a very deep topic.
Yeah, that's true.
What about not baby babies but
toddler kids?
Like 3-4 years?
No, I don't think so.
What about
grandpa and grandmas?
They're cute, no?
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
If grandpa and
grandma are holding
hands at a
park, walking
with picnic
baskets in their hands,
that's cute.
Very precise situation.
That's cute.
Do we agree? Yes.
In that situation,
aww.
Perfect. Finally.
Aww.
Look at those
two grandpas and
grandmas.
Holding hands, park, you know.
Aww.
They must have been a great partner for each other.
So lovely. Aww.
Look at them.
So,
the actual question was
how to pronounce that.
She says
that's in between
and moving around.
Aww.
What are you hearing?
Aww.
It's basically
aww.
Aww.
To me, it's in between
I and aww.
Aww.
And plus like
N sound from your nose.
Is it?
Aww.
Do you hear it?
Aww.
Aww.
You don't need to open your mouth.
You don't have to open your mouth.
It doesn't matter.
Aww.
But it has to be open though.
You don't have to move it.
It just has to have space
in your mouth.
And always that
intonation.
It goes down and then up.
Good.
Aww.
Aww.
A few days ago, I went to
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a live concert of a singer
from the United States.
Tori Kelly.
The one who sings
the movie Sing.
The elephant.
She's a powerful singer.
Yes, yes, yes. I went to the concert.
And it wasn't that
big place.
400 people capacity.
Okay.
Of course, many Japanese came.
But at the same time, many, many
foreign people came to the place.
She's famous in
the country and ticket
price was very low in Japan.
I see.
I'm assuming half of them
were foreign.
Like many of them were American.
I guess.
At the last part,
she gave
a speech and she said,
this is my dream come true.
I mean, this is Japan.
This has been my dream.
I remember when I was very
little, I dreamed
of singing and singing around.
And thank you so
much for making this little
girl's dream come true.
You know, there was a speech
and everybody was like,
aww.
Yeah, it makes sense that they would say that.
You know, it was
kind of rare. It doesn't
happen in Japanese
live house.
If we Japanese are,
you know, make most of the crowd.
But it was
pretty much like
quite an experience.
It was very abroad.
Yeah, reaction were
very abroad.
Aww.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was funny.
Makes sense that
they would say that.
Especially the part, you know,
if she says like the little
girl's dream, that makes it
all worthy.
Yeah.
Right. The fact that you're putting
little girl,
that's kind of like, adds to cute.
Like,
aww, appropriate
factor to it.
Yeah. Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Good. Alright, thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you. Bye.
