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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
So, every month we do this thing where we do what we're doing on Kevin's English Room Podcast Plus on this show.
So today, we are going to have Yamachan pick a message that he received on the Plus version.
And we're going to do it here.
This is from Soumen-san.
ケビン様、ヤマ様、こんにちは。僕は中学3年生です。最近洋楽を聞くことにハマっています。
でも自分で歌おうとすると曲の速さに発音が間に合わないことがよくあります。
例えば、エミネムさんのRenaissanceという曲は聞き取れはするのですが、いざ歌おうとすると速すぎてついていけません。
Well, it's a rap song, right? So it's supposed to be fast.
そこで、英語ネイティブの方が邦楽を聞くとき、日本語が早口だなと感じることはあるのか気になりました。
日本人が感じる英語の早口の基準と、英語ネイティブの方が感じる早口の基準に違いはありますか?
また、日本語と英語だとそれぞれどうでしょうか?
なるほどね。
いつも楽しい配信をありがとうございます。ケビン様とヤマ様のおかげでリスニング力が爆上がりしました。
この調子で2月の入試も頑張ります。これからもお体に気をつけてください。応援しています。
Okay, great question. Well, in terms of songs, I've never not understood Japanese, so I've never thought a Japanese song was hard.
But, I mean, I'm assuming for non-native Japanese speakers, it must be...
Everything is probably fast, right?
As with any language, for anybody, if it's a non-native language, it's gotta be difficult.
Well, even to me, when I listen to some pop songs, sometimes I can't catch what they're speaking, I mean what they're singing.
Which language are you talking about?
In Japanese.
And I have to read the lyrics, and then, oh, that's what they were singing about.
That happens to me. Obviously, of course, in Japanese, many times, of course.
But even in Japanese, it happens to me many times.
And you're Japanese.
I am Japanese. I am.
Yeah, and I love music, and I make music, I write music. I relatively love...
You're in that realm.
Yeah, reading and those things.
Still.
And still.
I mean, I don't know if this is related to speed, but for example, there's a lot of rap songs or hip-hop songs that Americans can't understand what they're saying.
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They joke about it sometimes.
For example, like, um, Panda.
Okay.
You know, Panda?
No.
Is that new?
It's not new.
Crew?
It's not new.
But it's, um, I don't know who.
The song name?
Yeah, by Designer.
This was joked on the internet for not being able to understand what this artist is saying.
Too bashful.
Too mumbling.
Ah, okay.
Woo!
This was eight years ago. I didn't know that.
But yeah.
I just could catch Panda.
Yeah, right?
That's all. That's everything I could hear.
Yeah, and neither does anybody else on the world.
Okay.
But yeah, songs, yeah.
Yeah, songs are a little, you know, kind of different world.
It has its own beauty.
Yeah, right.
It's different from the daily conversations.
In terms of spoken language,
I know one person, definitely an English speaker, that speaks fast.
Okay.
Hayakutsu no hito.
Hayakutsu no hito.
Okay.
Even to you, he's Hayakutsu no hito.
Yeah, and to everybody.
To everybody, okay.
Ben Sharpeo, I think.
Okay.
Ben Sharpeo or Sharpeero.
Yeah, I don't know.
But yeah.
Good try.
You have to bifurcate it.
Did she deserve?
Hold on.
In this country right now, 300,000 minors, you have no idea where they are.
Oh, that is nonsense.
That is not nonsense.
No, it is.
They are not lost.
They're released to their spawn.
I want him talking the whole time.
Is he a journalist or something?
No idea what his identity is.
But he talks a lot about social controversies.
Okay.
Politics.
Yeah, politics.
Social problems and stuff like that.
Yeah.
And he's very smart.
It's like Hiroyuki, American version.
Okay.
Yeah.
They have more guts than the liberals.
Liberals don't go on conservative shows.
They don't even come on this show sometimes.
So I appreciate it because you know the crowd is not with you.
I got that impression.
This is him.
But yeah.
And let's be civil, right?
That's the tone of the day.
I'm a fan.
Okay.
So I'm a fan.
Well, let's say you're in our government and you wrote Ridiculous.
I'm with you.
They're children.
They don't get a voice.
A voice.
About the perfect tweet.
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Who's are leading in my imagination where the country ought to go.
I mean, I don't look to Donald Trump as a thought leader.
I wouldn't look to a child as a thought leader.
I don't look to Donald Trump as a thought leader.
He's the president.
So what?
What are you talking about?
He's the president of the United States.
He's not the thought leader?
Nope.
Can he have some thoughts?
I don't know, can he?
You tell me.
I don't know.
Well, it seems like his only thoughts to me are to work with Vladimir Putin to make Russia
great again.
And what I don't understand.
He's been a lot harsher on Putin than Obama was, by the way.
He's been a lot harsher on Putin?
Not in terms of his rhetoric, in terms of his actions.
He's armed the people of Ukraine with deadly weaponry, which Obama would not do.
200 Russian soldiers were killed in Syria by US forces under Donald Trump, not under
Barack Obama.
It was Barack Obama who was saying to Dmitry Medvedev that he wanted to provide him with
flexibility in 2012.
Crimea was annexed under Barack Obama.
Wow.
That was pretty fast, right?
Pretty fast.
Yes.
Pretty fast.
He talks fast.
He talks really fast, but at the same time, clear, crisp.
It's really easy to catch.
It's great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
But he...
Okay, this is the Hayakuchi.
This is Hayakuchi, definitely.
For you.
Definitely Hayakuchi.
For everybody.
Yeah.
Okay, okay, okay.
What about the other guy on this video?
The other guy's normal.
The other guy's normal.
He's normal.
Yeah.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Not slow.
Definitely not slow.
But yeah, he's okay.
He's okay.
He's like...
Yeah, just normal speed, I think.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
What about you, yourself?
I guess I'm a little bit slower.
A little bit slower.
Yeah.
Than the average, or...
Yeah, within the average.
You are in the average.
I feel like I'm in the lower section of the average.
Okay.
Yeah.
Like this speed.
Yeah, this speed.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
I see.
Like the speed that I'm talking right now.
This speed is...
It's not too fast, right?
You can hear it.
I feel like the average is a little bit faster.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's just still slightly, though.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Because sometimes we got a message that when Kevin-san speaks in English, he speaks kind
of fast.
Like faster than when he speaks in Japanese.
Okay.
So for most of the Japanese, I feel like you're speaking fast.
Okay.
I see.
Well, yeah.
Actually...
Sometimes when I'm excited, right?
I talk fast.
That's fast.
True.
I think.
But I feel like average.
My average speed is, I guess, a little bit lower than average.
Huh.
I'm assuming.
Okay.
That's how I'm interpreting it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
So.
Yeah, I see.
There you go.
All right.
Yeah, go ahead.
No, I mean, do you...
So for example, Hayakuchi isn't good...
I mean, isn't directly a good thing, right?
Yeah.
For communication, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like in terms of communication.
Yeah.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
When we went to Florida, Disney, the driver's guy.
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Yeah.
Two guys.
They talk...
They spoke really slow.
Yeah.
With the vibe like that.
Yeah.
And like, that sounded so cool to me.
Okay.
The vibe was really nice.
Yeah.
So, Hayakuchi isn't the only goal, you know?
Gotcha.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
