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welcome to Kevin's English room podcast
hello so I've got a line message from Go-chan
a line message yes this is from United Kingdom
from UK yeah okay we've got a UK listener yeah nice
wait yeah right it's been a while since you've opened up your line and you know
yeah accepted messages right so
Konnichiwa!
that's what he said right?
I'd like to send a request for a podcast
I received a request for a YouTube live a month ago
from UK who is studying in the UK
he started studying in the UK and it's been a month
so his name is UK?
um yeah
okay his name is UK
okay got it sorry I don't know go ahead
he started studying in the UK and it's been a month
and he's getting used to the school
he was on the radio about 3 weeks ago
and he thought he'd speak a little English
so he found a radio on Spotify
and he's been using it for a long time
he's been using it while he's sleeping
so his laughter is heard in his room
that's too loud
the reason I sent you a request was because I had a question for Kevin
it might be a rude question but please answer it on the radio
okay
Kevin came to Japan in high school and is bilingual in Japanese and English
I wondered how good his English was
okay
in Japan, compared to middle school, high school and high school, the way of speaking and vocabulary is completely different
what would you say if you were in the UK?
would there be no change in vocabulary between adults and children?
how good is Kevin's vocabulary?
if you can't answer that, I'd like you to take it as a question
that's a difficult question right there
um
so
I would say
that there are differences in the way that
they speak English
between those junior high people and middle school adults
right now we call them the Gen Zs
the Gen Zs, they talk in a very Gen Z way
they've got this own kind of
dialect
she's ghost
not only those slangs and vocabularies but
the way they speak is a little bit like
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it's very difficult to explain
kind of similar to Japanese
exactly
there are differences
I would say
um
I feel like I'm
"nenlesou"
your vocabulary?
right, vocabulary is how I talk
um
okay, honestly I'm not sure
I'm not too sure about this
I mean I have been in the business field
for like the first year of my shakaijin
it was an American company
so I spoke English
I used English to communicate with my boss's boss
and it was okay
I didn't feel any "iwakan" in my English there
um
but at the same time I feel like my English
switches into a business mode
it changes
right now I'm not in the business mode
I'm in the podcast with Yana-chan
that I feel like becomes a little bit younger
I feel like that would be a little bit more
it's more "nenlesou" for me
when I'm talking to you
it's more natural that way
so
the situation I'm in
would change my English
okay
does this answer the question?
yes, yes
that's completely like we can understand
because that's kind of similar to
people like us speaking Japanese to our friends
it's a little different from when we speak in the company
so we can imagine that
right, right
so does that mean you change
the words you use
or like you change phrases
or you change what
what do you change?
I wouldn't use that much of a slang word
I wouldn't use
I wouldn't use like
I don't know
that's something I probably wouldn't say in a business context
I don't know
that phrase, I don't know
that's a little bit sloppy
I wouldn't say that
I wouldn't really do much of a reduction
I would clearly state the word
it would be a little more careful
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I feel like
but I would say that I am relatively
you know, ten-e with my English
even when I'm not in the business mode
like compared to other people
so right, that's my take on this
okay
that's a nice question
and that's a nice answer
so think about the
vocabularies
do you think there's a difference
there's differences between
child and adult
well, yeah, I think
vocabularies
yeah, like words
how many words does
he or she know
the number of
like, variety of words
so
are you talking about me personally
or in general, you ask
both?
so the first question is
is there a difference between
vocabulary numbers
between kids and adults
and the second question is
do you think your vocabulary
is like
amount is big or small
I would say
so the first question
when you're in the US
you come across a word that you don't know
all the time
like, even adults do
adults read a book, they come across words that they don't know
the meaning of it, they look it up
so the more you live, the more
older guys, older people know more vocabularies
than little ones
that's natural
and for me, I have no idea
because I don't have anyone to really compare that much to
I
I feel like I don't have as much
exposure to English conversations as much as
the other 26 year olds that are living in the US
so I would make a guess
that my vocabulary levels are a little bit lower
than the ones that are living in the US
that's been there for 26 years
so that's my take on it
but for a guy who's living in Japan, I would say I'm
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a fairly high level of variety of the vocabularies
English vocabularies
and I also know a lot of the business English
a factor that maybe to consider
the amount of vocabulary is
equal to the amount you
meet with new ones
so that will be completely
depending on the
amount of time
you expose yourself to English
or like for me, the amount of reading
but you don't read
but I watch a lot of English content
so I get exposed to that
so
that's a wild guess though
I'm not that sure
thanks for listening guys
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