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Okay, so today I've got a message from...
Mari-san!
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Okay.
I don't know, but it just felt a little bit depressing there.
The music.
"Wah wah wah" kind of sounded.
[Speaking Japanese]
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[Speaking Japanese]
Uh oh!
A grammatical question here?
That's your topic, huh?
I hate grammatical questions!
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[Speaking Japanese]
[Speaking Japanese]
Thank you!
All right!
So can you start explanation from "What is 'kankei daimeshi'?"
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Please?
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
I would love to!
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You want to hear the explanation on "kankei daimeshi?"
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So, um...
I suck at grammar!
Just please know that I suck at grammar!
And I feel like I've been rewording the ad several times
because I was so not confident with the grammar.
That wasn't...
That section right there that she mentioned wasn't really...
I wasn't very like...
I was a little bit confident with that one, but more like the...
It's an app where...
What was the word?
It's an app...
It's a...
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I think I've been rewording that several times throughout the past episodes
because I was so not confident with the grammar.
Okay.
But, um...
But, you know, the part where she said...
The part where she said "kankei daimishi"
Yeah.
The "where"
Yes.
Like, I'm...
I'm...
As like a virtual space.
That's why I used "where".
Yeah.
So, I think you can use it for Line too.
Like, Line is an app where you can text people for free.
Line is a virtual space, right?
So, when it's space, you use "where", right?
Yeah.
So, that's why I think it makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So...
Sure.
Yeah.
I don't know if you remember, but I asked you the same question like half a year ago.
Do you remember?
I don't.
Okay.
Because we in Japan, we of course study those things like "kankei daimishi" thing.
Yeah.
But, mainly we learn "where", "that", "who"...
"which".
"Which".
Yeah.
Those four, mainly.
And "where" is...
We learn for the place.
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Okay.
When we use "where" for...
When you want to explain some places.
Okay.
Like, Tokyo is the city where I am living in.
Or like, New York is the place where Kevin...
Visited.
Yeah, visited.
Yeah.
That thing is like the place where...
But, you are using this "kankei daimishi" "where" like way too much.
Then we imagine...
Oh, okay.
You're using for not only the places but like when you want to explain some conditions.
Like, when you want to explain some feature.
Like, I remember...
Yeah, I remember re-explaining that.
Yeah.
You said this is the...
I guess that was a pen or like eraser machine.
Yeah.
Where you can write and erase at the same time.
All those kind of phrases.
So you're using "where" "kankei daimishi where" to the like usual known like eraser or pencil.
Yeah.
Which is quite unfamiliar to me.
Like most of Japanese people.
So, yeah, that's what I guess that was she's also feeling.
So you're using "where" like for not only the places but for the usual things too.
Right, right, right, right, right.
So what's the difference between when you use "where" and when you use like "which" or like that?
That.
Do you have any like clear differences?
Different, you know, brain.
So I feel like I'm just overusing "where".
Okay.
Because when you think about it, right, I think that or "which" is more suitable in that situation.
Right?
It's an app is just...
It's an app.
So it's a thing, right?
So like technically that is more suitable.
Okay.
Grammatically, I would say maybe.
This is coming from a shitty grammar person.
So just know that.
Okay.
But actually I after we had a conversation that and I went to like some websites and some books
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and says that "where" you can use for like those condition things like those usual known
not only for the places you can also use for those things.
So you are grammatically like also correct.
Oh really?
That's cool.
Yeah.
Happy to hear that.
Yeah.
Yes, it's where so convenient.
Well, so the reason why I use "where" instead of that in that situation is probably just
I just interpreted line or I interpreted the app as a space.
I think that's the reason.
Like it's a service where you do stuff within the ecosystem, right?
So like it just feels like a virtual space.
Okay.
I think that's why I said "which"
"where"
Yeah.
So that's a little same too when you say like this "teikoku hotel" is the place where blah blah blah.
That's the same.
Okay, so because after that "kankei daimeshi" it was a "do"
Okay.
Right?
Where it's an app where you can do.
Okay, I probably didn't explain that properly.
It's an action.
It's an action.
Where you can just distribute where you can create.
It's an action, right?
Okay.
So when it's action, it just feels more
it just felt more natural to interpret it as a place.
Okay.
Because you're doing something.
Okay.
It's a place.
Okay.
Right?
True.
Even it's a virtual place.
That's really important.
That's the key.
Yeah, so like it just felt like "where" would be more proper just before the an action would come.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there you go.
Okay.
Okay.
So if you interpret like for example like the "erate" or like talk about the app.
Okay.
This is the line.
Line is an application that you can that you can use when you want to have a communication
with somebody else.
Wait.
Like if you interpret like line or application or whatever is a like tool to do something
with this application then you can maybe use that or it's more like smoother.
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That's a great add-on.
Yeah.
But if you interpret this as a like certain like place to do the thing in or at.
That's a great add-on.
Then you the "where" would come from naturally.
Right, right.
A line is an app where you can send money, where you can send stamps and gift people.
Right?
That's an action interpreted within the ecosystem.
Within the line ecosystem in the virtual space.
That's a great add-on.
Yeah, that's one thing that we don't actually learn that much.
Well actually the textbook says that actually like one line like really tiny you know.
Really?
It says so.
Yeah.
But we don't like learn those.
Right.
Well thank you.
That's a really good question by the way from Marisan.
Just a you know we're really sometimes not accurate with the grammar.
Yeah.
I just want to say that.
Yeah.
Like don't think that the way we speak is 100% grammatically correct.
We always have to be careful on that one right?
Of course.
Now we're like on the ranking of the podcast doing like English.
We're actually in the language learning category.
No no this is a fun category.
We should be in the fan like entertainment category.
Yeah we should be in the entertainment category.
True.
But you know just because we have a lot of you know eyeballs here.
Just make sure that this is not grammatically correct.
We're not always speaking the right you know in a grammatical manner.
So just wanted to say that.
So be careful okay guys?
I'm sorry about that.
Yeah but we're doing our best.
I am still learning English.
We're still learning.
We're not perfect so just.
So sorry about that.
All right that's bulletin.
Yeah that's a bulletin.
Thanks for listening guys.
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