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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Welcome. Welcome to this. Welcome to this one of the greatest podcast program in this whole wide world.
Oh my god. Welcome. I'm embarrassed.
I feel sorry for Spotify.
That I'm going to have to read their ad right after what you just said.
I feel bad for them. But I'm going to do it.
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And you were trying to, you know, disturb me while I was on the roll here.
I was about to say you are really, you're doing really good.
Yeah, right in the middle of me saying it, man.
That was nice.
Okay.
That was the most...
By far, the most smoothest pre-roll.
That was.
Thank you.
Alright.
Got a message from Yoko Yoko-san today.
Yoko Yoko-san.
Yoko Yoko-san.
Thank you.
Kevin-san, Yamachan-san, Kake-chan-san, Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
Was that like five members?
Was there five people there?
No.
Like us?
Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
Can we do that again?
Yeah, let's do that again.
Kevin-san, Yamachan-san, Kake-chan-san, Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
That's five.
That's five.
You did three.
Yeah, I did.
You did three.
Wow.
Wow.
[Speaking Japanese]
Oh.
[Speaking Japanese]
Thank you.
Thank you.
What in the world is a breakthrough, Gensho?
Well, I guess you suddenly get better.
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Oh.
You know, from one point, you suddenly start understanding everything, like almost everything,
and you know, you can be able to speak about anything from one point.
Got it.
You start clicking it.
Yeah.
You start owning the language.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
I guess so.
I mean, my parents were both Japanese.
They spoke Japanese, so like I've never had a breakthrough point.
Okay.
Well, I do understand this because when I was in France, you know, at the beginning,
I couldn't understand at all, like at all, really like at all.
I guess there's some breakthrough points, like from, it was like six months in the middle,
I had one breakthrough point.
Start understanding what they are speaking about, but not, you know, I wasn't able to
speak by myself, but I started understanding from six months, and it was about nine months,
I started to, you know, being able to speak French.
That was two breakthrough points.
So, nine months was when you were really using French to communicate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Understanding, speak it in both ways.
Nine months.
That's pretty early, but you had your buildup, right?
When you were listening to all those like Hippo recordings, stuff like that.
Yeah.
So, before I went to France, I had been listening to many French, you know, stories.
Conversations.
Conversations.
Yeah.
I've got already, you know, some waves, French waves inside you.
So, that's why I, you know, it was like six months or nine months.
It's kind of short, huh?
But that's thanks to those, you know, listening.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Breakthrough.
Yeah, I do understand this.
Wait, did she say she had a breakthrough already?
No.
Not yet?
She's hoping.
She's still studying.
Yeah.
So, you just suddenly know.
You just suddenly, oh, you understand what they're saying.
Yeah.
And then it happens.
Yeah.
Wow.
What an experience.
Have you never experienced this before?
No.
Like.
No.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's, maybe that's the difference between me and you.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah.
Because I, when I learn something new, like English.
Yeah.
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Like, you know, it's not something like big, huge breakthrough, but I still having breakthrough
point.
Uh-huh.
Like every few months.
Yeah.
You don't feel so by yourself, inside yourself?
I don't know.
Well, I do feel like my English is getting better or worse.
I do feel like my Japanese is getting better.
Yeah.
Um, uh, but like, I don't see it as like a, it's more of a gradual thing.
Okay.
Not like a sudden jump.
It's more gradual, I feel like.
Okay.
So, I don't, I can't, I don't understand that breakthrough.
You don't feel any like point, certain point?
I don't, I don't know.
I don't think so.
Well, there are occasions where like, like you look back at a document that you used
to didn't understand, but now with more knowledge, oh, this makes a lot more sense.
Yes.
And you feel like you're understanding the language.
Uh-huh.
Like you feel like you're making that jump, but like, like I kind of feel like that's
more, it was a gradual thing.
Okay.
You didn't know back then, but you gained knowledge over time, so you know now.
It wasn't like a immediately that day you just suddenly acquired that knowledge.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe that because I had zero, you know, words or, you know, language that happens to me
maybe.
I feel like one day, Oh, I understand today.
Uh-huh.
That happens sometimes even in, you know, English, like, Oh, I kind of, today I feel
like I can, I can speak English.
Oh, way better than yesterday.
Wow.
Sometimes it happened to me.
There was one point where like I wasn't able to understand like the CNN news.
Mm-hmm.
Like they talk fast and you know when end of a sentence you when you go on to the next
one, there's usually like a pause, but like news, newscasters, they don't, they just continuously
say, yeah, that was a little bit difficult for me.
But one point in my life, I started understanding what they're saying.
Maybe that's how that's a similar thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe that's a similar thing.
Right.
Yeah, but I didn't know this.
三千時間.
That's what the study shows.
三千時間.
How much is that?
三千時間.
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三千時間 means.
Are you dividing it by 24?
Yeah.
That means 125日.
Okay.
Four months.
Yeah.
Of course, you know, you can spend whole 24 hours.
So yeah, like how about like what like 12?
You can divide by 12.
About eight months.
Yeah.
Oh.
That's I guess.
Well, you know, that's reasonable to me because I when I was in France six months was one first
breakthrough and nine months was the second one.
So I think so.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's not that that that long.
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, I hope you have your breakthrough then.
Some point you start understanding all my language.
Yeah.
Yeah, saying fucking everything.
Yeah.
Yoko Yoko will be like some one day she will understand everything what we are talking about.
Yeah.
And disappointed.
This is pathetic as fuck.
What the fuck was I wasting my time?
What?
They were talking about how fat Kevin's stomach is.
What?
Okay.
That happens to you.
Yeah.
We're not going to take any responsibility for that if that happens.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
Bye.
