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So, we are back to the voice messages.
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We love these voice messages.
Yeah, it's really nice to hear those, you know, people--some people speak in Japanese, some people speak in English.
Right.
Some people try to speak, you know, just as me learning English and tries to, you know, make phrases.
Some people are really like fluent English speakers.
Right.
It's always fun to listen to the voices.
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What's the next?
Here it is.
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Hey, Kevin. Hey, Yamachan.
Hope you're having a nice time.
My name is Shuba and I am Japanese.
I am a fourth grader in an international school in Taiwan.
I speak Japanese, English, and Chinese.
I love listening to your podcast.
Every day when my mom drives me to school, I listen to your podcast.
I also like watching your TikTok videos, especially super high level Japanese lessons,
which boost my poor Japanese.
I love playing chess and reading books.
I've just finished reading the Harry Potter series, both British and U.S. versions.
Here is my question.
What books did you guys read when you were my age?
Cheers.
Wow.
Wow.
Energy.
Thank you.
This is so bright, like so energetic.
Yeah, it makes me happy.
He's got this power to like make people smile.
Yeah.
You know, it's very bright.
I love it.
Cool.
I love it.
I should have seen.
Shuma?
Shumaka?
Shumaka.
Yeah.
Wow.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay.
Yeah.
So books.
Books, yeah.
When we were his age, what books did we read?
What age did he say he was in?
Was it 4th grade?
No?
Is it 10?
No?
Hey Kevin.
Hey Yama-chan.
Hope you're having a nice time.
My name is Shuma and I am Japanese.
I am a 4th grader and an intern.
4th grader.
Right.
10.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think I read, I remember reading a book called Holes.
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Oh, I know that book.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We had to read it as an assignment.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's why you're here.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't read books.
Okay.
Right.
So I remember reading Holes.
You read it in Japanese or English?
English.
Yeah.
I remember reading, my assignment was to read Shakespeare.
Okay.
So Romeo and Juliet.
Okay.
The Hamlet.
Okay.
And another one, it wasn't Shakespeare but it was To Kill a Mockingbird.
Okay.
Isn't that a famous film?
To Kill a Mockingbird?
No.
No.
I don't remember that.
Okay.
That's...
Those books.
Yeah.
Those are about the only books I remember reading.
Okay.
Yeah.
So it's English assignment now.
Yeah.
It was an assignment.
It was a homework.
I was forced to read it.
Which I didn't actually read.
I just went online and searched for the summary and I pretended like I read it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Do you know Sparknotes?
Sparknotes?
Okay.
So Sparknotes was the perfect product for me.
Okay.
It was like a summarized version of every book out there that school makes you read.
So you go to Sparknotes and just type in Romeo and Juliet and it gives you the summary of
it like what you need to learn, what's going to be on the test.
The storylines.
Yeah.
Or like the English version.
Not like the difficult Shakespeare English, right?
Yeah.
Like easy version.
Yeah.
The easier version English.
Yeah.
You try.
Yeah.
I'm fine.
I don't...
I always go to Sparknotes and just...
Sparknotes.
I never read the actual book.
So...
Like to me that's not perfect.
I just want to read it.
Yeah.
Because you enjoy reading.
I just love reading.
All right.
Same as Shunmakun.
Okay.
So do you remember what you read?
I mean I read so many books but I remember I read Harry Potter series.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, you know, that was the moment that those books were like published in a timing.
Okay.
So I read whole series.
I remember that.
Uh-huh.
And also, I love reading Denki.
It's like the story about famous people like story about Thomas Edison, story about you
know Noguchi Deyo.
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Ah.
You know, the book about someone's life.
Autobiography?
Yeah.
Is that right?
Maybe, yeah.
Yeah.
What was that again?
Autobiography?
Autobiography, yeah.
Those things.
Okay.
Yeah, like stories about those famous guys.
Uh-huh.
Big guys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was really fun to me, interesting to me.
And also, I loved reading mysteries.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, I love reading mysteries like Agatha Christie's, like so many other Japanese, you
know, Akechi Kogoro things.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Mystery books.
Mystery books.
Especially, there are easy reading mystery books.
Okay.
Like, so this is a proposal to you.
Okay.
It's a Kaito Queen series.
Kaito Queen.
Yeah, from, I guess it was from Hayamine Kaoru-san.
Uh-huh.
So, I guess it's also good for Shoma-kun, Shuma-kun, sorry, Shuma-kun to, you know,
reading Japanese novels if you want to.
Okay.
It's also good for, you know, learning, I mean, keep your Japanese.
Okay.
So, it's the same.
Give me a sound if you want to read it.
It's kind of a story about Kaito Queen.
Uh-huh.
And it's mystery, but it's really a casual one.
It's not that, you know, deep, heavy mystery using difficult words.
Uh-huh.
You know, it's a light one.
Okay.
You know, tricks are fun and...
Okay.
And also, you know, like, password series.
It's also kind of light, light, light mystery.
Oh, okay.
I forget the author's name, but mystery, and then the password was, something, series.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
It's still out there.
Is it still a popular selection?
I guess it's still out there.
I'm not sure if it's still popular or not, but it's a good novels, like, not good mystery books.
Okay.
Yeah.
There are some, same age as Shumakun, like, guys are trying to solve the, you know, mysteries.
Oh.
And little mysteries, big mysteries.
Was that a thing in your community when you were somewhere around there?
No, it was just my...
Just your thing.
Me reading those books.
Okay.
Me and my little younger brother.
Uh-huh.
We loved those books.
Okay.
Yeah.
The closest mystery artwork that I've experienced was, like, Justin Bieber.
Oh.
Just mystery about love.
Justin Bieber.
Yeah.
Is that the closest one?
Or like Katy Perry or like Bruno Mars.
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Okay.
Always trying to solve the mysteries of that girl.
Yeah.
That's the closest I've gone.
Like Bruno Mars song, yeah?
Yeah.
Okay.
I met one girl, but she's gone in New York City somewhere.
Yeah.
That's a mystery.
Yeah, that's a mystery.
I met her at the subway.
Yeah.
Well, she's not there anymore.
Yeah.
I wonder where she is.
Yeah.
She had that leather something.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Somewhere in Brooklyn.
Yeah.
Justin Bieber's always trying to figure out what do you mean.
I don't know what do you mean.
Yeah, that's a mystery.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When you want to stay, but you want to go.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
Yeah.
That's the biggest mystery.
Like, "Shamandis, where were you in the morning?"
Yeah.
That's a mystery, man.
Where were you?
I thought you were here.
What happened?
You weren't here in the morning.
I don't see any clues of where you went.
You're just gone.
Yeah.
That mystery.
That's a huge mystery.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Thank you, Shumakun.
Thank you, Shumakun.
I loved your message.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Thanks for listening guys.
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