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Okay...
Is that right?
I think, Yonji, you have a tendency of moving away from me.
Yeah, I actually don't like cameras.
Oh, okay.
No, I like you, but...
Um...
I thought you were a YouTuber?
No, I'm really bad at being in front of the cameras.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
You just naturally tend to shy away from it.
Yeah.
Naturally ignoring the cameras.
Because I feel like every day, like what's happening is,
it's like I'm moving, adjusting like this way every time.
You're turning to the right.
And I'm moving this way as well.
Yeah.
I know why, but...
Okay.
Okay.
Um...
So...
Mm-hmm.
This is from Haru-san today.
Haru-san?
Yes.
Thank you, Haru-san.
Hello, Yama-chan, Kevin-san.
Hello.
Thank you for reading my DM the other day.
I was so happy that I could really reach out to you guys.
Mm-hmm.
I DMed you today because I wanted you to read my name again.
(laughs)
Haru-san.
(laughs)
I'm sure you noticed, but I live in Osaka, so I speak Kansai dialect.
I think there are also English and French names, but do you think they're cute?
I thought it was a question because I heard that dialects are cute in Japan.
Do you have a favorite dialect in Japanese? I'd be very happy if you could tell me.
I'm rooting for you, Haru.
Mm-hmm.
Thank you, Haru-san.
Thank you, Haru-san.
Hmm.
You know, accents.
Mm-hmm.
The thing about accents is that...
You know how Japanese, it's like Kansai dialect, it's cute, but like...
First of all, "cute" isn't a thing in the U.S.
Okay.
It doesn't exist.
Kind of like...
It doesn't exist.
Yeah, the "kawaii" concept, it doesn't exist.
True.
So...
You say "kawaii" in English.
Right, it's a word now in the U.S. in English.
So...
For example, some people may find it sexy.
Okay.
Right?
For example, like a Hispanic accent.
Yeah, like Spanish.
Yeah.
Or like...
Like a British accent sounds satisfying to some people.
Okay.
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But I've never...
I don't think...
I've never heard of anyone feeling that cuteness in an accent.
It's either like sexiness, sophisticatedness, satisfying,
somewhere along the lines of those descriptions, I think, is what I noticed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Hmm.
How about in France?
Is there like accents that like...
Defines that person's like image or like...
Reputation or like...
First impression.
Yeah, that exists in France.
Well, first of all, French is spoken in several countries, not only France.
Like France, Belgium, or like some countries in Africa.
Yeah.
Or like, you know, Quebec in Canada.
So it's all different French, like, you know, English spoken in British.
Right.
Or like some kind of...
Some Asian countries, the United States, it's all different, you know.
Absolutely.
So it's the same thing to the English.
Okay.
So we can kind of see, oh, he's got, you know, accent.
Maybe he's from Quebec, maybe, you know, those things.
But I talk about in like domestic, you know, dialogues, accents.
Like southern part of French, southern French is more like relaxing and kind of singing,
like this kind of...
Really?
Atmosphere, actually.
It's got more of a melody-ish characteristic.
Yeah, kind of.
Because it's near to like Italy.
It's like, you know, more like wavy.
It's like more like...
Up and down.
Yeah, like da da da da da kind of accent.
Wow.
But north side, it's more like strict, I guess.
It's like more kind of precise.
It's more like, you know, da da da da da.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we can see those, you know, differences.
So is there like a...
You know how in Japan, like if a guy speaks Osaka ban or like if a girl speaks Japanese,
if a girl speaks like what, Fukuoka ban or something like that, you think it's...
You're attracted to that person, right?
Does that happen?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
That happens.
Some people find a certain accent sexy.
Yeah, sexy.
Or like in France, you know, there's a word, mignon, that's same to...
I mean, really close to kawaii, actually.
So the concept of kawaii actually exists.
Really?
Yeah, it's mignon.
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That means it's...
Are you serious?
Yeah, cute, but, you know, kind of kawaii, you know, culture, you know, concept is exist.
Is it like...
Are you talking...
Is mignon like k-a-w-a-i-i kawaii?
Like, carry pami pami kawaii?
Yeah.
Actually, in France, kawaii is also exist.
So it's not the same concept, but it's very like close.
It's like when you hear someone with accent, it's like countryside accent, and then people
would say, "Oh, your accent is mignon."
It's...
Yeah, well, it's same, a lot of close to cute, like 80% cute, but 20% kawaii, I guess.
Wow.
Is kawaii...
You know how in Japan, is it...
Yeah, but it's different from, you know, those carry pami pami kawaii culture.
Yeah.
But...
When you say, like, in Japan, kawaii hitoka kirei na hitoka, you know how that's like a
question that's being thrown around, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is that...
Can you say that in France, that's the genre of itself, the mignon is a genre of like something
you can ask men of like, would you rather... like, do you prefer sexy or like mignon?
Is that like askable?
No, you don't ask that question.
No.
Okay, got it.
You don't...
That doesn't exist.
No.
Got it.
But when you describe, like for example, when I meet your girlfriend, and oh, she's really
mignon.
It makes sense.
That makes sense.
Wow.
So is it like...
Lovely?
Yeah.
Lovely, yeah.
But more like cute.
I mean, like, you know, like when you see really like small kids, like boys, small guys.
Yeah.
Oh, they're mignon.
When you see a puppy, it's mignon.
Yeah.
Like a little cookie, mignon.
Mignon.
Like little...
How about this?
How about this?
If an oldie son is eating an ice cream, is that mignon?
That mignon.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's kawaii in Japanese as well.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's not completely the same, you know.
It's not...
When you...kawaii culture, it's a little different, you know, pop.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
But...
Yeah.
I understand that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Okay.
Mignon.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Okay, wait, hold on.
Yeah.
Okay.
Today's the 14th.
We're recording on the 14th right now.
Yeah, March.
But you guys are hearing this on the 15th.
Okay.
And 15th is the day that the Amazon Studio is going to be like public.
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Oh, okay.
Right?
Which means we can publish the video version of the podcast.
Oh.
Right.
So right now, if you're listening to this right now, today's the 15th.
Yeah.
If you go to YouTube and type in Kevin's English Stream Podcast on YouTube, you'll probably
find a channel.
Wow.
With all the video versions of the episodes.
And what we're planning to do is we're not going to upload the same episode as what's
on the podcast.
Okay, not the same day.
Right.
Okay.
We're going to post the video version one week before.
Okay.
That was confusing, wasn't it?
That was very confusing.
So if today's the 15th, the latest one, the latest version of the video you're going to
be seeing is seven days before that.
Okay.
So what's that?
Like 8th?
Eighth?
Eighth would be the latest version on YouTube.
Okay.
So the newest one is always going to be on the audio version.
Okay.
The video is going to be one week late.
Cool.
That's how it's going to go.
Okay.
So you can hear the audio file on the podcast in one year.
No, no, no.
One week later.
You can see the video again.
Exactly.
Okay.
That's good.
I like that explanation.
And right, since we started from the third, since we started recording video from the
third, so I'm going to publish third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth version of
the podcast at once.
Okay.
At the same time.
Yeah.
So you're going to have all that episode, video version available on YouTube.
So go check it out.
Cool.
All right.
Cool.
Thanks guys.
