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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
I know.
Well, what was that?
What did you say?
I don't know, I think I said "yellow".
Yellow.
I meant to say "hello".
Yeah.
But I think I said "yellow" for some reason.
Maybe "yes"?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
"Yolo"?
I don't know. I don't know.
I wanted to say "hello", but it just came out weird.
That happens sometimes.
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Alrighty.
Evolution.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
That's important.
That is very important.
Yeah.
Great.
So today, we have a message from Tomoko-san today.
Tomoko-san.
Tomoko-san.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Tomoko-san.
And it's a cute one.
Okay.
Yeah.
"Konnichiwa."
"Konnichiwa."
"Watashi wa inaka no joshikosei desu."
Mm-hmm.
Do you know some instruments like pianos, violins?
Yes, I understand.
Of course, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Wait, wait, wait.
Ichijimenjo?
Yeah, you know those...
I don't know that system.
Yeah.
Have you ever, you know, tried...
An ACAN?
ACAN?
Yes, I have.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It's...
There's a menjo system.
Yeah.
If you do very well on the paper test.
Kind of.
Like, you know, you have ichijishiken, it's paper,
and nijishiken is, you know, speaking test.
Yeah.
So, like, first time you try, first you'll try,
you get high score, like enough score on the paper test,
ichijitesto, and then you get go to the nijishiken.
Then you failed on the nijishiken.
Then next time you can ichijimenjo and start from the nijishiken.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
So,
Kanojo wa san kai nijimenjo ga...
Oh, sorry.
Ichijimenjo ga atta no ni,
san kai tomo nijishiken de ochite shimatta to.
Okay.
Yeah.
Soshite, konkai wa yonkai me de,
kore ga ichijimenjo sareru saigo no shiken to narimashita.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, it's, you know, the limit.
Yeah.
Zannen nagara, jishin wa matta ku arimasen.
Sanmonme to yonmonme no shitsumon no imi ga matta ku wakarazu,
kichin to shaberu koto ga dekimasen deshita.
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Konkai mo mata ochiteiru koto deshou.
Soshite watashi wa chotto shitsumon shitai koto ga arimasu.
Sure.
Eigo kenten no yonmonme de,
"baiyorin shiin ga aru eiga wa yameru beki ka?"
mitai na kanji no koto wo kikaremashita.
Oh no!
Oh no!
Watashi wa, "Huh?
Nando sore?"
to nari tekitou ni "yes" to ga kotaete shimai mashita.
Nan no koto ga imada ni matta ku wakaranai no desu ka?
"baiyorin shiin ni niteiru eiga tango nado wa arimasu ka?"
netto ni shirabetemo nakanaka detekimasen.
Moshi yokattara oshiete kudasai.
Oh, oh no.
That's cute.
That's cute.
So cute.
Yeah.
So I think the Aiken was trying to say was,
"Movie with violent scenes?"
Yeah.
"Violent."
Like in Japanese it's like, "bouryokuteki."
Yeah.
"Violent scenes."
Right.
I think that's what they were trying to...
It's really similar.
That is similar.
"Violin scene."
Right.
"Violin."
"Violent."
Yeah.
"Violin."
"Violent."
Man.
The "violin" has a "lin" at the end, right?
"Lin."
"Lin."
Look.
"Violent."
"Violent."
Doesn't have...
Yeah.
"Violent."
"Scene."
Oh.
Oh no.
That's cute, huh?
I actually want to listen to how she answered that question of like,
"What do you think about movie with violent scenes?"
Yeah.
Very musical.
I think a lot of musical work has it.
Like, "Lala Land."
I like "Lala Land."
"Greatest Showman."
I love that.
Yeah.
So cute.
Oh.
Really cute.
Oh no.
Have you done Aiken?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaking of speaking, yes.
Do you do that in front of an actual person or in front of a computer?
It's just real person.
In front of the real, you know...
Like, "Mensetsukan"?
Yeah, "Mensetsukan."
Do you remember the question that you had to answer?
Or no?
It's really like, long time ago actually.
That was when I was junior high student.
So, I'm not...
You know, I don't remember like, everything correctly.
But I remember there were like some card...
Like, picture.
And they, you know, gave me the picture and...
And kind of had to, you know, explain about that picture.
What was, you know, going on on that scene.
The lady is like, you know, running.
The man is, you know, wearing coat, jacket.
You know, those things.
Yeah, I remember that one.
And yeah...
Was it difficult?
I thought that they had more like, controversial topics.
Just like the one she gave, like,
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"What do you think about movie?"
"What do you think about kids using too much smartphone?"
True.
So, I guess there's two types?
Yeah, like several questions.
Like, you know, as she mentioned, like four questions, I guess, in the total.
So, yeah.
But to me, it wasn't, you know, that difficult.
Because it's not something like, I had to answer "yes" or "no".
You can just say whatever.
If it's, you know, kind of make sense.
So...
You're talking about the card question.
Cards and those, you know, controversial things.
There's no right answer, you know.
So, if you can...
And also, they don't care about that, you know, inside, actually.
They're, you know, only seeing, you know, how you speak.
Oh, really?
The pronunciations, you know, the words.
They don't care about, you know, the real content, actually.
Do they care about, like, logic?
Yeah.
If what you're saying, like, is grammatically correct,
but there's a flaw to the logic.
Do you think they care about that?
They care about that logic, of course.
If it makes sense, it's okay.
But basically, that's, you know, pronunciation,
and if one is understandable enough, or, you know, those...
So, to me, I...
Yeah, I remember I said, he, the man, is wearing something.
The lady is walking on the street, everything in the same form, you know.
The dog is running.
That tree is something, you know.
Wait, did you pass?
I passed.
Oh, so then...
It's okay.
Oh.
It's not that, you know, difficult.
Wow.
If... You don't have to use complex phrase, difficult phrase.
If you are, you know...
If you're able to make yourself, you know, understandable enough, that's okay.
Wow.
I didn't know that.
I thought you had to use complex words and sentences.
I don't know.
As the man is walking down the street,
he seems to be irritated by the fact that the woman...
Yeah.
Oh, you get high score, I guess, if you use those and...
But all you need to do is pass, though, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a pass or a fail, so it's like...
Not really much of a...
They're all the same, right?
If you barely pass or if you just...
Well, yeah, of course.
It's all score.
It's gonna look the same, so...
That's so much better.
Yeah.
So much like less risky.
Yeah.
Because what happened...
What I would probably do is I would probably use words that are over my level
and be confused of like, "Okay, how am I supposed to end this sentence?"
Try to be, you know, difficult, make it difficult.
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Right, right.
Oh.
Well, that was actually a really good advice for me.
Oh, really?
I mean, I'm not planning to take the Aiken test, but...
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
It's like a really simple sentence.
Okay.
Yeah.
Maybe a good advice for people.
Oh, yeah.
Hope so.
Yeah.
That was a cute message.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, good luck with your, you know, other tests.
Yeah, of course.
You passed your Ichijishiken, so you're gonna be fine, but this is the Ichijishiken, right?
I love violin scene, actually.
You love violin scene?
Yeah.
Oh, me too.
What's your favorite violent movie?
What?
What's your favorite violent movie?
Violin.
Oh, did you say you love violin?
I said violin.
Sorry.
Oh, my God.
I thought you said violence.
No, I don't like violin scene.
I made the same exact mistake.
No, my pronunciation was not correct.
All right, why don't we end the podcast with sharing us with your favorite violin scene?
Violin scene?
Do you have any violin scene?
I like cello scene.
Oh, okay.
From the drama called Kuitan.
Uh-huh.
It's Japanese drama.
Oh, I see.
It's a cool cello scene.
You gotta see that.
Didn't, did not, never heard of it.
All right.
Yeah, I'm gonna explain about Kuitan in the next episode.
Oh, yeah, let's do that.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
