00:00
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello.
Hey guys!
Hi!
You're using your mic stand now.
Yeah.
Is that better?
You like that better?
Yeah, I don't need to, you know, hold this microphone always.
Oh, okay.
So that's better.
Alright.
Well, you do you, man.
You do you.
Of course.
But, you know, I know that's convenient.
You can move.
Yeah.
You can do everyone.
My back.
Yeah, actually, yeah.
The back, right?
Actually, yeah.
That's true.
Well, like this would be the better.
Right, right, right.
But...
So, today I've got a message from...
from...
There's no name on it.
But I guess Yuriko-san.
Yuriko-san?
Yes.
Alright.
Thank you.
Thank you, Yuriko-san.
Hello.
I'm always having fun.
Thank you.
I'm a mother of one child.
Mm-hmm.
Do you know this expression?
Yeah, "ji"?
Yeah.
Yeah.
One years old, right?
Wait, oh, no.
Oh.
Oh.
So, one child.
Yes.
Oh, I thought it was like one years old.
No "ha ha."
Oh, man.
So, when they say like "sanji no ha ha,"
I've always been like, "Oh, you have a child that's three years old.
That's great."
Oh, damn it.
Yeah, that's three kids.
That's three, okay.
Yeah.
One kid.
Alright.
So, one...
She's got one child.
Yes.
Alright.
Okay.
So,
Yeah.
Really?
Okay.
Okay.
Alright.
Alright.
So, you're right.
I...
Was that it?
Is that all the message?
What?
Is that...
Is the message over?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, got it.
03:00
Yeah, I did start an Akaiba lesson,
but it ended.
Not ended, but it's just I haven't been able to add new classes.
It's full.
It's not full.
It's not full?
Yeah, it's...
I'm not making it available.
Ah, okay, okay.
Yeah.
So, I guess the site is still up there,
but just doesn't have the classes added.
Okay.
Right.
It's a personal thing.
Yeah, it's a personal kind of business thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's the balance of like time
and how much that I have to do on the side.
Yeah.
That started to lose its balance
and it was a better decision in my life
to not work on that anymore.
And, right, so that was the thing.
Yeah, okay.
So, maybe the site, you can find site on the internet,
but it's not available now.
Right, it's not available right now.
But it shouldn't be closed.
I think it's still up there.
So, I don't know why it's being accessed to California,
like Hywell or whatever.
I am still like leaving it
so that I can add classes anytime
and still get back to whatever I was doing, right?
Yeah, if you feel.
Yeah, so...
But it's not...
The classes aren't up there.
So, it's true that you can't take any lessons right now.
Okay, okay.
Well, I don't understand the balance.
It's really important.
Yeah.
You know, everything.
It's a personal matter.
Yeah, of course.
Because you're kind of getting busier than ever.
Right, right.
We're challenging more and more things.
Yeah.
Right.
I do understand that.
Yeah.
Right, the balance, right, and everything.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
All right.
Well, thank you for asking.
Thank you for asking.
Sure.
Yes.
Appreciate it.
So, the next question.
This is from Aimee-san.
Aimee?
Aimee-san.
Okay.
Aimee.
Aimee.
Aimee-san.
Sure.
C'est un français.
Okay.
That was French.
I caught that.
I caught that.
That was French.
What did you say?
If it was in French.
Okay, all right.
Because, you know, it looks a little bit...
But you're true?
A little Frenchy?
Yeah, but...
So.
All right.
Kevin-san, Yamachan, hajimemashite.
Hajimemashite.
Konomae okurebase nagara osankata no hon wo kounyu shi yondeiru saichuu dekosaimasu.
Watashi wa koukou, Rhode Island, USA.
Rhode Island?
Yeah.
State, right?
State?
Is that a state?
That's a state.
Rhode Island state?
Rhode Island's a state.
06:00
I'm sure...
I've never heard...
Yeah, Rhode Island's a state.
Yeah, R-H-O-D-E Island.
The U.S. state.
Wow, I'm so sorry, but I've never heard of this state.
Really?
Yeah.
Rhode Island, is that the state name?
Yeah.
Oh.
Next to Connecticut.
Next to Connecticut.
Providence is the capital.
Yeah.
Wow.
Okay.
So.
Koukou, Rhode Island, USA.
Daigaku, Oakland, New Zealand.
to ryūgaku keiken ga aru no nesuga.
Hon no naka ni detekuru ironna imawashi ya tango no fukai imi ni naruhodo to
hitabisa no hakken ni mainichi wakuwaku shiteimasu.
saikin wa kono podcast mo kuruma de kītari shiteiru no desu ga
saisho wa makaranakutemo mainichi kīteitaran zenzen chigauyo
to kono haru chūgakusei ni naru musume ni osusume oshi
musume mo satsuku jibun no sumaho de kīte tanoshindeiru you desu.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Soko de o futari ni shitsumon nano desu ga
eigo o benkyōshi hajime no toki ni
donna koto o ishiki shitara
ritsuunin no chikara ga agaru to omoemasu ka?
o futari sorezore no shiten kara
o hanashi o zekī kīte mitai desu.
watashi no janru wa watashi no baai wa
tsukinami desu ga
sukina janru no hanashi kara
haeru no ga ii no ka na to omoeteimasu.
I feel like it's a question for you, Yamachan.
Oh, to me?
Yeah.
I think you're way more experienced at learning how to--
New language.
Yeah, than I am.
OK.
eigo o benkyōshi hajime no toki.
OK.
One thing that I think better to keep in mind
is you don't worry about--
you don't worry if you don't understand that.
Yeah.
You will be OK.
Yeah.
Especially at the beginning, it's really hard
to catch everything, everything, and understand in detail.
It's really hard.
But it's OK.
Just listen to those videos.
And one day, you will get things.
So just don't worry about if you don't understand that,
if you didn't catch a single word.
It doesn't matter.
You just have to--
all you need is just listen carefully
and imagine what they are talking about.
And yeah, that's all.
If they laugh, oh, something funny happened.
If they shout, oh, maybe they are angry, maybe.
Those imagination and understanding, what is going on
is the first step.
09:01
I always felt this, but I feel like your method
is so stress-free.
Stress-free.
It's so like go with the flow.
And it's so like don't stress over things too much.
True, true.
And I really like that.
I really do.
It really puts a pressure off my Korean language journey,
Korean learning journey.
Are you still learning Korean language?
Man, I am on it.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
You know what I'm doing?
What?
So you know how I said that I like to--
I'm recently watching NBC Live today, the United States news
show, news, whatever.
One time, Google heard me wrong, and they did M--
M, not N, M--
MBC.
And it was a Korean thing.
It was a Korean show.
And I found out that it was like a Korean version of the news,
NBC, but like a Korean version.
And now what I'm doing is I'm listening to Korean news.
Wow.
Yeah, daily news.
Oh, that's nice.
I can't understand anything, but I'm just listening.
Oh, that's nice.
Is that a video form?
It's a video format.
Because it's a news show.
It's a news show.
So you can also see the text--
not text, but the visuals and videos.
Yes, yes.
You can see people--
you can see the kisha following whoever.
Eat views and--
Like, "Nanana's got, nanana's got!"
Something like that.
Or you can see some corporate guys in suits just--
[LAUGHTER]
Like that.
So that you can at least understand, oh, he's a Polish guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And yeah, that's--
I'm doing that to improve my Korean.
Cool.
Well, that's nice.
But learning new languages is always--
you're just getting better.
There's no like, ginten point, it's just getting better every day.
So it's really important to have no pressure, like unnecessary pressure.
I like it.
I love it.
That's nice.
Do you have any specific point or like special attitude
when you see those videos in Korean?
You mean like how I'm listening?
Yeah, to boost your learning steps.
12:03
I'm not doing anything.
Anything?
Just listens?
Yeah, it's just playing.
OK.
I'm actually doing something else on my computer.
Oh, so you don't even listen carefully.
Yeah.
OK.
It's just running in the background.
Yeah.
That's all.
That's all it's doing.
That's what I do.
That's what you do, right, with your speakers.
Yeah.
So even if you don't pay attention to them, those--
The flows.
Flows and waves and sounds are kind of start getting--
immersing into you.
So yeah, you're getting so many waves in your brain or in your mind.
Because I have that, I'm not pressured into like,
oh, I have to learn new vocabularies.
And I'm sure if you do learn vocabularies,
it speeds up the process.
But I'm always enjoyment first.
Yeah, that's important.
Yeah.
If I don't feel like I'm-- if I'm pressured into doing it,
I'm not going to do it.
I only do it if it excites me.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It's easier to continue.
It's feasible.
True.
Yeah.
True.
Yeah.
All right.
That was good advice.
Thank you, Youngchun.
Oh, I didn't know that Rhode Island was a state.
Oh.
Yeah, you should say sorry to people in Rhode Island.
Oh, sorry, people.
I was fooling around in Rhode Island.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
