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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hola.
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
The Hola!
The Hola!
Man!
Can I have it one more time?
I just...
I want it one more time.
Hola.
Oh!
Yes!
Yes!
The Hola!
God!
Thank you!
So long.
Hello Kevin, Yama-chan.
Hello.
My name is Tanoshii Ningen.
Oh, hello.
Great name.
Tanoshii Ningen.
Yes.
I was recommended by the podcast, so I listened to it, and I was drawn into the happy atmosphere of the two of you, and I listen to it every day.
Thank you!
I'm a 8th year social worker, but I suddenly thought it would be a waste of my life to work at the same company for another 30 years until my retirement,
so I decided to study abroad at the European University.
Wow!
Great!
Wow!
Yeah!
Nice!
Yeah!
On the other hand, I'm full of excitement for the new challenge.
I've never lived abroad for a long time, so I'm afraid of being able to live, make friends, and follow classes.
I'm not afraid of doing something like a leader at work or giving opinions to great people, but I'm really scared of going abroad.
What was the scariest challenge in your life?
Also, please give me some advice on how to get there.
Thank you for continuing this podcast, which has been a long time coming, but can be used in everyday English.
Thank you!
It doesn't matter, but...
GROUNDS.
GROUNDS?
GROUNDS.
G-R-O-U-N-D-S.
GROUNDS.
OK, GROUNDS.
The brand of sneakers from this brand is cool, so please check it out.
Oh, OK!
I'll check that out.
It really doesn't matter.
GROUNDS.
GROUNDS.
SNEAKHOSTS.
Let's see.
Yeah.
Let's see what they look like.
Uh-huh.
It looks like a mushroom.
Mushroom?
No, not a mushroom.
It looks like a... well, not mushroom.
What's that?
Marshmallows.
Marshmallows.
It looks like marshmallows on the bottom of the shoes.
Oh, like that.
Not bad.
The punipuni cushion.
Yeah, the air bubbles.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it looks not bad, but a little bit weird.
Not bad, but a little bit young.
No?
Really?
Doesn't it look a little young?
No?
Those highs are really a bit young.
Yeah.
But like these, not the high, high one, like the black one.
This one?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, or like the...
This one?
Right one.
This one?
Yeah.
That's true.
That's true.
It looks comfy.
Yeah.
You can walk, you know, like the rock places.
Yeah.
A Nihonhatsu fashion sneaker.
I thought it was...
I didn't think it was Japan.
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Yeah.
Nice.
I have wide shoes.
I have my...
It needs to be wide.
Ah, okay.
Like if it's Nike, like it's so like hosoi, right?
I want it to be wide.
So like the Japanese brands, it suits me a lot.
True.
Oh, there are so many, you know, varieties.
Yeah.
I'll take a look at it.
Yeah.
That's cool.
All right.
Sanmankan.
Not bad.
As in sneaker.
Yeah.
I'm buying.
Yeah.
I mean, that's an expensive sneaker.
Yeah.
It's a great sneaker.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Okay.
Rounds.
Do they have like the stores?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
It's all online?
I don't think they have them.
Oh.
I think it's all online.
So it's actually difficult to, you know, find the size, right?
Yeah.
I never buy shoes with without actually trying them on anymore.
So yeah.
This is an impossible game for me then.
Yeah.
Okay.
So what's the...
Okay.
Sorry.
What was the scariest challenge you've ever had in your life?
Please give me some advice on that.
Challenge.
A scary challenge.
Well, it's a bit of a challenge.
It's a bit related to this.
Sorry.
Sorry.
But the moment I decided to go to France was scary.
I was scared.
And the moment I took planes to France, you know, the very first day that I arrived,
on, you know, the land of, you know, France, that was, I guess that was the most scary
moment in my life.
Okay.
As a challenge.
Okay.
Yeah.
But ultimately, you're the one that decided to go, right?
Yes.
So you want to go?
I did.
I wanted to go.
True.
So in that...
Yeah, true.
So it's not somebody told me to go or like just happened, you know, it's just me who
decided.
So in that way, I didn't, like, it's not something unexpected.
Yeah.
But because I decided it, it's kind of scary to me because I decided to come to this place
and, you know, not fully sure about the future.
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Okay.
But I decided to come and I have to make decisions.
Yeah.
Right, right, right.
Completely different environment.
Okay.
I see.
Yeah.
Remember that day.
See, like, the moment I decided to quit my company, the company as a kaisha-in and start
trying to be a musician wasn't that scary to me.
I don't know why.
Maybe that was in Japan.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Don't know the reason why, but yeah, the most scary moment was when I arrived in France.
Oh.
What about you?
I don't know.
The most scariest moment, scariest moment I faced.
Yeah.
You don't feel those scariness.
I do.
I do.
You do?
For example, like, when I, I mean, like, you know, the first day of me in high school back
in Japan.
Okay.
You know, different culture.
Both.
It wasn't scary though.
It was excitement.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, it was nervousness.
Yeah.
But scary?
I don't, like, when I think of something scary, it's like when I have to get vaccinated and
the needle's going to go in my arm.
That's scary.
That's scary.
Okay.
And when I go to the dentist, right, and they find cavities, I have to put my teeth up.
That's fucking scary.
Okay.
Right?
I have, when I, when I have to, uh, uh, after I watched a horror movie, right?
That's fucking scary.
Yeah.
You can go to the bathroom.
Yeah.
Or like take a shower.
Oh, that's scary.
I always look back.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Who's behind me?
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Like something's behind the door.
I can see it.
Something moved.
A shadow moved.
No one's there.
That's scary.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, when I shower, I do this.
You should attack the ghost.
Yeah.
I'll take that because I don't want to see them or like touch them.
So I just use my water and.
Yeah.
That's scary too.
It's terrifying.
Yeah.
Oh, when I had to drive the first time.
Oh, scary.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess.
So when you make some big decisions, you're not, of course you are scary a bit, of course,
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but excitement is much bigger.
Yeah.
Because you know, ultimately I decided to do that.
Yeah.
So I, it's, it's the best option for me.
Sure.
I know that I have to go through this.
Yeah.
I have to be happy.
So I, I, I somehow overcome it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, great.
Like the scariness and excitement is really like attached.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's true.
So if you can change into that, like the positive energy.
Right.
You're right.
You can make big things.
That's true.
True.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
Bye bye.
Bye.
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