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ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
こんにちは。
初めてお便りを送らせていただきます。
お二人には初対面の人と必ずするお決まりのやりとりはありますでしょうか?
というのも、
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
お二人には初対面の人と必ずするお決まりのやりとりはありますでしょうか?
そうです。
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
ケビンさん、山ちゃんさん、こんにちは。
というのも、私の舌の名前は「You」です。
OK。
そうです。英語にとってはとても変な名前です。
アメリカに住んでいた小さい頃、クラスの男の子たちに
「Hey! Why oh you? You…」とからかわれるのも日常でした。
そのため、英語話者との初対面では必ず名前についてひとくだりあります。
Yeah, I can imagine that.
正直、私はもう飽きているのですが、付き合わないわけにもいかず、
毎回「変だよね。でも日本では普通の名前なんだよ」的なやりとりをしています。
山ちゃんさんとケビンさんのお二人には、初対面の方と必ず生じるひとくだりや、
必ずされる質問などありますでしょうか。
あればぜひ教えていただきたいです。
最後にKERのPodcastを聞き始めてやる気がむくむくと湧き、英語の勉強を再開しました。
これからも楽しいお話を聞かせてくれてありがとうございます。
これからも頑張ってください。応援しております。
Thank you.
I have one.
Oh, you have one?
Yeah.
ケビンって本当の名前なんですか?
本名なんですか?
Always.
Yeah.
Yes, it's my middle name.
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
So is that like after you started this?
Yeah.
Even before?
Even before I called myself Kevin, right?
In universities.
In high school, I didn't call myself Kevin, but in universities, I called myself Kevin.
Really?
Yes.
Because we met in university, so from the beginning, you have been Kevin to me.
Oh, right, right, right.
In high school, it was in my drama club, it was Kevin, but to the rest, it wasn't.
Oh, really?
It was my last name.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and from university, you would call me Kevin and they would wonder, like, "Are you
really your real name?"
Is that your real nickname?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Yes.
Right, right, right.
Yeah, that I always get.
But I'm actually not that annoyed at all.
Okay.
People asking me that.
I'm actually very okay with, like, I can answer that question with the same energy every
time.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah.
What do you answer?
How do you answer?
I guess I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
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I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
I'm not sure, but I can answer that.
Those are the top curiosities of my name.
Yeah.
Right?
Understandable.
Yeah.
Anything for you?
Did you get anything?
No.
Not especially.
How about, like, is that did you parma?
Oh, yeah, right.
Do you get that?
I get that often.
So often.
True.
But recently, like, people say that's ii parma desu ne.
So it's not, like, question anymore.
Oh, I see.
And I would say, "arigatou gozaimasu."
You just give up?
Yeah, I don't.
Oh, wow.
It's okay.
I mean, I don't...
So, but basically I say, "ia tenpa nan desu."
And then, yeah.
If I want to have conversation with her or with him,
Okay.
Yeah, kore jitsu tenpa de.
I see, I see.
And then, but it's just, I just want to quit the place and
"ah, domo."
Right.
Yeah.
But, yeah.
I am...
I...
Hmm.
I don't know if there's anything else that I get asked of often.
Hmm.
When I was in France, people often ask me, like, "do you know Naruto?"
Oh.
What's, I guess, the most asked question.
So Naruto's popular.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really, really popular.
Naruto, like, "Breech."
Oh, okay.
Like those.
Yeah.
And also, there are so many, like, anime fans.
Okay.
Anime freaks in France.
Okay.
So if they found, once they found, like, Japanese people, like people from Japan, I mean, people from that culture.
Okay.
They want to talk about their love about full animes and so...
How did you deal with that?
Like, you're not that into, like, the anime or the manga culture, right?
I haven't read Naruto, haven't read "Breech" and...
If they come up to you and like, "Oh, you're from Japan.
I love Bleach."
Yeah.
How do you answer that?
So, yeah, that's difficult, actually.
So I would say, "Yeah, thank you."
And like, I know that's famous one and I really, yeah, those things.
Try to, you know, take a step with how with him.
Okay.
But...
Are they a little, like, surprised that they don't, that you don't know the story or like...
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Disappointed?
Yeah.
They can't share the experience?
Yeah.
They want to talk about, like, deep things and they think that, you know, in Japan, it's like a...
Obviously, it's original, so it's a bit, you know, sometimes stories are a bit advanced, right?
True.
So they want to know the advanced version or like in the, like, deep knowledge things, like, urabanashi things.
But sorry, I don't know that much about, so...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah, sadly.
That's...I feel like a lot of people who goes to Ryugaku is...has difficulties with, like, when it comes to Japanese history.
Like, you know, you learn about Japanese history abroad as well and they think that you're, you know, everything about the Japanese history.
But you actually don't.
Yeah.
I've never done Japanese history in my life.
So you know how I'm...how I am not uneducated on the Japanese history, right?
Yeah.
Nihon-shi, right?
Nihon-shi, I've never done it before.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But back in the U.S., I was thought of as, like, the professional of Japan.
Like, we once did a section on Japanese history and people would just, you know, ask me all these questions.
Right, right.
I only know just as much as you.
Because in your case, you were born and kind of raised in the United States and educated in the United States.
So why do I know about those things, right?
I can answer Japanese, like, language questions of, like, how to translate and stuff like that, but not the history or what the government system is like or like...
Yeah, right.
Well, in my case, I was born in Japan, raised in Japan, educated in Japan.
Okay.
And have been living in Japan.
So at least kind of when I went to France, they asked me about what is like Japanese governmental systems or like political systems.
They love talking about politics, French guys.
So those were like the World War things.
And I was kind of, oh, I should have studied more because it's my, you know, if I knew way more, we could have done more.
Way more, we could like discuss or like talk about things.
Yeah.
The kind of big weapon to me, right?
Right, right.
Politics, politics, history and culture.
Yeah.
I think that's the three that's...
Yeah.
You should cover.
Yeah.
Right, before going abroad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Not like, you know, people tend to search the country you are heading to.
Like if you going to go to the France, then people tend to search about France.
Right.
But actually you need to study is about your country and your culture.
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Right.
Yeah.
And we don't do that often, right?
Yeah.
Like unless we're like motivated for some reason.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because we don't use it on a daily basis.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Because French people knows about France, so you can ask everything to them.
Because they're very interested in it, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So...
That's another like interesting cultural difference that the people in France love,
the politics and everything.
Whereas in Japan, majority of the young people are very uninterested, don't even go to
Tokyo.
Yeah.
And that's so different.
Yeah.
Like even we shouldn't talk about politics.
Exactly.
Not public places.
It's like a taboo, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In Japan, yeah.
Yeah.
But it's completely opposite in France.
We talk those things in lunch time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
US, we do that too.
Oh, yeah.
Like you talk about like, are you voting for the Republican?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And have discussion and...
So that's different.
Oh, you don't agree.
When we don't agree on a political view, we just, "Oh, you don't agree.
Okay."
All right.
Okay.
Okay about it.
Oh.
Whereas in your case, I'm assuming that you guys kind of like argue over like who's right
or not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It's not like which one beats which one, but have discussion at least.
"Oh, wait.
Why are you supporting that party?"
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Because they saying like this, this, this, "Ah, okay."
But to me, kind of...
When you ask, I feel like, at least in my school, my middle school people, if you ask,
"Why are you supporting that party?"
They'll be like, "I don't know.
It's just always been like this."
That's all they'll ask.
Yeah.
That's also a little different.
That's maybe because you are like junior high or elementary school, right?
Probably.
Yeah.
Maybe if they're older, they'll probably have an answer for that.
Yeah.
So kind of...
Maybe.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Yeah.
All right.
But yeah, that's a quite huge difference between like...
That's true.
Especially in Japan, kind of taboo talking about politics.
Right.
It's weird, actually.
That's true.
Yeah.
In a democratic country.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Our responsibility.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
But you know, kind of difficult for us to talk openly about those topics.
It's true.
You're right.
Because as it's kind of...
If it's like taboo, so if we openly speak about those things, they kind of, "Wow."
And then, you know...
We're in the taboo people.
Yeah, yeah.
Right?
So that's difficult, but...
Right.
Yeah.
So I want a slightly opening.
Yeah.
And try to make it natural, right?
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Yeah.
I do see a lot...Some influencers doing PRs for like, "Go to Tokyo."
Oh.
Or like, "Young people should Tokyo."
Yeah, yeah.
And that makes sense to me.
Like, when you look it up, it really makes sense that young people going to Tokyo, but
it really doesn't hit any of the actual...
Yeah.
Especially on TikTok or like the pop culture is there.
Yeah.
It's just very friction.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
That's sad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
That's just how it is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
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