アッスンさんの経験
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Okay, アッスンさん。
Hello, Kevin.
Nice to meet you.
I recently found out about Spotify because I wanted to listen to English like a radio.
It's sudden, but I'm planning to go to Canada for my working holiday next year.
So I thought I'd increase the time I can speak English even a little bit,
and I used an app that allows me to interact with foreigners and talked to them in poor English.
What I talked about was,
I'm going to Canada.
Yeah.
Oh, harsh.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, man.
You know, it's an online chat service, so don't worry about it.
Fuck their people.
They probably don't understand that you can't speak the language, you know.
If you can't speak the language, your language gets very simple, right?
What is a recommended place in Canada?
That does seem like a search query on Google, right?
For anyone who might not understand that this other person online cannot speak English,
it could be like, are they just trying to Google search on me?
It could happen.
So it's just a simple misunderstanding, so don't worry about it.
Yeah.
Right.
Don't worry about it.
文化への関心
Do you think it's, like, do you personally feel someone is rude if somebody comes to you and just,
where's the recommendation in Japan or Tokyo?
Oh, so, like, no, that interaction itself has, no, zero disrespect, I feel.
Rather very respectful that they're interested in the culture, right?
So, yeah.
Me either.
I don't feel that way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
バーでの会話
But the other day I was in the bar.
I was in the bar.
Okay, that's a different story.
Yeah.
I sometimes go to the bar.
That's a regular kind of, oh, shit.
That's something new.
Okay.
You fucking go to the bar.
I have several questions before we move on.
Do you drink alcohol?
No, I don't.
What the fuck are you doing at a bar?
What the fuck would you do?
What are you going to do at a bar?
現地人への質問の扱い
What are you going to fucking order?
Sometimes I do, like, really thin ones, you know?
Like a martini or something?
What do you do?
I ordered something to the bartender.
So, yeah, I was sipping the thing.
Okay, sure.
And there were, like, two American guys sitting next to me, like, came next to me.
Okay.
And then they start talking to me.
Okay.
And then they were, like, coming to Japan without many plans.
Okay.
And they have, like, three nights in Tokyo, but kind of free.
Okay.
Nowhere to, like, that they reserve it or, like, you know, a place like that.
And then they asked me, just like this, do you have any recommendation places in Tokyo and things like that?
But they were really, really...
The way they asked me about that was, like, really, like, I know you've been asked this so many times and you don't like this question.
Oh, okay.
And I remind...
気を悪くさせる?
Can I ask you a question now?
Very teinei.
From America?
Yeah, from America.
There were Americans?
They said they were from New York.
Wow.
That's not a New Yorker, I'm sure.
It's probably some Canadian or something.
Racist!
Okay, go right there.
Yeah, so I thought there was this culture that this might be, like, there are some people that don't like those questions.
Okay.
Well, I don't, but the way they asked me was, like...
As if it was something, like, maybe even, like, a taboo at this point?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because, well, I don't have that vibe.
And I would do that same thing.
For example, I could go to New York and just randomly just have a conversation and I wouldn't know what the locals are like to do.
One possibility I could think of is maybe the question is too big.
The question is too vague.
That it would sort of, like...
It's kind of hard to answer the question because it really depends on what you like.
True.
Maybe people might...
In Tokyo.
It might be too difficult to answer the question and people might have, like, had a negative reaction to it, maybe, but...
旅行者とのコミュニケーション
I love their, like, the fact that they're interested in it.
They have respect.
Yeah, yeah.
I like that.
Yeah.
But true.
From the answering side, if they provide us some more information, that would be better.
Like, if you just ask where to go in Tokyo, that's, like, too many things.
And I have to ask them, like, what are you into?
Yeah.
But they come to me, like, I love music and do you have...
And then that's, I guess, smoother, I guess.
I guess.
I guess.
Yeah.
What did you say?
What did you recommend?
So, and we start a conversation and they were gay couple and then they love drinking.
They were into, like, those alcohol things.
Okay.
And then they are trying to find some brewery.
I cannot pronounce that.
Difficult to pronounce.
Yeah.
Brewery.
Yeah, or wineries or those, like, alcohol crafting places or factories or those things.
I see.
In Tokyo.
And we searched, I didn't know, so we searched through the internet and I asked the bartender
and finally find out one brewery in around Asakusa where you can see the...
I guess that was wine or something, but some kind of liquor.
Yeah.
And you can drink at the same time and see the factory.
I see.
Yeah.
Yeah, it made somewhat sense now that you said they're gay.
Yeah.
I mean, New Yorkers would...
Oh, yeah, the only information I had was New Yorkers and after you said they're gay, they're
like, okay, yeah, they're...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Okay, I see.
Yeah.
I see.
They're like, they went to Shinjuku, Kabukicho, those places, but in the daytime.
And then do you think, do I think, should we go to the place in the nighttime?
Is that more interesting, more fun?
And well, honestly, I don't know, but I said, yeah, definitely.
You should go in the nighttime.
I think that's better.
Yeah.
It's more interesting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It's not that dangerous, too, right?
No, no, I don't think so.
Right.
Yeah, well, they were really, really kind and gentle.
That's great.
That's great.
Yeah, true.
Not like New Yorker, New Yorker.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I see.
Yeah.
異文化の不安
And they were really afraid that they are gay couple coming to Japan.
And they asked me, like, is gay couple in Japan allowed?
Like, socially, are we accepted or not?
Can we say this in public or not?
That's what they asked me.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So they were really, really afraid.
They don't know the culture, and this might be, like, something, I don't know.
That's so respectful.
Yeah.
That is so respectful.
I was like, no, no problem.
That is so respectful.
Yeah.
That's so kind.
Yeah.
Respect that.
Yeah.
Respect that.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
