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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast. Hello.You know, I've been writing emails recently
because I'm moving. Oh, right. I'm moving. And,um, right. I have to email a lot of people,
right? The hudousan, kandigaisha, hikkoshigyousha,right? A lot of email happening right now. A lot
of email action. And, and, you know, ChatGPT is avery, you know, useful tool when writing emails.
You know, they give you like the perfect keigo,perfect, you know, email response. And I'm being
helped by ChatGPT and Gemini a lot. And the morethat happens, the more I realize that I suck at
writing business Japanese keigos. Oh, okay. I suckat it. I suck at it so much. I don't know how to
word it. I don't know like the proper terminologyto it. It's just, so whenever I'm stuck on writing
how to do it in Japanese, I'm like, I go toChatGPT, I'm like, hey, write me an email of this
response. And then like, I tell him, right, hegives me the most eye-opening expressions. He
gives me the most astonishing, most likeunbelievable, perfect Japanese response ever.
And I'm blown away by how much I can't writeJapanese business emails. And I was wondering
if that was me or does that happen to everybody?Or what do you, what's your take on this, man?
Oh, I mean, obviously those guys are like thebest, right? I mean, so I think better than me
in that way. When you write your business emails,do you get stuck sometimes on how to write
the Japanese? I don't think so. Not really. Okay.Like maybe I'm just giving up and just
write as I want maybe. Yeah. But sometimes I makea pause and think about like how I should
construct the phrase so that I can include all theelements, but make it simple, you know.
So I'm not like non-stop writing, like we do likemessages or line things.
You write it and you just, and you just write it.So it's not like, it's not like,
is that, is that what you mean? The pause? Yeah.Yeah. Right. Right. I feel like you're
more smoother at expressing email languages than Iam. Yeah. But I don't know. I'm just giving up
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and just, just write as I, in the range of myknowledge, maybe. Yeah. Like take a look at my
email that I wrote the other day. I think it'sterrible. So you wrote it by yourself? Yeah.
Sometimes I write it and sometimes when I getstuck, I use ChatGVT to help me out.
Oh, this is embarrassing. But look, for example,
so from the Fudosanya, it came this, this messageof like,
but I wanted to use my own. Yeah.
They're talking about like,
and then I have to write a response in Japanese,right? So this is the Japanese that I wrote.
So I was, so there's, this is not the verybeginning of the email. I had different things
to say beforehand. I see. And then on to the topicof the kagi. Okay. And I applied that.
Right. I applied by,
To me, I gave up on this. Oh, you gave up on this?Yeah, because
I don't think that's beautiful. I don't thinkthat's professional.
So I wanted to write something more harmonized.Yeah.
But I didn't have the Japanese brain power to doso. So I gave up and I just wrote it
the best way I could. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you,you, you wrote everything you needed.
I wrote everything. All the information. Yeah.Yeah. Yeah. The information's there. Right.
But, uh, I was talking about the Kasai Hokenbeforehand. So the, um, right. Like I said,
there was also a annai about the Kasai Hoken oflike,
but I wanted to use my own Kasai Hoken. So that'sa little bit of a tricky, you know,
conversation, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I, I, I usedthe power of chiativity and, and told me to write
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the Japanese and this is what I gave me. I wasblown away. Okay. So
Kasai Hoken no ken desu ga, konkai wa jishin detehai shita hoken ni kaniu sasete itadakitaku
zonjimasu. Beautiful. Tsukimashite wa. Beautiful.Tsukimashite wa mitasu beki
hoshougaku nado no jouken ga gozaimashitara jizenni oshiete itadakemasu to saiwai desu. Beautiful.
Very beautiful. Okay. I mean, I, I can't writethis kind of Japanese.
Beautiful. Beautiful.
Very Tomiyasu. Very Tomiyasu, very, very Kubo-san.
Very elegant. Very elegant. Very elegant. Knowsthe game. Knows the game. I can't,
I'm always blown away when chiativity does this. Ithink those like filler words things,
maybe. Is that? Tsukimashite wa, or likesomething, something, kuu zonjimasu.
Is that a filler? Oh yeah. Yeah. Maybe I don'thave a, you know, a lot of, uh, repertoire onthose.
Oh man, I gotta learn a lot of Japanese.
But nennen ni kanshimashite wa is one of those. Soyou, you mastered that. Yeah, I have mastered
that. Yeah. But I had to use it twice. I see. Isee. How would you write the sentence?
Kono kagi no hikiwatashi ni kanshimashite yamatounsou ni te gohaesou onegai dekireba tomoemasu.
Hizuke shite ni kanshimashite kono zenjitsu nogozenchuu de onegai dekireba tomoemasu.
Yeah, if I were writing this sentence, I think Iwould put into one. Okay. Kagi no, keep it,
keep original as possible. Okay. Kagi nohikiwatashi ni kanshimashite yamato unsou ni te
nani nani nichi no nani nichi no touchaku degohaesou onegai dekireba tomoemasu.
Okay. I have a question. I have a question.However, the way that Fudosanya asked me,
right, is the reason why I didn't put it into one.But I want you to tell me if I
shouldn't care about that or not. Okay. Okay.Okay. So they asked me, first,
choose if you want, there's three options. Okay.One is kono ao no letter pack nanoka. Two,
aka no letter pack nanoka. Three, yamato unsounanoka. Kore wa dore desu ka? De,
yamato unsou no baai wa, hizuke shite wo shitekudasai. So I understood that as like two
sections, right? So I sort of like, I respectedthat two different sections and I replied in two
different ways. So what do you, what do you thinkabout that? Is that necessary? Unnecessary?
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I don't think it's necessary. Not necessary. Youcan put it, but you can put it in one.
Okay. Because it's very same question. If you'retalking about like hokken and then
haisou, and then it's better you answer to thatquestion and then that question. But
well, at least to me, you can create once. Yeah.Okay. I understand. Maybe simple is better.
Simple is better. That's why I think so. Okay. Ithink so. All right. But to me, first of all,
this is not bad. Not bad to begin with. Yeah. Butnot perfect. It's not perfect though. Right?
Maybe. Yeah. It could be better, but it's okay.It's okay. It's okay. Yeah. It's better than
writing too much or like trying to make itelegant, more elegant and like add
unnecessary phrases and everything. That you don'tknow what the point is, right? Yeah.
I prefer being simple, like one question, oneanswer, one question, one answer. Okay. Yeah.
Okay. So I understood. Another different aspect ofthe Japanese, one single point that I found
that was like, hmm, is this like logical? LikeJapanese grammar wise. Okay.
Let's say the gyo-sha-san is like,
you get that email, right? And then you didn'thave a problem in the way you reply it.
That's correct, right? Yeah. That's how ChadGBTalways writes me.
But to me,
when there's a problem. I see.
Is it correct? Yeah. To me, it doesn't, I kind ofunderstand what you're saying, but
it's too natural to me. It wasn't natural? Yeah.
It's just, it sounds like but. Right. Something.
If you want to say that, why not?
Why is that a no? Why is that a no-no? I don'tknow. It's just, it sounds strange.
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It sounds strange?
How is that wrong?
It's just sound weird. It's sound weird? Oh mygod. Sound unnatural.
I don't know about those like grammar terms andeverything, but
it's more natural using ga in the case of those.
Okay. Okay. I just have to deal with it. I justhave to live with it, I guess.
And especially, I think, those polite form,Japanese form, I think.
It makes more sense? Yeah. Okay.
Wow, I've never, I don't have that. I don't havethat. That is not in me.
Yeah, that's more natural.
That's not the perfect like keigo. Yeah. Oh man, Igot a lot to learn.
Must be something. The reason must be there, but.Yeah. I mean, yeah. My first job was, you know,
gaishi, so it's not, a lot of them was English.It's like not many people were doing like the
the cliche Japanese one. Second job was like acafe. I didn't have to do emails, right? So,
I never actually had an opportunity to be exposedto business emails a lot.
So. So now you're. Now, right now, I have chatgbttelling me all these new like styles and methods.
Must be a great teacher. Yeah, I'm learning a lot.But the thing is, if you use too much chatgbt,
like, so with this gilsha, I've been using most ofthe time chatgbt, but like. Yeah. Whenever I
have to respond in a very quick moment, Kevincomes out. Like the whole time, I was like this
perfect nihongo person. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah. Very teine, very perfect keigo. Sotrustable.
But like randomly, this, this American comes out.
There's a different person like responding tothis.
Such a different style of keigo he's writing rightnow. That's funny. I'm a little bit
embarrassed when that happens, but I have to dealwith it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So
thanks for sending guys.