Masen Ka? Japanese Invitations, Niigata Sake & The Nostril-Haired Airport Scammer | EP 31

Learn Japanese with Genki on episode 31 of Nihongo to English! This episode dives into Japanese grammar with the ますか negative invitation form — masen ka, "won't you...?" — straight from Genki Lesson 3, covering verb conjugation, ni vs. de particles, and the iku vs. kuru distinction (why "come to my house" and "go to Kyoto" need different verbs). Michelle brings back souvenirs from a trip to Japan, including Niigata sake, Mount Fuji-themed dishware, and a Crayon Shin-chan snack, while Michael breaks down why McDonald's becomes "Maku" in Japanese and unpacks the cultural difference between nekojita (cat tongue) and the English "cat got your tongue." Plus: a bullet train ride to Nagoya, an on-the-rocks whiskey podcast preview, and a genuinely unsettling story about a scammer with nostril hair at Haneda Airport. No homework. Just bilingual chaos — and somehow you learn.

Write to us at NihongoToEnglishNoShow@gmail.com

Theme jingle by Michelle MaliZaki.

日本語学習×バイリンガルポッドキャスト「Nihongo to English」第31回!今回はGenki第3課の文法、「ませんか」を使った勧誘表現(Won't you...?)を中心に、動詞の活用、「に」と「で」の使い分け、そして「行く」と「来る」の違いを解説します。みしえるが日本旅行で買ってきた新潟の日本酒や富士山モチーフの食器、クレヨンしんちゃんのお菓子も登場。マイケルはマクドナルドがなぜ「マック」になるのか、そして「猫舌」と英語の"cat got your tongue"の文化的な違いについても語ります。新幹線での名古屋旅行、オンザロックのウイスキーポッドキャスト出演の話、そして羽田空港で遭遇した鼻毛が印象的な詐欺師のエピソードも必聴。宿題なし、バイリンガルカオスだけ ― それでも自然と学べる。

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

Alright, so we got Tuesday. Yeah. Taco Tuesday. Taco Tuesday. Octopus Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Octopus. Ah tako. Uhite. Kite Tuesday.

SPEAKER_02 0:07

You have uh is kite.

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Tako.

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Kite? Yeah.

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What is that another word for octopus? No, takoageru. Tako. Kaito.

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Takwa kaito.

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Yeah, takoageru. Takuage.

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Takoage?

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Yeah.

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Takoyaki?

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Takoyaki is octopus.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

But tako a takoageru takoage is flying a kite.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

Oh. And oh, it has its own verb, takoageru?

SPEAKER_01 0:35

Yeah, takoageru.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

Oh wow. Okay. So that's another tako.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Well, takoage.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

And that's just a word for flying a kite. Flying kites, it's a there's a big like kite-flying culture in Japan.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Yeah, and then that's a big f flying kite contest.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Uh-huh. Yeah. Have you ever done competitive taco?

SPEAKER_01 0:54

No. Have you?

SPEAKER_02 0:55

So take algeru. Tako it's not take ageo.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

You could say takoage.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

Wait, is algeru like ageru to lift?

SPEAKER_01 1:02

Yeah, lift. Or yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

So what's the taco? What what kanji is the taco?

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Kazemitaina.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

So it it's a kanji that means kite.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Yeah, tako.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Also tako is kite in Japanese before kaito became kite in Japanese? Because surely they had kite in Japan as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

Geila kaito.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Geira kaito.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

No kaito.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Oh, you mean oh yeah, the uh yeah, like these very simple kaites.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

So so so so so.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

Isn't that geila kaito?

SPEAKER_02 1:37

I don't know. I don't know. I'm not up to date on my uh Japanese kite vocabulary.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Um but I think geila kaito came from maybe America.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

No?

SPEAKER_02 1:46

I don't know. Oh well, I guess uh did in Japan did they originally have box kites?

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Hako hakono tako.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Well it's like uh it's like uh you've seen box kites, right? They're like a rectangular, a hollow rectangle. Hi, kamide. So this is nihongoto English no show. Yay! I am your host, Michael Allen, CPA.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

And I'm Michelle Maitaki, I'm a mom, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

Is that your job? It's being a m uh mom wa ichiban ntai hen na shigoto deska. Oh no. Sekaichi.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Sekai chi janaike do kedo nanimo shu nyo nashi.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Shun nyu nashi uh uh nyu uh free time.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Shoon you shoon you uh income. No income.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Uh I wa uh shunyu diska. Love uh shun nyu uh love love nanimo kainai uh nanimo kainai can't buy me love so you can't buy love and you also can't use love to buy anything. So what is it good for? Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Oh, I I'm slow. I 21 years in, I it hit me. What am I doing? I'm wasting my time. Being a mom?

SPEAKER_02 3:16

Being a mom. I mean, you're the one who keeps saying that you're a mom. You could be saying any kinds of things. You could be calling yourself a cowboy or a cowgirl. Or a cowgirl or a comedian.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

I I used to be a dog mom. Uh-huh. And a cat mom. So inu mama, neko mama.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

Right. Shinjata. Uh that's uh that's what happens occasionally uh every now and then, you know, inu and nekel. Shinjao.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Time for the new season.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

Yeah. New season of cat, new season of dog.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

I'm gonna be on a podcast next week, a podcast that you helped me get on.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Yeah, yay, call onzaroku.

SPEAKER_02 3:58

Onzaroku. Oh, onzaroku. Hi, whiskey or whiskey.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

Whisk whiskey to scotch, uh, uh, honto not this.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

Uh hi, uh this. Uh uh Boko no ko mugi ko are lugiva to oke. What is the word for like irritation?

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Uh ensho.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Enshow. Shoto uh hi. Komugiko tabete canon de uh choto ensho sudu. Well, I well, I guess gurut. Yeah, because it's in biru, biru baite must. Um biru uh komugiko janakate omugi omugi. Yeah, barley. Ah, that's your night. So they waun omugi mohiteiru keto demo komugiko uhai ajigasuru. Takara uh waitobidu. Or hefeweizen, they also call it. Kurobiru uh omugi yay ta omuki.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Yeah, that's really it.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

It it's just like uh kolki. Yeah, I mean blonde coffee is lightly roasted coffee beans and like a dark French coffee is like just they just roast they roasted it for it so it's like toasty. So yeah, d black beer or dark beer, it's just uh it's the same. It's it's uh it's barley, but I mean, yeah, amber is like um kekko yita.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

A keko yita.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

Yeah, I mean there may be other other things, but the thing that generates the colour in the beer is really just how much the barley is roasted.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Oh, she don't know.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

Yeah. I mean, you know, there are other things like you can use other additives like rice um and things. But definitely wheat beer is its own thing. Um where now o mugi o mugi mo gurutenga haitedu. Hi. Uh uh. Taberu tabete moi de shokedo in shol sudo. Takara uh I tried I try to uh avoid it. Sakeru? Oh yeah, so dakara uh mugi o sakemas. Oh sake. Sake. Sake uh rice uh you have uh sake is made from rice. Yeah, is the podcast you'll be on about liquor? Well it is called the Yeah, I mean Nihonshuto English no bid. Yeah, that's yeah, it's not Nihonshu to English no podcast.

SPEAKER_03 6:58

Yeah, English no being.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

Yeah. That would be uh you know, a good special episode. You know, once we reach 10,000 episodes, I'll do a special Nihonshuto English no podcast.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

And then we're gonna take a bath in Nihonshu.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Yeah, yeah, exactly. We'll let it absorb through our skin.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

Yeah, skin.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

Now when I hear katakana Japanese, what would you call it? You wouldn't call it romaji.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Gairaigo.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Gairaigo.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Oh, that's the word for that whole kind of okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

So gairaigo. Hi. Alright, so if you're familiar with Japanese and you're a student of Japanese, you can hear gairaigol and immediately hear oh, that's to put what that on zaroku is supposed to be on the rocks. Right. But to someone just starting to learn Japanese, if they're just hearing a lot of peta beta peda peda, and then they hear on zaroku, to them it might just I mean I know because this was me, uh, they don't hear it as uh like a Japanese defied English. I mean, maybe, maybe it'll come through. Um like maybe you say like Amerika.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

America.

SPEAKER_02 7:57

But if they just hear on zaroku, they might not hear that as on the rocks. But yes, is it about liquor? Well, it's called On the Rocks, and I was told that I would be served whiskey during this monster.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

So, so so so hibiki oyskato.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Yeah, yeah, sounds good. Santori. Oh, Santori. Yeah. Oh, there's a lot of different santori, it's just like there's a lot of different uh black labels, blue labels, green labels. But yeah, Santori, yeah, I like Santori. Here on the Hongoto English, we are going to look at the Genki textbook, and we're also going to speak in both English and Japanese.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

And talk about nothing.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

We've been talking about liquor. Osake.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

And I have that's a frequent subject of conversation. You say it like oh, my my karu uh osake gadaisuki kedo, but uh kyomigaoru.

SPEAKER_01 9:03

I might drink more than I think because uh fujisan no sala. Fujisa no sada. And I just went to Japan. Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

Again, you're always coming back from Japan.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

Check out this Fujisan no sala.

SPEAKER_02 9:17

Fujisano sada.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

It's well it's uh I mean osada I thought was a plate. Sada.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Yeah, it's not a good one. But this is I thought this was like a wang.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Isn't that lovely? Isn't that lovely? And and well yes, don't don't eat this.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

I don't think you should eat this because I'm sure it has komugi in it. But look who's on it. Oh it's shin chan. It's chocolate. Oh, it's chocolate. Yeah. His favorite, right?

SPEAKER_02 9:47

Yeah, this is um I mean it's green, but shin chan's chocolate. And yeah, that's like the made-up snack. Kind of like cheesy poofs in South Park. It's like a made-up snack. But it has chocolate chocolate. Oh, it uh ramet. It says ramette. Is ramune like just like a brand now, or is it like ra ramune flavored chocobi? It's new.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Is this ramune cocoa ji? It's cocoa flavor. What is this? I don't know. I just bought it because it has cleon shincha and then you told me you like cleon shincha.

SPEAKER_02 10:24

Well, it was um it was an interesting way to learn uh certain Japanese vocabulary about daily life sort of things.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Maybe you could eat this, but I wouldn't risk it.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'll put this on display somewhere. It's funny, you know, they eventually translated uh Shinchan into English, well, for like adult swim. Uh-huh. And it was kind of marketed as like, oh, this is like the bad boy uh Japanese cartoon. And let me tell you, uh having watched a lot of episodes in Japanese, yeah, he's like a naughty kid and all this, and there's occasionally some suggestive uh humor. The way they translated it into English was like so far beyond what it was in Japanese. They made it like they made the kids all like way more cruel and like um just saying like all manner of um adult things. Oh no. Um that they just did not do at all in uh the Japanese version. So I think they took its reputation and then made the English dubs and just kind of used it as a template to be like, oh, we'll have this outrageous cartoon we're kids, and and the adults are just saying like these uh like naughty, uh perverted, um uh just like like rude, insensitive, whatever whatever you want to call it. Um, but it was actually uh much much less um kind of overtly uh uh degenerate actually in the original Japanese version compared to the English translation. So there you go. Look at this. I could put uh Daruma san. On top of Mount Fuji. Yay! Although now I'm just now I'd feel like I'm gonna knock it over, but it looks pretty cool though. It's Daruma sitting on Mount Fuji. How cool is that?

SPEAKER_01 12:14

And then we got the background view from Mount Fuji.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

Yes, this background you see before you, or if you don't because you're listening to a podcast, but behind us on the twitch.tv slash nihongo English is the view of Mount Fuji, brought to you by our dear uh listener, Lord Saturn.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Ah, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Who was with their uh metal band antagonizer, which consists of him as the their enslaved male drummer. Oh, and then they have a uh two lead ladies, um, paragons of virtue, of course, and they are uh well, they do heavy metal, and I saw them at Hell's Heroes, and then they did an Asia tour recently. Oh so they went to Japan and uh Lord Saturn wore a goat versus fish shirt and said, I'm gonna climb Mount Fuji. And then he did, and he sent me pictures. So this is a picture from the top of Mount Fuji, which I think he may have said it was the sunrise, it could be the sunset, it depends on when they got up there and when they started the hike. But uh, congratulations, and now you get to see it. You guys get to see a little bit of Japan behind us. I mean, it was either this or like um stock footage of uh cherry blossom petals falling. Uh but I decided to go with uh you know the user submitted content, the listener submitted content. So thank you. Now we got two Mount Fuji's here.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

And here's one more. Oh, what is this?

SPEAKER_02 13:43

Oh, he doesn't wind this. This is the main way you get paid by being on a Japanese podcast, is occasionally your co-host goes to Japan and brings you back stuff.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

Nigatano.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

Oh nigatano. Hakuro Since Sen Nana Hyaku Goju Ichi. It's uh Nihonshu. Oh the well, that's not Nihonshu. Seishu. Seeshu. What's Seeshu?

SPEAKER_01 14:14

I don't know. Sei clear liquor. Liquor?

SPEAKER_02 14:17

A clear. Oh, probably like filtered. Filtered? Maybe it's a filtered liquor.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

But yeah, because it's not nigori janai kar.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

Oh, Korea sake.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

I just brought the bag.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

Oh, see, I was like, oh, it's wine because the bag Yeah, no, it's just a bag.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

I did I didn't have a bag.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

Yeah, hakoa uh taka marubek to zinfander to merudo to pinon noiru to kaberune savignon blanc. So I'm like, oh, it's wine. So I was like trying to look at this thing, I was like, what kind of wine is this? Rice rice wine. So speaking of gruten, how do you say speaking of in Japanese to kind of want oh I I used to know this.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Uh nantio no.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

Speaking of or or or or like whatever it is used in the equivalent, like nitsuite, I don't know. Oh well nitsuite, well that would be Oh yeah, yeah, you could use that. So uh gruten nitsuite rice. Hi. Oh, so on this night. Um so yeah, this is made from rice. Yes, well howigato gozai rose. When we get to um you know, we'll let it age for a bit, and maybe when we get to our uh ten thousand viewers with Darumasan, maybe uh after ten thousand listens of the podcast, I will pour this one fifth into the Fujisama and I will drink it.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

Yeah, almost one fifth of the um goal. Yeah, right here, right here.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

Right here, right now. Gogome.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

No, ni gome.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

Well niggomet. So uh yeah, well, thank you very much for the gifts.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

I don't guess that omia ge.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

So, what were you doing in Japan? You gotta tell them all, they're listening, they want to know about Japan and stuff. Maybe for you it's all normal, but hey. So they wanna mushimushi.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

Mushimushi.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

Mushimushi wa Humid, humid. It's humid. Mushi is uh insect, but mushimushi is the the sensation of being humid. Yeah. It's like that feeling on your skin.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

And mushimoshi is when you answer the phone. Moshimushi.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

Yeah, moshimoshi, mushimushi. Um so while you were gone, uh-huh, uh I was Oh you did the stream. Yeah, I did this very stream. Ah. I soloed it and they were asking about you, and they said, Michelle Watoko deskhan. But I was going over like basic hiragana and katakana, and I was doing like vocabulary words like let's take ah and let's learn some vocabulary words that begin with the hiragana ah, so you can look at them and be like, that's uh, that's uh. So we had like adigato and a meh and ame, amen, and ameh. And amen.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

Amen.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

My parents are Christians. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

Well, I mean, you go from Ame to Amen to Ramen.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

To amen, lamen, misolamen.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

Amen, ramen, misolamen. And um, akai. That was one of the first words that I learned. Just red.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

Ow.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Oh, we didn't do owl. I mean, look, this it's kind of a fun exercise because I go through a u e-o, and I'll do all the other khaki kukekeko and all that. But then it's like, okay, I want to make a list of practice words, so I'm thinking like, what's like the most necessary words that you need to learn that begin with uh, and I can only have like five or maybe six of them. So I have to like be very selective about which are the uh which are the most important words to learn. So I didn't get to aw. I only did aka, but owl would have been another good one.

SPEAKER_01 18:27

Yeah, owl.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

Oh, you gotta do arigato though.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Arigato, yeah, adigato.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

I think I I might have done aki.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

Ah, aki.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Fall the seasons. Yeah. And then e. I did e. Eisu. I didn't do iso. Isu is chair. That would have been a good one. But I did e. E. Good. E. E. Yeah, you gotta do those. Um and I forget what the other ones are. But uh I'm making a little uh Google Drive that is uh it's a public folder, so as long as you have the link, you can view it. Oh and so while I'm on the Nihongoto English uh Twitch streams, I'm making these like little worksheets kind of. It's like ah, here's ah, and here's like five words, and here's how it's pronounced, and if you were to use uh, you know, uh English letters and here's uh you know what it means. So I went through Ai U-E-O, and I will continue to do this with all the letters. So if you're really just starting Japanese and you're really curious, tune into the Nihongoto English Twitch stream, or maybe you'll find another place to put this link. And it's just gonna be a folder that's filled with all the little uh worksheets that I make. It's very simple stuff, but that's how I got started. A friend of mine who spoke Japanese made these little sheets that had basic vocab and then like simple sentences like uh Aoi Mizu Onomimas, like I drink the blue water, right? Oh it sounds a little weird. Yeah. Um especially in this political uh environment. But it's more just to get the grammar understood. We put the adjective before the noun, we use o and then we or like how would you say uh you know, I eat the red rice?

SPEAKER_01 20:03

Akai komeo tabemos.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Oh kome tabemos. Well we went with gohan.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Akai. Well, isn't that Sekihan?

SPEAKER_02 20:11

Sekihan?

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Yeah. Red Rice.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

Oh, is that a oh I mean there is the red rice, isn't there?

SPEAKER_01 20:16

Sekihan.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

I guess so, yeah. So there you go. Making little worksheets, practicing little Japanese. And a lot of them are using um I think they'll go into Google Translate and then they'll just type things uh but that they don't know. But that's okay. That's okay. As long as they're as long as they're trying, you know, as long as they're exposing themselves to the language, then.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

I just remember what happened in Japan.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Uh oh boy though.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

So stara, chigo kuzinoshtoga kiteko gugur to lance de to de A Koko no Jarun no countani denwasti kuda site, Konobango ni den wash tekasite. Demo Hanena Kukoni Rukala Jaru Vasta Ikani Tara in Masio the U Tandako na Chika Chica Denwas takuda site, the Gugur Tolanzo de Uh. Jaru Japan they are lying. Oh, okay, Jackado Jaru Haneda Kukoda, Jaruva Staniado, Denwashed, Ayashi de Shaw. I've never seen bangs, bangs coming out of nostrils before, like both nostrils, like bam, bam, like eh, big goodie.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Oh, like so it wasn't uh Hanage. It wasn't hige, it was actually coming out of the nostril.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

So I went back to my daughter, they just My daughter was asking me, Who are you talking to? I said, Ah, Chinese guy. And oh my gosh, I've never seen a guy with bangs out, you know, coming out of his nostrils. And then she didn't believe me. Then more so no show notokuro day don't then my daughter got to see his nostrils. And my daughter's like, oh my gosh, mommy. Be goodie. Be goodie. Yeah, but he was like trying to scam, like he tried to have somebody call that number. Right. And then somebody could take, you know, who knows? Who knows what's on on the other side? Because he was asking everybody. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

Weird. Who knows? Yeah. A little bit ayashi. That's an a word. That's a word that begins with the ahashi. Suspicious. So that's what you did in uh Japan. You hung out in the airport and had uh long nose-haired Chinese men try to call have you call random phone numbers. Wow, what a trip. That must have been very exciting.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Yeah, I also went to Nagoya.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

You also went to Nagoya.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Yeah, Nagoya castle, Mimasta.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Oh, Nagoya Nagoyashima?

SPEAKER_01 23:11

Nagoya Jo.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

No guy. Nagoya Jol. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Oh Mimasta.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Oh, Shima's Island. I don't know why I said Shima. Um okay, so you went to Nagoya Joel.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Nagoya Jo, me there. No, I didn't go. I just saw from outside the moat. Oh, Horino ko chikala mimasta. Because I was too early in the morning, it wasn't open, so I just took the picture.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Oh, okay. So there was uh Joel, but what about Shiro?

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Shiro? Yeah, Shiro is Shiro Castle.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

But if you have the name in front, like Nagoya plus Shiro is Nagoya Jo.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Alright, well, just think of your favorite Uncle Joe.

SPEAKER_01 23:51

Nagoya Joel.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Joel Castle. Joe's castle. Joel. I should let uh the Uncle Joe show know that Joel is castle. Ah, Joel. Did you go on a bullet train?

SPEAKER_01 24:03

Yes, I did. I took the train from Odawana to Nagoya.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

Well, for those listening, why don't you tell everyone in our American audience uh why Japan is 100% and in always culturally and technologically superior to the United States simply because they have bullet trains?

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Ah, is it? I don't know. But okay. Uh train system was Japanese pride till 2026 for me. Oh. Oh my gosh, the train used to come right on time, right?

SPEAKER_02 24:32

It's more you telling me that the trains don't run on time in Japan anymore. What's happening to the world?

SPEAKER_01 24:38

It's more skizuru, nihu, no.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

I mean, no, no, it should be uh the m the most leeway you get on it for a Japanese train would be like Sanju Biel.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

No, no, Sanhumok the konite.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Did they make an announcement explaining?

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Of course, of course.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

See, they wouldn't even do bother doing that. You could you could miss an entire train or an entire bus in the US and they would they wouldn't announce anything.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

I don't know, like they were like apologizing. But when remember I went to Barcelona, yeah, their train, oh my gosh, it counts down, like it comes in 30 seconds, 29 seconds, 15 I mean they even have that in San Francisco where I think they say like, yeah, you see the the train and you see how many minutes are like nine, no, but nine seconds, eight seconds. Oh, it's coming. Barcelona. I mean if we would thought I'm sorry, I thought they were the land of siesta, and I am so sorry, I apologize. Spain is the goat.

SPEAKER_02 25:50

When it comes to uh public. Oh, they did, yeah, that's true. Oh, was there any World Cup stuff going on in Japan while you were there?

SPEAKER_01 25:58

No, no, Japan already lost.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Oh yeah. Over. It's it was over. It's over. Yeah, if any of you want to travel uh to Japan, uh send us an email and uh a couple thousand dollars and we will be your tour guides or something. I don't know. That would be a that would be a great niche product.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

Now is a great time to go. 162 yens to a dollar.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

It keeps just uh getting better and better every time we talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

I know, gotta go.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Which is why we're selling shares and oh yeah, we just become like a finance bro say we're just talking about exchange rates. Well, let's get into the Ganki, shall we? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And we are are we almost halfway through? No.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

No. We have to study harder.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

Yeah, harder, harder, study harder.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

So we are on page 98.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

Page 98, okay. Sounds good.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

So I'm gonna go to V, which is five, section five.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

Oh, section Roman normal five. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Kohi o no mimasenka.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

Won't you have some coffee? Won't you drink some coffee?

SPEAKER_01 26:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

I assume with me is kind of implied.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Make suggestion using the cues below. Drink coffee. Kohi o no mimasenka.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

So we're using the negative present form of the verb plus ka for to make it a question.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Ka is the question marker.

SPEAKER_02 27:11

That's what I was telling them when we were studying hiragana. I was like, ka, this is a hiragana that is very important. You'll use it for pretty much everything. Yeah. Toll. This is also a very important hiragana that we use for everything. All right. So Okay, so number one. Masenka.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Masenka. Number one, see a movie.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

Alright. Ega ol mimasen ka. Yes. Ega movie. O uh making movie the object of the verb. Midu is to see or to watch. Uh mimas is to watch in the uh present and in the positive. Mimasen, present negative, ka makes it a question. Ega o mimasen ka. I'm just gonna break it down for those who are studying. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Okay. Number two, come to my house.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Oh, um. Oh, well, if you're coming to my house, then I'm telling you to to come to my house. Because I'm presumably at my house. So I'm gonna use kudu instead of iku. Um so uh I'll say i ni kimasenka. As in going to and uh kudu is kudu is a um kudu. Oh no, it's not yeah, kudu is uh one of the special uh verbs, right? Like it um like s um sudu, kudu and iku they're abnormal verbs because kudu it doesn't go kumas, it goes it changed to kimas. Yeah, kimas. It's only it's just one of the very few. It's always the uh most common words and verbs that are irregular for whatever reason. Yeah, yeah. And same thing with English, uh like B. Oh is a very am R is like a what logic does it all follow?

SPEAKER_01 29:04

But yeah, go and went.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

So uh kudu, uh kimas uh present uh to go uh uh sorry, to come, to come, kudu. Kimasen, negative, kimasen ka, adding the the won't you, adding the question to the end of it. So i um not e ye, yeah would be no, but just a short eye would be house. So ia nikimasen ka. Won't you come to my house?

SPEAKER_01 29:30

I want you to come to my house.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

And then but if you were to respond yes, what would you say? You would say hi. Hi i yeah, hi yeah. Well you would say ikimas. Ikimas, yeah, as opposed to ikimas, because you're going. Yeah, okay. Oh, uchi, yeah. Uchi, my house. Yeah. Yeah, probably uchi would probably be better for that. It's a little more personal, it seems number three, go to kyoto. Okay, go to kyoto. Kyoto ni ikimasen ka. Yeah. Kyoto ni ikimas. No, we want the negative ikimasen ikimasen ka. So anytime you hear masen in Japanese, that just that sound, masen, masen, that's like it's this this is like a neg negative some kind of negative thing, or it's not happening. Um whereas if you hear shimas or mas, if you hear mas, shimas, it's like something is happening or is going on, mas masen? Okay, it's like something's not happening or it's uh you know, there's something you're not doing. Mas masen, mas masen, mas masen.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

The number four, eat dinner.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

Bang gohan, otabema sen, ka?

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Nice. I was gonna say dina otabemasen.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

Yeah, I was gonna say dina as well, but that's not very helpful for people trying to learn.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Yu gohan.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Yeah, or you gohan. Yeah. So uh uh you gohan or or ban gohan. Is there you gohan is that sounds a little more formal, is it?

SPEAKER_01 31:01

Yeah, you gohan sounds a little bit earlier than ban gohan. Oh, I see.

SPEAKER_02 31:05

Yeah, okay. Kind of like supper or dinner. I don't know, yeah. Um Taberu to eat. Tabe mas uh eat uh I eat in the present. Tabe masen, don't eat, tabemasenka, dina, otabemasenka, ban gohan, otabe masenka, uh won't you have some dinner? Won't you eat dinner?

SPEAKER_01 31:29

Nice. Number five, study in the library.

SPEAKER_02 31:33

Uh Toshokan De Benkyol Shimasen ka. Nice. Toshokan library? De meaning at. Yeah, it's really is more at. I guess it could be n in. At and in. That was I would oh man, when I was teaching English to Japanese students, trying to explain the difference between at and in a location was uh that was the subject of hours of discussion.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Ah, that uh well sometimes you have huge chair.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

Is that a no, that's on the chair. In a chair.

SPEAKER_02 32:10

Yeah, I mean you you sit in a chair. I but you could sit on the chair. You can sit on the chair. Yeah, you don't sit at the chair. See if you want to say in and really mean in in Japanese, you'd be like no naka, no nakade. Inside, naka being the inside. Um but if you want to say kind of at the library, uh Toshokan de Benkyol, this is one of those uh words I was explaining that's a noun that you add sudu to the end of. So benkyol. We don't normally say study in English as a noun unless you're talking about like, oh, I'm going to drink tea in this study. Uh but that's a different kind of study. But you could say like uh the study of science, the study of English, the study of literature. And that's not study as a verb, that's study as a noun. So that's you could maybe think of benkyol kind of like that. But if you want to make it study like a verb, then you just add sudu. Sudu uh in present goes to shimas in negative, shimasen, add the ka at the end, toshokan de benkyol, shimasen, ka. Nice. Actually, uh, why don't we uh just study uh in this um lovely studio instead.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Okay, number six. Yes. Talk at a cafe.

SPEAKER_02 33:25

Oh, talk at a cafe? Yeah. I just had the image of someone like so you know in English when we say, Oh, I talk to Michelle, but if you feel like you're in one of those one-sided conversations, then you'd be like, Well, uh I wasn't talking to him. It was more like he was talking at me.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

You can use talking at to indicate like someone's so you're just talking at cafe. Yeah, yeah. And so you're just like a building. Hey cafe.

SPEAKER_02 33:52

Yeah, hi cafe. He's talking well, what is he? He's talking at the cafe. Uh but no, this is uh so yeah, lest you think Japanese particles are strange, even at in English. Uh huh. If you say talking at the cafe, uh if you were a second language speaker, you might think that it's like, what? He's talking at the cafe? Why would you Oh at as in why wouldn't you say talking in the cafe? But there you go. All the particles have different uses. So cafe. De There's so many things you could do for talking, but I'll say um I'm gonna say shabedu. Shabedi masenka. Nice. Shaberimasenka. So hanasu, hanashimas, hanashimasen, that's to talk. Uh in a very kind of To speak. To speak, to talk. Okay. Shabedu is like to chat. Yeah. Or to conversate.

SPEAKER_01 34:43

Conversate.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

Yeah, I think conver I don't know if conversation's a real word, but it might as well be. Yeah, to converse, to chat. Um it sounds more chatty. Shabedu shabedu. Uh uh shabu shabu restaurant de shabu shabu tabed shabed. Shabetu o tabete shabu shabu.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

Shabeto, tabete, shabu shabu, uh shabeto ka shabu shabu de tokicha. Okay, number seven.

SPEAKER_02 35:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

Drink tea at home.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

All right. Uh Uchi de Ocha o Nomi Masenka. Nice. Yes. Och cha tea, of course, could be ocha, could be ryoku cha if you want to be. Listen, if you if you want green tea at a Japanese restaurant, say ryoku cha. And either they will be very impressed with your Japanese or they're Korean.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Ah.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

One or the other. Yokcha.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Or ko-cha.

SPEAKER_02 35:39

Oh, kolcha. Well that's if you want like black tea.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Uh ho ji-cha.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

Hoji cha. Is that a is that the toasted rice tea?

SPEAKER_01 35:45

Yeah, toasted, yeah. I like toasted tea.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

I like the toasted rice tea. Although Yeah, that's the hoji cha. There's some tea, there's like a mugi cha though. Speaking of mugi again. I forget. Yeah, yeah. But it's not called mugi. Is it called mugicha?

SPEAKER_01 35:58

Yeah, mugi cha.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

I used to love mugi cha. It was a hot summer day, and I went to my friend Ron's house and his mother was serving cold mugi cha. It was just so good. Um, I guess a little bit, yeah. But it was more just kind of like toasty.

SPEAKER_01 36:13

No, because uh uh some people make that body tea sweet. Like here in America to like sweeten iced tea. Oh well, America just sweetens everything. Yeah, no, no, no. But in LA, iced tea is not sweet.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

Well, yeah, that's because we're a proper civilization over here.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

But when you go to South, yeah, the south. Sweet tea. Yeah. The South. Yeah, that that south. Sweet tea.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

Yeah, by default.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

So, so, so.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

And it's not just that. Um, Coca-Cola dispensers like in a McDonald's or whatever will have uh higher sugar and higher corn syrup content depending on where you are in the US. Because they've tested these by region to see what people, what kind of taste people are. It's actually sweeter down south.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

Oh. Last one. Eight.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

Eight.

SPEAKER_01 36:58

Listen to the music.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

Listen to the music. Ongaku. Oh, kikimasenka. Yes. Yay! Ongaku o kikimasen ka. Ungaku is music. Uh oh makes music the direct object of the thing you're gonna do to it. What am I gonna do to the music? I'm gonna listen to it. I'm gonna listen to that music hard. Yeah, I'm gonna listen to it so hard. Uh kiku is uh listen. And uh for those of you listening, there's a couple different uh kinds of verbs you could go over, but uh one of the main ways to conjugate a verb in Japanese is to take the oo that it ends in. Like I said, there's plenty of exceptions, but just something patterns you can listen for. Um something like kiku will become when you conjugate it will become ki ki. So the oo will become an e sound. This is a very common pattern. So um in the case of kiku, it becomes ki ki in any conjugation. So then you want to make a positive ki ki mas. You want to make a negative, ki ki masen. So it goes from kiku conjugated to kiki, and then what you put after the kiki uh in indicates any number of things it can become. But in this case, uh the present would be kiki mas, the negative would be kiki masen. Add the ka for a question. Ongaku o kiki masen ka. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

Yay! Now we are done with part A.

SPEAKER_02 38:32

Kiku also means to ask, which is like totally confusing for a long time. It's like what it means to ask and to listen. What the heck?

SPEAKER_01 38:39

Michyokiku. Asking for direction.

SPEAKER_02 38:42

Oh yeah, what the yeah. Oh, Michi ok. Yeah, that's a that's a uh like almost like an idiom. Uh because it literally means like to ask the street.

SPEAKER_01 38:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:52

But it means oh would mean to like it's yeah. I don't even want to get into the what what the actual linguistics of it might mean. But yeah, kikyo uh Michi ok, yeah, because you you could be like Michio Kikimasta. That that's gotta be like some kind of comic. Some kind of like oh Yaji Gyagu. Where it's like, oh, Michi o uh kikimasa, and it's like, oh, like what did the what did the non nanyo nanyoimasta ka? Like what did the what did the streets say? I don't know. And it would say it'd say uh uh naitaguda. Stop stepping on me, right? What did what did I pay work B.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

Ask your friend out for the activities in the pictures. Make sure to include the time and place of the activities as in the examples below. And this is on which page again? Oh, it's on page 98. Okay and it says example A Nichobini Toshokan deben kyoshimasenka.

SPEAKER_02 39:51

Okay, now we're adding a time. Yeah, right. One more time, please.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

And then B says i desne. Or sumasenga choto.

SPEAKER_02 40:04

All right. That sounds good. Sumimasen choto. Means no, but it doesn't say no. It doesn't say no, it it says um I'm sorry, excuse excuse me, uh sorry sorry, it's a little uh inconvenient. It's a little uh it's a little it's just a little so the number one is two people.

SPEAKER_01 40:28

They are sitting at the cafe, no maybe at home drinking tea.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

Oh, well, let me look at these amazing illustrations. Um it doesn't have any time. How would they want us to know what I mean? Is this all just happening on the street? I mean you could just choose anything.

SPEAKER_00 40:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:46

You could choose a month. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't say uh what we're supposed to do. Um yeah, they're just they're just doing activities. We don't know what time it is. We can only guess by context clues. Um all right, so if I were to look at this, oh that's the example. Yeah, make sure to include the time and place of the activity examples below. Uh sorry, Genki. Um here's notes from Nihungoto English. Yeah, uh Genki. Your uh section B on page uh ninety-eight. Really what you should say is ask your friend out for the activities in the picture. Uh make sure to include a time of your choosing because no time is indicated whatsoever in the pictures or below the pictures. That's really what you should say. You know, my guess is it was supposed to be like this on the previous page. Like have a time below or a day. But it don't got nothing. No. So we'll just make it up. Okay. All right, I'll be I'll be A. I'll be A, okay. I'll B A and U B B. Okay. U B B I B B A I B A I B A U B B I B S. I B A U B B. All right. Better than better than I B S, yes. Um let's see. Suyobini Uchi de Ochao non de shaberimasenka.

SPEAKER_01 42:13

Suyobi Suyobi this oh hi.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

Hi. Was it kudashi?

SPEAKER_01 42:24

Kula kula kudashi.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

No, not what's what's what's the word it's like it's like uh kudushi.

SPEAKER_01 42:30

Kudushi.

SPEAKER_02 42:31

Like it hurts my heart. Kudushi. That word just popped into my head. Oh, I got rejected. Michelle rejected. But yeah, look at this. They're drinking tea, they're talking. Yeah. It could be anything. But that's okay. They probably want to leave it open-ended. All right, number two. Doyobini Gorfu Kurabu de Tenis Yoshima Senka.

SPEAKER_01 42:54

Oh, there's your Tanuso Iko.

SPEAKER_02 43:00

Yeah, you totally play tennis. I mean, that's where I played tennis growing up at the golf club. You know, it's a country club. Okay. All right. How about um Mokiobini Akson Ega Omimasenka?

SPEAKER_01 43:21

Aksonega?

SPEAKER_02 43:23

Hi. It looks like I'm paying guys. I mean, I did I did extend the invite, so you know it's only polite that I covered. Am I mistaken, or is this guy like holding a gun in this movie?

SPEAKER_01 43:38

He is holding a gun. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

So violent. I don't know about that. Ganky. Your morals are slipping. Oh, and look at this. Oh, and now they're clearly just advertising McDonald's right here. It's maku. Yeah, that's what one of those lovely words uh Japanified. McDonald's. So McDonald's is difficult in Japan. Japanese for a variety of reasons. Normally in Japanese uh you have consonant vowel, consonant vowel, consonant vowel, su, mi, ma, sen. To, sho, kan. McDonald's, okay, we've got mik, which already is like an M and a C that are put together without a vowel in between. And then you have L D S. L is already difficult because we have ra, but you don't have L or R sounds. So you don't have the L sound, and then the L is already the sound you don't have in Japanese is connected to a D, that's then immediately connected to an S also. So McDonald's, which is three syllables in English, becomes makudonaru do doubles in the number of syllables.

SPEAKER_01 44:42

Yeah, when I was growing up, that commercial, the jingle, seka ino kotoba, makudonaruto.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

The word of the world?

SPEAKER_01 44:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

Is makudon. It sounds like uh kotoba.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

I'm like, oh yay, I know makudonaruto. I could go anywhere in the world.

SPEAKER_02 45:04

I heard they had a jingle that went makudonarudo. Makudonaruto. But that was the that was the the tonality that they used. Yeah. Makudonarudo. But then it just becomes short to maku.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

Depending on, yeah, makudo in Osaka and Maku in Tokyo.

SPEAKER_02 45:22

Oh. Okay. Good to know. And then Kentucky fried chicken becomes Kenta.

SPEAKER_01 45:27

Yeah, Kenta.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

Yeah. So it's a Kenta Ikimasho. It's like let's go to uh Krismasu de uh Kenta or Taberu. Taberu kuimas. Yeah, Kenta. That's all you need to know. Just go to say Kenta. But we are uh now uh on number four and we're gonna say Getsuyobini Maku Otabe. Uh I mean it's not I don't want to it's not maku. Say Hambaga. Hamba. Hambaga. Not hambagu. Hambagu is a ham like a hamburger patty with various Japanese dressings.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

Hambagu is that like salisberry steak?

SPEAKER_02 46:05

I guess you would say so. But I mean hambagu in Japan is like it's its own cuisine now.

SPEAKER_01 46:10

Yeah, hambagu.

SPEAKER_02 46:11

It's like a hamburger steak, I would say. Uh but you can have it like with uh omelet on top or uh yakitori sosu. Or you could have it withyaki sosu.

SPEAKER_00 46:20

Or I had a daikonoshi.

SPEAKER_02 46:22

Like mintaiko sosu.

SPEAKER_00 46:24

Daikonoshi.

SPEAKER_02 46:25

Yeah, so um that's hambagu. Hambaga is a hamburger that's between two buns. Like a hamburger. So uh getsuyobini uh hambaga o ishoni tabema senka. To you koto uh reta tutsun de uh karikari uh karikaris nakro uhimas uh the modajobu kana?

SPEAKER_01 47:02

Hi nemo guris goodis.

SPEAKER_02 47:06

Goodidu goodisu no goodis. Uh dakara hmed.

SPEAKER_01 47:13

Ah, the monokasu tiki shotaglamo soyamo.

SPEAKER_02 47:15

Shoganai. Shoganai. Shoganai. Let's see. Uh number five. So tsutsumu. That's a fun one.

SPEAKER_01 47:24

Hi.

SPEAKER_02 47:24

Tsutsumu. Oh, this is we're just drinking more tea over here. So we did uh getsuyobi, kayobi, suiyobi, mokuyobi, kinyobi. Kinyobi ni kafe de ishoni uhao no mi masenka.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

Ah, y dis ni nanji.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

Nanji? Uh tabun sanji. Sanjiga yideska?

SPEAKER_01 47:49

A sanji. Okay. Sanji.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

Sanjika sanji hang.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

Asanjika sanji hang. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:53

Sanjika sanji hanka uhojika yoji hanka.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

Nanji. Nanji deska. Doko no kafe.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Sanji, dokono kafe. Kawaii kyuto uh pinku flwa cafe.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

Pinku flawa kafe.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

Hi.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

Neko kafe.

SPEAKER_02 48:08

Neko kafe, hi. Uh ima korekara nekoj.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

Nekojita.

SPEAKER_02 48:14

Yes. It's the age of the cat.

SPEAKER_01 48:16

Ah, nekojita dishtimoska.

SPEAKER_02 48:18

Nekojita.

SPEAKER_01 48:19

Tongue. Kat tongue.

SPEAKER_02 48:21

Oh yeah, there is a an expression for cat tongue in but what does it mean in nekojita in Japanese? Because it doesn't mean the same thing in English, does it?

SPEAKER_01 48:30

Nekojita? Cat tongue in Japan is like someone who can't drink something too hot because Neko can't take things that's too hot.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

Right, like your tongue gets like it's kind of your tongue kind of goes back like But of course cat got your tongue. The English expression, are you familiar with that expression? No. Wow, after how many years have you been here? 38. 38 You've been here 38 and you've never heard or seen in a movie. So what's the matter? Cat got your tongue?

SPEAKER_01 48:55

No.

SPEAKER_02 48:56

It basically means like uh maybe someone says some of you or maybe accuses you of something, they know your secret. Uh-huh. Oh. And then you like you can't respond, like you're speechless. You're like, uh uh uh uh like you don't know what to say, and they can like they can make fun of you, like, oh what's the matter, cat got your tongue? Oh like you can't suddenly you can't speak, like what's up with that?

SPEAKER_01 49:15

Oh I I never heard Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:17

That's uh that's uh an expression. So Neko Jita and cat got your tongue are different, totally different meanings, um, depending on your language. Okay, number six Rukoban Moride uh Morude Doyobini Aisu Otabema Senka. Hi uh nanketsu kono dayeto chudes ka. Oh, isho Isho?

SPEAKER_01 49:47

Oh my life.

SPEAKER_02 49:48

Oh isho oh yeah, well what's uh what's a ishoken me?

SPEAKER_01 49:51

Ishoke me isok me hard, like trying my best, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:56

That's not the same isho as your life, is it? Like you're like you're working hard for your life.

SPEAKER_01 50:01

I guess isho that because it's the same kanji.

SPEAKER_02 50:04

Yeah, ishoke me, Gambadu and Ishoken Me are kind of like yeah, similar ideas, right?

SPEAKER_01 50:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:09

Uh so isho, all your life. Uh Dayatochu, Isho.

SPEAKER_01 50:14

Day Totchu, this.

SPEAKER_02 50:15

Uh uh. That's uh Kawaiisol.

SPEAKER_01 50:19

Kawaiisol.

SPEAKER_02 50:20

Oh wait, wait, no, Kawaii. Yeah, Kawaii Sol is like you feel sorry for a thing, right? Yeah, yeah. It's like a poor thing.

SPEAKER_01 50:27

Kawaiisol. Poor thing.

SPEAKER_02 50:29

Uh I'd say that's pretty good. Okay. We got through it.

SPEAKER_01 50:32

Thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_02 50:33

Of course.

SPEAKER_01 50:34

And please send email to us.

SPEAKER_02 50:37

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SPEAKER_01 50:51

Thank you for listening. Bye.

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Yay.

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Yay. Wasn't that great? So now we can respond to the chats. See, we didn't want to respond to your chats while we were kind of in the middle of uh podcast recording. But uh Lord Saturn, whose photo that is.

SPEAKER_01 51:22

Yes, that's your photo. Thank you for watching.

SPEAKER_02 51:24

Yes, I'm gonna do it. So is that uh the sunrise or the sunset? And actually, maybe that you can add this to the podcast. What's sunrise? Uh Hino de Hino de and Sunset?

SPEAKER_01 51:35

Hino idi?

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Hino idi? Yeah.

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Oh, it says hino hino de sound.

SPEAKER_02 51:39

Hino de ka hino idi deska. Or hino de soretomo hino iri deska. Oh, de like de gucci and idi like idi gucci? Yeah. Oh, so like sunrise, sunset, instead it's like the sun entrance and the sun exit. So he no he oh, and no, it's just the possessive. Yeah. Oh, he is the sun. So he no idi would be the sunrise and he no de the sunset. See, now I don't have to memorize the. I suppose it is guru, yeah. Yeah, but I would be think of it as like the sunset because the sun is like de gucci. Like the sun is exiting and it starts with the idi gucci. But it's de tekuru. This is what but then what's um hino idi would be where is it hinoidi? Hino idi. Is that idi Gucci no idi?

SPEAKER_01 52:34

Yeah, hino idi, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:36

So but isn't it so what that's the sun's entrance? No. The sun's coming. It's like so e it's like it's going in?

SPEAKER_01 52:43

Yeah, going in to the world.

SPEAKER_02 52:46

Maybe that's because it's yeah, it's like it's maybe they think the sun is like rising out of the sea. Aww. Right? Yeah. If you're thinking of it from the ocean and you're looking out and you're on the island of Shimaguni, like Japan, you say, He no de the sun is like coming out of the ocean, and then Hino Idi, the sun is going into the ocean. Yeah. You see, rising, setting, going in, going out. These are all totally subjective uh things and can change, especially what language and culture you're buying.

SPEAKER_01 53:16

And I saw both ways to the one side, uh Mount Fuji side.

SPEAKER_03 53:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:22

But on the way out, I couldn't see anything because it's it was cloudy. And then on the way back I saw Mount Fuji, but there's a cloud on towards the top. But I I saw some Mount Fuji. So I was taking pictures and my daughter's like making fun of me. She's like, ah, not so stupid, not stupid taking pictures of a mountain.

SPEAKER_02 53:47

It's only like one of the uh arguably, you know, the world's most cherished and beloved natural uh landmark landmarks in the world, right?

SPEAKER_01 53:56

Yeah, Mount Fuji, Japan. It calls Mount Fuji and toilet.

SPEAKER_02 54:00

Yeah, and also Mount Fuji the cup.