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Learning Japanese Through Momotaro, Menus & Mayhem Ep. 20

Nihongo to Enlgish no Show Podcast Season 1 Episode 20

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Michelle MaliZaki and Michael Allen (GoatVsFish) talk about viral Japanese meme culture, Momotaro, Japanese folktales, and funny restaurant roleplay in Episode 20 of Nihongo To English No Show.

This bilingual comedy podcast episode wanders through Michelle’s songwriting homework, her song “Nap Time by nap8sta” becoming the official song of National Napping Day, the Momotaro meme taking over Japanese social media, and a delightfully chaotic Japanese restaurant dialogue practice session. Along the way, they also talk about Japanese vocabulary, ordering food in Japan, and modern slang like kasuhara.

If you like Japanese language, Japanese culture, comedy podcasts, and learning through weird conversations, this episode is for you.

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Nihongo To English No Show 第20話では、Michelle MaliZaki と Michael Allen(GoatVsFish)が、桃太郎ミーム、日本の昔話、日本語でのレストラン注文、そして Michelle の曲 「Nap Time by nap8sta」 について語ります。

この日英バイリンガル・コメディポッドキャストでは、日本語学習、日本文化、日本のSNSミーム、レストランで使える日本語表現、食べ物の注文フレーズ、そしておかしな文化ギャップを楽しく紹介。桃太郎、金太郎、サバ定食、メニューの聞き方、そして kasuhara などの話題も登場します。

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Kombaba Kombama Konnichua Konichua Ohiozaimas Why are we going backwards?

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Back through time, yes.

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Nihongoto English no show podcast. I am your host, Michelle Marizaki.

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I am also your host, Michael Allen, CPA, comedic performance artist, and we are here to teach you language.

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Yeah. We try, we try.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we try and we try and have fun while we do it too. Are you having fun doing this podcast? I'm having fun too. I hope you're having fun listening out there. If you are having fun, thank you for uh liking and subscribing and following Nihongo To English on Instagram and writing us emails at Nihongo To English no show at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_03

Recommend to your friends. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So last time you asked me all about what I am doing next week, and I'm going to return the favor this time and say Raisu Marizaki Sama Nani Oshteimasuka. Oh gako, nan no gako?

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Community college de ongaku no kuraso top. Ongakunkasu. A besu Oshkimas.

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Beso hikimas.

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Hi. Nevo m uhada Mada Mario Makunaikido. Besohki masaga. A no songun I think no kuraso tote.

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Ah, Futatsu no Kurasu.

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Yeah, song I think no kurasu no shudai guy.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, shukudai uh homework.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, homework.

SPEAKER_00

Sukudai daikidae this.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, demos kuda idea hitosongo kakanakai kenai.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, you want to write a hit song?

SPEAKER_03

No, you and that's the homework. You have to write a hit song.

SPEAKER_00

Oh wow. Hmm. Well, I guess that's useful. But you had you released a hit song recently. You had like a hirune song, you had like a napping song.

SPEAKER_03

So you're nap time by napster.

SPEAKER_00

Naptime by Napster. Is that like your rapper name?

SPEAKER_03

The Google used to say I'm a musical artist in my genre. La Bua Disto. Oh, cool. Kakoi. Kakoi kedo. That's not true. They made They told me to prove it.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yo yo yo.

SPEAKER_00

So you proved it by releasing your naptime song?

SPEAKER_03

No, uh it it Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_00

You you did release a naptime song.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it it's been released.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, this is your podcast, so you could play a sample of it right now.

SPEAKER_03

It's the best song. It's the official song of National Napping Day. Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, hi. Hirunoshio. So do yate Marizaki san no nap time napsta uta uh officiaru ohirune no he no uta ni na kuzokite kure masta.

SPEAKER_03

Nasnaruna pingu de ni sete ni contactoste andosima sen. Tskukubalasi kono holideni matchta utagarun deskedo domoimas nanka officiarusongunishi masenka tala. Oh, that's a great idea.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, so you just asked.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Asking is free.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, cool. Congratulations. That was us this year? No, that was years ago. We have we have a real cultural celebrity here. Michelle's song about napping. It's called Once Again. And where is it? What platforms? Can you listen to it?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, any platform. You could buy it, buy it, buy it on Amazon Music or Apple, iTunes.

SPEAKER_00

What's it called?

SPEAKER_03

Naptime by Napster.

SPEAKER_00

Naptime by Napster. And that's the official song of the day. National Napster. National.

SPEAKER_03

So we should write a song about French fries because they have National French fries days.

SPEAKER_00

Oh wow. Well, maybe that's a whole business model. We just find every obscure holiday that doesn't have a song, and then we write the song and they're like, eh.

SPEAKER_03

National Donuts Day.

SPEAKER_00

National Donuts Day. Yeah, we could write a song about donuts. Ice cream.

SPEAKER_03

Ah! National Ice Koream Day.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you know, I've been slacking on um Japanese. Uh I I've gotten a lot of Japanese like more memes are coming through my phone. I could have brought them up.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but not ice cream anymore.

SPEAKER_00

No, ice cream is is old now.

SPEAKER_01

Now the new one goes um ding, didn't ding, didn't, dining, didn't, thing, dining, dining, dining, dining, ding, ding. Sono kyku.

SPEAKER_03

It's this huge, it's this huge meme. Sono kyokushi teru kido nan no kyoku.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I mean, it sounds like a like a like some kind of thing. Yeah, maybe it is uh already a song, but someone made an animation to it and it's like a a momotaro kind of animation.

SPEAKER_03

So ne Momotaro no tan.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, is it a Momotaro Uta? Oh, okay, so that's what I I thought maybe it was just someone making up their own song to a Momotaro animation, but that's actually a Momotaro song.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, nan to Kahito Kudasaina.

SPEAKER_00

Well, the the with the version I hear, it doesn't have any lyrics. It's someone made an animation to it. Where Momotaro is kinda like he's like running to the beat. It's like that. And then like the uh the kitsune and the tori and the uh what's it and the inu?

SPEAKER_03

Toriwa kijiwa a green pheasant.

SPEAKER_00

A green pheasant, of course.

SPEAKER_03

Why is it does it have to be green, not yellow?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. I don't know. So uh yeah, the the the dogs and they they do a little dance. They all do this little dance. Yeah, they do this whole this whole thing, and they they all have this little dance, and then uh momotaro like ignores them. They're like, What? He just keeps running by. He's just running. He's just running. And then the dog's like all offended, then the dog like runs ahead and then like does the dance again, and then by the second time he does the dance, then Momotaro like throws him a kibidango.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, it doesn't go down so kibidango.

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And then and then and then the Inu like follows him, and now the Inu is like doing the thing, and then they run into the the the Kiji. And so okay, so that's the animation. And it goes on for like many, many minutes, and then he fights the ogres, you know, the only at the end. So now, but now you go online and it's like everything it's mostly mostly women doing it, but they could be like high school girls, or they could be office workers, or they could be uh like fac not like I don't know, like not a factory, but like a like a distribution center kind of thing, or just influencer type people, and they're like doing they're doing they're doing the dance, and then one of them is like running in front of them and ignore and ignoring them. And then they're all like uh there's so many, there's infinite variations of the 10,000 views on this one, hundred thousand views on that one. So if we wanted to, we could I could I could put this on and I could be Momotaro in my thing, and then you have to learn how to do the dance.

SPEAKER_03

Right. But if we want first of all, you have to go by kibidango.

SPEAKER_00

Well, they don't have the kibidango. The meme, the meme is just you do the dance, and then I come from out of frame, I run by and you're like, Oh, he didn't stop for me or whatever. Right. But we could do variations where I throw kibidango at you. We could also do a variation where I could get the guy who plays guitar on my podcast that instead of using the actual audio, we could actually have him like playing it on the guitar.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Anyway, this would be work, but we could hop on this meme.

SPEAKER_03

Ah, Hayakushinakya.

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Yeah. So, but you know what I'm talking about over there, Japanese listeners. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. You know it. It's oh it's everywhere in my feed. I can't scroll three reels without seeing another uh couple of kawaii uh Japanese ladies doing the dance and then someone running by again. My god. The whoever whoever made that animation must be so happy because there's like everyone everywhere is all doing this and using the song and using the animation, and yeah, so it's a big deal. So yeah, this is um 3.7 million views. It was uploaded four months ago. Let's give this guy a shout out now that he needs it. He just goes by uh it's all katakana, but it's uh kome anime, so like rice animation. So congratulations, kome anime, uh, on your viral hit success of the Momotaro Monogatari. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Akataro.

SPEAKER_00

I've heard of them, but I don't know what their style is. The red child?

SPEAKER_03

No, akataro, basanga kodomogainakte, kodomoga hospital.

SPEAKER_00

That sounds like Momotaro.

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So so the beambo now, uh, you tight of ro ni hai tarataksan, akara de te akade Akade ni nate akataro.

SPEAKER_00

So like the redness of the skin of the bathtakers became a child. It's not even red. Is that what you said? Is that what you say?

SPEAKER_03

It's not even red. It's the how do you call it um the dead skin?

SPEAKER_00

Oh gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dead yeah, the dead skin.

SPEAKER_03

Um the akatarol.

SPEAKER_00

Like so, so they went in the bath and the dead skin that was washing off of them formed into a child. Wow.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they made like uh clay and then Okay.

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Yeah.

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So a lot of aka.

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Yeah. Well, I mean, maybe that's just what they would tell kids, like, oh mom and dad, where do babies come from? It's like, well, we get in the bath and then our skin sheds and forms into a clump. Yeah, that this all it's kind of interesting though that this um dovetails nicely with uh Japan's current uh, you know, it's it's not just Japan, but Japan has is notorious for having a birth rate crisis right now. So maybe you just need more more old grandparents need to take baths together or find like giant peaches and then we'll find more children, right?

SPEAKER_03

A kintaro.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I don't know where Kintaro is. Kintaro is like metal? Oh, the gold the golden child, okay. So, so so so.

SPEAKER_03

Kintaro a masakari, he's got the axe.

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Mm-hmm.

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Masakarimot.

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So when is the big um Avengers Endgame style crossover where Momotaro, Kintoro, and Akataro all get together and they fight, you know, some oni or something.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, maybe. Which island is it?

SPEAKER_00

Oh. I don't know, onigashima.

SPEAKER_03

I saw onigashima.

SPEAKER_00

Really? That's it?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, onigashima. Oh, yoko.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, it's just the on the demon island. Right. Okay, so that's that meme, but you were telling me about what were you doing this week?

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah. I have to write a hit song.

SPEAKER_00

So you're trying to write a hit song and you have an intro.

SPEAKER_03

I have an intro.

SPEAKER_00

So what do you want to what's like what's it about?

SPEAKER_03

So I was I was late to come here because I was I was trying to add on to my stuff. I got the bones, I got the structures, and I have all the chord progression going, and I was gonna listen to it in my car, and I th I bounced it, I put it on my phone, and as soon as I got into my car, I listened to it, and it was nap time wrong song.

SPEAKER_00

Oh I have to go on.

SPEAKER_03

So then you took a nap and then Yeah, yeah, to get here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You said I was late to get here.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

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Sounds a little awkward.

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Is it?

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Just I mean it's easily understood. I would be like uh I was right I I was late today because I was late today because Or you could say you could say I was late today because or if you want to say I was late getting here. Okay. I was late getting here because I was late. Yeah, you could say that. Um but saying I was late to get here just for whatever reason. We don't put the two after. Oh I don't think it's wrong. It just doesn't sound right. I was late to I was he was late to arrive. I guess it's okay. But I just I usually put it the other way. I was I was I was late getting here um or I I arrived late today. Definitely say I arrived late today.

SPEAKER_03

Uh I'm always arriving late. And then that's what that's the fence.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

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Fenceau.

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There's a fence in my neighbor's yard that's falling into my driveway. Yeah. Abunaides, y'all. So yeah, we're gonna have to do some fence removal. That didn't make me late. That's just something I have to deal with.

SPEAKER_03

I'm always late. Um why? Why? Yeah, why? I thought to get here on time today.

SPEAKER_00

You know why first time you're late because you've been living in America too long.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my no. Are you saying CPT?

SPEAKER_00

No, I'm saying I didn't know CPT.

SPEAKER_03

I'm not saying that. Oh, we don't need to talk about that, do we? No, no, no, no. I didn't know CPT. I'm into Atlanta. Atlanta, there. Yeah. I know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Well, yeah, they will that will come up at a comedy show. Hi. That would be like a little udo side.

SPEAKER_03

So goji han ni koitano hatij. That's when I learn BPT.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. I mean, I'm not a I'm not a BP, so I can't um I can't confirm or deny the rules of this uh of this alleged uh time scale. Well well here's what here's what I'll say about this on this sensitive subject of black people time slash colored people time, as you are alluding to. So as far as I know, you're not you're not black. Right? Oh, okinawa time. Well well, there's also the concept of like island time. But all of Japanese is a shimaguni anyway.

SPEAKER_03

Shimaguni time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but yeah, I learned some more relaxed time. But here's here's my rule on when in these situations where I feel like I I I have no um, you know, I can't comment, right? But you are browner than me. Okay. Because you're Asian and I'm essentially white, right? So even though I feel discomfort talking with you about colored people time, you are more colored than me, so I d so you have more authority on the subject than I do. Okay. So I so I have to Okay, I have to let it slide.

SPEAKER_03

You know, the I have to defer. I have to.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so as a white person, I have to let the Asian person talk about colored people with authority because I can't correct her. If I correct her, it's rude. I can't do it. So I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03

So I didn't know about I've been living in America forever. And then I learned about BPT in Atlanta.

SPEAKER_04

Sure.

SPEAKER_03

Then Siaturo nitala Hokano Comedianga, uh, CPT. Eh, nani CPT nani, I know BPT, but I know I don't know CPT. And they're like, uh color people time. I'm like, uh what? My time?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it is more expansive, yeah. Because that could apply to all all manner of uh I mean I'm a I'm a color too. I mean, you know, we say white, but I'm not there's not just a thing as white skin, really.

SPEAKER_03

I was offended. I'm like, what do you mean? I'm just I'm on time. But you weren't on time because you're late today.

SPEAKER_00

But but that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03

But ever since we started doing this podcast, I've never been she's always been about 15 jugohoon minutes late.

SPEAKER_00

Oh sorry. Sorry. But she is very Japanese in that she always uh messages me with like, oh, I am so sorry. I am so sorry. I don't mean it. I'm going to be 15 minutes late. And I'm like, thank goodness, because I'm not dressed, I'm still eating breakfast, and I need to clean up my studio. So it works out okay. So you can just be on Michelle time.

SPEAKER_03

Uh my time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Uh and you've got Stationary Park coming out.

SPEAKER_03

So stationary park good.

SPEAKER_00

That's your big uh stationary and pen paper festival.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Right? When's that again?

SPEAKER_03

May 16th and 17th.

SPEAKER_00

May 16th and 17th in Santa Monica here in California. I'll be there. Goat versus fish will be there. I'll be there with Maddie Mutations again. And we'll be writing poetry and um, you know, adding a little bit of fun, fun to the festival.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and then we're gonna be we're gonna have Scavenger Hunt, Stamp Rally Bingo, and more.

SPEAKER_00

And more, and patches, you said.

SPEAKER_03

I got patches. You know, patches sounds terrible because uh nan yetomonot book. Hi, okay.

SPEAKER_00

Uh nudie is a colouring book. Oh, eh, like a drawing?

SPEAKER_03

So nudiva paint.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Well, I mean there's uh she sells seashells by the seashore. Yeah, there's uh there's something about a the girl who sells matches. I don't remember exactly what the story is. Right, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, the more than I don't know why my mom bought that but she bought me that matj no shot. So I bought it.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I know why she bought it.

SPEAKER_03

Why?

SPEAKER_00

Well, that's why you're I mean, I understand we live in a capitalist economy and we all gotta make money, and I love making money and all that. But I think maybe, you know, your maybe your love of making the money can't she wanted to scare you, is what I'm trying to say. She wanted you to read about this young girl selling matches and scare you into never being poor. Like, I don't want to sell matches, I'll have to do I'll have to become a podcaster. Yeah, way to go. Lesson learned.

SPEAKER_03

So no, no nurie or no titala. I was like so happy to get coloring book. Yeah. And then next day, I saw kita la sojo no do it, patchy got a big thing.

SPEAKER_00

You get to color the patches, right?

SPEAKER_03

No, no, no. There was no patches when my mom got it. Last night there was no match on patches, but my dad drew the patches on all the girls' dresses. I was crying. And my my dad's like, Whoa, machig no shojo, bimbo da cara, Fukuni Pachigatsuka night.

SPEAKER_00

Sounds like your dad just really wanted to play with the coloring book. He's the inner child. He was like, I w I'm he was he was jealous of you and your gift. He's like, why doesn't my wife get me any coloring books? They make coloring books for adults now, you know.

SPEAKER_03

I was like five years old.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, oh yeah, you'd be devastated. It's like why did you ruin my book? Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03

So there that's my dad.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Well, you know, I see where you're getting your sense of humor from. It's kind of funny. Let's make learning fun. What's our what are we doing here?

SPEAKER_03

Page 76. Matomenor review exercises.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, we're still reviewing. That's okay. That's fine. Look, cause if you're getting through the book, you deserve to have someone suffer with you. So let's do it.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Role play.

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Okay.

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One student is a store attendant. Oh, missing no store. The other is a customer. Use dialogue uh one as a model.

SPEAKER_00

I don't see no dialogue one or dialogue two. So we've got a whole bunch of stuff here. So um discussion. Yeah, yeah. So menu this. Hi. So we're in a restaurant.

SPEAKER_03

So are you do you want to be the store attendant or the customer?

SPEAKER_00

Um, I will uh be uh the customer. Or we could flip a coin for it. Or we could we could do um we could do uh what's it called?

SPEAKER_03

Uh Jangpon.

SPEAKER_00

Jong Ken Pong and Jong. The winner gets to choose which one they get to be.

SPEAKER_03

Jong Kim.

SPEAKER_00

Alright. Jong Ken Pong.

SPEAKER_03

Oh Magito.

SPEAKER_00

Uh Bokuno Kachides. Alright, so I will be the um Kyakusan. What?

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, uh Osh to Madeska. Uh Doko de uh Swatemuyi deska. Uh, I count I count that.

SPEAKER_03

Have you decided?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, oh, ego su go it.

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Uh,

SPEAKER_00

Madaki Matena Osusumewa.

SPEAKER_03

Osusumeva kyo no osusumewa sabate shoku.

SPEAKER_00

Sabate shoku. Hi. Saba sabate was sabba no sakana no sabba.

SPEAKER_02

Hi so this.

SPEAKER_00

Ah, so this can't. Sorry about Shiyoyaki Saba no uh uh doyate uh sabbat scoot te maska and nanika hate maska.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, shoyoyaki this.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, sorib uh oh te soku. Soriva saba shioyaki te should uh so this guy. Ah demo uh uh uh soba soba soba moari maska. Hi Zaru Soba uh Zarusoba Soba uh Santo uh Soba ka komugi ko mohaite maska. Uhtowa karimu.

SPEAKER_03

Udo pasento komugi.

SPEAKER_00

So this yo, so this is uh sandwichimo area. Uh hi, hi demo sandwich no uh so chikinka yasai ka uh tamago toho hamu. Tamago hamu sando.

SPEAKER_03

Hi.

SPEAKER_00

Uhimate naikido uh kora wa iponkuda sai.

SPEAKER_03

Kora hi, just so much kudasai. Hi, kora dodo.

SPEAKER_02

Hi, akustio si ni skill.

SPEAKER_00

So kare mo arimas. Kale hi. Pasta morimas. Toto uh setumeste kuremaska pasta desh. Pasta doso. Hi.

SPEAKER_03

A pasta wa uh napolitan des napolitan. Hi, uh kalewa pokukale this.

SPEAKER_00

Pokukare. Katsukare, this ka. I get a katsukare, fried fried points. Okay. Uh I su oh isukurimu.

SPEAKER_03

I sukurimu.

SPEAKER_00

Banida deshirokanaya banina wa futsu this ramen ramen or ramen no no supua ramen no supua eto soyuto siyoto miso arimas. Hi, hi. Ah, tonkotsu.

SPEAKER_03

Tonkotsuan night.

SPEAKER_00

Tonkotsuan. Hi. Uh you a kohio. Sorry, I want to hide mask.

SPEAKER_03

Ato curi.

SPEAKER_00

Uh nijunen my and nihon ni sunde kono kaiwa gana shites.

SPEAKER_03

A so deska.

SPEAKER_00

Hi.

SPEAKER_03

Ato mirku marimasu.

SPEAKER_00

Mirku naika. Uh sorry uh gunu this car. Hi, gunu des A gunu mirku hi.

SPEAKER_03

Ato ju marimasu.

SPEAKER_00

A juice uh ju sorewa orangika sutoro berika meronka remonka mikan de ka ju ju sa. Mm. And we have kocha.

SPEAKER_03

Kocha marimas.

SPEAKER_00

Kocha animas kero uh ryokucha arimasu. You have green tea. Hi. Hi. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Doregaidisko.

SPEAKER_00

Doregaidis. Tabeta kunai. Uhari uh onaka uh nananda. What do you say? Onaka nice. Sweet, sweet night.

SPEAKER_03

Kite kuda sa.

SPEAKER_00

Hi. Uh uh okay, okay. Uh sushi are maska. Bet you know, kyaku sumaga.

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Hi.

SPEAKER_00

Tech. Hi, tasteukhimas.

SPEAKER_03

Gohan, oh mori deska.

SPEAKER_00

Go hama omori des. Hi, hi, kashama. Hi, machimas. Hi.

SPEAKER_03

Hey dozo.

SPEAKER_00

Nisan yandis. Nisan in this. Ooh, yasui.

SPEAKER_03

Yasui.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, I guess. Chipuga di must. Chipuga hits you this guy. Chipu naidas. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Bye.

SPEAKER_00

Bye bye.

SPEAKER_03

Matakitiku sai.

SPEAKER_00

Matakimas. So there you go. Yay. I just showed you the extent of my ordering. I could have been like, ah, sabaatsukido. Kasa hard.

SPEAKER_03

Kasuhara.

SPEAKER_00

Hmm.

SPEAKER_03

Customer harassment. Kasuhala.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, is that is which way is that? Is that the customer harassing the person? Okay. Kasuhara. Ooh. Kasuhara. That also kind of funny because to cuss is like to swear in English. Say a bad word. Kasuhara. Is Kasuhara an issue in in Japan? Soyo.

SPEAKER_03

Karen.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, kadeng. Are they calling it kada has karen gone international? No, we call them kasuhara. Kasuhara. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of hara going on in Japan.

SPEAKER_03

So matahara.

SPEAKER_00

Matahara. Sekuhara.

SPEAKER_03

Mm-sekuhara. Sume hara.

SPEAKER_00

Sume?

SPEAKER_03

Smell harasmin.

SPEAKER_00

But like going up and smelling someone?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, like, no, if you have like so much smell, you know. Whoa.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, okay, okay, okay, Japan. Cool it a little bit. So if someone is wearing too much cologne.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Or like B-O. Bio.

SPEAKER_00

That sounds like it could be weaponized pretty easily against people you don't like. Yeah. You could just be like, oh. Like anyone you don't like, you could just be like, what do you say? What do you say it's smell? Sumihala. Sume? You can just be like, oh soup, they're they're doing Sumehara. Sumehara. And if enough pe like it's so I don't know if I like that. I mean, I understand it it I don't know about that. I don't know about that. I mean, I guess it's harassment if you're like shoving their face in your stomach. But if you're just existing and you smell bad, like are you really harassing them? That's a bit much. Yeah, sumada. Sumehana. But you so you could just add hara to anything.

SPEAKER_03

You could be like uh harat means stomach too.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's right. Yeah. So you could be like uh Kudamon Hara. It's like throwing tomatoes at throwing tomatoes at uh the comedians.

SPEAKER_03

But before that, tomato wa kudamonokaya saika.

SPEAKER_00

Well sonoka more chimash dayo. Kudamono this, yo.

SPEAKER_03

Kudamono kudamono hala, kudahara.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, sa cotono sada wa kua.

SPEAKER_03

Tomato hai demos.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yatsugiri.

SPEAKER_00

Yatsugiri.

SPEAKER_03

Like cut slice.

SPEAKER_00

Oh.

SPEAKER_03

Yatsu like um eight.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, okay. Yatsugiri. A classic eight slice. So but you could be like Mitsugiri. Cut into three pieces.

SPEAKER_02

Four pieces.

SPEAKER_03

Tomato no sama totokiri ni kui.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, kiri ni kui.

SPEAKER_03

But that's But if it's like uh gothic bread, Mitsugiri.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_03

But tomato Mitsugiri Sakashi.

SPEAKER_00

You could be like Hyakugiri.

SPEAKER_03

Sorry about Sengiri.

SPEAKER_00

Sengiri.

SPEAKER_03

Like cabbage.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. Oh, that just like it just means like a lot.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. Like no tonkatsu nutsu.

SPEAKER_00

So you could like request uh hi, uh tonkatsu kudasai uh uh qiri tonkatsu kudasai. Yokunai all the numbers I pick you don't like. So you can't do four slices, you can't do three slices. No, you can't do it. No, that's four.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, yeah, on tonkatsu you could do three. But maybe not four, because four it's death.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but four is like in quarters, it's so it's so you know, you want to cut things out. Because you know, one, two, bam. Cut things.

SPEAKER_03

And then, yeah, I want I want I want my tonkatsu cut.

SPEAKER_00

That'd be a great see, this is what I think. You know, we need to we open like a like a Japanese restaurant, but like everything is off just ever so slightly, and and we have tonkatsu, and it's like and then it's cut like like that. It's like, what have you done?

SPEAKER_03

You're not gonna get tipped.

SPEAKER_00

Well, that's okay. But I guess they have that. They have there's a whole genre of viral videos again, which is like I don't know. There'll be a piece of paper that has like a dotted line on it, and then someone will take the scissors and they'll be cutting on the dotted line and then they'll just veer off the dotted line.

SPEAKER_03

Oh. None then you just watch it and go like, uh, stop. Not like that.

SPEAKER_00

And then they'll do some other thing with like a cookie cutter and they'll like intentionally like do it wrong. And it's just a whole video genre. So yeah, so we could make um just the anointing. We could make a tonkatsu, yeah. It's like, all right, cooking, cooking with Nihongoto English. All right, let's cut it into four pieces, and then it's like you cut it wrong. It's like, oh, what have you done? You've ruined the tonkatsu by cutting it wrong. Yeah, we cut it into quarters. Uh huh. Well, tonkatsu is kind of like a have you ever had schnitzel? Oh, she's tonkatsu to schnitzel.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, shunitsu tabatoy.

SPEAKER_00

I've been frying food. Oh, yeah, because I found this really special flour from Italy.

SPEAKER_04

Oh.

SPEAKER_00

That's like a gluten-free flour, but it's not not because it's like a blend of other flowers, but because they've somehow removed the gluten from the wheat.

SPEAKER_01

Oh.

SPEAKER_00

So it's still wheat flour, just without the gluten. And I've been making carage, and I've been making um kind of like this. Well, I'm just coating cabbage and flour and frying it. Calling it a croque. It's like more of like a fritter, I guess. Oh. Or like a pakora. Alright, so we just did some some restaurant. Okay, but why don't why don't we um we do a shorter version, but why don't you be the tenin san and I'll be the masa.

SPEAKER_03

You're a master.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And what does she tein song? I was ten san before.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, sorry, I was confusing tenin sanctions.

SPEAKER_03

Same as in kahe no kya sangata on this keto kuto.

SPEAKER_00

Ah, demo uh te suga or tabichata this gun. Hi, the takara mundai wanan diska.

SPEAKER_03

Munday wanaka yana kanji nami.

SPEAKER_00

Yana kanji uh so this can.

SPEAKER_03

So harajana.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, Doshi Masho.

SPEAKER_03

Mo Yameru.

SPEAKER_00

Moyamedu is it I'm gonna quit. Oh, mo oh, yeah, yum, yam uh dem demo hocano uh te tening samaga night.

SPEAKER_03

Shinanai.

SPEAKER_00

Shinanai, demo yachingaru yo do yate harai maska. Yamita yamitakara papakatsu sh yo.

SPEAKER_03

Papa papakatsu.

SPEAKER_00

Papakatsu Sugar Daddy?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I'm gonna go find sugar daddy.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, day. Nansa. Jij katsu. Okay, demo Mada Kyono Shigoto Mada Nijikan deskara to mochoto.

SPEAKER_03

Nemo keksanda in this kut.

SPEAKER_00

Uh dakara koda kudasai.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Hi. Hi.

SPEAKER_00

Arigato.

SPEAKER_03

Hi.

SPEAKER_00

Hi. Kungan stayu yame naide kudasai.

SPEAKER_03

Dosh yokana.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. That was fun.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

All right.

SPEAKER_03

So thank you for listening. Like, review, and recommend to your friends.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And follow us on the Hongoto English on Instagram. And did I say that that we have a Twitch channel too? Yes. We're gonna we're definitely feeling like we're gonna do this live streaming thing. Yeah. I think there's something in that. Yeah, follow it on Did get one follower on Twitch, but you know, I don't I don't suspect that many of you. No, I got I got one um Twitch follower from my goat versus fish community. So that was very nice. Yeah. More Nihongo Toing list to come. We're approaching 1,000 downloads, which is just so awesome. It's can be very tempting to want to go viral and explode, but in views overnight. But you know what feels really great is just having a community of dedicated listeners who are really interested in what you're doing. So thank you so much for listening and telling someone that you know about it. Yeah, send us a an Instagram message on the Hongoto English and ask a question or tell us something you want us to talk about or anything you want. We'd love to hear from you because we know you're listening out there. We know, we know you're listening.

SPEAKER_03

Well, thank you. And Hatchane.

SPEAKER_00

Hatsane. Bye bye. See you next time.

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