Japanese Verbs ~ますか Questions, Eucalyptus Candy from Spain & Weird Al's Gonna Die | EP 29

Learn Japanese with Genki Chapter 3! In EP 29, Michelle MaliZaki and Michael Allen (CPA) tackle 〜ますか questions with verb practice straight from page 95 — 読みます, 飲みます, 見ます, します — and turn a textbook "guessing game" into a full-blown points competition. (Michael loses. There's a scoreboard now. Things are getting serious.)

Before the Japanese grammar kicks in, we sample a mysterious eucalyptus-menthol candy souvenir from Spain, debate the world's best herbal tea (ginger turmeric supremacy?), and celebrate Michael's 100th Morning Motivational episode — powered by exactly 10 squats a day.

Also in this episode: Japanese bean vocabulary (ひよこ豆 = chickpea = baby chick bean, you're welcome), an accidental anatomy lesson (心臓? 腎臓? 象??), how to play だるまさんがころんだ — Japan's answer to Red Light, Green Light — and Michael's review of a fringe show called "Weird Al's Gonna Die." (He's fine. Probably.)

Plus: why is タコ both an octopus AND a kite? Japan, explain yourself.

Questions, comments, or Daruma donations: NihongotoEnglishnoshow@gmail.com

No homework. Just bilingual chaos — and somehow you learn.

日本語学習×バイリンガルポッドキャスト第29回!今回は『げんき』第3章、95ページの「〜ますか」の質問練習に挑戦。読みます・飲みます・見ます・します — 教科書の「当てっこゲーム」がいつの間にかガチの得点勝負に。(マイケル、負けました。)

グラマーの前には、スペインのお土産・謎のユーカリ&メンソールキャンディを実食!最強ハーブティー論争(生姜ターメリック茶、優勝?)、そしてマイケルのMorning Motivational番組100回達成のお祝いも。毎日スクワット10回の力、恐るべし。

さらに:ひよこ豆の英語(chickpea = ひよこの豆!そのまま!)、なぜか始まる内臓の単語レッスン(心臓?腎臓?象??)、「だるまさんがころんだ」の遊び方講座、そしてマイケルが観た舞台『Weird Al's Gonna Die』のレビューも。(ウィアード・アルは元気です。たぶん。)

おまけ:「タコ」はなぜ octopus でもあり kite でもあるのか。日本語、自由すぎる。

みしえる・まりザき&マイケル・アレン(米国公認会計士)がお届けする、英語と日本語がいきなり切り替わる番組です。

ご感想・メッセージはこちらまで:NihongotoEnglishnoshow@gmail.com

宿題なし。バイリンガルカオスだけ — なのに、なぜか身につく。

Theme Jingle by Michelle MaliZaki

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Papa Welcome to Neongo English No Show.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Mexican Poy. Mexican Poy, Mexican Poyo. It might be that, but it might also be uh uh German Jaman Poy. Yeah, well. But there's actually a lot of uh history between German or at least you know that that part of the world German uh Bavarian uh polkas coming to Purka coming to uh Mexico. And that's why they have some similar sounds.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

Ah, so this yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

So I don't know where that particular song originated, but whether it originated uh in Mexico or in Deutschland, they have similar origins or at least related origins.

SPEAKER_04 1:14

And they are played a baseball game.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

Yeah, baseball games, bar mitzvahs, pretty much anywhere, sleep away camps. We have the chicken dance. Chicken dance.

SPEAKER_04 1:25

Chicken dance makes me hungry.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

Oh cosuita, nani o tapetai. Ah, some of paea. Chicken paya motion.

SPEAKER_04 1:41

Candy.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Oh, candy.

SPEAKER_04 1:43

Hi, I know Spain the cut tiki mast.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Oh, okay. Omiyage. Sabor. Uh uh, eucalypto. So it must be eucalyptus and menthol. So, so so sweet land.

SPEAKER_04 1:57

No, no, no sugar.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Wait, this is a uh omyage. Oh, this looks like a piece of tape. Look at this.

SPEAKER_04 2:16

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Oh, well, next time, just check the zyro. Zyio, uh. And if it doesn't have milk, then it's okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:28

Uh so de ato, nanake. And the cookie to kava komu gikogaite so.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

So this. Okay, this. Let's have a eucalyptus and menthol. Candy. Ooh, look at these guys. They're almost like um jade. Little jade beads. Here we go. Mmm. Spain point.

SPEAKER_04 2:56

Spain point.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

No, I mean it tastes like um candy. Tastes like a eucalyptus menthol candy. They're not great for podcast recording.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

No, but I'm gonna kid this. It's not too sweet.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Well asa mintutimo uh non daka. So this.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

Oh, minto tea.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Osare? Uh minto tea uh ginger tea uh chumeriku nabaru chi this. Oh, meric, okay.

SPEAKER_04 4:08

Atto Kam Pepa Oh, you de Guru.

SPEAKER_01 4:17

Also this guy. I wish he saw it.

SPEAKER_04 4:19

Uh it is gonna be uh nani ni hongoto English no potokesto.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Yeah, well, we could uh sell supplements, right? Uh supplement That's every podcaster has to sell supplements, right? Well, maybe we could sell uh our own brand of morning tea.

SPEAKER_04 4:43

Tea ato nanka vitamin si taburetto to ka.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Yeah, sure. Who knows what's in it? It could just be filled with mint and eucalyptus. We could just uh imported from Spain. Ah, yeah. But yeah, I've been enjoying the tea. Uh Mada Mada Haru this, yo. Hi. Natsu uh ni narimas. Um I wanted to use a different word than Naru. Natsuga kuru. Natsugat. Natsugakuru. Hi. I wanted to use like um well in English we sometimes say the seasons are turning. Like this transition it's Kawaru. But um Yeah, Aragiwa Tai Handis.

SPEAKER_04 5:32

Haruwa, yeah. So this.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Oh, Fahrenheit. Oh yeah, I've been hearing about that. Yeah, Mundai Mundai Nina Chata. So so so so. Hi.

SPEAKER_04 6:02

Global warming.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Yeah. Climate change, global warming, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. It's here. We've got the fan on. But let's see. Um yeah. If you are new to the show, we talk about anything.

SPEAKER_04 6:19

In nothing.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

In both English and Nihongo. And we don't uh tell you when we're going to be switching from one to another. We just kind of do it at our own desire. But that's our niche, you know? If you want someone to hold your hand through uh Japanese-English conversation, then you've come to the wrong place. We're here to talk in English and Japanese whenever we want and however we want. But you've done them with me on the morning motivational show. Yeah. I think that I don't even think that I'm doing them. I mean, I forget that I do them every morning or at least four times a week. But I think it is actually helping me. Just to be doing even though it's just 10 squats, just with that consistency, I think like my knees haven't bothered me in a while. And they used to bother me a lot. And I think it's just because I'm just consistently doing something. Yeah. Uh six pac.

SPEAKER_04 7:50

The little um cup sake. Oh, yeah. You could buy at 7-Eleven, like, so so.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

Those are fun. I like getting those. One cup of Ozeki this, one kegu, one bidukegu. Yeah, the one the one pack. No, getting a six pack uh would require oh tremendous effort. And also maybe being twenty years younger. But some some combination of the two. Yeah. No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:18

I think I'm like more like two pack.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Yeah, I mean I I I would like to uh get a little bit leaner, but that just means eating uh nothing but cabbage and can too enough for a little bit. Also mame.

SPEAKER_04 8:41

No, don't no mame desko.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

Um akamame? Akamame. Like uh red kid kidney beans. Kitoni beans chickpea.

SPEAKER_04 8:54

Yeah, hiyoko chickpea.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Uh let's talk beans, guys. Beans. Beans were a big meme for a while. So it's hiokomame chickpea. And then the red one, the red kidney beans to say kidney beans.

SPEAKER_04 9:05

I don't know. Kitoni beans. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

I don't know. There's so many bean varieties out there.

SPEAKER_04 9:09

Like that kitoni jinzo. Jinzo mame.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

That's well, I think it's just because they're shaped like a kidney, right?

SPEAKER_04 9:17

Is that kitoni jinzo or I don't know, kanzo? Uh kanzo by liver. Okay. So ginzo's gotta be kidney.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Okay. So zol is um both elephant and also any kind of organ?

SPEAKER_04 9:30

Yeah, organ.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

Okay. Nice. A word you might never need to know, but now you know.

SPEAKER_04 9:35

Uh like shinzo, heart.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Oh, shinzo is heart?

SPEAKER_04 9:39

Yeah. Shin kokoro. It's shin.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 9:42

And Zol.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Oh, yeah So Shinzo is more like a medical term for heart than um kokoro.

SPEAKER_04 9:51

Yeah. Hato.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Uh-huh. Hato, yeah. Hato. So three levels of Japanese. Hato. Medihato. And then kokoro and then shinzo. Shinzo. Uh-huh. And what are lungs?

SPEAKER_04 10:05

Hai? Hai is not no do.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

Hmm. Strange. And then skin.

SPEAKER_04 10:13

Hifu? Kawa? Hifu.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

Kao. Yeah, kawa hi hifu.

SPEAKER_04 10:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Hmm. Skin is an organ, apparently. Anyway, we were talking about beans. Yeah. And then we got onto organs. So yeah, beans okay. Uh sere ninjin. Tamanegi. We're trying over here. We're we're we'll we'll work on that.

SPEAKER_04 10:30

Heruchi potokasto.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Here she potokasu, hi. And then um chocolato kiki.

SPEAKER_04 10:39

Chocolato kiki tabetara. So imama de tabita ninjito tamanegito.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Mean uh don't na chocolato kekikaski diska.

SPEAKER_04 10:52

Nanga bla foresto cake.

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Flourless chocolate cake.

SPEAKER_04 10:56

Ah, flourless oyshi, oisi.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Who needs the flour? You just want the the chocolate and the butter and the sugar anyway. You don't need the flour. Flour is just filling. My uh kotobah. Moshi cake no sudaisu atara. Gizagiza. Wa karori haitena. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, if you uh have a slice of cake or something and you cut it and unevenly and there's like a little extra on the side and you make another cut just to even it out, uh the part that's left over after you even it out uh contains no calories whatsoever. He was also an accountant, so he he would know.

SPEAKER_04 11:59

He would know.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Yeah. That's maybe that is kind of an accountant. Yeah, just you know, ten cents over there, whatever.

SPEAKER_04 12:07

Kaikeshi.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

Uh Kaikeshi. Oh. Yeah. Kantazo Kaikeshi. Right.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

Kantazo no kukiski this.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Oh, daisuki this. A grutan free kuki mora. Oh, homentoshin, yeah? Let me see. Oh, we wanted to talk about uh my morning motivational one hundredth episode that happened last weekend, and you helped me clean uh out and prepare. Your studio two. Studio two. We have two studios now, so go kudosama this.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

Yeah, um tanoshkata this.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

Uh hey. We now have a second set. You can find it on youtube.com slash goat vs fish. And um yeah, I mean, I don't know. Congratulations to me. I made it to a a hundred episodes. And what episode are we on here on this podcast?

SPEAKER_04 12:58

Uh this is 29th.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

We're gonna be at 100 in no time. Yay! Yeah, we publish three times a month on the 2nd, the 12th, and the 22nd. Yep. 222. If it ends if it ends in two, then we're bringing ni hongo to you because ni is two in Japanese, and two is also two in English, and two is also ni in Japanese.

SPEAKER_04 13:24

Ah, confusing, but not confusing.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Well, that's how we get ni hongo to English. That's why we have this confusing name. Because we're going from we've kind of settled on when we say it nihongoto English. I think because we say ni hongo first, so we're kind of in a Japanese mindset, but it could also be nihongo to English. Yeah. Because we're going, we're like a translating, you could say or English to Nihongo.

SPEAKER_04 13:51

E Gokala, Nihongo, Nihon Gokala, or it could be two because there's two languages. Yeah, and two of us.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

And there's two of us.

SPEAKER_04 13:57

And we had two daruma.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

And we had two daruma uh daruma uh in the um So the Nyinchu. Yeah. I'm confusing I don't know what it is about locations. I'm confusing my Bioins with my Yubin Kyokus and my Poshokans. Bioing. Byoin.

SPEAKER_04 14:17

Is the hair salon, the beauty salon. Oh right. Bioing is the hospital.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Mm-hmm. Bioin. Be like Bijutsukan. See, I'll forget how to say one building, but then I'll be like, ah, museum, Bijutsukan, right there. The beautiful thing place, right? Yeah, yeah. Art place. Yeah. Yeah. So hi. Uh Oki Daruma sanga choto taureta.

SPEAKER_04 14:42

Oh, Daruma Sanga, Darumasanga koronda te you gameaska.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

Uh Daruma Kura.

SPEAKER_04 14:49

Darumasanga koronda. Darumasanga stori. No, there's somebody in the front. He has to he or she has to hide her eyes or look away. And then she calls out Darumasanga koronda, and everybody moves a step.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 15:05

But if I don't know, like you have to call out somebody if you're if they are in a different pose. Everybody gets closer. And then you have to like touch the corner and then like run away.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Well, I mean, but you know they're all is it like um red light, green light?

SPEAKER_04 15:24

Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But we call it Darmasanga koronda.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Such a nagay. Well, is it like if you see them moving, they're in trouble? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:33

Uh huh. And then you have to like you have to be in a chain. Like you have to hold hand with everybody, and then we gotta like look out, and then I guess you have to call out somebody, and then you're gonna go rescue all the people who are chained. That sounds fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Yeah, when we have our first uh nihongo uh to English no meetup, uh huh.

SPEAKER_04 15:53

Then we'll figure out the rules for we could also do oh you know you have kendama.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Yeah, oh I've got a kendama right over there.

SPEAKER_04 16:04

Yeah, and we could play like hagoita.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

Hagoita.

SPEAKER_04 16:09

Yeah. It's like a badminton, but with the paddle.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

Oh, okay. Yeah. What does that have to do with kendama?

SPEAKER_04 16:15

Kenda well, Japanese games.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, we've also got the uh the New Year's game. Oh, New Year's game. Karuta? Karuta. Hi, hi, hi. Yeah, we've got a lot of Japanese games we can do.

SPEAKER_04 16:27

You got me uh nani. Karuta ganak de uh nani, you know.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Oh, that's right. I think it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_04 16:33

Chigao Yatsu.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

I thought I was getting you karuta, but I was actually getting you something else.

SPEAKER_04 16:38

Uh nanda.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

I think it was advertised as karuta on Amazon, but it was just sort of mislabeled. Yeah. Because they knew that people like me wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Right. Well, you could yeah, gamble.

SPEAKER_04 16:51

And we um you know what? We could make taco.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

We can make taco.

SPEAKER_04 16:56

Yeah, kite. Not the octopus taco. Oh, there's taco as a kite too? Yeah, kite. Taco.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Oh, uh we sure could.

SPEAKER_04 17:05

Yeah, we could make the nihongotoing with this taco.

SPEAKER_01 17:09

So I didn't realize that taco is kite as well. So now we have taco, taco, taco.

SPEAKER_04 17:13

So octopus kite?

SPEAKER_01 17:16

Uh-huh. Octopus kite ta like taco Mexican taco.

SPEAKER_04 17:21

Uh-huh. Well, you are making me hungry.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Yeah, well, I'm hungry too. I I you know what I've had to eat today? What? I've had one mint. I've had one eucalyptus mint from Spain. Hey, look, it traveled a long way to get to me, so I'm very, I'm very happy for it. Yeah. I'm very, very grateful for it.

SPEAKER_04 17:38

And I'm going to Japan too in July.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:40

You know, from Japan.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:42

Uh new Daruma.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

Uh well, yeah. I mean you could just keep getting the Daruma.

SPEAKER_04 17:46

Yeah, like twenty daruma.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Gosh, what do I want from Japan? Um, I want a ticket to go to Japan. That's what I want. Yeah. But you know, we keep it's good that we're scheduling, of course, to do these recordings, but you know, maybe we should schedule um even more time together so we could do the live streaming and see about that.

SPEAKER_04 18:05

Yeah, live studio.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

Because we have all these games we're talking about. Those games would be great for a Nihongoto English live stream.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

Yeah. What else can we do? Porka.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Porka, yeah. We could hire a polka band.

SPEAKER_04 18:15

Oh that sunshine kte.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

Oh yeah, we can have sunshine come and play poruka. He could play polka, and I could be Japanese student number one, he could be Japanese student number two, and then he could teach us all uh Sri Lankan.

SPEAKER_04 18:30

Sri Lanka no kotaba.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

It would be fun to especially in like a podcast setting. I mean I mean this is a podcast. But if we just wanted to add to the chaos every once in a while.

SPEAKER_04 18:44

What do you mean add to that chaos? There's no chaos here.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

No, it's always totally above board. Yeah, okay. So um sorry, to add to the peaceful and serene uh calm nature of this exercise, we get someone who either they speak English or Japanese or both.

SPEAKER_04 19:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

But then like they also speak some other language. Like, you know, say they speak French, and then so while we're talking about, oh, and in Japanese you say it like this, and English you say it like that, and then they're like, ah, but in French you would say it like that. Oh because there's too many of these bilingual podcasts out there. We need to be get like tri we need to get trilingual. We need to have like the just more more language mismatch, mishap, mismatches. Spanish. Yeah, we could do Spanish easily. We're in the little sense of this too after all. Casita? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:32

Hungry? Una casita, little house. Casa?

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Casa, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:38

Casita?

SPEAKER_01 19:38

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:39

Una casita.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Oh yeah. Una casita, one little house, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:44

But I'm hungry.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Yeah, it's close. Well, I just like how casa is umbrella. Yeah, umbrella, yeah. Which is kind of like a house. Yeah, yeah. For some people, an umbrella is a house, actually.

SPEAKER_04 19:57

And in Japan, bronco is a swing, but blanco in Spanish is white.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh, bronco is like a a Koyan swing. Oh, see? Easy. Bronco Bronco. I don't know. And then bronco is uh also a a horse. Oh, you didn't type of horse, like the Denver Broncos. Ah, bronco. A bucking bronco. Bronco. Bronco, yeah. And then it's also a type of car. Uh and there's a famous white bronco in Los Angeles history.

SPEAKER_04 20:25

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Yeah. You can look that one up and find out why it's famous.

SPEAKER_04 20:32

Ah, orange juice. Hi.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

So the yes. The orange juice guy. Orangey juice guy. So let's see. So yeah, more episodes. Oh, and then I saw a show this weekend.

SPEAKER_04 20:46

And then no show me done this ka.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Horiwood fringe festival. Hi, hi, hi. Uh, gozonji this guy.

SPEAKER_05 20:52

Hi.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Ya party. Show no na my wa how would I put it? I was wanted to ask you how I would express this sentiment in Japanese, and the best I could sort of come up with was Well, it's it's basically Weird Al. Hi. Weird Al. I don't know, like, because I would I would first I would be like, oh, Weird Al Shin Shinjao.

SPEAKER_04 21:14

Ah, is Shin Dunai.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Right, but but it's but that doesn't sound quite right. Yeah, yeah. But because it sounds like he died. But it's more like it's more like uh no, no, it's not a tribute show. It's like Weird Al uh it's not really Weird Al Sugu Shinjao. Not quite. Weird ow uh or it might be kind of like Itsuka. Weird owl Shinjao. Weird Al's Gonna Die. Sure. So he's not dead, but like he he will die. He he died. Eventually. He will surely die as as we all die.

SPEAKER_04 21:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

So yeah, the show was called Weird Owl's Gonna Die. And the premise was okay, so We Weird Owl's gonna die, dakara. Um Weird Owl Nakunata. The uh Betsun o Hokano comedy uta o utao hito ga uhari ni uh you may need not de uh deso dare kana takara voice uh show this comedy uta otao hito this okay coolyanko big notao ke show suruhito sagasu audisho no sho Well that doesn't have the same punch to it does it Well that's the that's But that's a description That's a description of the show but I'm saying for the title of the show Weird Owl's gonna die. Well that's without yeah that was that was what I said, right? More or less.

SPEAKER_04 23:14

So he can die anytime.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

Yeah, yeah, it's fine. Weird Al, look, we got you covered. Look, we got plenty of comedic songsters ready to take your place, so you can just retire uh peacefully now and not continue your very successful and lucrative uh tour with uh Puddle's Pity Party.

SPEAKER_04 23:31

Uh have you seen him lately?

SPEAKER_01 23:33

Well, I saw him like last year. I that's why I got that picture. Yeah, yeah, the picture. That was from last year.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

Uh does he still have those nice hair?

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Yeah, you still got the long uh uh frizzy or curly hair.

SPEAKER_04 23:46

I'm so jealous. So jealous. I think he's a vegetarian now.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Yeah. I don't think he's I don't know if he's a vegetarian or vegan, but well, he's still alive, he hasn't died yet.

SPEAKER_04 23:56

Well, he's not that old.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

Well, he's not that young either.

SPEAKER_04 23:59

But all those people whom he made the comedy songs from dead. Michael Jackson.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

Yeah, well, they're all rock stars. Yeah, yeah. So they have hard life. I mean, he's a rock star too in his own way, but so they hard life?

SPEAKER_04 24:13

Well No rock stars, like yeah, cooking, yeah, partying.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:19

STDs, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

Yeah, they live fast and uh and die young, right? For the most part. Not all of them. We got we still got plenty of old rockers out there. Yeah. Um, but no, I mean, um you never know. You never know when you're gonna go. Uh actually. So he'll be ready. But we gotta be ready. We have to be ready to take his place. We have to be ready to dance on his grave and say, Finally, I can be America's number one funny songman. Yeah. Anyway, it was a it was a good show. I recommend it.

SPEAKER_04 24:52

Oh. We should do Genki.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

Okay. Also, this is uh Pride Month, right?

SPEAKER_04 24:56

Almost over.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

Almost over, yeah. Uh I the I also saw another show, and the show was called Your, like you are, like your, but spelled the informal. Yeah. It's called You're Gay Now. So everyone who watched it, I guess, is gay now.

SPEAKER_04 25:09

Oh, you're gay now?

SPEAKER_01 25:10

I'm gay now. I saw the show.

SPEAKER_04 25:12

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

Um, I don't know. I could be gay.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Yeah, it could be, you know.

SPEAKER_04 25:17

I didn't watch the show, but I watch you. You watch the show.

SPEAKER_01 25:21

Yes, it was a very gay show. And it was enjoyed. It was enjoyed by many. Oh. Yeah. Well, no. I was um, without giving away any any uh details, I was um flirting with a lady during the very gay show, and so I kind of felt like, oh, am I um uh part of me felt very progressive that I was having a heterosexual flirtation during a very gay show. Yeah. Um but then I also felt uh very uh subversive. Oh like, oh, I'm having heterosexual. Heterosexual flirtation during a very gay show. Oh, oh yeah. Maybe I'm not becoming gay. Oh no. No, the gayness is just on the inside. It's okay. You can be gay and straight at the same time. You can be heterosexual. I don't know if you can be gay and straight, but you can be heterosexual and and gay for sure. Ah so let's have a gay old time.

SPEAKER_04 26:11

Okay, gay old time on genki.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Yeah, gainky time.

SPEAKER_04 26:14

Yeah, gay time.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Yeah, you are if you don't like that and you don't like the uh name uh you're gay now, you can just say you're genky now.

SPEAKER_04 26:22

Ah.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Yeah. Let's be ganky now.

SPEAKER_04 26:24

Okay, so it's on chapter three.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

Right, genki time.

SPEAKER_04 26:27

Ah, page ninety five.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

I just gotta say that uh Genki De Renshu Toki. Mike Runo, Ichiban, uh Sukinatsime this. I saw this.

SPEAKER_04 26:39

Okay, so page ninety-five, section B. Pair work. Ask and answer the following questions. Looking at the pictures in I. Ask more questions.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

So I is the letter of the section. I thought they were saying to look at me in the eye while we were doing it.

SPEAKER_04 26:59

No. So Ichiban, may Ali San Watoshokan de Zashio Yo Mimaska Maidi san?

SPEAKER_01 27:06

So what do you want Meidi san this guy? Number four.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Oh, they're all Maidi san. Oh no, she's not Maidi san. He's not Maidi san. There's a lot of Maidi san though.

SPEAKER_04 27:20

Yeah, yeah. Toshokan de Zashio Yomimaska. Yay! Janiban, Meali San wa Uchide Kohio no mimasu. Ah.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

Doko de hi. What the sends in makarana.

SPEAKER_04 27:58

Doku de korizanai number six.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

Oh, right. Sorry. It wasn't in the picture, so I hadn't I just thought nowhere. Uhisama gako de tenisu shimasu.

SPEAKER_04 28:10

Ah.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Oh. So this go. So this young.

SPEAKER_04 28:20

Oh. Number C. I might say number. That's the C section.

SPEAKER_01 28:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:25

C section, like having a baby.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

That's what section C.

SPEAKER_04 28:28

Yeah, section C. Okay. Pair work. Again. Eh.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

Yeah. What do they think? They're two of us here.

SPEAKER_04 28:34

Yeah. Ask your partner questions about their daily activities using the verbs in I. So Tabe Masu section. Okay. Example. A.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

Dade. A bewa. Anata Mike or something. Hi, then we'll. Oh, I actually get to answer a question like from me. We get to have an actual conversation. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:58

But we'll read this.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 29:00

But this is the example, so we'll read this. So example.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

Oh man, I thought I was gonna get to say what was like in my heart and mind there.

SPEAKER_04 29:07

It's uh it's no we we'll do example first. Okay, okay. Okay. A I B A U B B. A. I B A U B B. That's yo, Yomimaska. Doko de Yomimaska.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

Toshokande Yomimasu.

SPEAKER_04 29:24

Ah. So I guess these are the questions that we are supposed to ask. Ah, Michael San.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

Hi.

SPEAKER_04 29:30

Makudonardo de Hambagao Tabemasu.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Yeah Nang Junengara Makudonardo Zen Zen Tabemasen Yo.

SPEAKER_04 29:41

And that's not that's not the right question.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

I'm not gonna show for McDonald's. You can only take me so far.

SPEAKER_04 29:46

Okay. No, no, I'm supposed to ask Hambagao Tabemaska. It's a yes-no question. Hambagao tabemaska.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

Eh, Hambagao Tabemas?

SPEAKER_04 29:54

Doku de Tabemaska. Oh, so this Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:00

I'm not I'm not gonna say that I eat hamburgers at McDonald's without a sponsorship. I refuse to do it.

SPEAKER_04 30:06

Because you don't eat there for many, many years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

You know. Okay. Okay. Eh, kikimas.

SPEAKER_04 30:14

Doku de kikimaska. I think anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Anywhere? Oh, dokode kikimaska. Hi. Um club de kikimas.

SPEAKER_04 30:20

Ah. To kohi o no mimaska.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Eh no mimas.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

Doko de nomimaska.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Ye de no mimas.

SPEAKER_04 30:27

Ah. Ja ni hongo hanashimaska.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Eh hanashimas. Doko de hanashimaska. Nihongo to English no podcast today.

SPEAKER_04 30:35

Nihongo hanashimaskyo. Ja yumu zashio yomi I we already did that she ja telebiomimaska.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

Telebiomimas?

SPEAKER_04 30:44

Ah, doko de mi telebiomimaska.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

A bed do de telebi mimas.

SPEAKER_04 30:49

So the scodesio.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

Oh jo eto Ziking severed or mi tamas. Oh moshiroi.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Ah ja tennis washimaska.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

Eh tennishimas?

SPEAKER_04 30:59

Uh doko de tennis loshimaska.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Koin the tennishimas.

SPEAKER_04 31:03

Oh so.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Hi. I was gonna say tennis koto.

SPEAKER_04 31:06

Yeah, tennis coto. Where else?

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Yeah, exactly. Jamoiko de tennis.

SPEAKER_04 31:15

Nihongo ben kyoshimasuka.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

Hi, ni hongo ben kyoshimas.

SPEAKER_04 31:19

Doko de ben kyoshimasu.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

Toso kan de hongo ben kyoshimas.

SPEAKER_04 31:23

Ah, yay, we did it. We did it. Yay. Okay, more pair work. And guessing game. Eh kan dainang. Okay, let's see. What? Am I too lazy? Are you?

SPEAKER_01 31:36

I think we should just do everything because then we can be like, we did the whole book. Yeah. At least try.

SPEAKER_04 31:42

Ichiban. First, choose one item in each row. Do not show it to your partner. Okay, I'm not showing it.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

Okay. And this is on what page again?

SPEAKER_04 31:50

Uh page ninety-five. It's the section D.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

Yeah. Guessing game. Example. Oh Hanashimas. Chinese, Korean, English, Japanese, and English has a circle. So I guess ego hanashimas. Ego hanashimasu.

SPEAKER_03 32:09

What do you mean by guessing game? Huh? I don't I don't get it.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

I'll take a look. First, choose one item from each row, don't show it to your partner. Well, it doesn't have any other instructions from there.

SPEAKER_04 32:19

Yeah. So I guess nihong go hanashimasu. I think that's it.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

But what's the guess though? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 32:27

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

Well, does it continue on the next page? The instructions.

SPEAKER_04 32:30

No, that's the section two.

SPEAKER_01 32:32

Yeah, see. Two. Ask your partner to find out what item they have chosen. Oh. So we're going to have to do that.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

So that section one is just choose one.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

This is yeah, section D uh part one. Well, this is just different instructions. Oh, do not for one. Yeah. Choose. First, choose one item for me. Don't show your partner. Two. And I guess this would be the then this would be for me. Uh-huh. Ask your partner questions to find out what they have chosen using the verb on the left. You can ask at most two questions. Ask me that question. If your guess is correct, you score a point. Oh, we're scoring points now. Tabulate your score. You win the game if you have gained more points than your partner. Wow. We're getting this is a real game now. These are the rules.

SPEAKER_04 33:17

Oh, all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Yeah, so I think you you pick one of these. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 33:22

Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Uh so why don't we show it to you? Let's not do the example. Well, you just have to pick it in your head, you know.

SPEAKER_04 33:28

I pick one.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

Yeah. Yeah. And then and then I have to ask you questions. Ah. Like I don't think uh so this next verb here is um to watch or to see. Uh in this case, I think it's watch. And I could just be like nani omimas, but I don't think that's what they want. They want me to ask you questions. Do they want me to ask you in English or in Japanese?

SPEAKER_04 33:54

I think in Japanese.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

Yeah, but have we even learned enough vocabulary to be like? Alright, well, I'll try, I'll try it. I'll try anyway. Um, so I want to find out what you're watching. Okay. Ask your partner to find out what they have chosen using the verb on the left. Oh, I okay. Well, we're just guessing. Okay. We're just guessing. So, all right. I'm thinking about Michelle. I'm thinking about what Michelle would have would pick. Hi. Egaomi maska.

SPEAKER_02 34:35

It's kind of an intrusive question.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

To ask if you watch a watch movie. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm you know, I'm kind of guessing. I'm like, hmm. Watching movies over there? Eggimaska? I'm guessing. Is that a is that a no? No. Okay, I don't. I mean, I'm guessing I'm just guessing. Alright. Um Spultsuomimasuka? I mean, I only get two guesses.

SPEAKER_04 35:07

Two guesses? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

And I guess movie and sports. Well, I didn't get I didn't guess those though. I looked at you and I thought, are you watching the news? No, maybe the news are too depressing.

SPEAKER_04 35:19

This week I was watching.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

Yeah. Uh sports. Yeah, so I thought, and you play golf, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I thought maybe you're watching sports. I was like, probably not anime, probably not news, maybe a movie. Oh. So that's why I said sports. So I get did I get it right? Yeah, it's sports. Alright, I got a point. Alright, so now I'm gonna pick the next one. I'm gonna pick one. The next verb is O nomimas. We're drinking. Well, no, you'll get to see these. I didn't get to see them. Okay. Alright, I have made my choice. And now you get to ask me.

SPEAKER_04 35:50

Okay. Uh Osakeo Nomimasuka.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

Osakeo Nomimasen. Eh, how does she make this?

SPEAKER_04 36:00

Uh Nihon Chao Nomimasuka.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

Nihon Chao Nomimasen.

SPEAKER_04 36:05

Eh? Mizu nomimasuka.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

You only get two guesses. But yes, Mizu Nomimasuka. That is true. But you did you say? Did you say what type of tea did you say? It was definitely Moroccan. Well, that was uh senshu matsu. Ah so no, I'm you know, we we joke about oh I I'm drinking all this sake, but really water is my favorite drink. Yeah, I love drinking water. It's my favorite. I'm a hydrating guy. Oh, but I haven't chosen. Oh, you have to I no but now you choose a book.

SPEAKER_04 36:56

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:58

You choose what you're reading, and now I I guess. So my options are book, newspaper, Shinbun. Hi Magazine Zashi Japanese book. Nihongo no hong. Nihongo no hong ka ni Well, yeah, okay, nihong no hong, right? Right. Hmm. Newspaper. Well, no one reads those anymore.

SPEAKER_04 37:18

What's newspaper?

SPEAKER_01 37:20

Yeah. I mean, I guess you could read we don't really say newspaper, you'd say we read the news. Yahoo News. Oh, Yahoo News. People still use Yahoo. Books? No one reads those. You know, actually, you know what the problem with this one is no one reads anymore. Ah. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 37:36

Audio book.

SPEAKER_01 37:37

Yeah. Alright, but let's suppose that I'm Michelle Marizaki. I'm a young up-and-coming comedian. A new hot thing in town. Hi. Marizaki san zashi oyomimasu.

SPEAKER_04 37:50

Yomimasan.

SPEAKER_01 37:51

Yomimasen. Hi, hi. Marizaki san ni hongo nohono yomimasuka.

SPEAKER_04 38:02

Yomimas. Bing bong. Bing bong.

SPEAKER_01 38:05

So na nohono yonde maska. Genki igai. Genki. Genki igai. Genki. Genki. Genki no hon. Genki no hon. Okay. Alright. Okay. Alright, I'll pick the last one.

SPEAKER_04 38:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 38:19

This next one is sudo, shimas. We've got dato. You've got benkyo. We've got uh demo. Then we've got uh tenisu. Right. Okay. One of those you know I'm definitely not doing. Oh, I never I didn't pick one.

SPEAKER_04 38:44

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

So I'll just say you're right. Sure, I'm going on dates.

SPEAKER_04 38:50

But you got two points and I got one point, so I lost.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:53

No.

unknown 38:54

No.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Boku no kachi that.

SPEAKER_04 38:56

Uh marketal kuyasi. Uh tabulate the score. So we got Michael Sangga Nitan. What does she got it in? They make my stuff.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

I got ni ten? Yeah, you got 20 points. Nintendo.

SPEAKER_04 39:11

Nintendo. I got one point. So I lost. Oh well. Next next time I'll win.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

By the time we get to the end of this book, like the knives are gonna be out. It's gonna be like a blood sort. Yeah, step number one, chop off the fingers of your uh your pair work. Yeah. Knife that would be that would be another fun idea to make like uh no no not to do it, but to make like a parody of a textbook. But it's like it gets like just increasingly deranged as it goes on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:47

Thank you for studying with us.

SPEAKER_01 39:49

Yeah. Thank you, the listener, for studying with us, the hosts. And also thank you for studying with me.

SPEAKER_04 40:00

And thank you for being patient with me.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

Oh, thank no. It is I who am testing your patience. You're just trying to get through the material, and I'm always trying to um not do the material. But hey, the listeners seem to be enjoying it. Thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_04 40:16

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SPEAKER_01 40:19

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SPEAKER_04 40:25

Uh Noroshi smoke signal.

SPEAKER_01 40:28

Oh, Noroshi. Oh, smoke signals. Yeah, and we can make some uh I was gonna say taiyaki, but that's not really a smoked fish. That's that's it. I mean, I guess you could make a taiyaki. Yeah, taio yaku.

SPEAKER_04 40:41

Yeah, yeah, yeah. At the fire.

SPEAKER_01 40:43

No, but in uh Yuki Guni they had this cooking method where you had like a fire and you would put the fish in the skewer. In a skewer, and you like kind of put it all around the fire.

SPEAKER_04 40:55

And then a circle, and then you cook it on both sides. Ah, oyshi so.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

Yeah, so that's when I thought of Tai Yaki. But no, it's probably like uh sama or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:06

Oh, I'm hungry, so I gotta go.

SPEAKER_01 41:07

Yeah, we gotta go. We gotta eat. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:10

Mata jika. Matane.

SPEAKER_01 41:12

Matane, ha chane, thanks.