Tsukeru vs. Tsukau vs. Tsukuru, Cucumber Pickles & Flying Sumo Pillows | EP 30

Learn Japanese with Genki on this episode of Nihongo to English! Hosts Michael Allen, CPA and Michelle MaliZaki tackle one of Japanese grammar's sneakiest mix-ups: tsukeru (to pickle), tsukau (to use), and tsukuru (to make) — three verbs that sound almost identical but mean very different things (ask Michael about his slightly vulgar mnemonic device). Along the way they make cucumber pickles (tsukemono), work through Genki Chapter 3's daily schedule practice with Yamashita-sensei — telling time, days of the week, and the particles に and か — and go down a sumo rabbit hole covering yokozuna rankings, sponsor flags, and the age-old tradition of throwing zabuton pillows when a champion loses. Plus: America's 250th birthday, a Kiss tribute concert, and a World Cup memory from Michelle's years living in Japan. This is also the first episode simultaneously recorded live on the Nihongo to English Twitch channel, with real questions from live chat. No homework. Just bilingual chaos — and somehow you learn.

Write to us: 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30回! ホストのマイケル・アレン(CPA)とみしえる・まりザきが、日本語文法で紛らわしい三兄弟、つける(漬ける)・つかう(使う)・つくる(作る)の違いに挑戦します。きゅうりの漬物を実際に作りながら文法を整理し、Genki教科書第3課の「山下先生の一日」を使って時間の言い方、曜日、助詞「に」と「か」を練習します。さらに相撲トークでは横綱の格付け、懸賞旗、そして横綱が負けたときに観客が座布団を投げる伝統についても語ります。おまけに、アメリカ建国250周年、KISSトリビュートバンドのライブ、そしてみしえるが日本で見たワールドカップの思い出も。今回はNihongo to EnglishのTwitchチャンネルで初めて同時ライブ配信された記念すべき回で、視聴者からの質問にもリアルタイムで答えています。宿題なし。ただのバイリンガル・カオス — でもなぜか学べる。

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テーマジングル：Michelle MaliZaki

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Yay!

SPEAKER_00 0:09

Welcome to Nihongo To English No Show. I am one of your hosts, Michael Allen CPA.

SPEAKER_01 0:15

I'm the other host, Michelle Marizaki.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

And we are here to have random disjointed conversation in both Nihongo To English. English. So is it Nihongo To English? Is it Nihongo to English? It's Nihongo To English. It's Nihongo To English. Well I say it's Nihongo to English. Nihongo and English. Nihongo in English? Uh-huh. How would you say Nihongo in English? And English. Oh Nihongo and English. And English. English and Nihongo. So so so. Yeah, this is the first episode. This is episode 30, right? 30. We are simultaneously live streaming the recording of this episode on the Nihongo To English Twitch channel.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Yeah, Twitch channel.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

We have viewers who are live right now.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

And if you want to, dear listener, watch live recordings of these podcasts and chat with us, perhaps. You can follow Nihongo To English on Twitch. We've been saying we're going to do something for a while, and now we are. For example, we have a few users here, a few of our uh glorious chat. Maybe we'll call them our students, even. Students. Ah. Our class. The class senses in session, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Seto, not.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Seto san. We have eventually Goldfish who says celebrations. We have I Can Fix Amber Heard. Mention me, mention me, me, me, me, mention me. Yeah, you can go on the Twitch chat and you can attempt to get our attention. Ah, attempt. And uh ask us questions live. Uh-huh. In fact, maybe when we're done reading from the Genki book, we can have like, oh, let's have like five minutes of like QA time.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Okay. That sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

And then it's like chat interaction time. And then if your questions are interesting enough, then we will include them in the final podcast. And if not, then you'll just be mercilessly cut because this is Hollywood.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Ah.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Yeah, we leave it all on the cutting room floor.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Hollywood do.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Hollywood do. Konchu nani gashimasto. Well, konchu uh America no ni haku goju nen no natoka.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

So ni hyaku goju shu nen kinen.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

Omadeto gozaimas.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Omodeto omodeto gozaimas. It's uh the 250th uh tanjobi of America. So I will I know you said Nanioshima. Ashta uh. So I'm gonna go see uh kiss a kiss tribute band. Hi.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Shirokurukuro oh ato butsu.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

Butsuuto uh nantuka like spikes.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

Ah, spikuno.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Yeah. See if you don't know a word in Japanese, just say it. Say it like spiku. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Ah, I know.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Oh, pratomukutsu.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

So Amazon de Kawanakya.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

Ah, so deskong. What?

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Hebime tada, so day gurai mo gambalanaka. Pingo. So so so. So itai gurai ga chodo i.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Uh what is the full history behind you both? Alright, we'll give you the full we can't do the full history of us. Well, I was born in 1983 in Tarzana, California. No, I studied uh a little bit of Japanese in in uh with a friend of mine, Ron, and then I decided to because he was half Japanese, and then I decided to teach English in Japan in my twenties, and I found a job in Nigata Prefecture in Tokamachi City, and I lived there for two years and I studied a lot and I had as much conversation as I could, and I took the Japanese language proficiency test and I passed the level N three, which is sort of like the middle rank. Uh and then ten years later I met uh well, I guess maybe five years later I met uh Michelle at a at a stand-up comedy.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

Flappazu comedy gula.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Oh, flappas a comedy. Makananai. So Mukashi Mukashi. Kunen?

SPEAKER_01 4:45

Kunemai.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

Kunemai? Gurai? Hachin kunen. Hi. And then Michelle said at the pen and paper Palooza, you said, hey, let's do a let's do a podcast. That was half a year ago. Yeah. But what about your? What's your what's your history?

SPEAKER_01 4:58

What's my history? Ah, I learned Japanese in Japan. In in Japan, it's not Japanese, it's Kokugo national language.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Someone is asking what we think of the soccer game that just happened. I was in uh yeah, because the the World Cup is happening. I think when I was in Japan 10, 15 years ago, there was a World Cup that was happening at that time. Okay, it was.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

It used to be 16 or 12 or 20 years ago. Or 24 years ago, because it's every four years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

Right, right, right. Yeah. So it was somewhere around 16 years ago, maybe 20 years ago. 20? Oh god. No, it must be I feel like 16. And uh so I got to go to it wasn't being held in Japan, but I went to a couple of uh like watch parties.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

A watch party.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

And I got to um watch uh everyone rooting for the Japanese team, and I got to see them lose. I got to see them lose in a in a shootout, I think.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

Oh that's at the end. That's tough.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

And um, I have this memory I can show you all of so when the the final shootout was going on, the players on the Japanese team, they all did this thing where they um they would go like arm arm around each other's shoulders and then they and then they all like they went arm around shoulders and then they went down on their knees as they were watching their teammate get ready to do the shot. And so then all of the people watching the Japanese people at the watch party, they saw that the Japanese team was doing that and then they were all like, oh, like we need to do that. They all got together, but they put their arms, and then they all got on their knees to to to mirror what the team was doing. Is that why they lost? Yeah, probably. They didn't they didn't do it hard enough, they didn't believe hard enough. So that that was a uh that did bring back a little World Cup memory.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

Sumo wa Sumo wa Nanka Ninki got te nikigasagatika, tenki gasagat. Ima ninki gaimas.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Gai koku. So gai koko tiks.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Hi, nikishi.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Hi, gai kokitekini uhat daitai uhini nat ni nakunatema. Na niki ni ni narimas.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

Aye, ima. Ato rosanel suni ohakimas.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Hi. Hi. Instagram uto uhikai shoto uh shoto formu video de sumo mo uh ninkides. Hi, hi.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Nanka my kirsa no nanka feed oto watasuno feed wat zenzen chigakara. Watashino to kunya, de tikimasen.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

Yeah, I see the sumo in my feed. I think it's because you can find the best sumo moments.

SPEAKER_02 7:47

Ah.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

You know, the big slams and the the little guy overtaking the big guy, and they take the best sumo moments, can put them, you know, in short form content, and people are like, whoa, this is cool, you know.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

So there was no slow motion before, but when the slow motion was shown on news program, uh huh in smono sports newsangako, you could be a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

America uh Americ American football.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

Hi, hi linemen.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

Hi, the osutoy. Osuto. It's te ashiga. Sorry about sumomitai. And we'd see like oh how to with uh because it's it's the same. It's the same where well because when you start on the line, you're saying ready, set, set, go, go. You need that immediately step forward, you need that explosive power coming off legs and you're pushing, which is just like when uh when a sumo match starts, uh they're down, uh, their hands touch the ground, and then boom, they're off, they're pushing off their legs, they're pushing at each other. It's very similar to how a lineman in football starts the play. So you're you're watching them, we're seeing like, oh, here's how their legs are pumping, here are their keeping their hands moving. So it's actually a lot of parallel between uh being an offensive lineman in football in American football. Yeah, uh what this?

SPEAKER_01 9:30

Referee Gyoji.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

Yeah. What is uh noko or no kota?

SPEAKER_01 9:37

It's left.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Like left on in a circle.

SPEAKER_00 9:41

Oh, like remaining?

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Yeah, remaining in a circle. Oh, okay. So you have to be in a circle to win.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

That's true, yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

Uh or you I guess you get flipped over, that's also a loss.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

But And if a Yokozuna loses, what happens when a Yokozuna loses a match? Not even the tournament, but just a match.

SPEAKER_01 10:02

Uh, you don't get the money.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

Sometimes because Yokozuna much everybody, you know, bid or not bid, but give money. So they give money, they have like a pool of money, and the winner gets the pool. Yeah, they get the prize money.

SPEAKER_00 10:18

And it's like in this big stuff. But there's also um before each match, there will be um on these flags, there'll be like sponsors that come out.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

I think or like uh there was there was a Bulgarian um Oh, it's also Bulgaria. It wasn't Yokozuna, he was like uh I forget what the ranks below Yokozuna are. Well, he was definitely Ozeki. Um and before each of his matches there'd be like four flags. Because sometimes there'll be like one flag. But you'll even see flags for like Disney or something. Like you'll see it for everything in any way.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

Somebody told me how much is each flag mean, but I can't remember.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

How much it's worth?

SPEAKER_01 10:56

No, like so. If you give like 40,000 yen, yeah, you might get like two flags. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Well, I'm it's probably like twenty thousand. Depends on each match. I bet for the the Yokozuna matches, they cost more.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

I bet like each match probably has its own Well, I mean, if I were rich, oh Yokozuna hike, Yakumayan Dozo.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

So yeah, when there the more advertisements there are going around, I think that uh the that increases the prize money that you get for winning the match.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

And also, individuals cannot sponsor the match. It needs to be a company. So Michael Jackson or Elton John, I can't remember who it was, wanted to give money, but it has to go through the record company.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

Right, yeah. Well, I mean anything can be a company. So I should uh I should get goat vs. fish to be a small.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

We should get Nihonoto English to sponsor the LC.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

We should get Nihongoto English to sponsor a sumo match. How great would that be? I think that'd be good. But yeah, so if a Yokozuna loses a match, they throw the Zabutan. Yeah. So Minasama Zabuton no naga.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

So Gogi Waruli.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

I mean minasama Zabuton o Naganaidoku. So if you think that um Japanese people don't ever break the rules, they are told not to throw Zabuton when a yokozuna loses, but they all do anyway.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Oh, zabuton is the pillow that you sit on the phone.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

Yeah, it's like a little it's like a flat pillow.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

And because I mean I'm sure that's just been a tradition for a very long time. You know. So yeah, uh so I saw Yokozuna lose a couple times and everyone was just uh throwing their pillows. Yeah. We said we'd talk about tabemono a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Tabemono, so tabemono.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Tabe mono. So tabemono was one of the first words I learned in Japanese. I didn't even realize that taberu meant to eat.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

Eat, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

Because so taberu is to eat. And then you take away the ru. It's not exactly a parallel, but you can think of um or or the oo sometimes it's ooh. You know, but this is uh in English what we call the infinitive form. It's sort of like unconjugated. Uh-huh. Or like base form, it can be called. Yeah. Which uh in English would be like to eat. Yeah. You would say to eat is like the is like the the base form. Sometimes you could say eating, but I guess like to eat is sort of the uh infinitive form. So if you take away the the roo at the end of tabe, uh because that's where you do all the conjugation, and you add mono, which means like a thing.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Like like literally like a thing. The word thing. Like what kind of thing? No. It means like a thing or a d item.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Oh, item, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

So tabe mono, it's like eating thing. So that just means food.

SPEAKER_01 13:49

Yeah, no mimono.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Nomimono nomu is to drink, so no mimono is like drinks as in the object, like soda, water, uh, beer, any of these things are nomimono.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

Nomimono.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Yeah. And uh, but then you could be like uh Korewa nomimono deska, chigao sorewa uh what is it, what paint? Pink pinky?

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Um pinky toyol.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Toyol. Toyol is like, no, that's paint. That's not that's not nomimono. High fi for beer, sure. Hi, hi, high fi.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

And if you drink beer in Japanese, you have to go so you I'll just watch the commercials.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

So yeah, Tabe Mono no mimono, hi. Um I don't know why I thought of Nisemono.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Nisemono fake.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

A fake, a forgery.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

So is Niseru a verb? Nise like to for to to deceive, like niseru? Niseru, yeah. Okay, so nise mono is a thing.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

A copy.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

A copy?

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Yeah, copy.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

Oh, right. Well, a copy is a is a copy, but a forgery is a forgery. Or uh, and then uh what other mono are there? Other mono mono?

SPEAKER_01 15:13

Mono mm Oishimono.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

Oishimono. Oh, so that's with an adjective.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Yeah, yumimono.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

Oh yeah, that's and you could be like a tsuimono.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Skinamono. Sukimono.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Tsukimono is a mono.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Yeah, but suki na mono, favorite things.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Oh, suki na mono. Okay, so suki, yeah, naniga suki deska. Suki na mono wanan deska. Oh chocolate. Hi.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Oh, Michael says skinamono one on diska.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Sukinamono. Sushi. Oh, sushi this is. Oh, sushi. Hi. Hi. Kino uh ni honshu on uh non chata. Hi. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Tonoshito.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Ah dato.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

Ah, moskastte. Konomaino. Konomae. I think you mentioned someone. Konomae no deto nohito.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

Konomaino deto? Of course. Of course it was the same person. Um so yeah, I had to add a little bit of uh m some some sake yesterday. So tsukeru. Tsukeru is uh to pickle something, right? Pickle thing. Yeah, so like a pickle is a a cucumber and then so you need kutyotsuke picuru otsurimashta.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Oh tsemono no tsurimashta.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

Uh uh uh uh brain.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Oh tsukau?

SPEAKER_00 16:35

Tsukao is to create tsukedu. Tsukedu. No no no tsukedu is to pickle.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

But to create iskuru. It's guru. What's to use. Ah, that's right. Okay, so tskao is to use. Oh kaneo tskau.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

Atama o tskau.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Atama utsgata emo. Wait, wait. Oh my gosh. So tsukedu is to create? Tsugedu is to pickle pickle. Yeah. Tsukuru. It's a kudu. Hi is to make.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Kutyotskata. Tskemono tskemashta.

SPEAKER_00 17:09

Kuryo it's a it's a curu.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Kurio tskata. Tskemono otskemashta.

SPEAKER_00 17:19

Oh, okay. So you're doing it that way.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Yeah, I made pickles using cucumbers.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

Uh so pickurio tsukuru no ni curio tsukea naranai.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

Kuri no pikurusu o tsuru no ni kuryo tsukawanakia ikana.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Ah, that's tamagaitaika. Yeah, yeah. Yameo. So there we go.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

We got tsukeru. Pickle. Tsukau. Tsuku and tsu tsukuru. Tsukuru. To make. To make. Oh, actually I have a I I have a rather uh vulgar way I remember tsukudu.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Vulgar.

SPEAKER_00 18:01

Well well, because like how do you make a baby, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Oh.

unknown 18:04

Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Well you uh well you you have to screw to make a baby. So tsukudu.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

That's how you remember?

SPEAKER_00 18:15

I mean it's it it it's like well, you start off with these, they're called mnemonic devices. You come up with some sort of way that you can remember it.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

And then after a while you use it so much you don't have to use that anymore. But now that I've forgotten the difference between tsukeru, tsukao, and tsukuru, now I'd be like, oh, which ones to make? Oh, tsukuru. Oh, so you're making you're making something.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

Oh, oh. Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 18:39

Well, we should study Genki.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

Alright, Genki time. Genki time. So uh for those of you watching, this is the Genki textbook. And that says Genki. Yeah. In Japanese, we've got ke, but then there's the two dots, it makes it makes it ge. Yeah. And then this one in the middle is the n. It kind of looks like an n, actually. Yeah. Makes the n sound. It's the only sound in Japanese that uh doesn't have like a vowel after it. Just m. Everything else is like ah uh. Well, there's there's a i u e o kakikuke ko sashi suse so tsu. Yeah, they all have a a vowel after, but except for n. So uh geng and then at the end here. Key. Key. And if you ask me, if you like turn it this way, it kind of looks like a key that you just to open a door. Oh yeah, because it's like this is like the handle and this is these are like the teeth.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Ah.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

So I I kind of look at that and I'm like, oh, that's like a key. That's how I remembered when I was learning hiragana the first time. It's like, oh, that one's a key because it's like a key that you open. Yeah. I uh when I first studied hiragana and katakana, I made uh a printout of all of them. Uh-huh. And uh this isn't good because it was wasting water, but still what I would do is I would uh tape the printouts to the outside of uh the shower because it was like a glass walled shower. And then while I was in the shower, I would just be reading the hiragana and practicing them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Okay, let's do page 96.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

Okay. Yeah. So what are we studying today?

SPEAKER_01 20:06

Uh gakoni ikimas.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

Gakoni ikimas. Gakko school. We're going to school? Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

Look at the pictures below and make sentences using the cues. Ah. So um example. Go to the post office and sora san. Sula san while you being jokunikimas. Oh, it's that this one. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

Well, we're just supposed to look at the picture and make a sentence sentence.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

So the next one is go to the library and it's it's not. Who is this guy? I can't remember. Are they expecting us to remember these things?

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Was it the Yama Yamada or Yama?

SPEAKER_01 20:39

It's Yamashta Sensei.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

The below mountain man.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

Oh, excuse me. Maybe you know, go to the post office and it also has one o'clock. So should I say soda san wa ich ni yu being kyoku ni kimas.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

Yep. Yeah. So let's break it down. Um Ichiji ni. The knee is at at one o'clock.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

One o'clock.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Soda san. So you know san. Everyone knows has heard san.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Miyagi san. So this is Soda-san, Mrs. Sky. Yu Bing Kyoku. Is the post office. Ni at 2 as in going to a place. Goes or yes, sort of is going.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Number one, go to the library and it's Yamashta sense at 3 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Okay. Sanji Ni Yamashta Sense wa Toshoka ni ikika ni ikimas. Yay! Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Number two. Come to my house and it's Meadi Hato san and it's on Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

Sunday. So we've got Sunday. Let's let's run through the days of the week. Nietiyobi Sunday. Nichiyobi Getsuyobi. Tuesday, Kayobi. Wednesday, sweetyobi. Thursday, Mokuyobi. Friday, Kayobi. Saturday do Yobi?

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Okinyobi.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Okinyobi Friday. Do yobi. So yeah, those those kanji, for those curious, uh Nichiobi Sunday, it's like day. It's like day day. It's the day of the sun or something. Yeah. And then uh Getsuyobi is like moon. Moon. Moon kanji, so it's like moon day. Uh-huh. But it's which is funny because it's Monday. Moonday. Monday. That's fun.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

It's the same. Kase is Mars.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

Suise is Mercury.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

Well, it's like well, it's like fire, the fire emoji, which is for Mars, yeah. So Kayobi is like the fire, fire, fire day.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Uhse se is the star.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

So that makes Mars. Suise.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Uh-huh. Well, Sui is water. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

But Suise, the water star is the Mercury. Mer Mercury.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

And Mokse.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

I thought maybe the water star would be like Neptune or something, but I guess I don't know. They might not be the same in the buttons, but you're saying it's uh it's Mercury. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I don't I don't remember all the planet the planet names of it.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Mokise Kinse. Kinsei is Venus, and Dose is Saturn.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Uh and then Mokuyobi is like tree or wood day.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mokuyobi, gosh, what's the name of that star?

SPEAKER_00 23:13

But aren't these also um like the the Chinese elements though?

SPEAKER_01 23:16

So, neh.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Earth, water, fire, uh, wood, metal.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Metal.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

Because metal is kinyobi. Yeah. Which kin can be like gold, but you could kind of think of it as like a metal metal day. Kinyobi Friday. And then Dol Yobi is like earth day. Yeah, earth day or like soil. Earth soil day. It's it's yobi with a with a Y sound.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

So anyway, those were the days of the week.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Okay, so it's come to my house, Meri Hato San, Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

Is this like an invitation? What are we just saying what Medi Hato is doing? Okay. Kimasu. Yeah. Uh Nichiobi ni. Hi. Hi. Uchi no uchi. Watashi no uchi. Watashi no uchi ni kimasu. Yay! Yes. Watashi no ie ni kimasu with this. Uchi is house I is also house.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

A robato sumisang.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

Robato smisuang.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

A robato sumisanga come to school eight thirty.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Okay. Hachichihani Robato smisusang wa gako ni kimasu.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Yay!

SPEAKER_00 24:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Okay. Number four. Return home in Takesan. Goji han.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Oh, well you already said goji han, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

Oh, sorry, five thirty.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

Takeshisan.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

Hi.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

Alright, so I'm gonna say um gozen.

unknown 24:36

Oh. Hi.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

Yop yo parata atodeh. Hi. Takeshisan wa yeni kairimas. Yeah. He's uh he's gonna have a futyoi. He's gonna be hung up hung over. His wife is gonna be home and be like, Where were you?

SPEAKER_01 24:54

He's married and he was his dating Mary Hato.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

Oh, that's true. Oh, I forgot. I don't know. I forgot how old they were. Well, maybe this is in the future. Maybe maybe he's married to Mary Hart, and then he comes home and is like, what are you what are you doing? You're you're out too late.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

Number five, return to the US a Mary Hato San tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

Oh my gosh. This is a big Well, look, that's what happened. Oh you see, he um I don't know, I forget how old they are. But so he came home late after a night of drinking, and then Mary Hart was like, you know what? This relationship is not working out at all. I'm going back to the US. Alright, we're creating a soap. Okay. Alright, Ashta. It's tomorrow. Ashta. Usa ni kaedimas.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Yay. America ni kaadimos.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Amerika ni kaedimas.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

It didn't have hikokide, but you added yay, extra credit.

SPEAKER_00 25:51

Yeah. I did hikokide by the biplane.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Ah, biplane.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Not but not a biplane, but by on a plane. Aww.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Oh, and then it says B. Pay our work. Ask questions, looking at the picturing. A. A sora sanwa dokonikimaska.

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Moita yo.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Moya moya.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Sorasawa. You being kyokunikimas.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

Hi. Yamashta senseiwa toshokan ni ikimas. So in this exercise, basically, we're taking what we just so I could say Yamashita sama Toshoka ni ikimas statement. Yamashita-san is going or goes to the library. But now we're using the the ka. We put ka at the end of a sentence and it turns it into a question.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

It's almost like a little question mark. Um so you don't need to in English, like you have to change the word order. Um so uh but but in Japanese you just have to add ka to the end of it and it makes it a question. And then doko means where.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Where?

SPEAKER_00 26:59

So if you say yamashta sensei wa doko, ni being two doko ni ikimasu, where it's like where is yamashta sensei going? Excuse me. So uh once more, please, if you could uh ask me that question.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

Yamashta sense wa dokon ikimasu.

SPEAKER_00 27:19

Yamashita sense wa toshoka ni ikimas.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Oh ja me adi hatosan wa dokon ikimaska. Ah Wakimasu kimas.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Yeah, yeah, it's coming to the house.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

So ja Yes Nikimas, yes misusanwa dokonikaska.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Robatos misusan wa gakoni ikimas. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

Yay, ja Takesama dokoni kairimaska.

SPEAKER_00 27:54

Takesisama ieni kairimas. Yes. Ja being house.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

One more. Meriha to sama dokoni kairimasu.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Meri hato sama Americani kairimas.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Yay! Broken hato.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Broken Merihato.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

Shitsuden Janai.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Shitsuden.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Should we do one more?

SPEAKER_00 28:20

Oh yeah, I think we should do one more. One more.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

Okay. Nanjin Yookimasu. What time do you wake up? Look up Professor Yamashta's schedule and describe what he does when. So uh at 7 30 he gets up and eight he eats breakfast.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

So okidu is to get up. So okimasu. It's to get up and also to wake up. Hi. Wake up. Yamashta sensei, wake up. Oh, so this is like Yamashita sense morning routine. Yeah. Um let's see. What's that word for for your routine? Your sick is it seikatsu? Your daily life? That's not like your routine. Routine. Routine. Okay. But seikatsu is like. Yote. Yote is a plan, yeah. But um so there's a picture of Yamashita Sensei under a nice quilted bed with a on his side table is an alarm clock and a pair of glasses. And he's just doing his morning stretches.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

He's getting out of bed. Shiji han.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

Uh okay, so Shiji Han, seven Han. Sounds like half, right? And Han is like 30, 7:30. Shiji G. Shi 7G. The hour. Han. The half hour. 7 30. Goes in. A.m. goes in. Yamashta sensei ga okima. He wakes up at 7 30 in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

What about number one? Hachiji. 8.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

8.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

And eat.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Goes in. Hachiji ni. Yamashta sense. Wa. Asa gohan otabemas. Yes. That's that tabedu that we were talking about earlier. Tabemas to eat. Asa morning. Gohan. Rice meal. Asa gohan. Morning rice meal. Asa gohan. Breakfast. Asa gohan otabemas. Eat breakfast. Hachiji ni. Yamashita sense. Yes. Gohan is a Dragon Ball Z character. That is true. All of the sayings have names that are food or vegetable related.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

Hachiji han. Go to the university.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

Alright. Hachiji han ni. Yamashita sensei wa. Daigaku ni ikimas.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Yes. Number three. Noon and eat lunch.

SPEAKER_00 30:58

Alright. Jiu ni ji ni. Yamashita sensei wa. Hidu gohan. Oh tabe mas.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

We had asa gohan for morning meal. And we have hidu for like noon.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

Noon. Lunch.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Lunch. The sun is at hidu time. Uh hidu gohan. So it's lunch the lunch meal. Oh tabemas.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

Uh four o'clock, he drinks coffee.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

Eh? Yeah, that's a bit. You're gonna get the jitters if you do that. Yoji? Hi. Can you say yonji or is it just yoji?

SPEAKER_01 31:30

Yoji.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

Yoji. Okay. That's four. Yoji, although it says PM specifically. It really wants us to know that this guy's drinking coffee at 4 p.m. Gogo Yoji Ni. Yamashita Sensewa. Kohi. Oh nomimas.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

Yeah, yoji.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

That's the gnomi from the nomimono. Uh-huh. The nomu to drink. Nomimono. But we're saying in this case, we're just doing the verb nomi mas. And kofi, they don't really have an F sound in Japanese, so you get this like H sound. Kohi. Yeah. They do kind of have an F sound with the foo, but they don't really do fi though.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

Ofu. Do you know Ofu?

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Well, you got like Ofi Su. Ofi so. So why couldn't it be like Ko kofi?

SPEAKER_01 32:12

Kofi. Kaffee. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Yeah, Ka Ka Ka Ka Fi. No, they do Kohi for whatever reason.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Kafe. Okay. Uh number five. Six o'clock. Go home.

SPEAKER_00 32:29

Okay. Roku Ikni. Hi. Yamashita sense. Yes. Roku, like the um like the Roku app.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

Ah.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

I don't know. Or the Roku.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

No, the Roku app the Roku is record.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Oh, oh, it's like Record?

SPEAKER_01 32:49

Rokuga. Yeah, Rokuga. Roku.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

Oh, oh, Roku. Roku is a recording? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Yeah, that's why it's Roku.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Oh, so I if I say like uh Kono uh Twitch de uh Kono uh episodo no Rokuga.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Rokuga. Rokuga kaimas hai.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Yeah. Okay, so Roku is a that doesn't have anything to do with the word recording. It's is it a hiragana word? Roku?

SPEAKER_01 33:13

No, it's kanji.

SPEAKER_00 33:14

Oh it's kanji. Okay. So it's like a native Japanese word. Yeah. Roku. Okay, so Roku is a recording. That's cool. I didn't know that. I just learned that today. And then the and then so but you said. So what's Roku ga?

SPEAKER_01 33:29

Ga ga is an image. Oh recording image, Rokuga.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

Oh, as opposed to like an audio recording?

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Yeah, usually Rokuga means like video recording.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

Okay. So if you say Roku, it's just recording generally, but Roku ga is a video recording.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

Yeah, so Roku on is sound.

SPEAKER_00 33:46

Yes, Roku on, I I did learn, but I didn't I didn't realize it's so Roku. So Roku on sound recording. So Kono podcast podcast. Hi.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

Hi, Roku Gamos temas.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

Yeah, hey, we're doing double. So we got Rokuga, and then you have uh not to be confused with Vlakugo. Which is a uh a one-man comedy format. Can you do manzai with a puppet? It's like the puppet is the other guy.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe you could start.

SPEAKER_00 34:30

Yeah. Yeah, maybe all three pu puppets. Sanzai.

SPEAKER_01 34:35

Uh to go home. So uh 7 30, he eats dinner.

SPEAKER_00 34:40

Okay. Shichiji han ni Yamashita sense wa Bang Gohan. O Tabema.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Yay!

SPEAKER_00 34:52

So ban. So there's that Gohan again. So we've what do we got? Our three meals. We got our Asa Gohan. Breakfast, morning meal. We got uh Hidu Gohan. Our daytime lunch meal. Lunch. And then we got Bang Gohan, which is your dinner, ban being the evening. Uh because ban is also um evening. Well ban isn't ban itself isn't evening.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Yeah, ban ban.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

We got asa. Oh yeah, well oh yeah, I was thinking of konban wa.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

Yeah, asahiruban.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

Yeah. So ban is just evening. Okay, that's right. And then konban wa is good night. Yeah. Yeah. That's the same. It's the same ban.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

Yeah, good evening. Kon nichiwa. Konban wa.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

Okay, konban wa's evening. And then oh yeah, sumi nasa. Good night.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Yeah. Okay, one more. Jui chi jihan. What's that? 11 30. Go to bed.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

Go to bed?

SPEAKER_01 35:49

Go to bed.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

Okay. I thought you were talking about soccer for a second there. Um Jui Chiiji Han Yamashita sensei. Wa Yasumi Mason ni hairi musu. Futon futoni. What is the word to go to bed? I don't know. Sushi. I mean there's Nedu.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Shu Shin Shimasu. Shushin Sudo? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Just to go to bed? Yeah. Or I mean you could I guess they could we could just say Nemas. Futon ni hairi mas to enter the futon.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Alright, so got foot. Um but yeah, I guess they might want us to say Nedu at this point in the Genki book. That's probably what we're doing, right? I don't think we learned Okidu and Nedu. Um Yeah, I would say that in if we wanted to translate more strictly that Nedu would be like to go to sleep. Uh-huh. But to go to bed is let's face it, we go to bed and then we just doom scroll for several hours. So you know, going to bed and going to sleep are not necessarily the same thing. But I guess you could say I'm gonna go to bed. It's like you're going to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

Are we done or do we need to do one more?

SPEAKER_00 36:49

Oh, well, what is the next section?

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Next section is just asking questions. Ask each other about Professor Yamashta's schedule.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Well, that is related to what we just did. Oh yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:59

Okay. Yamashta sense. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Although I was saying all those things, maybe I should ask you the questions. I'll ask you the questions.

SPEAKER_01 37:15

I don't remember, but.

SPEAKER_00 37:17

Yeah, well, neither did I. Oh, so we just I can just ask you whatever. Okay. Yamashta senseohan otabemaska.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

Yamashta sense wa junichini hirugohan otabemas. Bing bing boo.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

Yamashita sense wa nanjini kohio no mimaska.

SPEAKER_01 37:36

Yamashta senseba go go yojini kohio noimas. Bing bong.

SPEAKER_00 37:41

So this. Yamashita sense wa nanjini asagohan otabemaska.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

Yamashita senseba asahijini gohan otabemas. Asa hatijini asa gohan otabemas.

SPEAKER_00 37:55

Here, let's do something just fun for any hongoto English. I will ask you the question in Japanese and you will respond with the correct answer, but you'll respond in English.

SPEAKER_01 38:03

Oh, gumbag.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

Okay, so and then and then and then uh you can reverse engineer it to find out what the question meant if you don't speak Japanese and vice versa. Alright, so Yamashita sensei wa nanji ni ie ni kaeri maska.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

Mr. Yamashita.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

In English. This is ni hongo.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

English Mr. Yamashita. Mr. Mountain Beloes home at six o'clock.

SPEAKER_00 38:36

Nice. Uh Yamashita sensewa nanjini bangohan otabemaska.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Mr. Yamashita eats dinner at seven thirty p.m.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

That is correct. Um Yamashita sensei wa nanjini daigaku ni ikimasu.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

Professor Yamashita goes to the university at eight thirty a.m.

SPEAKER_00 39:06

True. Yamashita senseiwa nanjini nemasuka.

SPEAKER_01 39:14

Mr. Yamashita goes to bed at eleven thirty p.m.

SPEAKER_00 39:19

Alright, I think.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

Because we have to watch the sumo highlight.

SPEAKER_00 39:22

Oh, so this show.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

Yeah, small highlight starts at 11.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

He needs to watch the sumo uh Rokuga.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

So so so so.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Yamashita senseiwa nanjini hidugohanotabemasuka.

SPEAKER_01 39:34

Mr. Yamashita eats lunch at noon.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

Alright, well, I think we pretty much got it all covered. But yeah, perhaps in the future we'll we'll put them on YouTube. Uh I do think just looking at the video quality, this is fine video would be good. We could put these on YouTube for sure. Um uh even without any edits. Uh so um, yeah, we'll eventually put on YouTube. But for now, um, we just appreciate you listening.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

Well, thank you so much. And bye, Hachane.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

Hachane, bye-bye.

unknown 40:06

Bye.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Hachikotane Hikotane?

SPEAKER_01 40:24

Hachikotane?

SPEAKER_00 40:25

What's Hachikotane?

SPEAKER_01 40:26

Hachikotane. Did I say Hachikotane?

SPEAKER_00 40:29

No, I said that. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_01 40:31

I don't know. I know, Ichigo Tane seed, strawberry seed.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

Uh-huh. Oh, I think achikotane is like arigato kozaimas, but but in dial but in the the uh nigata bin.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

Because I never been to Nigata. Oh, I have Karuita, no, no, not Karuitaba uh skini takoto karimas.

SPEAKER_00 40:52

Uh Harumi san, remind me what either it's either achikotane or hachikotane.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

Hi.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

I think it might mean like arigato.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

But or or maybe it it is the goodbye, but hachane is the is the is the shorter version of Hachikotane. It could be that, which is the uh uh the uh small town uh uh Nigataken dialect for um uh Jane.

SPEAKER_01 41:19

Jane. Jane.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

See you next time. Bye. Bye.