Favorite tea | Bilingual Friends 語 JAP/ENG #5

This is our new unscripted conversation format where we chat naturally and switch between Japanese and English in real time. Whenever one of us speaks, we repeat the same idea in the other language — and if we make mistakes, we correct each other on the spot.

The goal?
To help you train your ears through real, relaxed conversation.

In this episode, we talk about our favorite tea.

Put it on in the background, relax, and join us with a cup of coffee. ☕

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Welcome to Kanji and Coffee, your bilingual listening practice. So the nit. Hi. Okay. So tea. Do you like tea, Amber? Ochcha skidaska. Hi, ochcha that's it so. I love drink tea so much. Uh skin buddy. Yukcha. Yukcha. My favorite one is maybe yuk green tea. Green tea? How about you? Maybe Black tea kana. Black tea ne hongro teenani. Brack tea. Kuru cho. So now kocha kana tabu. Kocha. Hmm. Ko daji in toca ri uh yeah ar gre toka Yeah exactly. Nan toka money. British money. Ah yeah English breakfast. Ah that this isn't. Kochano. Hm okay, interesting. Kochano kanjiwa akai ochcha ma lead tea dakero bracti. That's confusing. Sorry Micha ano condans red tea but it's black tea. What is red tea? Aka Ario.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

We say fruit or no fruit tea we call red tea. If the tea has a red colour, musty Ochaga Otono red tea do you know?

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Ego day. Yeah, black tea mo Aka. Yeah. Black tea is also red colour. Yeah, no, it's black. Kuruda. Like a dark brown with dark brown moa uh is a more red colour than dark brown, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:14

I disagree.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

I think black. Okay. Ja, okay ja. Akai ocha le doti wa do donna. Wh which kind of the red tea there is?

SPEAKER_00 2:32

There is um for example like the ingredients are orange or blood orange or any kind of fruity or berry, usually berries are also in berry. Uh are considered red tea.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Uh fruits no hite kudamono hite no utsaga. Kudamonoga hite. In an berry. Berries, what are berries in Japanese? Uh berry wa berry. Beri a baby. Okay. Cha berry the kudamotoga. Betty ga hite night. I think there is no much of the berry tea in Japan. Oh. Tab uh peach tea to ka orange ma to orange the top ar grey toca. Oh, really? Maybe peach tea or argree.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Okay. Berry teas are very popular in Europe, especially in uh berry teas very berry teas are very time twist.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

I have s oka thing, one one thing oka. One thing. Beri no ajis dice. Ichigo aji Burubedi Aji Lasberi Aji Cranberry Agi Cranberry Cranberry Aji Micharyone.

unknown 4:18

So come on.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

I have a thought like foreign people love so much about the berry taste. There's so many kinds of the berry tastes. Can you name them?

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Don't which berries you just said? Ah in English, do you know the names? English same.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Yeah, my strawberry. Strawberry in Ichigo. The beruberry beruberi. Asoka. Okay, raspberry. Asosaso. Ichigo dachano ni hongo. Only strawberry.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

How do you like to drink your tea? Do you drink your tea with uh sugar, milk, or in Japan we have this kind of gum drop?

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Gum syrup. Gum syrup. Chiga. Nomi nomikata. Nomikata. Do chigaski doska no. Don nao. Don na nomikata skida. Soda ne? Sato toka. No chido. Uh. Eh done. Ma chi hon takinio chatoka hoji ja toka no kara. Basically I drink the green tea or hoji tea. Uh so nanimo e then? Mm story to noma I just drink as straight. Ma so na kocho no muto chiva Yeah, storia to na Me too. Straight or even I drink the black tea I drink as a straight. Straight? I think we say black then. Not masturbate today. So brack tea show. That's it. Yeah, I'm green tea! Red tea or brack tea, do you know? I order green tea as black. Actually, I don't do say in even in the green tea, red tea. Probably not near. True, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

I'm not sure actually. How do we say it? Yeah. Matashke maybe just without sugar. As is kana, as is uh Sonomama.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

As is maybe Sonomama. Yeah. Also, not okay. Ho Rokcha. Ho hojicha. Yokucha? Hojicha. Hojiha. Hojicha, I think, is barley tea, is that correct? No. What is barley tea is mujicha. Lokchawa? Green tea. Hojiamo? It's made from green tea. They are the same? Or not it is? The same wreath. The taste is different. Yes, yes. We make the hojicha tea leaves by lost thing the green tea leaves. So it's actually the same leaves. I see. I have here actually lead tea lead tea. Black tea leaves are even the same with Yokicha Hoji. Really? Interesting. In Japan, what tea is the most famous or the one that is that people drink the most? Ninki kana. Ninki Ninkino Ma Yuka Shakana I think must be green tea. Ma Ano Yukona. There's some people who drink green tea as like water. Wow. That's interesting. So so so mistado misaj. So you must see the green tea or like a green tea and water in the bending machine in any place with the Swissing.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

So then, yeah. Dokcha is everywhere, that's true. Is uh matcha considered tea?

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Is it in the same group? Category Category So this nano matcha mochadane demo matcha yes matcha is also one of the tea of course butcha motonangasa special nabasudaka. Senji They need to mix the tea powder by to make bad matcha so to be more special kind of tea.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Yeah. So then there is a whole culture associated with the tea ceremony, which includes matcha as well, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:10

So no In Japan. In Japanka Arun Sono Macha no Nantibino tea ceremony tenandake, I know. Sado sad sadho than it. Chat de kaku sad. We like Latin Cha Kanji, but we lead as sa Really? The O the Ochano Kanji. So animash kuneda topicana Zen Tokane. Zen Zen Toka at Wabisabi Toka Nakasoy no Ochano Karachakana. I think the we mentioned about uh some of the tea ceremony culture zen or wabisabi and I think those also be included in the tea ceremony uh tea culture in Japanese. Those are R also included R included Sodan, yeah. Hmm Sado Shabi K Sado Ah Sodan mm Sado We Chano We light tea wei midana. T wei uh so do ne cha do sadh we lead as sado. D is there a reason why Nakaimi I don't know nan the ma just how to How do you know?

SPEAKER_00 11:44

Call it do ya dishir no nanka no reading.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

Kura Shila na ye special I we don't know for the f until the we until we see for the first time. I see. Then we will need remember. Interesting. Talking about a tea, uh I have one thing I'm interested in now. Not except uh not like matcha but it is similar with matcha um is matcha. Matecha. Matecha mateti. Ah Mateti Matecha Matecha Matecha chininaru.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

I know the name and I probably drank mate tea a lot in the past. Now that I think about it, I'm actually not even sure what exactly is matete.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Matete what is mate? Kido, what can I get matcha mita? I don't know nothing about the mate, but it's very similar with matcha looks, isn't it? You feel like the taste naka as it takini? Your mitame similar appearance. Appearance? Is it green? Midori. Green or powder poison.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

Hold up.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

Yeah, I think there are different kinds of mate, nga Chigao, ng nan different kinds tenani. Uh shiga i e to chiga shiri no mate. Chiga shirui shuri. Shiri. Shiri no mataka no tomo. Narodo. Naka. Uno I the one I drank was a brown colour.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

Uh nun da kotariato.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

Hosimate. Hosimate. Soda ne. Rosted version. Huh. Is it famous in Japan? Fa Nihonde Ninkina. Yeah Ninki Janai. Ninki Janai Tika Zenze Yumi Jana. Hm. Why are you interested in it now then? Nande Kinina tikan. It's not that famous. But I'm interested in that because Ninjiro Nanka Anunosaka no kanto kuga nunde no mitakotanaka. Televito. I have seen some of the s I have seen some of the scene in the TV. I have seen a scene. I have seen a scene. Coach or the sake of team. Coach, eh? Trainer or coach. Trainer drinking the matte tea at the bench. Okay. So Naga Soriga Nanka King Naga Sports no Bangi Nanga Kanto non demashtadoga oika television. Naka I have seen some of the TV program uh which featuring the mate tea because of the uh coach of the club team or like any sports club uh drank that tea at the game.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Wow, so maybe it's good for your health then?

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Naka Kingkonotame Kinkuni Teng Kinkonotame E Kenko ni i kana. Kenkuni Kinkuni i King kuni i comosuana Somo Sonakigasudun. Naga min na Kenko ni te you teta telebi de I have heard everyone's talking positive thing in TV. The mate?

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Oh yes yes.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

Interesting. Is there a Japanese mate brand? Mate brand I don't know. Naka telebino. Yeah, naike do Mukashi Nankane. Taiyo no mate shut to know him. Uh there is no brand in Japan, but uh long time ago, a long time to go. Ma I think uh five years or seven years before, uh there was a uh product over the beaverage about mate Taiyo no mate. Mate tea from sun me. So I haven't drank but I know that. I see. Interesting. Yes. So Mate tea. Cop special copy. Really? So so so ni powder or ilete, not pump on the code, eat it tea the tea or you got there. The store there, filter store there. I have here like a there is a special cup for mate, mate tea, and you put the leaf maximum and you pour the w hot water and you suck with uh straw straw which has filter. Filter, okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Oh wow, that sounds interesting. I have never seen that before.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

I still don't do it. I think we need something special tools for to drink.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

Some special equipment. Wow. Okay. Now I want to try. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

I am interested now. No, what chato ye baon dato? Maido kafe to karu kiro. Really? Maido kafe. Meido kaffee mocha they don't drink. Do they drink tea at the made cafe? Yeah, tea janai kiro.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

I've never been there, so I don't know what kind of drinks they serve. What are you taking?

SPEAKER_01 18:32

There is a uh cafe which called made cafe. Uh it's kind of concept cafe. Concept cafe? Concept cafe. Mamma, eh?

SPEAKER_00 18:43

It's a special cafe style.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

Yeah, waiter and um every person is waiter, waitress. Waitress. Waiters are co costumed as uh maid. They are dressed up. Dressed up the maid servant style, and they will be act they will act as a uh maid to you.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

Yeah, I've only heard stories and some scenes from videos Naka Hana Shita Kotaru ano toka ano toga toka mitaru ano sano nan nun nan nun nun n they they make a heart shape and they say some some funny acute uh moe moe kin.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

What is the meaning of moe moeki? Amoe Amoe is it the burning? Yeah chigan moe nga is originally came from the ancient Japanese word like uh moewa sprout. The grasses statue sprout Ano Koyga me baeru no niniter is similar is like uh your love statue bone work sprout and grew up yeah so so the langa netono de anime to kamite mwe I love it again the cue nakazi even the interesting mwe mwe the qama hatataking it's different in English it's jumps kind of yeah yeah big so no koyoste koka chitko I see. I see kunt yeah we say like uh for kin probably to make an tension on your heart. I see. We I think in English we would say something like I have butterflies. We say butterflies in the stomach butterflies. It's like maybe there is some point risk. Yeah, true. I haven't been there either, neither. Neither neither. I haven't been there.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

I haven't been there either because I haven't more negative. I haven't been there either. Either. Let's do the podcast at the main of the next one.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

It's expensive then. I hope some uh sometime uh one day we can invite other guests for the uh Mado parson to hear as a uh podcast, but uh that's a good idea. Because if we go to the May Cafe will be a bit expensive, so maybe we should stop that. Yeah, we should invite somebody and uh Sasotahugaika. So then Sasu Sasotahuga Sasuke. Sasu uh and ask to go with you, Mitan. Okay. If I invite somebody, I say. Shotaisuruto Sasura noniga chico. What is the difference? Let's do something. Invite to do together.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

So in the case of doing a podcast, I would use Sasu because it we are doing a podcast.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

If you invite to the podcast to do with you about the podcast, okay, the demo, if you invite to here to a place. You have two different invites, okay. Well, almost the same, but uh there is different news. Interesting. Thank you for listening to today's conversation. So we will see you in the next episode.