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Hi, everyone!
That was a bit hard.
The first guest is...
I'm Reisei Mia from Nogizaka 46.
We will start an English program, and this is episode 2.
We're having a guest today, so please come in.
Hi!
Hi! Thank you for having me. My name is Yuki Tanawa.
Hi!
She is fluent in English.
She also lived in the States for how many years?
About five years.
So we decided to have her to this project.
We wanted to talk about the difference between America and Japan.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for having me.
Celebrity!
Where did Sha come from?
I was called Fancy Nancy.
Tablers!
Can we have an introduce?
My name is Yuriko Tagawa, and I'm also from Nogizaka 46.
How old are you?
I'm 20 years old.
20 years old? Really?
Yeah.
I thought you were 18 or 19.
How old are you?
I'm 18 now.
So you thought we were the same age?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Can I ask your favorite things?
Of course. My favorite things?
Your favorite food, your favorite place.
Actually, this question is really hard for me right now because...
You like bread.
Yeah, I do.
Why did you remember?
Three years ago, you said it.
You love bread, so you didn't eat it.
Right?
Yeah.
Right?
Wow, I'm so surprised you remember it.
Wow.
Did you have any trouble when you came back to Japan?
When I came back to Japan?
I was really bad at Japanese.
Me too!
I didn't write Kanji.
Yeah, Kanji was the hardest part.
Yeah!
My school had a Kanji test every week.
And I was always the lowest score.
Yeah, like 20.
Like zero.
Really?
Yeah, zero.
Like zero.
Zero or ten.
Oh, that was like...
That was my routine for my Kanji test.
I didn't want to say French fries.
In Japan, you say like fried potato.
Fried potato is like...
It's like English, but it's not English.
And...
Like mechanical pencils.
Yeah, mechanical pencils.
Highlighters.
I thought like highlighters were like the word everyone uses.
But it was only in English.
Oh my gosh, I'm like so bad at Japanese.
Like, what does keiko mean?
Yeah!
And you said like sha-pen?
Yeah, sha-pen was like...
I think that was the most shocking word for me.
Where did sha come from?
Oh my god, yeah.
Didn't you think so?
Me too.
Oh, staplers.
Staplers!
Staplers.
Celebrities.
Celebrities!
Celebrities is not like celebrity, right?
Yeah, it's not...
Celebrity means like gendoujin in Japanese,
but I think Japanese cerebu means like rich people.
That was a big difference for me.
Corn dogs.
Oh, corn dogs.
I still forget this.
When I want to like buy a corn dog at like convenience stores,
I almost say like corn dogs every time I'm there.
Oh, one-piece.
Like clothes?
Yeah.
In Japan, like dress means really fancy dresses,
but like I think these are dresses as well.
Yeah.
These.
This is dress, but you say like one-piece in Japan.
I think it's just my school.
Everyone like jeans and t-shirts.
And I was like wearing these clothes,
and my teacher said like you're so fancy Nancy.
Do you know fancy Nancy?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fancy Nancy is pretty.
Yeah.
I was called fancy Nancy.
Really?
Yeah.
Why do you say Costco?
I said Costco.
Costco.
But I can understand because like we write C-O-S-T.
T-C-O.
So like oh, that T.
We can understand that like there's a T in Costco,
but I didn't read the T, so it was weird.
So thank you for coming today.
Thank you for inviting me.
How was the day?
The day?
Only like an hour.
It was really fun.
I think it was like my first time like actually really speaking with you in English.
Yeah, me too.
We barely had any chance to speak in English together,
so at first it felt so weird and strange, but it was fun.
But you like talk more in English than Japanese.
Is that you really?
Isn't that you really?
I think I have like double personalities maybe.
Okay, so in Japanese, it sounds like English,
but if you use it in America, people will be like, what is that?
So I'm going to introduce it in a nutshell.
First, fried potato and American dog are called French fries and corn dogs.
So when you want to eat an American dog, you can say,
can I have that American dog?
American dog?
Say corn dogs in French fries.
Corn dog.
French fries.
If you want to buy...
I have to say it in Japanese.
Okay, so I have to like switch.
Please, please speak Japanese.
If you want to buy a mechanical pencil,
please say mechanical pencil.
Hotchkiss too.
Hotchkiss.
I can't get it.
Please say stapler.
Can I have this stapler?
Can I have this mechanical pencil?
Can I borrow that mechanical pencil?
Can I borrow that stapler?
Like that.
Mechanical pencils.
Staplers.
It's cute.
So I hope you enjoy learning English with us.
See you soon.