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Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan,

not actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broderwood, joined as always by

England's top Japan enthusiast himself, Mr. Pete Donaldson Pete, how did ever you do it?

I'm good. I feel in my bonds that I'm a little bit better than you.

What do you mean, but what feeling better than you? I'm not a little bit better than you,

I mean by every metric going.

Well, I'm a little younger, a little bit younger. I could tell there was something in the water.

What did you do? What did you get up to? What did you drink? Did you have some schoo-ma?

Have some absumpt. What did I have? I don't know, I'd seem like the fact that I can't

remember what I drank is a little bit well. Yes! What mostly vodka? It was a celebration.

The last three days have been relentless, Pete. I've been in an audio booth from 9 to 5,

three days in a row going, in Japan, has I walked through the rice field? I realised how lucky I was.

How much recording have you done? How many hours have you done? Seven hours? It's a long

old slug. Well, I think it must be like 18 hours and I realised that a lot of my pronunciation

on certain words is stuffed and it was really annoying because it's really hard to unlearn a word.

Like a communal. I was saying communal.

Right. Is that not? Yeah, apparently it's communal. Do they want you to change it?

And prefecture instead of prefecture. Because I've got a lot of American English in my vocabulary now.

That's so rude, so that's how you talk. You've been out of the country for 10 years.

You can't have a mixed dialect of dialect. A British American.

Well, is it? I mean, because I seem to recall when we did the audio book for our book,

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