Fun Friday 06: Interview with Tomo Akiyama
Learn Japanese Pod
Alex Brooke
4.8 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this Fun Friday edition of the Learn Japanese Pod podcast, I interviewed Tomo Akiyama who is a fascinating expert linguist and well known Twitter user from Japan. We discussed a wide range of topics including the difficulties of learning Japanese and common mistakes non-native speakers make. We also talked about common English phrases Japanese people use, the words they say and they real meaning behind them.
As Tomo said, the biggest take away from this discussion is Japanese and English do not exactly translate into one another as they as such different languages.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to learn Japanese pod and you're listening to the fun Friday edition if you've never heard the fun Friday edition |
| 0:16.8 | That's when we put down our Japanese textbooks and talk about everything to do with Japan or whatever we randomly think of and today I'm joined by |
| 0:28.4 | Tomo Akeama. Nice to meet you again. Nice to see you again. Again I mean nice to see you again again. Again. I mean nice to see you again. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh he's actually buddy. How's it going? I'm good. It's been a while. I don't know what to start with. |
| 0:38.0 | Let's start with you. So I'll just tell everyone how I know you I actually know you from a |
| 0:45.8 | million years back in Tokyo more recently I've been following you on Twitter and |
| 0:51.6 | thank you if you if you haven't followed him check out Tomo |
| 0:57.2 | A K I Y A M A T O A K I Y A M A T M on Twitter, on Twitter, the most interesting Twitter person in Japan, in my humble opinion. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, I've been following your tweets, they're hilarious. We'll get into them in more detail but |
| 1:14.7 | Thomas for people who don't know you who are you what do you do what's your story |
| 1:19.8 | let's see I'm Japanese I'm from here technically but I grew up outside Japan. |
| 1:28.0 | Namely France and the UK that's where I spent my childhood. I shouldn't start from the beginning |
| 1:36.7 | should I? In English you should your biography starts from what you do now. |
| 1:41.5 | Yeah okay well in Japanese it's biography starts from what you do now. Yeah, okay. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, in Japanese, the premise comes first. |
| 1:47.0 | Anyway, so I am a corporate communication specialist. |
| 1:49.5 | I've been in corporate communications for nine years. |
| 1:51.5 | I recently changed my jobs |
| 1:54.2 | and I work for a car maker. |
| 1:59.7 | Congratulations on the new job. |
| 2:01.2 | Thank you. |
| 2:01.7 | Thank you was a lot of work. Yes. |
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