Welcome to Learn Japanese Pod, the podcast dedicated to helping you improve your Japanese

and you're listening to the Fun Friday edition of the

podcast where we temporarily put down our Japanese textbooks and talk about cool stuff related to Japan, it's culture and people and in this

episode we'll be talking about trending words and phrases from Japan during

2021 and I thought this would be a fun way to look back at the past year

and talk about the prevailing trends and big ideas influencing Japan this year and I'm joined by my good buddy Andy.

Whooo! Hey dude, how you doing?

I'm good, I'm great, how are you?

I'm fine, but I want to lead a ground rule down if I could. Oh yes please go ahead. Two years ago we had a

fun Friday on looking back on the coronavirus now that it's clearly finished.

Then we had another show just one year ago

where we were looking back on that

and talking about the new Corona-Free year that lie ahead.

I'm not doing that again.

Let's talk about something.

I'm not going to say the coronavirus is over.

I am completely convinced

that we will never ever burrow up.

Hey hey come on Andy don't be a pessimist I think we could hang out as early as February

2027.

You saw that joke coming down the track, didn't you?

Yes.

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