Fun Friday 21: Peter Manthei
Learn Japanese Pod
Alex Brooke
4.8 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this Fun Friday edition of the podcast I interviewed my good friend and fellow student of Japanese Peter Manthei. We talked about various topics including the challenges of studying Japanese outside of Japan, Japanese versus American craft beer, useful methods to improve your Japanese as well as some great travel tips.
Peter runs a brewery in Michigan called Beards Brewery and you can find out more about him and his adventures on Instagram and Facebook.
For more podcasts on Japan and studying Japanese visit Learn Japanese Pod.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Alex, and you're listening to Learn Japanese Pod and you are listening |
| 0:10.9 | to the Fun Friday edition where we talk to cool people doing cool things in Japan. |
| 0:16.0 | We temporarily put away our textbooks and just talk about whatever and this week I am joined by my very good friend |
| 0:26.8 | Peter Peter how's it going? Oh it's going great this is. I got to say it's we're breaking the fourth wall a minute here, but like recording this with not hearing the intro right like the music I always hear that you say that with the music so it was like whoa what's going on |
| 0:46.7 | It's all smoking mirrors dude. It's a little smoking yeah and a lot of editing on my part but yeah by the way I was I I should say that when I |
| 0:56.6 | introduce this so you always say we're talking to cool people doing cool things |
| 1:00.6 | in Japan and I should say that we're definitely talking to a cool person doing cool things in Japan and I should say that we're definitely talking to a cool person doing cool things |
| 1:05.3 | who has done stuff in Japan and will do stuff in the future in Japan would probably be more accurate I would say. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah I did notice that I was like I wish I was doing cool stuff in Japan right now. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm sure you will be soon because at the moment Japan is opening its border to students, people on business and tour groups. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm not quite sure how that works so I don't have all the details in front of me, but it looks like after a good what two and a half years almost three years of the dreaded zombie plague that I won't mention it looks like Japan is |
| 1:46.8 | finally opening up its borders and so maybe you might be visiting Japan in the next year or two? |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, I got fingers crossed for the fall. |
| 1:58.0 | I mean, we might get into some of what I do, but there is like a food-related trade show in October. |
| 2:04.7 | Oh, and so I'm like if things are rocking maybe I'll try to hit that up. |
| 2:10.3 | That would be awesome. |
| 2:11.6 | By the way I should back up and say, |
| 2:14.0 | Peter, for people who don't know you, |
| 2:16.0 | and some do, because I think some people know you on the Discord channel, |
| 2:21.0 | but for people who don't know you, who are you, |
| 2:25.6 | what do you do, where do you live? |
| 2:28.5 | If we found you on an average day, what would you be doing? |
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