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Hi, welcome (back) to our podcast. In this episode, Mai talks about her favorite place in Japan in Japanese first, then in English.
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Transcript
What is your favorite place in Japan?
日本語学習中のみなさん、こんにちは。The Trilingual ChatboxのMaiです。
初回のテーマは「日本で一番好きな場所」についてです。日本に素敵な場所はたくさんあるので、選ぶのが難しいんですけど、今回は以前旅行に行ってすごく印象に残っていて、また行きたいと思っている場所を選びたいと思います。
さっそくですが、今回私が選ぶ日本で一番好きな場所は、京都です。特に意外性がなくてつまらないかもしれませんが、やっぱり京都は外せませんよね。日本では小学校や中学校の修学旅行で京都に行く学校が多いです。私の中学校の修学旅行も京都と奈良でした。中学生のころは多くの生徒と同じように私もお寺とか神社にあまり興味がなかったので京都の良さがわからなくて街歩きよりも買い物とか友達とのおしゃべりが楽しかったんですけど、そのあと20代前半にもう1度行ったときに、心が穏やかになる素敵な場所だと感じました。その時は夏に行ったので本当に暑くて外を歩くのが大変だったんですけど、日本庭園を見たり、竹林(ちくりん)の道を歩いたり、神社仏閣を訪ねたりして、昔の日本に思いをはせることができました。次回は春か秋に行ってみたいと思っています。春と秋は気候も穏やかですし、春は桜が咲くころ、秋は紅葉の頃に行くと、神社やお寺と一緒に最高にきれいな写真がとれそうです。日本の古都を抹茶アイスなんか食べながら素敵な浴衣で歩いたら最高ですよね。まだ行ったことのない方は、ぜひ訪れてみてください。
日本語は以上です。次に同じことを英語で話します。日本語をどのくらい理解できたかチェックしてみてください。
Next, I am going to talk about the same thing in English. You can check how much you understood.
Hi, Japanese language learners, I`m Mai from The Trilingual Chatbox. For this first individual episode, I`m going to talk about “My favorite place in Japan”. There are countless beautiful places in Japan, so it`s not easy to choose one. But this time, I am going to choose one place that impressed me the most and I want to visit again.
Let me get straight to the point, my favorite place in Japan I choose this time is “Kyoto”. It might be a boring answer for you because it is such a famous place, but it is a great place, so I had to choose it. In Japan, many students visit Koto as a school trip in elementary or junior high school. My junior high school trip was to Kyoto and Nara as well. When I was a junior high school student, like many other students, I didn`t appreciate shrines and temples so I enjoyed shopping and chatting with my friends more. But when I went there again in my early 20s, I really liked the place. I felt like I can have peace of mind there. The second time I visited Kyoto was in summer, so it was extremely hot, and it was so difficult to walk around but I enjoyed picturing the ancient city of Kyoto by looking at traditional Japanese gardens, walking through the bamboo forest, and visiting shrines and temples. I`m thinking to visit Kyoto in spring or autumn next time. The weather is mild in spring and autumn, and also you can take amazing pictures of shrines and temples with cherry Blossoms in spring and yellow leaves in autumn. And it would be great if you walk around the town in a beautiful Yukata eating matcha ice cream. If you haven’t visited Kyoto before, you should definitely visit the place. I really recommend it.
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