Steve: Hello everyone, This is Steve.
Steve: Today, I am speaking in Japanese. And We have a special guest.
Steve: Mr,Kazu from Kazu languages
Kazu: Hi everyone,
Steve: Hello, So if you like my videos
Steve: Please subscribe my channel.
Steve: Today, I would like to Have an interview with Kazu.
Steve: Because he is able to speak various languages.
Steve: I lived in Japan for 9 years.
Steve: When I went to book stores, I saw only English text book.
Steve: Learning other languages it was always only English,
Steve: And little bit of Chinese, Spanish, Korean, That was how it was.
Steve: Then, It was told that
Steve: Japanese people don’t care about other languages except English.
Steve: But Mr,Kazu Could you please introduce
Steve: about your channel and
Steve: explain which languages You’ve studied.
Steve: To my audience.
Kazu: My main reason for studying other languages is
Kazu: to communicate with other people and make friends.
Kazu: Learning new languages will empower me to learn more about other cultures.
Kazu: To see how people react to What you speak.
Kazu: And by leaning those languages
Kazu: I believe there’s a connection between leaning and respecting their cultures.
Kazu: In my channel, I am having conversations with
Kazu: various people from different countries in their mother language.
Kazu: Now, I am able to speak Japanese, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese,
Kazu: Indonesian, Russian, Arabic, Those are the languages I am studying now.
Steve: Interesting thing is
Steve: Romance languages, For example French, Italian, Portuguese,
Steve: These are easy.
Kazu: But in your case, Slavic languages like Indonesian, Arabic,
Steve: and Languages in Europe, Your interest is wide range.
Steve: How do you choose to study those languages?
Kazu: There’s very important point
Kazu: when I decide to study new languages
That is I want to study Languages that’s completely opposite
Kazu: to my lifestyle.
Kazu: For example, Difference of cultures from my standpoint.
Kazu: or difference of lifestyles, I want to study languages
Kazu: That has different cultures from Japan
Kazu: So I am intentionally choosing languages that is other group of language family.
Kazu: I am choosing widely
Kazu: so I’ll have opportunity to learn about many other countries.
Steve: When you visit Europe.
Steve: There’s some like..
Steve: People gather at pub
Steve: And put national flags on their chest that they are able to speak
Steve: and have conversations with various languages
Steve: sometimes swap their seats, There’s things like that.
Steve: Of course, There’s other languages right next to your country in Europe.
Steve: So there are many people Who is able to speak other languages.
Steve: How about Japan?
Steve: Is there any movement of people
Steve: like wanting to study various languages?
Steve: Is there anything like that?
Kazu: Well.. There are not much in Japan yet, But
Kazu: People’s attention to English has been increased
Kazu: Long time ago, Japanese was told that We are the nation not good at speaking other languages
Kazu: But things changed
Kazu: There are many people Whom taking English class seriously
Kazu: Another example is, Some people choose to study
Kazu: Spanish, Chinese and other languages
Kazu: as second language at the college.
Kazu: I sense that people are starting to change
Kazu: Their attitude toward Languages.
Steve: English or Spanish, Russian..
Steve: There’s this thing called comprehensible input.
Steve: There are many interesting contents
Steve: like podcast,
Steve: or TV channels, There are many of them.
Steve: In my case, I am having difficult time with Arabic.
Steve: I am struggling.
Steve: To find right audio and text books
Steve: for my level.
Steve: It’s difficult to find them.
Steve: So, I have no idea about Indonesian.
Steve: How do you find materials to study
Steve: Indonesian and Arabic
Steve: That matches to your level and
Steve: gives you interest into it?
Steve: Are you having difficult time? Kazu: Well, Yes, It’s very difficult
Kazu: Especially finding Egyptian dialect in Arabic.
Kazu: There’s no such a thing on the internet.
Kazu: So…
Kazu: Mainly I watch YouTube and Netflix.
Steve: Certainly, YouTube is the best source.
Kazu: Yes, I agree with you.
Steve: There are many Lebanese as well. Kazu: Ah Lebanese, Yes.
Steve: I get confused between Lebanese and Arabic.
Steve: Sometimes I listen to Lebanese and Egyptian.
Steve: And listen to standard Arabic, These are very difficult.
Kazu: There are so many various languages.
Steve: Yes.
Steve: So, Do you live in Japan?
Kazu: Yes, I live in Japan for most of my life.
Steve: Are you planning to visit abroad ?
Kazu: Well, For now I want to focus on studying languages.
Kazu: But maybe next year or the year after next
Kazu: I want to visit countries where main languages are
Kazu: What I learned. Steve: That makes scene.
Steve: The thing about trip like that
Steve: When you visit those countries
Steve: After you study hard
Steve: It’s like a dream… like a dream. Kazu: Certainly, It is special.
Steve: Being able to use
Steve: languages that you studied hard
Steve: In your daily life
Steve: Is such a special thing. Kazu: Yes.
Steve: Is there any particular countries, Like South America or Europe or Russia
Steve: Or Egypt, Closest to Indonesia.
Kazu: Well
Kazu: First, Since I have lot of friends in Indonesia, So I want to visit there.
Kazu: And I studied both Portuguese and Spanish
Kazu: so I want to visit South America as well, I just want to see whole world.
Steve: Very well then.
Steve: I think
Steve: Anybody should be able to learn multiple languages
Steve: Not only one language,
Steve: And there’s such a great technologies like MP3 and others,
Steve: So we are able to study much easier than how it used to be.
Steve: And your life will get richer.
Steve: So I could say that you are a discoverer
Steve: of languages. Kazu: Discoverer.
Kazu: I am humbled. Steve: OK, so.
Steve: I will leave link of your YouTube channel
Steve: Into description box.
[Speaking Spanish］
Steve: So far, What I could understand is
Steve: Only Bahasa Indonesia!
Steve: I’ll study Indonesian in the future.
Steve: OK! Thank you.
Steve: That was fun.
Steve: I wish you all the best. Kazu: Thank you.
Steve: Please study 10 and 20 more languages
Steve: Since you are so much younger than me.
Kazu: Yes, I will do my best. Thank you so much. Steve: Thank you, Bye bye.