well hello everyone out there in YouTube
YouTube land today i wanted to do
do a war
do a war hello
hello little bit something kind of
of special little introduction for
for my brand new student I
I will be probably speaking a little
little bit slower for this particular
particular lesson this advanced listening
listening practice lesson but I think
think it'll be a really fun lesson
lesson in just a little bit getting
getting to know me a bit more so if
if you can't figure out who this is
is my new student this
this is my daughter if you can believe
believe that now
now i haven't mentioned anything about
about a kind of been keeping it a
a secret just like a family thing
thing but I thought since you know
know she was born on august 6 2015
2015 so just a couple of days ago
ago
ago so
so my wife is Japanese and so she
she has a kind of we can't really
really figure out her features yet
yet but she is you know kind of a
a little half-asian look but no she
she was a just feeding a little bit
bit ago so she might know that you
you might cry maybe we'll see how
how you feeling you
you feeling all right her name is
is Arya may so
so a riaa and that was actually just
just a name that I came up with when
when I was sitting at a table in my
my living room and I was just thinking
thinking of something that would sound
sound nice in both english and japanese
japanese i know i usually do a little
little introduction at the beginning
beginning of these so i'll do it very
very quickly right
right now in this advanced listening
listening practice set of lessons
lessons
lessons usually
usually I speak a bit more quickly
quickly actually quite a bit more
more quickly look
look at you got a smile a ride so
so if you are unfamiliar with my voice
voice if you're new to the channel
channel i recommend you go back and
and review some of the previous lessons
lessons so you can get used to my
my voice and then after that you
you can come back and watch this advanced
advanced listening practice series
series of videos and that will help
help you anything like that can't
can't even be properly yeah
yeah I was up for like 41 hours straight
straight
straight during
during the labor so that's when my
my wife was actually giving birth
birth so we're still kind of recovering
recovering from that so i can't speak
speak properly but i thought i would
would just take a moment and make
make a quick video for you and just
just introduce this this little girl
girl
girl so
so if you're against new to this set
set of videos you're new to the channel
channel please go back and watch some
some of my previous videos when I'm
I'm speaking more slowly and a bit
bit more clearly and that will prepare
prepare you for my pronunciation and
and other things like that listening
listening to my intonation as well
well anyway I just wanted to talk
talk a little bit about you know this
this this little girl here so we had
had been thinking about having a child
child for a while and got lucky enough
enough to have one and
and so now here we are it's kind of
of actually funny to picture myself
myself as a father because i'm always
always joking around and I like playing
playing with kids and so now actually
actually have like a child of my home
home here
home here she's
she's actually sitting quite quiet
quiet here she just had like you know
know a little bit of milk and now
now she's taking a nice nap but
but if she's a very sweet little baby
baby
baby hello
hello and I've already started reading
reading to her and you know doing
doing those kinds of things even
even though maybe she won't understand
understand everything it's also getting
getting me into the habit of doing
doing that so every day we can have
have a certain routine where I'm practicing
practicing reading with her other
other things like that and that's
that's actually another thing I wanted
wanted to mention about this while
while i'm talking about in the video
video and just a side thing that you
you maybe you can hear a little bit
bit of crying in the background we're
we're still at the hospital right
right now
right now this
this is a little bit different from
from America or maybe your country
country depending on where you're
you're from but here in Japan after
after the birth the
the mother and probably the father
father as well i can't at this hospital
hospital but usually the mother stays
stays at the hospital for about five
five days and it could maybe very
very could be a different in a day
day or two here there but basically
basically you at
at the hospital the whole time so
so in America they kick you out of
of the hospital right after the baby
baby is born basically the next day
day they send you out but you know
know maybe they're taking a little
little bit more care and i actually
actually prefer this system out here
here so I've been coming to visit
visit my wife and little area here
here and we've been just hanging out
out so maybe you can hear a little
little bit of crying in the background
background it's
it's actually a really really tough
tough job I've got a lot of appreciation
appreciation for not just women when
when you know they're going through
through labor and that kind of thing
thing in general but also the women
women that work here and it's just
just an amazing thing to to see them
them and you know they have to deal
deal with lots of babies and it's
it's hard to even handle one but since
since I'm a new father I'm a little
little bit careful i don't want to
to you know drop the baby or break
break the baby or something like that
that but seeing all the 10 she's
she's making that face where she wants
wants to get some milk now are you
you going to wait are you gonna you
you gonna be okay it
it will get mine back in your prison
prison anyway mom is out taking a
a nice walk but
but you know just relaxing but anyway
anyway I just wanted to give you a
a quick introduction and maybe just
just one quick thing kind of a little
little bit of a lesson changes for
for you out there if
if you ever see a baby you know this
this is a great thing you can use
use that will help you sound native
native when you're talking about a
a baby you can say oh with like she
she has her father's nose or her mother's
mother's hair or her father's such
such and such or something like that
that
that so
so whenever you're looking at a baby
baby if you know what the other family
family members look like you can see
see oh she has that person's something
something something so she has that
that person's hair that person's eyes
eyes or something like that now
now re she has your eyes closed right
right now because she's kind of taking
taking a little bit of a nap but actually
actually you know they will probably
probably change colors right now they
they are
they are little
little bit kind of bluish in a little
little bit gray actually a really
really a beautiful interesting color
color you can open your eyes all
all right look look hello no
no she's just gonna make a face she
she doesn't want me to wake her up
up right now but she might wake up
up a little bit later but it's written
written actually a really great experience
experience and I had no idea what
what was going to be like to be a
a father and thinking about that and
and you know when you're a man looking
looking at your wife who's pregnant
pregnant you see the baby there and
and you can feel it kicking but it's
it's not really real like
like it is for the wife until you
you know you actually see the baby
baby come out now at that time when
when the baby was born I didn't really
really cry or anything but when I
I looked at him at my wife and you
you know i was very emotional I
I think the thing that was most powerful
powerful for me was watching how much
much pain she was in actually giving
giving birth so
so as I mentioned she was in labor
labor so that's like the time for
for the first contraction and actually
actually I learned that Japanese were
were that's a jean suit so
so that's the japanese word for contraction
contraction and I actually learned
learned a whole bunch of other Japanese
Japanese words that I would never
never really have thought to learn
learn outside of being in this situation
situation other was like hostile e
e which is wake up when your water
water breaks so
so this is another great English word
word here but you know we actually
actually have the the fluid coming
coming out when the the sack that
that the baby is in the amniotic sac
sac
sac so
so when that so no are you gonna make
make a sad face oh she looks like
like it
like it photo
photo I've been getting like pretty
pretty good about that like she's
she's almost going to make the kind
kind of crying face like this and
and then you know i can try to say
say something and then she goes back
back to sleep a little bit but I can't
can't hold her for a long time here
here anyway I'm talking all kinds
kinds of stuff here but so I was in
in you know the delivery room with
with my wife for quite a long time
time
time and
and I wasn't in there as long as she
she was I took a few breaks just to
to relax myself because I'm having
having to hold her up you know she's
she's actually moving around and squatting
squatting and trying to get the baby
baby to come out by standing up at
at all kinds of things like that no
no no no no was that a smile I don't
don't know but anyway just because
because it took so long so
so I was in there and I felt you know
know very moved by the pain she was
was experiencing and I felt really
really bad because there wasn't anything
anything I could do about that so
so I have a lot more increased respect
respect for women and midwives that
that we're all taking care of her
her and I want to say a big thank
thank you to everyone for helping
helping us get this little girl over
over here without much trouble so
so it was a completely natural birth
birth no drugs or anything like that
that that we used in order to induce
induce her thats to like kind of force
force the baby come out if it's been
been taking too long and now we get
get this little guy with this little
little little gal i should say but
but anyway one thing I wanted to ask
ask and you can tell me in the comments
comments below is if you'd like to
to see more about how I actually teach
teach her from a very early age and
and on up so I thought that would
would be a really interesting experience
experience so I've got most of my
my kind of career background is in
in teaching actually young children
children so I've got plenty of experience
experience teaching people all over
over the world and especially in Japan
Japan from all ages but a lot of my
my focus has been on helping really
really young children learn and that's
that's why I actually even the difficult
difficult program like master English
English conversation that I create
create for adults is very simple because
because it's the same kind of teaching
teaching
teaching even
even though it's using kind of more
more complicated examples it's the
the same time teaching i use to to
to help little kids so
so the basic principles of learning
learning are really quite simple you
you just use contrasts and try to
to not teach too many things at one
one time and make sure you can have
have a nice solid foundation of basic
basic things before you move on to
to quickly to other things like that
that
that so
so anyway I hope you've enjoyed this
this quick video introduction getting
getting the meat baby Aria here was
was only just a few days old so thank
thank you
thank you a little
a little closer to the camera here
here for you free a final goodbye
goodbye
goodbye all
all right don't crab do to do to do
do
do yeah
yeah a
yeah a oh
oh I think the camera finally got
got her it's funny the little squares
squares on the the cameras don't quite
quite read her face so well yet but
but I think she's going to pretty
pretty cute face anyway
anyway if you'd like to see more about
about you know how she's developing
developing and how i teach her and
and that kind of thing let me know
know in the comments i might even
even make a separate kind of video
video series about that just little
little things that i do to teach her
her and you know books i read or any
any other thing like that but again
again once this video gets ten thousand
thousand views i will release the
the next one go
go back and review all of these in
in this advanced listening practice
practice series and i look forward
forward to seeing you against him
him and hopefully she gets to see
see you again soon as well we'll see