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lesson well it's been a pretty not
not so great week as far as the weather
weather is concerned so as far as
as meeting concerning as far as the
the weather is concerned it's been
been really rainy there's been some
some flood warnings and flooding in
in some places here in Japan actually
actually for the past maybe month
month or so we're in the the rainy
rainy season in Japan right now if
if you are not living in Japan and
and thinking about coming here I do
do not recommend you come during the
the rainy season it's
it's not very fun usually the spring
spring and the summer or actually
actually yes i should say the spring
spring and the fall of the two best
best seasons to come out here because
because it's really nice weather but
but really it's only for about two
two weeks when people are not complaining
complaining about it being too hot
hot or too cold so i recommend the
the spring and the fall if you feel
feel like coming out to Japan but
but it's a great country and highly
highly recommend you come check it
it out anyway talking
talking about Japan today even though
though it was raining I went out with
with my wife she was really excited
excited to go see a woman named not
not scold toda who I'd actually never
never heard of but I've seen summer
summer for work before and she is
is a woman who does subtitles
subtitles for movies for American
American movies or other foreign films
films i don't know about if it's only
only American movies but she does
does the subtitles for those movies
movies for Japanese viewers of movies
movies at the movie theater and it's
it's really interesting to it not
not only learn a little bit about
about how subtitles are made and the
the way you make them and we can talk
talk about that or i will explain
explain a little bit about that in
in this video but the important thing
thing the interesting thing was actually
actually her story about how she got
got into it in the first place so
so this was actually a speech given
given at a hostel boss it's a kind
kind of a almost like a theme park
park but it's a place designed for
for may be many years ago actually
actually used to be more of a like
like a Holland because
because maybe like the Dutch colonists
colonists came to Japan many years
years ago in into Nagasaki so Nagasaki
Nagasaki was the only port where foreigners
foreigners were allowed and the Dutch
Dutch were one of the groups of people
people that came here and so they
they made kind of a Dutch town and
and now i don't know if there's any
any actual real history or anything
anything having to do with that area
area but that's a place not that far
far from where i am in Nagasaki city
city and they have any way just lots
lots of lots of interesting stuff
stuff now that's a whole other interesting
interesting story about that is the
the business itself of it so it used
used to be like really Holland stuff
stuff and they would have to lip festivals
festivals and things i think they
they still do that but now they've
they've got all kinds of other things
things that their marketing in there
there and trying to get more people
people to come to the part anyway
anyway so this woman this woman told
told her son she was at the I think
think she was at hostel boss but she
she was delivering a speech to a whole
whole bunch of high school and I think
think college and anybody else who
who wanted to come but just students
students there but that was broadcast
broadcast to other places around so
so where we were I think maybe where
where we were and maybe one or two
two other places as well so we were
were actually watching it just at
at a local university and it was a
a on a big screen and so my wife was
was excited to go there and watch
watch that just because my wife likes
likes you know english movies and
and things English and it was just
just interesting to see about this
this woman because she was talking
talking about how you can follow your
your passion and this is something
something particularly keen especially
especially for young people here in
in Japan because Japan is typically
typically a place where maybe you
you have dreams when you're young
young but then you decide to not go
go into those things because maybe
maybe just want to have a regular
regular job or something like that
that when you get older and she actually
actually talked about this in the
the speech so
so when she began the very first thing
thing she said when she was talking
talking and this was all the speech
speech in Japanese but the very
very first thing she said when she
she was talking was I didn't get into
into this stuff because i like English
English I actually hated english and
and learning English when i first
first got started back when I was
was younger the
the thing that got me interested in
in pursuing English was the fact that
that i liked movies and you'll see
see this in you know most people that
that become fluent if you have like
like personal friends that are fluent
fluent or even myself as an example
example i became fluent in Japanese
Japanese because i got interested
interested in the culture not by wanting
wanting to learn the language but
but by wanting to learn the language
language because of studying gardening
gardening
gardening so
so the language was a vehicle to get
get to the actual thing that I wanted
wanted which was learning to study
study gardening in Japan and so it
it was the same thing with this woman
woman and her story is actually paralleling
paralleling to be parallel like this
this to have like a connection not
not being connected as a physical
physical thing for mathematics where
where you've got two lines that are
are next to each other like this but
but they never cross each other they
they never touch so
so when you talk about people having
having parallel ideas or parallel
parallel lives this
this just means that you've got two
two things that are very similar they've
they've got a lot in common so
so her story is a lot like mine but
but she had to wait a really really
really long time in
in order for her to achieve her dream
dream so back when you know maybe
maybe she was a 20 years old she was
was just getting out of college and
and she really thought and this is
is another really interesting thing
thing that you should think about
about one of my pieces of advice as
as well is whatever it is you happen
happen to be doing or want to be doing
doing in your life all
all you have to really think about
about even if you don't know how you're
you're going to do something is you
you put the inputs in there you think
think about the inputs and in her
her case the inputs were I want to
to do something with english because
because i like english movies and
and I like movies so
so what can I do there it can combine
combine these two things and I the
the subtitles creating that for movies
movies
movies sounds
sounds like a really interesting job
job and there must be somebody that
that does that so
so she went into the history about
about this and talking about how people
people were creating those subtitles
subtitles and it was a group of like
like ten Japanese man these are typically
typically professors and it was really
really hard for her to get into that
that and it took her 20 years from
from graduating college before she
she could actually really do that
that as a
that as a full
full time thing so she worked for
for I think an insurance company or
or something like that for maybe a
a year and then decided not to do
do that anymore but her full story
story was talking about how she was
was able to get into a movie production
production company or its something
something related to movies and then
then when she was just doing that
that she was working maybe doing secretary
secretary things and so if people
people need anything translated that
that would be the person that they
they would give things too but as
as for a movie started becoming more
more popular and the economy was coming
coming back after the war in Japan
Japan then more people were starting
starting to produce movies and then
then actually bring the actors over
over to America for a from America
America over to japan i should say
say and so when she was you know given
given the task of hey can you also
also do maybe some actual translating
translating not just typing things
things but do some translating for
for people when they come over here
here she started meeting movie
movie stars and other people like
like famous directors and she even
even gave a story about Francis Ford
Ford Coppola the director of The Godfather
Godfather and how he came out and
and you know they were doing some
some shooting in the philippines and
and he was traveling through Japan
Japan and he wanted her specifically
specifically to do subtitles for you
you know a movie he was working on
on
on so
so because of that you know the Japanese
Japanese company couldn't really say
say no to that so they decided okay
okay we're going to let her do it
it
it now
now an interesting thing about subtitles
subtitles and that's how she got her
her start and you know being able
able to do subtitles after that but
but if you really think about it she
she was explaining because a student
student had asked her will isn't
isn't it problematic isn't it troublesome
troublesome that you have like all
all these words that people are speaking
speaking
speaking but
but you're really trying to condense
condense that down into a very brief
brief phrase even just a couple of
of characters and she even talked
talked about words like the names
names of cities like San Francisco
Francisco or Constantinople so
so these are names of places that
that are even too too long then you
you can you can even have that whole
whole thing is a subtitle because
because you can really only have 10
10 characters as a thing for us up
up title and so you have to be very
very quick when one character says
says something and you deliver those
those subtitles and one character
character says something else and
and you deliver those subtitles as
as well so you have to be really quick
quick and so yes you do lose a lot
lot in the translation because
because translating movies is something
something that's just much more different
different than translating the book
book because you can't get into the
the details of something and really
really say the whole like exact thing
thing that people are trying to
say
say so
so it's a very different industry
industry and I never really thought
thought about it because I don't mean
mean i watch sometimes foreign movies
movies but i'm looking at the subtitles
subtitles and I definitely noticed
noticed now if i go to a movie like
like I went to the new independence
independence day resurgence movie
movie which i highly recommend that
that was a lot of fun I
I was going into the movie I'd heard
heard a few reviews about it that
that were saying it's not such a good
good movie but actually really enjoyed
enjoyed it so
so I watched it with a couple of Japanese
Japanese people and we were talking
talking about the subtitles after
after that because now I can you know
know read the Japanese and i'm looking
looking at the english and reading
reading that and i'm thinking like
like that's not what they said you
you know it's not even like kind of
of close to what they say but you
you know just so people can get the
the idea of something but you really
really lose a lot in translation so
so when you're this is the idea of
of having something being created
created as one thing but then when
when you move it to something else
else you lose something in the translation
translation so
so this is the physical idea where
where the origin of that phrase but
but when you want to talk about maybe
maybe I explain something to my son
son and he doesn't listen to me and
and like I can explain to my other
other friend while I was talking to
to my son about like you need to do
do this and that but maybe the the
the message got lost in translation
translation so when I said it and
and it went into my son's ear he heard
heard it a little bit differently
differently or thought about it differently
differently something like that so
so the idea again taking a physical
physical origin from translating subtitles
subtitles are translating something
something literally from one language
language to another you can talk about
about that when you're just transmitting
transmitting messages of any kind
kind from one person to another to
to say something was lost in translation
translation so
so we talked about after we had seen
seen independent state talking about
about how we couldn't you knows it
it was actually quite funny that a
a lot of the subtitles were not really
really matching up to what was being
being said by the native speakers
speakers and so this is one of those
those things where I really i'm trying
trying to push for people to learn
learn English because I understand
understand what it's like to not be
be able to understand the movie I
I know what it's like to watch a movie
movie and be thinking like what is
is it what did they just say in you
you and you feel like even though
though they said something and maybe
maybe you understand a little bit
bit of the language you're
you're almost it almost makes it works
works because they're they're showing
showing you something that's not quite
quite correct and you understand like
like yes he said something and it
it was probably that idea but you're
you're really losing a lot as far
far as wanting to learn the language
language
language if
if you just want to know what happens
happens in the story like that guy
guy went to this city or he picked
picked up this thing and maybe you
you don't care about the idioms and
and the phrases and other things like
like that it doesn't really matter
matter but if you're really trying
trying to learn the language through
through something like that it's
it's much better to actually use english
english subtitles when you're watching
watching an english movie as opposed
opposed to using subtitles in your
your native language so really that's
that's the step that you should take
take before trying to watch a movie
movie without subtitles so maybe he
he would begin watching movies with
with subtitles in your native language
language that our english movies and
and then you switch to English subtitles
subtitles so you can read what's happening
happening at the bottom of the screen
screen while you're saying things
things in movies and that will slow
slow things down a little bit for
for you because you'll be able to
to read it and then after that you
you can go on to just watching movies
movies without having any subtitles
subtitles in them at all anyway
anyway it was a really fun experience
experience and it really goes to show
show it was really an interesting
interesting thing and it gave the
the great message that if you really
really have something that you're
you're passionate about you will figure
figure out a way to do it so
so I've talked about this before it
it was you know when i was talking
talking about i think of quite a few
few videos ago I was talking about
about the first and second rules of
of fluency so
so the most important thing really
really is to pick a particular destination
destination and then - not really
really worried about how you're going
going to do that thing you just worry
worry about what you want and if you
you keep stumbling forward you keep
keep trying to make progress towards
towards that thing you eventually
eventually we'll figure out a way
way to do it and so you see us doing
doing that right here on the YouTube
YouTube channel so we're kind of stumbling
stumbling for we're continuing to
to make progress every week I want
want to release new videos where we
we try new things experiment with
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know what you don't like as well as
as you know we need to make more things
things that people don't like but
but you know if we can help help people
people and that's our job and we're
we're doing it well we think anyway
anyway so when you're thinking about
about especially her situation where
where she had to take a really long
long time
long time I'm
I'm before she finally reached her
her goal hopefully that gives you
you some motivation yourself when
when you're thinking not only just
just about learning English but about
about anything else that you're trying
trying to do where
where you're starting one place you
you have a goal it might even be a
a big goal or you have no idea how
how it's going to happen but if you
you think it's possible and you have
have an idea that somebody is doing
doing it like in her case like she
she looked and saw that somebody in
in fact was writing subtitles but
but it was just difficult for her
her especially a Japanese woman back
back in that time to get into a an
an industry that basically all men
men were doing so there are a lot
lot of things that stopped her from
from doing it but nothing ultimately
ultimately stopped her from pursuing
pursuing her goal and even though
though it took her 20 years before
before graduating or from graduation
graduation - when she could finally
finally about pursue that thing professionally
professionally she
she was able to do that so the advice
advice she was really giving to people
people she was like you know think
think about what you want and especially
especially with English learning to
to connect the interest that you have
have with your English because it
it you know if you just try to go
go after the language itself unless
unless your linguist you're really
really not going to have much much
much success with it the
the other thing she said because she
she had received a question about
about this just from young people
people was like how do we get smarter
smarter how do we develop our minds
minds that kind of thing and she said
said
said read
read read read read people everywhere
everywhere you walk around and everybody's
everybody's on their phone like this
this but nobody's reading people don't
don't really read books so much anymore
anymore in the actual act of reading
reading and writing especially but
but reading in particular is one of
of those things that's how we see
see examples of things and that's
that's it really slows down the language
language so you get to read something
something and see I ok that's how
how that sentence is made and i can
can get a lot of good examples from
from that my practice writing it as
as well and so that's why you know
know it's the same thing you did when
when you were getting fluid in your
your native language but it again
again if you want to get fluent in
in English you have to again have
have something you're passionate about
about that you can connect English
English with do a lot of reading a
a lot of actually using the language
language in conversations and that's
that's what's going to help you get
get fully anyway this has been our
our another advanced listening practice
practice lesson I hope you have enjoyed
enjoyed it hope I'm not speaking too
too fast but there are some people
people that want me to be even faster
faster and i will try to do that hopefully
hopefully i can figure out some other
other things to
to talk about it's funny I have to
to like I can't speak too quickly
quickly i don't know what I'm going
going to say next I have to think
think about that as well anyway
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