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I can do more interesting work
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もっと面白い仕事ができるわけです
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motto omoshiroi shi kotogadekiru wake desu
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Business gets more interesting so
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もっと面白い商売ができるわけですから
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motto omoshiroi shoubai ga dekiru wake desukara
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Also, I'm genuinely interested in languages
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それで、僕自身も言葉に興味があるんですよ
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sorede, boku jishin mo kotoba ni kyoumi ga aru ndesu yo
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so if I'm going to a country, I would study the language
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その国に行けば必ず勉強しますよ
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sono kuni ni ikeba kanarazu benkyou shimasu yo
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I actually study even if I don't go to their country
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行かなくても勉強するから —なるほど
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ikanakute mo benkyou suru kara —naruhodo
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But for most people, like foreigners living in Japan
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だけど、大部分の人が、外人が日本に住んでいても
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dakedo, daibubun no hito ga, gaijin ga nihon ni sundeite mo
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they can survive with just English and also in Canada, immigrants
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英語で生活できるし、カナダでもいろいろな移民が
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eigo de seikatsu dekiru shi, kanada demo iroiro na imin ga
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if they're Chinese, they stick with friends and peers in China
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中国人なら中国人で、同じ中国人の友達
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chūgokujin nara chūgokujin de, onaji chūgokujin no tomodachi
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so they don't really try hard to learn the language
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仲間で生活できるから、あまり一生懸命勉強しない
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nakama de seikatsu dekiru kara, amari i isshōkenmei benkyou shinai
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You speak 20 languages and with that many languages
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20か国語も喋れるということですが
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20 kakokugo mo shabe reru to iu koto desu ga
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don't you get confused in your brain?
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たくさん言葉を喋れると、頭の中で混乱することはない？
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takusan kotoba o shabereru to, atama no naka de konran suru koto wa nai?
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For me, my third language was Spanish
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私の場合は、third languageがスペイン語で
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wa tashi no bāi wa, third language ga supeingo de
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and I learned Chinese as the fourth language
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その後に、fourth languageで中国語を勉強した時に
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sono ato ni, fourth language de chūgokugo o benkyou shita toki ni
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At that time, when I tried to speak Chinese, Spanish would come out
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中国語を喋ろうとするとスペイン語がでてきてしまう
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chūgokugo o shabe rou to suru to supeingo ga dete kite shimau
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Don't you have experience like that?
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ことがあったんですけど、そういう混乱はないですか？
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koto ga atta n desu kedo, sou iu konran wa nai desu ka?
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Yes, definitely
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当然あります
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touzen arimasu
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But if you don't take the language you learned up to a certain level
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習った言葉をある程度の水準まで持っていって
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naratta kotoba o aruteido no suijun made motte i tte
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it's easy to get confused
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あげないと混乱しやすいですよ
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agenai to konran shi ya sui desu yo
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When you study, you listen a lot, you read a lot
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勉強するのも、たくさん聞いたり、たくさん読んだり
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benkyou suru no mo, takusan kītari, takusan yondari
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then your brain learns and gets used to it
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要は、脳が勉強する、脳が慣れるんですよ
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you wa, nou ga benkyou suru, nou ga nareru n desu yo
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