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2026-05-25講師: British teacher (in Spain)30 分70 ターン
Speaker A=講師 (Brit, in Spain) / Speaker B=俺。 ペース普通、相手は丁寧。 花粉 → マスク → 日英電車比較 → 都市 vs 田舎 → 金融時代 → hustle culture critique → 内向型自覚で締め
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生徒 35 / 講師 35 ・ NATIVE化 35/35 ・ ENGAGED化 35/35 ・ chunk = 3文ずつ
NATIVE
俺の表現の修正
自然な native 口語 + 一言しゃれた表現。 明日の自分が言えるべきレベル。
ENGAGED
本物の会話の深さ
punchline じゃない。 逆質問・vulnerability・具体的 observation・pushback。 本気で engaged な native conversationalist が同じトピックでどう返すか。
TEACHER
講師の native 表現
講師は本物の native。 各 chunk をそのまま素材として登録 = pure native input。
- #1講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Hello.
- #2生徒 (とにお)Yeah, good evening, how are you?NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Hey, yeah—good evening. How's it going on your end?ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Evening. You sound chill—rough day or just settled in already?
- #3講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2I'm all right. Pretty normal kind of day. It's quite a sunny...TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2sunny blue skies... but not too hot. It's quite nice, 26 degrees.
- #4生徒 (とにお)Yeah, yesterday you said it's a little bit muggy weather.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Right, yesterday you mentioned it was a bit muggy.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah—you said yesterday was muggy, right? That kind of jump happens here too, one day you're sweating, next day it's just nice. Spain doing the same thing?
- #5講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Yeah, yes, and it was more like 30 odd. Today's quite idyllic, but the pollen is very high, so... if someone suffers from allergies or something it would be...
- #6生徒 (とにお)1/4I have a pollen allergy, you know, high fever they say. Yeah. But in Japan it...2/4we pass that stage. Like we're going towards the rainy season, as we say... starting around the corner, maybe June.3/4June is a rainy season in Japan basically, normally. So March through April, yeah, the pollen, you know, blew a lot. It's very, yeah, it's killing me, you know.4/4For me it's not about the running nose or eyes, I just cough a lot. How to say, cough?NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/2I've actually got hay fever too. Bad. But in Japan we're past the worst of it now—we're heading into rainy season, June kicks in.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 2/2So March and April were the killers. For me it's not runny nose or itchy eyes, I just cough... wait, cough?ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/3Yeah, hay fever club—I've got my membership. Funny thing is, in Japan we're almost done with it. March-April nearly killed me, but June is rainy season, so the pollen washes away.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/3My symptom is weird though—not the eyes or nose stuff. I... is it cough or sneeze?ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 3/3Hold on—
- #7講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Cough, or sneeze.
- #8生徒 (とにお)1/2Sneeze, yes! I sneeze like crazy, yeah. That's my problem.2/2And yeah, it's just like crazy, five or six times, you know... Every time it's getting...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Sneeze, that's the one! I sneeze like crazy—five, six in a row, every time.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Sneeze, that's it—thanks, my brain blanked. Yeah, five or six in a row, sometimes ten. The worst part is it never warns you—gone, that's the next five minutes.
- #9講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2Sneezing fits. I go into a similar kind of sneezing fit sometimes. It happened to me yesterday.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2Like 10 times in a row or something.
- #10生徒 (とにお)Yes, yes.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Right, exactly.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Ha, yeah—ten in a row is the killer one, you lose your spot in whatever you were doing.
- #11講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Yeah, my sinuses. My eyes get affected, but it's different. Got sensitive eyes and sinus as well, but I think the allergy has a similar effect on me, just sneezing.
- #12生徒 (とにお)1/5Yes, yes. I don't have any issue with like eyes or nose. But yeah, I think sneezing is the worst because it's kind of...2/5you cannot focus on anything, you know, because it's outside and you continuously worried about what other people around me think because, you know, it's so crazy. For in my case, it's crazy. Always, always, you know.3/5And masks... wearing a mask doesn't do the job, you know, it's not working for me. And medicine, I tried a couple of times.4/5Not now, I don't know why, but I stopped taking medicine. And yeah, but sneezing is kind of like, you know, it's not about me problem, right? It's affecting, it's making other people around me anxious or annoying, you know, because I work outside, cafe or other places.5/5So it's not about only my problem, you know, I have to worry about or consider about other people, you know, care about other people. So that's terrible. It's like adding another layer of suffering to me.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/2Yeah, I don't get the eye or nose stuff—just the sneezing. Honestly, sneezing is the worst because you can't focus on anything, and when you're out at a café for work, you start worrying about what everyone around you is thinking. In my case it's constant.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 2/2Masks don't help, I tried medication a couple of times and stopped for some reason. The annoying part isn't even me suffering, it's that I'm making the people around me nervous. So there's this extra layer of guilt on top of feeling like crap.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/3Yeah, eyes and nose are fine for me—it's all sneezing. And honestly? The worst part isn't the sneezing itself.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/3It's the social tax. I work in cafés, and every time I let one rip I can feel the whole room shifting away from me. Masks don't help, meds I tried and quit—forget why.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 3/3The symptom became a second job. Does UK culture shrug it off, or do people there glare at you too?
- #13講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2Right. Yeah, I thought you meant debilitating in like if you're in the middle of doing something like you were wiring something up and then suddenly you start 'achoo, achoo', like it would be quite a distraction from what you're doing. But I know what you mean, there's also the paranoia of people being freaked out about you might have some virus or something.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2I know what you mean, and they don't wanna...
- #14生徒 (とにお)Especially COVID, you know, we experienced COVID. Now everybody notices just the pollen, so not about COVID.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Especially post-COVID—people are hyper-aware. Though I think now it's read as pollen, not COVID.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Especially since COVID. People got trained to flinch at any cough. Funny thing is, here at least, people now read sneezing as 'just pollen,' so the COVID vibe has actually faded faster than I expected.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2Is the UK reading still COVID?
- #15講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2Right. Yeah, but you never know, it might be in the back of some people's minds. Some people are still paranoid about it.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2You do still see people wearing masks and stuff. But I think it depends on the country.
- #16生徒 (とにお)Yes, Japan is... not before COVID, we always wear masks. It's not about COVID...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah—mask-wearing in Japan was already a thing way before COVID. It's not really about COVID.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, the mask thing in Japan predates COVID by decades. COVID just put a different label on a habit we already had. Most foreigners don't realize that—they think we started in 2020.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2We started in like the 60s.
- #17講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1But it could be related to air pollution, right? Some people worried about air pollution, but also there were some other outbreaks of SARS and whatnot in the past, so it makes sense that people would be highly trained.
- #18生徒 (とにお)1/3I think some people are worried about... try packed like a sardine, so everybody wear a mask, it's like a kind of etiquette, right? You know, because if the other person is like 5 inches away and we're you know...2/3and bad breath, you know, smells bad... you're not gonna make other person feel worried about bad breath. It's kind of a self-conscious thing also going.3/3And also if you're women, you kind of skip makeup before walking to work, wearing a mask and you cover part of your face. And that's actually, yeah, most Japanese women are doing daily maybe because of the... yeah, you can hide your face.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/2I think some people are worried about being packed in like sardines, so everyone masks up—it's basically etiquette. If the person next to you is five inches away and your breath smells bad, you don't want to be that person. So there's a self-conscious element.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 2/2And for women, you can skip makeup before work if you've got a mask on—you cover half your face. Most Japanese women probably do that daily.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Part of it is just sardine-can etiquette. If you're five inches from a stranger, you don't want your breath to be the thing they remember. And here's the thing nobody talks about: for women, masks doubled as 'I didn't put on makeup today' camouflage.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2Half the face hidden, no one notices. That's why the mask culture stuck so deep in Japan—it solved problems people didn't even know they had.
- #19講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2There's a lot of elements to it, I know what you mean. Some people feel once they got used to it, they feel more comfortable with it on and then if they take it off they feel like everyone's looking at their face or something. I know what you mean, there's lots of different elements to it.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2I'd never thought about the bad breath thing before, but it makes sense. Um, but yeah, our trains might not get that busy. I mean maybe sometimes it's jam-packed on the train in Spain or England, depending on the...
- #20生徒 (とにお)But in your country it's tube, right? Tube, you say. Not subway.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Wait, in your country you call it the Tube, right? Not subway.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Hold on—in the UK it's 'the Tube,' yeah? Not subway, not metro. You guys are the only ones with that name, right?ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2Why Tube?
- #21講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/4The tube. Very... in England, in Britain, they're like health and safety gone mad, so they'll be like 'The train is at capacity, you know, no more people on this train, you have to wait for the next train.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/4' There is no like special worker who pushes the people onto the train and sort of makes sure that they all fit in. We don't have that. So it's quite different in terms of the policy of the train station or whatever and how much is the capacity of the train, and they're quite strict about it in that sense.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 3/4And they won't, people won't like make room. They'll be like 'Sorry, I have my six suitcases and my baby pram here, do you know what I mean, like you just get on the next train mate, like unlucky. ' Do you know what I mean?TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 4/4'There's a bunch of elderly people here, you know, and they take up twice the amount of room or something so just get the next train, like no one cares if you're late for work. '
- #22生徒 (とにお)1/2Yeah, I see many tourists, you know, like many suitcases, but they're really not that annoyed or conscious of taking space. They're doing their stuff, you know, twice the stuff, many Japanese morning commuters... not in the morning I don't see many tourists, but yeah they're doing their stuff with family and people like children, kids screaming, and they don't care about...2/2that's some of the Japanese people very sensitive to that kind of rule or morality, etiquette stuff. They're a little bit pissed maybe about tourists doing tourist stuff...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, I see tourists with massive suitcases who don't really care about how much space they're taking. Especially with kids and family—kids screaming, nobody minds. But Japanese morning commuters are the opposite—really sensitive to etiquette and rules, and they get a bit annoyed when tourists do tourist things.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, tourists kind of float through with three suitcases and zero awareness, especially the family ones with kids screaming. And here's the weird part—Japanese commuters won't say anything. They'll just radiate quiet rage.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2The 'tsk' is doing all the work. The tourist has no idea they just got yelled at.
- #23講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Right, cause they're like 'Look, I'm on the way to work, like get out of my way. '
- #24生徒 (とにお)Yes, especially, yeah, a little bit nervous, yeah.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Exactly, they get really tense about it.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, especially the suits—if you're in commute mode you're already wound tight, then a stroller blocks the aisle and the inner monologue just goes off the rails.
- #25講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2'I've got a bunch of kids on a school trip or something like this is a nightmare, they're blocking me. ' Yeah, can be the case. I mean it happens.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2But yeah, we in Britain, we are always like first come, first served.
- #26生徒 (とにお)Ah.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Ah, right.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Ah, that's interesting—so no one cuts you any slack even for the suitcase situation?
- #27講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2If the train doesn't have like a special seating plan and you've paid for this number or something, get out of my seat. You know, otherwise it's just a free-for-all. And if some people have...TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2everyone's they're just taking up one whole area or something, you're just like 'Oh sorry mate, you've got to wait, you're too late. '
- #28生徒 (とにお)Arranging the seats, you know, yeah, it's important because some of the trains... the arranging of the seats are different, right? Because normally not express trains, just you're alongside seats, seven or eight people sitting next to each other, kind of like...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1The seat layout, right? On regular trains the seats are bench-style along the wall—seven or eight people sitting side by side.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, the seat layout matters. On normal Tokyo subway lines it's bench-style—seven, eight strangers sitting hip to hip along one wall. No facing seats.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2Maximum density. Probably reads weird to UK eyes?
- #29講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Two, ah, two seats and it's all just like going one direction, I know what you mean, you don't have those open seats facing each other.
- #30生徒 (とにお)1/2No, no, no. So that two seats in one direction is a bullet train, bullet train style. But most subways, just normal trains, like the seats is along the...2/2seven or eight people sitting the same side. You know what I mean?NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1No, no—that two-seats-in-one-direction layout is the bullet train. Regular subways are bench seats, seven or eight people all facing into the aisle. You get me?ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2No, those two-seats-facing-forward rows are bullet train style. Daily subway is bench-style—lined up against the wall, knees pointing across the aisle at the strangers opposite. Imagine a row of 8 people staring at another row of 8 people for 40 minutes.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2That's commuting.
- #31講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Okay. It's better for efficiency of fitting people.
- #32生徒 (とにお)1/2Yeah, bullet train or like luxury train... a little bit you have to make a reservation kind of seats, that's kind of like... you're two or three...2/2it's kind of like a plane, like a situation.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, the bullet train or any reserved-seat train is two-by-two or three-by-three, kind of like an airplane setup.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, reserved seats only show up on bullet trains or limited expresses. That's the 'airplane mode'—two-and-three layout, recline button, the works. Daily commute though?ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2Bench seat, sardine vibe.
- #33講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Yeah. All the seats are facing one direction.
- #34生徒 (とにお)Facing one direction, yes.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, all facing the same direction.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, one direction, like rows in a movie theater. Until the train reverses and the seats automatically flip the other way—that's a fun little trick we have.
- #35講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Two, two, I know what you mean. You don't have those like four seats facing each other with a table in the middle or something.
- #36生徒 (とにお)Yeah, some trains, you know, yeah...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, on some trains you do see those.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, some trains have the four-facing setup—usually long-distance regional ones. Picnic vibe almost.
- #37講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1That's more like a long train or a slow train or something.
- #38生徒 (とにお)Yeah. And one people taking up the whole four seats, one person...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, and one person spreading out across all four seats by themselves.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, and there's always that one guy spreading his bag and coat across all four seats, headphones in, daring you to ask him to move. International phenomenon, apparently.
- #39講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/4English people put their bag next to each other, cause they're so annoyed, they don't want other people to sit next to them, and they're hoping that the train won't be full. It's like one of those slow long distance trains or something. So they, you know, they just try and get all those four seats to themselves and the table, you know, and they lay back and they put all their bags and all their things around so like to say like 'This is my area, like don't come in my zone' sort of thing.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/4But they don't have the right to do that really. Um, but that is the tendency of people to do that. And then you've got to be like 'Mate, I want to sit there, move your bag.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 3/4' Do you know what I mean? It's annoying, but you end up having to do that. Um, unless you want to sit in one of those other more uncomfortable seats where you get way less space.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 4/4So... I used to catch a lot of trains back in the day... on the south coast, it's mainly trains connect the whole sort of south coast...
- #40生徒 (とにお)Not cars? It's like a very packed dense city, so you don't need a... you usually use train to commute.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Not cars? It's a packed, dense city, so you don't really need a car—people commute by train.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Not cars at all? I guess Tokyo's the same—too dense for cars to make sense, so the train just becomes the default. Do most people in your area even own cars?
- #41講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Yeah, yeah, you wouldn't really... it's got good transport links. It's not like some areas in the north.
- #42生徒 (とにお)Like Tokyo, yes.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Like Tokyo, exactly.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, Tokyo's the same logic—density makes cars more trouble than they're worth.
- #43講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2If you're really far from London and some northern areas, it's all buses and coaches and things, they don't have such good train links. Only to the big cities or something. You can get some fast trains to the big cities to go up to Scotland or north or something.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2But they're like expensive sort of fast train service and whatnot from city to city. Um, but yeah, Japan seems even more like connected.
- #44生徒 (とにお)1/2Yeah, it's even I'm not familiar with which line connects to where... it's very complicated. Even Japanese locals don't know the exact...2/2which trains connects to where, it's very, very complicated. And uh, yeah, just Google, you know. Just use an app of train app, you know.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, even I don't fully know which lines connect where—it's super complicated. Even Japanese locals don't know the exact connections. We just use the train app and Google it.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah honestly, even Japanese locals don't memorize the lines. The Tokyo network is so dense that nobody pretends to know it—we all just Google Maps it. The phone is part of the train system at this point.
- #45講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2Oh, that's London. But you can see it's quite well connected. Certain bits obviously when you get down there, no, and then in Wales in the countryside, no.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2The west country doesn't connect that much up to a certain point. But you know these dark red ones will be your faster train you can go all the way up to Edinburgh or whatever or Glasgow or something. But some countryside rural areas like around here, you can see they're not that well connected.
- #46生徒 (とにお)1/3Yeah. The transportation thing, yeah, that's the same, that's always the case, right? In Japan also, the some rural area and not good connection, not good transportation mean to access, and we are facing, we are aging society and so some local areas or some spots just you know...2/3old people in their 80s or 90s, they're slowly, slowly disappearing. And everybody in economic situation-wise, the Tokyo always offer jobs, you know. So that's both sides, you want to...3/3you're forced to go to the dense packed metropolitan areas.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Same thing in Japan—rural areas lose transport, the population's aging, and people in their 80s or 90s are slowly disappearing from those places. Economically, Tokyo is where the jobs are, so you're basically forced into the metropolis.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, same in Japan. Rural transport just slowly dies, and the people holding those towns together are in their 80s, 90s. They're literally just running out.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2And the economic gravity is brutal—Tokyo has all the jobs, so you don't really choose to go, you get sucked in. The towns I grew up around won't exist in 20 years. Weird thing to live through.
- #47講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Mm.
- #48生徒 (とにお)1/4And that's because there's no jobs in rural areas. So there's an economic kind of forced situation we are facing. And everybody, now everybody is trying, being in Tokyo.2/4So and foreigners also coming into pouring into Tokyo. So Tokyo is so busy, everybody is there and you know packed train. But I don't think it's good in a long run because disaster will happen because we are like very prone to the earthquakes or other kind of natural disasters.3/4And you are, you know, like 10 million people in the same area, and if disaster strikes, it's you can imagine how, what will happen. How, you know, we cannot, we don't have that kind of preparedness. And yeah, so it's scary, right?4/4And it's bound to happen.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/2And it's because there are no jobs outside Tokyo. So there's this economic force pushing everyone in—Japanese and foreigners. Trains are packed.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 2/2I don't think it's good long-term though, because Japan's earthquake-prone, and if disaster hits a city with 10 million people, the preparedness just isn't there. It's terrifying and it's bound to happen.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/3And it's a one-way pump—no jobs outside Tokyo, so everyone funnels in, locals and foreigners both. The trains are insane. But here's what keeps me up at night: we're stacking 10 million people on a fault line.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/3The Big One isn't a question, it's a when. And the prep level? Honestly, not great.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 3/3So we built the most efficient city on earth on top of a ticking time bomb.
- #49講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/5Well, I mean it's a bad trend. It's dystopian actually. It's like um the 15-minute city.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/5You know, have you ever seen the old films like Metropolis and stuff? It's like there is no countryside, you know, there's just one big city and everyone lives in the city and everyone eats their food out of a can and it's like going in that direction since industrialization. But like you said now it's in places like Spain it's very extreme.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 3/5Like Japan where there might be a town which is almost like a ghost town, you know? And all the houses are for sale but nobody moves there, all the young people move to the city. And it's like a donut where all the work is in the center or all the work is by the seaside and there's this whole middle part of the donut is just empty.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 4/5It's like all shut down factories and you know some big industries used to be there but they've just moved out or shut down or something's happened and you've got like the odd old person or something who lives in those villages that are sort of keeping it going but... And it's horribly inconvenient. It's not like they pay less...TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 5/5the government it's hard for them to incentivize...
- #50生徒 (とにお)Yeah, incentivization.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, incentives.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, incentivization—but no government can incentivize jobs into existence. That's the bit they keep failing at.
- #51講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1They say they want remote workers and young people to go and start families in these villages and stuff, but it's like impossible because there's no work around there. So it's like how can you...
- #52生徒 (とにお)1/3Yeah, so I think it's all about the work. Because nowadays young people tend to how to say... work in a...2/3not not... they're not interested in like once very, everybody wants, wanna work in the kind of like shiny industry. But now, you know returning to the agriculture stuff with the help of AI, and living in the rural area or countryside.3/3But still, the place where you are is not concerning matter, you can work anywhere, everywhere online. That's what you are doing, right? Because we are talking in English...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/2Yeah, it's all about the work. Young people aren't drawn to the glitzy industries anymore—now there's this return to agriculture with AI helping out, and people living rural. Where you are doesn't really matter anymore—you can work from anywhere.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 2/2That's what you're doing, right? We're literally talking in English right now.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, it's all work. The shiny industry obsession is fading—younger people are weirdly into agriculture now, AI tools made it possible. Location stopped mattering.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2Which is exactly what you're doing, right? You're in Spain, I'm in Tokyo, we're literally rebuilding 'commute' as 'open laptop. ' Is that mostly your call, or did the work push you out of the city?
- #53講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/3Yeah, well, I'm a bit of an outlier, you know. But most people my age would be like, 'How can you live in the countryside? Like you need to come to the city where there's more work.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/3' And I'm like 'Yeah, but then I pay more for the rent. It's the same in the end. It's like I'm gonna be working more but my life's gonna be more chaotic.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 3/3'
- #54生徒 (とにお)Yes, keeping up with the Joneses, right? And keeping up with your appearances, and it costs...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, keeping up with the Joneses, right? And keeping up appearances, and it costs.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, the Joneses thing—and it's expensive. The 'big city salary' looks great on paper, but rent, dry cleaning, drinks, the whole costume eats half of it before you even spend on yourself.
- #55講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2You get much more salary or you could do much more work as well hypothetically, but then you have to spend so much more that in the end it works out the same, but is your quality of life better? It depends what suits you in terms of amenities. If you want to go to the cinema every night and be able to have go to the big shopping mall or whatever it is, then obviously the city is better.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2If you like hiking in the countryside it's better. Most of my entertainment's at home anyway, but yeah it's...
- #56生徒 (とにお)1/2Yeah everything, it's okay with... you have one smartphone, enough to get access to everything. Cinema...2/2don't unless you don't have, you really seriously want to have like 4D or 3D or crazy stuff in actual place, cinema.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, one smartphone gets you access to everything. Cinema? Unless you really need the 4D or 3D in person, you can do without.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, one smartphone basically replaces the city. Cinema's the one I sometimes miss—if I want the 4D rumble seats and the popcorn smell, that's a real-world trip. But like 90% of city stuff, the phone already swallowed it.
- #57講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/2Yeah, like restaurants, shops, nearby, you know, all that kind of glamorous stuff like you said, go to the theater or something or go to a musical. The big city stuff. Obviously in the countryside you've got other types of local festivities or something which could be nice but they're much rarer.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/2It's not like you can go every night.
- #58生徒 (とにお)1/2Yeah. And people are kinda tend to be very kind and very, you know, know each other, and tend to be slow and chill, chilling, and happy to be just daily stuff, never like so nervous and paranoic. A city person, it's...2/2I used to be working in the kind of like financial industry a little bit, short amount of period, but that's, people are really, how to say, not having a great time, like when you are in such kinda stressful environment, your mind tends to be narrowed, and no space for the leisure kind of doing.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, and people there tend to be really kind, they know each other, slow and chill, happy with daily stuff—not nervous and paranoid like city people. I worked in finance for a short period, and people were really not having a great time. In that kind of stressful environment your mind narrows, no space for leisure.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, and rural people are different—slow, chill, they know each other, they're happy doing daily stuff. None of the paranoid edge city people carry. I had a short stint in finance and I noticed everyone's mind got narrower as the pressure went up.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2Like the stress literally shrank the bandwidth for being a normal person. Did you ever work in a high-pressure field?
- #59講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Right.
- #60生徒 (とにお)Yeah, all about, not about money but your promotion or your success in the one small company and that's only their focus and they're trying their best and they're genius person, they're very good at working and very intelligent person, I met many many good intelligent person that are actually doing really good at work, very good at work, excellent. But I was not good at working and I'm not, I didn't fit in, I didn't blend into that kind of like hustle culture, like work 24/7 kind of thing.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1It wasn't about money—it was about promotion or success within one tiny company, and that was the whole focus. They tried their best, and they were genuinely brilliant people—great at their jobs, intelligent, top-tier. But I wasn't good at working, I didn't fit in, didn't blend into that hustle culture, the work-24/7 thing.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/3And it wasn't even about money. It was about ranking inside one company. Promotion, recognition, whose KPI was bigger.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/3The people there were genuine geniuses—I'm not exaggerating, some of the smartest people I've met. But I just couldn't run on their fuel. The 24/7 hustle thing made me feel hollow within months.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 3/3Different operating systems, I guess.
- #61講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/3Yeah, it doesn't suit me. I don't like that level of pressure, it's very... like your job is taking over your life.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/3It's like live to work or work to live type thing. But there it's mandatory that you live to work. It's like they wanna make it take over your whole life.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 3/3Like it has to become your life. To show that you have that level of commitment to get that money, it's a strange culture. But I know what you mean, in corporate business types of stuff it's quite like that.
- #62生徒 (とにお)1/3Yeah, rat race, simply. Like competing with, yeah. Just comparing yourself with the other people.2/3That's the worst thing. Salary-wise, or the social position, societal financial position... it's not good for the mental health, for the human psyche.3/3We are not built for that.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/2Yeah, rat race, basically. Comparing yourself to other people—that's the worst thing. Salary, social position, financial status...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 2/2it's not good for mental health. We're not built for that.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, rat race, that's the word. And the comparison part is what kills you—not the work, the side-glance at the guy next to you. Salary, title, neighborhood, kid's school.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2Humans were not designed to constantly rank themselves against every other human in a 30-meter radius. We're built for tribes of 50, not Slack channels of 5,000.
- #63講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/3People get quite envious or jealous. There's a lot of... competitive, competitiveness can be good up to a certain point.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/3And if it crosses one particular line it becomes toxic. It's like you can have good competition where it's healthy, but it can easily cross over and it's actually like people are trying to sabotage each other. People are like 'I need that job, there's not enough to go around like we're fighting dog eat dog' type of thing.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 3/3That's not like good teamwork in the end, it's more individualism.
- #64生徒 (とにお)1/2Yeah, just sharpening each other like each day, kind of like cooperating, and great teamwork, that kind of workplace is ideal. And actually maybe my coworkers were really friendly and really nice, just that was for me, I was not envious of anyone, just they are really good at their job. But yeah, for me, it's still somewhere around my somewhere like they are really stressed about keeping up with the appearances or trying to be pretending to be okay and strong, like alpha male type.2/2That's working condition I couldn't put up with, I couldn't stomach.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, sharpening each other every day, cooperating, great teamwork—that's the ideal workplace. My coworkers actually were friendly and nice, I wasn't envious of anyone, they were just genuinely good at their jobs. But for me, the part I couldn't stomach was everyone being so stressed about keeping up appearances—pretending to be fine and strong, alpha-male type.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, the ideal is iron sharpening iron, teamwork, mutual respect—and honestly my coworkers were lovely, I wasn't bitter at anyone. They were just objectively great. The bit that broke me was watching everyone perform 'I'm fine, I'm strong.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2' Alpha-male theater every meeting. The mask was heavier than the work. I couldn't keep wearing it.
- #65講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/3Straining. I don't like it either. Sales is like that, business is like that.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 2/3There's a lot of types of work environments that are like that. It's like competitive but I see it like in a toxic way. But some people take to it.TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 3/3Some people quite like that competitive showboating sort of 'I did more than you last month, look at me again I'm the top. ' Every time it's like constant evaluation, after evaluation, after evaluation, like you're continually being... you want more and more.
- #66生徒 (とにお)1/2Yeah, some people good for that and they are really good at, not about, I'm not blaming or I'm not, you know, to each their own, right? So I don't blame someone like really trying hard and grinding every single day, sweat, and you just make it to the top. That kind of mentality, yeah I admire, I respect.2/2But I realized I'm not that kind of person. So I switched my career.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/2Yeah, some people are wired for it—and they're really good at it. I'm not blaming anyone, to each their own. I don't blame people who grind every single day, sweat their way to the top.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 2/2I admire that mentality, I respect it. But I realized I'm not that person. So I switched careers.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/2Yeah, some people are wired for it, and they thrive. I'm not throwing shade—genuinely, to each their own. The people grinding to the top, sweating every day, I respect that.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/2But I had to be honest with myself: that engine isn't installed in me. Forcing it was breaking the rest of me. So I switched lanes.
- #67講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Yeah, and if you analyze performance management, it's not good for a whole team to be structured like that. It would be better for it to be 'Okay, we're going to analyze this team and different things suit different people. ' Like how are we going to get the most out of this worker, maybe this person is better when they're left alone.
- #68生徒 (とにお)Better left alone.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/1Yeah, better left alone.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/1Yeah, sometimes the best management is no management. Just hand me the brief and walk away.
- #69講師TEACHER講師の native 表現chunk 1/1Different people thrive under different sort of environment.
- #70生徒 (とにお)Yeah, I'm a little bit introverted type of person, good at, when you are, if I try I can be pretending like a people person. That's also maybe I can do it good at, but that costs, in the long term, it's a long way, it's gonna cost. I'm not maintaining, I cannot maintain that kind of attitude or pretending to be I'm good with people or like I can really good at...NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 1/2Yeah, I'm a bit of an introvert. If I try, I can pretend to be a people person—I'm probably decent at it too. But it costs.NATIVE俺の表現の修正chunk 2/2Long-term, it's gonna cost. I can't maintain that attitude—pretending to be good with people when...ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 1/3Yeah, I'm an introvert. The funny thing is I can do the people-person act pretty convincingly—small talk, energy, eye contact, all of it. But it's not free.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 2/3Each performance bills me later, in private. Three days of recovery for one hour of being 'on. ' I used to think I was bad at people.ENGAGED本物の会話の深さchunk 3/3Turns out I'm fine at people, I'm just bad at being someone else for them.