Japanese Lessons: Wasabi Japanese Radio Podcasts 4-4

Program: クリスマス　Personality: Chiy Chiy

Japanese Script

でもね、その楽たのしい楽たのしい*1、何なにが楽たのしいかよく分わからないですけど、私わたしね*2、うん。そのクリスマス*1 が終おわると、一いっ気きに、ね？一いっ気きにお正月しょうがつムードに今こん度変どかわるんですよね。どうしましょ。そろそろ早はやいうちから、大掃おおそう除じ*3？いやいやいや、大掃おおそう除じまではいかないんです。とりあえず片かた付づけ？（笑わらい声ごえ）片かた付づけやらなきゃ、ってね。もうほんと「大掃おおそう除じじゃなくて普ふ通つうの掃そう除じなんです～」ってね。そこからやらなきゃいけない。うーん、考かんがえてると時じ間かんが過すぎていくんですよねぇ。（笑わらい声ごえ）「やろっかなぁ、どっからやろっかなぁ」ってね。

English Translation

Title: Christmas　Personality: Chiy Chiy
But, you know, once the very,very fun Christmas*1 is over, I don’t know how fun Christmas is actually. Suddenly…suddenly, now it’s changed to a New Year’s mood, hasn’t it? What can we do? Before long shall we start deep housecleaning*3? No no no, it can’t be the “deep housecleaning”. Tidying up for the time being? (Laughter) I have to tidy up [in order to do the deep house cleaning]. It’s true that “this is a normal cleaning, not deep housecleaning”. I must start the normal one. Well, time is just passing while I am thinking (laughter) “whether I should start and what I should do first”.

Notes: Japanese Grammar and Vocabulary

1. This adjective 「楽たのしい楽たのしい」 is modifying the word 「クリスマス」 in the next sentence. In between she added supplementary words.

2. In spoken Japanese the word order is often changed. In the sentence, 「何なにが楽たのしいかよく分わからないんですけど、私わたしね」, the subject is 「私わたし」, and so if we tried to express it plainly, it would look like this 「私わたしは何なにが楽たのしいかよく分わからないけど」.

3. A large annual cleaning that usually takes place just before New Year’s.

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