Yea the shoe cream <=> choux creme example was pretty good. I occasionally forget that there are borrow words from other languages and try to just parse everything as English. And then getting really confused when whatever I used to fill the gap in meaning doesn’t fit the dialogue or whatever.
She’s right about read receipts being awful lol. Didn’t even realize line had no option to turn them off.
Episode 17. I liked that she put the focus on speaking and listening more so than on grammar and reading. There’s no new revolutionary method in there, just a good overview about what one should do. Now I just have to put it into practice…
Episode 18. Banger episode
Strong recommendation for anyone. Lots of useful for life vocab + culture insight. I learned many new words as well.
I will definitely listen to this one again.
Episode 19. A short one. Not much unknown information, but nice overall. New word 無難
EDIT:
Listened to 20 today: nothing much to say about it. I think the one I hear least is わたくし. I only hear it used ironically or in super cliché anime.
I can no longer post new entries since nobody posts anything and 3 consecutive posts are the limit, apparently.
2025-11-02T15:00:00Z
Episode: 20 / 21 / 22
Time Count: ~ 27:00
Are you jamming with us this week?
Episode 21: nothing new in the conversations. My experience though is that they also shorten most of these phases. 温めますか、お袋は is mostly what I heard 
A few new words that I knew only from reading.
Episode 22: Good episode.
I don’t know if I am simply a little tired this morning or if it is one of the harder episodes. I had trouble following in some minor parts and had to look at the script.
I always plan around golden week if I go to Japan.
