Nimi is all ears - Yaps and Yapper

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[00:00:00]Hello, konnichiwa, welcome, welcome.

[00:00:05]I'm I'm messaging limes.

[00:00:09]Also, I'm still stuffy today.

[00:00:13]I have some iced tea today. That's different for me. Delicious.

[00:00:19]Delicious iced tea with the passion fruit. Passion fruit iced tea.

[00:00:25]It feels like summer in my heart. It's already summer.

[00:00:30]>> [laughter] >> Hello. Hello.

[00:00:33]Hi, hello.

[00:00:35]How are you? Welcome to another week.

[00:00:38]>> I know. I know. I'm good. I'm getting over a cold, so I'm a little stuffy, but >> [laughter] >> You said you said you don't sound stuffy for what it's worth. I hope you're feeling better. Thank you. I feel I feel fine. It wasn't a bad one. It's always when you're sick, like you sound so different in your own head, but then everyone's like, you sound the same.

[00:00:58]It's just in your own head. sound different. Yeah. I think it's because like we already sound different in our own head, I guess, and then like then every all the nasal passages being filled up makes it sound even worse.

[00:01:08]It's like >> [laughter] >> Yeah, I think I think yeah. I don't I don't remember the last time I had like a cold cold, but I remember when I went to America last like a couple of years ago, I came [music] back and I had completely lost my voice.

[00:01:23]That was so embarrassing cuz I was so croaky. It was just like >> [laughter] >> And I also like I already sound pretty American, and I spent the entire time in LA, [music] and so I came back like full valley girl.

[00:01:36]>> [laughter] >> Oh my god.

[00:01:38]And I want to hear valley girl lines.

[00:01:41]No.

[00:01:43]Yes. No, I I I remember specifically I sat down on the flight back, and the lady next to me was this really nice lady from California, and she was like, you know, so so where are you going on your holiday? And I was like, oh, I'm going home. And she's like, oh my god, you're going home? I thought you were from here." And I was like, "No, oh my god. No, I'm not. I I'm I'm not from here. I'm from England." And she was like, "No."

[00:02:05]>> [laughter] >> She was really nice. I don't know. It's just It took me a little bit to like shake the accent a little bit. And my mother was like, "What the Why do you sound like that?" And I was like, "I'm really sorry."

[00:02:18]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, honestly, I didn't know that you were British the first time I heard your voice. No, yeah.

[00:02:25]It's It's It's It's bad. Like it wasn't even streaming that did it, but streaming made it worse. It was like playing Wow, and then hanging out with all the Americans cuz I was on the NA realms cuz my friends were from America cuz we played Ragnarok together first. And so they they invited me onto the NA realms.

[00:02:42]So I was in this NA guild with like a bunch of people from mostly California, a couple people from New York. And then there was this one person from like >> [music] >> I don't know, but he had like I I think it's some kind of like Southern type drawl. I can't remember where he was from, but he used to I specifically used to remember he used to go "Shug. Hey Shug." And it was just like it was this really American accent. And it just like over time it just morphed my accent. And now I mostly just sound like this unless it's like something with like a an English vowel sound like water and then a 40, and then I sound very British and then go straight back to American again.

[00:03:19]>> [laughter] >> I feel like that's just like I don't know a consequence of the internet. It's like getting rid of everybody's accents.

[00:03:26]Yeah, genuinely I have like a Swedish friend who doesn't sound Swedish anymore. He just kind of sounds like [music] yeah, nondescript kind of just [laughter] international accent.

[00:03:38]I know. I I feel like even in America, accents Oh, I guess accents are still There's still different accents, but some have like gone away like the transatlantic [music] accent. That was a good one. It's I don't know if anybody speaks with it anymore.

[00:03:56]No, we we we've mostly lost like the very posh uh Received Pronunciation accent [music] in England, like the one that you would associate with the Queen. So, instead of like instead of like modern people in in [music] England would mostly say the word royalty. But like she would say royalty. Like And then like it's it's kind of like it's like a weird way it's almost like the voice is in their teeth. It's it's >> Yeah. So, it's so hard to actually describe. Um but she was like like yeah, royalty, gentry, like and the things like that. It was like it was so it was so weird. And I remember specifically there was like a broadcast of her at Christmas and she went "Happy Christmas." And it was like nobody talks like that anymore then.

[00:04:37]See, I feel like if I was British, I would just like I [laughter] would copy the Queen. I would model myself after her. I would steal her accent and try to [laughter] come off as fancy. You like what the [ __ ] are you doing, man?

[00:04:52]You think you think you went to Eton or something? What is this? Yes, I'm I'm I'm planning to become the next one.

[00:05:01]>> [laughter] >> You're going to go over to England and be like, "Hello, my fellow English people." And and like someone from London's going to be like, "The [ __ ] you say?" Yes, yes.

[00:05:10]What are you [ __ ] talking about, mate? No.

[00:05:13]>> [laughter] >> I I I want to see it. Like a lot of people do tend to think that like everyone from England talks in like that very posh way. And there is like you know, people still talk posh, not like full Received Pronunciation or royalty kind of like talking. But you know, a lot of people don't talk like that at all. So, when when someone comes over and they're like, "Oh, I want to sound super posh and English." And people are like, "No, [ __ ] [laughter] off, man."

[00:05:37]I mean, I know there's there's so many accents within the UK. Yeah, for every town. Yeah, like towns have their own distinct accents. Like there's a Liv- Liverpool accent, [music] there's a like a Birmingham accent, there's a London accent. Like you can generally tell like regions, a little bit like north versus south, but then all of these like cities have [music] their own accents on top of that. Like hold on, let me let me I love I love anything um like Liverpool is like just incomprehensible sometimes, like [laughter] I remember actually one time they were interviewing someone. I can't remember if it was I think it was a Scouse accent, but they like it was so strong.

[00:06:16]It was either that or like an older school York- Yorkshire accent, and like it genuinely took me a minute for my brain to click into place and be like, "Ah, that's English." And then I could understand [laughter] it. But like it took like half a sentence where I was like, "Oh, wait a second." Yeah, yeah.

[00:06:31]>> [laughter] >> Like I I I I don't need to filter that like it's a second language I don't understand. I can't actually understand that one.

[00:06:36]>> [laughter] >> I don't know.

[00:06:38]I think it's fun. I like different accents. I love accents. I love You know you know >> [music] >> like I don't tend to like most things.

[00:06:48]Like you know it's it's popular on YouTube where it's like X profession reacts to. I don't tend to like them that much, but there's like an accent coach who does things sometimes for [music] I think Variety or something like that. And he talks about like uh actresses and actors doing accents in movies and like what's correct in the way that they speak, and it's amazing [music] how he knows the mechanical like you know the actual way that the mouth moves or the way the tongue is placed in order to make or in order for the accent to sound the way that it does. Yeah, it's it's it's like it's like and he like there's all sorts of terms for these things and and it's just like and then because he knows the mechanical accent, obviously he's not going to do it perfectly, but he can like demonstrate how a word should sound in [music] this accent because of like the way that the people from there speak.

[00:07:34]And it's like it's pretty cool. And then he even goes even further and like when he's talking about like specific celebrity impressions, he talks about like the palate of that particular [music] person or the way that their jaw is set and why that shapes the sound that they have. And then like he'll talk about how like a specific actor or actress >> [music] >> like if they nailed that, if they skipped it on purpose, or if they're just messing up the way that someone speaks entirely. So I like that. I I think I think people talking in different ways is really funny and really cool. It is. Oh my gosh. I don't I don't want to think about how I talk though. I get in trouble >> cute.

[00:08:10]I get in trouble with my voice teacher all the time for the position of my tongue. She's always like, "You need to put your tongue at the bottom like of your teeth like resting behind your bottom teeth." Oh.

[00:08:25]>> "No, my tongue will go >> [laughter] >> wherever it pleases."

[00:08:28]>> tongue sits at like the top of my mouth behind my top teeth. Like I don't >> Yeah, I think mine is too. I guess when you sing >> Naturally mewing, it's fine. Don't worry about [laughter] it.

[00:08:38]I guess when you sing though, at least according to my voice teacher, you want your tongue to [music] be resting behind your bottom teeth. Oh, that's interesting. I'm trying to think about I think for mine when I'm singing, the only thing I remember really is like specifically for e sounds, my teacher was like, [music] "Don't let your tongue pull back." Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always do that. I'm always pulling my tongue back.

[00:09:01]>> cuz it Yeah, cuz it makes it makes e sounds specifically sound kind of like nasal and like like not low. It's It's [music] hard to explain but like You You know what I mean. It's It's like the It's It's like yeah. Yeah. You kind of like You have to be careful not to let your tongue recede when doing e sounds.

[00:09:19]>> I I always move my tongue back every [music] sound.

[00:09:22]>> Yeah. Yeah, no. The The one that I'm guilty of sometimes is like because when [music] we speak, when you say e, you stretch your mouth out like you're smiling almost. It's like you know, you're not [music] supposed to do that.

[00:09:33]And so she just sits there like being like, "Okay, we're going to do ooh-ee's." And I'm like, okay." And you have to go, "Ooh-ee, ooh-ee."

[00:09:40]Yeah, me too. I do that one, too.

[00:09:43]And you know, you just like, "You're not allowed to move your mouth. You got to do it with your tongue."

[00:09:46]And it's like, "Okay."

[00:09:48]>> [laughter] >> So, that that's like, yeah, I like I like singing stuff, but it's funny um singing from an English perspective cuz like my teacher was talking about how like especially is uh English English speakers speakers other than American, we clip a lot of our words, which can be like not or you know, like very heavily enunciate words, which can be bad for singing. So, like yeah, especially like when we're do like, you know how you're not supposed to like go on to the last syllable like for certain words because like it just sounds weird when you close down the sound. So, like yeah. Like I think I was doing into the unknown, and she was like, "Literally, you have to do the whole thing should be no, and then like right at the end. Do not like extend the n."

[00:10:34]It's like It's like It's unknown.

[00:10:37]That's it. That's it. Do not n at me. And I was like, "Okay, I won't n."

[00:10:41]>> [laughter] >> Got to sing on the vowels. Yeah, exactly. And like a lot of the time it's like people can infer based on the rest of the sentence like exactly what you said. So, you really don't have to go heavy on enunciation on the harder stuff. I'm an over enunciator, too. Just in general.

[00:10:57]>> [laughter] >> My teacher's like, "You you don't have to enunciate that."

[00:11:02]No, yeah, exactly. And then the other one that I have trouble with is like with breath control. Like anything beginning [music] with a W or a B, I put out way too much breath.

[00:11:14]>> [laughter] >> So, like I remember there's like a uh there's the um What's her name? Annie Lennox? You know, she does a song for Lord of the Rings.

[00:11:23]Uh it's it's I can't remember what it's called, but there's like a a line where she says, "Why why do the white [music] gulls call?" or something like that.

[00:11:31]>> Uh-huh. I have to try so very, very hard not to go wind because it's like no, my air. And then I just like choke out before the end of the sentence. It's like no, I lost it all.

[00:11:44]>> Yes. It's gone forever.

[00:11:46]That's hard though. I still don't think I understand >> [music] >> breath in singing.

[00:11:53]>> Breath is Breath is really weird because genuinely like I will have a note and be able to extend that note quite a way depending on what the word was. And it you know, I can I can hold a note for a long time. But then like depending Yeah, but then depending on the sentence like if it's like a sentence that has particular letters in it, I I just I guess [music] I just use way too much air and I almost choke out at the end of the sentence.

[00:12:20]>> Like there's What's that one from It's like a Pocahontas song or something.

[00:12:26]I can't remember.

[00:12:28]Paint with the colors of the wind.

[00:12:30]Colors of the wind, yeah, yeah, colors of the wind. Yeah, when she just goes colors of the wind. That's a short sentence, but there's a [ __ ] W in it.

[00:12:38]>> [laughter] >> And so if I go wind too much then there goes my air and I'm like >> [laughter] >> I don't like Ws and I don't like Bs. I did the I did the song from Tangled when she's like talking about when will my life begin. And there's like a bit where she's like brush and brush and brush my hair.

[00:12:59]>> and a B. Yeah, brush and brush and brush and brush my hair wondering when will my life begin or something. And it's like there's both of them in there. So I have to take a breath. She doesn't take a breath, but I do. Like I can't I can't not take a breath. I'll die.

[00:13:13]>> [laughter] >> Singing hard. Your whole body is like an instrument. I'm singing very, very hard.

[00:13:20]Yeah, I can't I can't do it sitting down either. Like I know some people can, but I find like I can't like I can't feel the support properly when I'm sitting down.

[00:13:28]>> sing? It is. Yeah, it's it's annoying if I ever want to do karaoke though cuz I'm going to have to like sit stand at my desk or something. Yeah. So it's yeah, no singing hard but it is rewarding when you do it better. So it's like it's it's nice and you get more confident.

[00:13:43]>> Yeah, yeah. But then you have like a bad lesson and it's like I'm a fraud. I hate everything.

[00:13:48]Why do I live? Oh, no, no.

[00:13:51]>> [laughter] >> My problem I think my problem at the moment is because I've had my aligners on for so long and they cause they give me so much so many problems with like dry mouth and everything. It's just suffering. I just I just I want to I want to take off my training weights. I want to be like Rock Lee versus Guy.

[00:14:05]>> maybe it will be. Yeah, drop the drop those plastic aligners to the ground and they'll go bakum and everything will be great.

[00:14:13]Yeah, I can imagine that that would mess with like just your mouth positioning in general. Like even when you take them out just cuz you get used to wearing them.

[00:14:21]>> Yeah, I'm genuinely a little bit frightened about what's [music] going to happen when they come out because even when they are So when I do my lesson, I do take them out just for the sake of simplicity [music] but I still have all the attachments in which means I'm still moving my mouth differently.

[00:14:36]So it's like am I going to have to relearn to do all of these shapes properly because I'm used to like being restricted by the stuff in my mouth?

[00:14:43]It's that sounds awful.

[00:14:44]>> it'll be it'll be a Rock Lee moment for sure.

[00:14:47]Yeah, no problem whatsoever. Everything will be fine.

[00:14:52]>> I actually found out like depending on where people live in America, it's possible that sometimes they've never had like Indian curry.

[00:14:59]>> Yeah, well I never had it until I was like a teenager. Like 16.

[00:15:04]>> Yeah.

[00:15:05]>> Yeah, so I yeah, I spoke to a friend who lived in I think actually Maine which is quite funny cuz I was talking about Stephen King earlier.

[00:15:11]>> [music] >> Um, yeah, he lived in like Maine or something and he was like oh yeah, I've never had curry. This man was like 38. I was like what the [ __ ] Missing out.

[00:15:20]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, no it's it's really really good.

[00:15:22]Like but think it's because like I feel I feel like in England our Indian food is like your Mexican [music] food in terms of availability.

[00:15:30]>> prevalence. Yeah, yeah. Like like there's there's there's some form of takeout for curry or kebabs or something pretty much on like every street here.

[00:15:41]Where Where is apparently it's like not as available in the US. Yeah, I mean I feel like in any like moderate size city you'll have Indian restaurants.

[00:15:49]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:15:50]>> Yeah, definitely in small towns [music] might not. You know, I feel like it's surprisingly Thai food is like [music] pretty prevalent in the US. Even in like small towns I've been to [music] they'll have like Thai restaurants when they don't have like other other kinds of restaurants. That's interesting. I wonder why that is. Yeah, no, I hmm.

[00:16:10]It's yeah, it's mostly or Aussie. Lots of lots of Indian, lots of Chinese, which is fine for me cuz I like both of those things. I think the only Thai food I've ever really had is like the curries again, like red curry, green curry, yellow curry, essentially.

[00:16:23]>> though.

[00:16:24]>> [laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:16:25]Okay, I'm going to give you the game like 30 seconds to make sure you're in.

[00:16:28]>> Yeah, yeah. Sorry, go on. I think Indian food is my favorite like genre of food.

[00:16:33]My favorite point of >> [laughter] >> origin of food.

[00:16:38]And mine's Chinese biased though [music] and cuz my granddad, so it's like I just I love Chinese food. Like I always get Chinese food for like birthdays and stuff like that.

[00:16:46]>> Chinese food is is really good too. I I prefer Well, I don't I can't say that I've had like super authentic Chinese food cuz it's probably not, but like I prefer the more at least what I perceive as authentic to like super Americanized Chinese food, like Yeah, no, that's that's that's fair. Like, you know, I prefer personally like um the dish that I like, which I mess up the pronunciation of because I was never taught the language, is there's this dish that my grandfather used to describe as fuju, which is essentially like um bean curd like dried sheets of bean curd that they then like you rehydrate it or sorry you snap you snap the ends off because they really condense and they will never rehydrate and then you yeah you rehydrate it in water for like oh god it's like hours and then you put it with like specifically we had it with yellow bean sauce and a meat and you fry it fry it all up and then put it over rice and it's it's glorious it's beautiful it's wonderful.

[00:17:44]>> Yeah that's that's like that to me is like proper Chinese food rather than you know sweet and sour from the takeout which is still good but >> [music] >> yeah like I like I like more interesting stuff like I usually would when I go to the restaurant near me I get like like a sea bass steamed sea bass with like ginger and spring onion which is just like it's so good. Yeah I like like like marble tofu. Mhm mhm. It's really good.

[00:18:09]Um I just like anything like dumpling related.

[00:18:12]>> [laughter] >> Dumplings are really nice yeah. Yeah.

[00:18:15]Yeah dim dim sum is really really good and it's nice cuz there's lots of vegetable options for it too. Yeah yeah surprisingly I've had like martial arts [music] with most of my life never trying dim sum but in like the past few years I've been able to travel to places that have had vegan dim sum so I got to try the stuff like turnip cakes and shumai Oh nice. My my brother is obsessed with shumai he used to like [music] get really possessive of over shumai >> [laughter] >> when we would like do like so for Christmas we would have like Christmas food on Christmas day but then on boxing day which is the one that everyone was looking forward to we would have a Chinese banquet and my grandfather would do like shumai and hambao which is chashu bao [music] and like belly pork and all sorts of different things and my brother would always make sure that the shumai and the belly pork were on his like end of the table. Uh-huh.

[00:19:06][laughter] It was just like yo do not hoard the [ __ ] shumai I would like them please. Sharing is hard. Sharing is caring. Sharing is caring. I [laughter] want some shumai.