ラジオビジネス英語 2023/2/16 I5P5 Peter Barakan ピーター・バラカン

ラジオビジネス英語 2023/2/16 I5P5 Peter Barakan ピーター・バラカン
2022/8/18再放送
And I’m Jenny Silver.
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Listening Points
1). What does Mr. Barakan think was the trigger that brought new international viewers to the program “Japanology Plus” ?
バラカンさんは、海外の視聴者が 「Japanology Plus」 という番組を見るようになったきっかけは何だったと考えているでしょうか?
2). What did the young people Mr. Barakan met on the street tell him?
バラカンさんが通りで出会った若者たちは、 バラカンさんに何と言いましたか?
-Words and Phrases
touch on -, 〜に触れる
To touch on something is to talk or write about it in a brief manner, to introduce a topic or start a discussion. In Mr. Barakan’s show, he touched on many themes or gave basic overviews of these themes.
go on the internet インターネットを使う
To use the internet, to go online, to search for information or form connections with others. Nowadays, we might mention a search engine by name. But going on the internet can include all kinds of internet activity.
by chance 偶然に
Unplanned, not on purpose, unintentionally, by coincidence. Mr. Barakan said that the videos of Japanology would come up by chance, meaning that they just appeared even though the viewers had not searched for them directly.
following (集合的に) 支持者、 ファン
A following is a group of people who support you or are interested in what you have to say. Mr. Barakan said that his show was getting a following or a group of people who were interested. On social media, we can see followings as followers or subscribers. But people can be part of a following even if there’s no such interaction.