The Apple a Day Learn English Podcast - Live from Japan

Terrace House, Dentsu, and Samsung's Lee Kun-hee are the focus of this week's topic. Fines are given to people connected with crimes, and for all 3 of these groups, somebody has to pay money. Hana and Steve talk about differences in verbs Watch / See / Look, and discuss Steve's love of Netflix and hate of his childhood bully.

In this week's show, Hana and Steve look at the lives of 2 Japanese men who had a passion for meeting women. One is dead, and the other was arrested recently. Were these men bad, or did they just have a Don Juan complex? These questions and more are talked about in Don Juan San.

Today's show looks at the strange things that have happened in the Olympics since starting in 1896. Hana and Steve talk about unusual Olympic events like pigeon shooting, PM Mori meeting Bill Clinton, and how to use 3 special verbs - live, work, and study. Today's show is the 10th this season.

This week, Hana and Steve discuss the world's most popular video game character: MARIO. How did Mario start? How is Super Nintendo World? How bad is Steve at games? These questions are answered as well as an explanation for three troublesome verbs: Play, Do, and Go.

This week, Steve and Hana look at the life of Instagram star Kimiko Nishimoto. With over 200,000 followers, Ms Nishimoto started to take photos in her early 70s, and hasn't stopped. Steve and Hana discuss alcohol, art, getting older and the verb LOOK.

This week's show looks at the beginnings of Daiso 100¥ shops, focusing on the store's president, Hirotake Yano. Even though Steve can't say his name very well, he and Hana discuss 100¥ shops in Canada, things they buy at stores like Daiso, and lots of shopping expressions in the grammar section of the show.

We all know that we pollute too much, but just how bad is this situation? Hana and Steve talk about some surprising facts concerning Japan's problem with plastic, efforts to fix this problem, and as usual, challenging grammar problems related to pollution.

In February, 2021, Toyota began building Woven City at the foot of Mt Fuji. The company calls it a living laboratory, and it will be used to test new technologies that will help make our lives easier. In this week's show, Hana and Steve discuss what it might be like living in this kind of place, housework, interesting cities of the world, and more.

In this week's show, Hana and Steve talk about some funny and bad experiences shopping, their favourite hot sauce, and discuss some challenging ways to use prepositions with food.

Steve and Hana discuss their experiences with guns, the difficulty in getting a gun in Japan, and futon-carrying policemen who sometimes forget things in toilets.