Kuli English Podcast

In this episode, we chat with Mare, a theater actress based in Tokyo! She shares how she began acting as a child, how she fell in love with musical theater, and how she became fluent in English. Mare will also be performing a new original show in early December 2025 — check out her Instagram @behope_bemare for details! More info on the duo showcase available at: https://note.com/mareinny/n/n2f0aa3354ff8

In this episode, we talk about dreams. There are two main meanings to dream, one being the dream that you see when you sleep, and the other being a big goal that you have. In this episode, we talk about both!

Bookmark chapters:
00:00 Beginning
00:15 Real start
03:18 Dreams (sleeping)
09:42 My own dream (sleeping)
19:34 Controlling dreams (sleeping)
24:04 Dreams (goals)

In this episode, I will be reading an original short story that I wrote, called Timmy the Tofu Salesman. As always, I will be speaking with Kuli English Level, with pauses and explanations for hard words.

Bookmarks:
00:00 Start
03:38 Start of the story
09:20 Timmy's Date
15:00 End of Timmy's Date
23:21 Story Summary

In this episode, we talk about a few differences between everyday life in Japan vs. the US, including food, hangouts, friends, and language. As mentioned near the end of this episode, here is the link to The Tokyo Talks blog post about Kuli English Podcast: https://www.thetokyotalk.com/post/mic-on-thoughts-in-motion-chris-jeng

Contents:

00:00 Start
07:20 Food
28:34 Hangouts and friends
37:07 Language

What does awkward mean? In this story, we'll be covering four of my real life stories about feeling awkward!

Contents:
00:00 Start
04:28 Ticket gate story
08:02 Sushi story
17:33 Date story
29:10 21 guns story

In this episode, I talk about the Penguin Story, a prank where I dressed up as a penguin and ran in an election!

In this episode, I talk about my main two tips for how to tell stories in English: put in feelings, and put in checkpoints!

In this episode, we're going to focus on language stuff! I'll be sharing three main tips on how to learn English. As always, I'll be speaking at an intermediate-friendly English level, which I call Kuli-English level.

If you have any tips that you'd like to share, please comment them below!

In this episode we talk about getting nervous! Why do we get nervous, and how can we humans avoid it??

Today, we talk about one of my favorite hobbies - programming robots to cheat in video games! If you have no experience at all with programming, don't worry! I'll be explaining everything with the usual easy-to-understand Kuli level English.

In this episode, we talk about musical instruments, and introduce them in a way that's easy for anyone to understand, even if you've never played any music before! As always, I'll be telling stories in easy-to-understand, Kuli English.

In this episode, we talk about the American school system and how it works, all in easy-to-understand Kuli-level English and with lots of little stories to keep things entertaining.

In this episode, we dive into a wild Japanese children’s book called The Red Shoes. I rewrote the story into easy-to-understand “Kuli English” and added comments and explanations to help English learners follow along.

In this free-talk episode, we talk about a pretty mundane story about going to a pizza shop and pretending not to speak Japanese. We also talk about Kabukicho and how to avoid talking to people!