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- Lucas: Hey, welcome back to Learn Japanese with Fexingo! I'm Lucas, and as always, Luna is here with me. Luna: Hey hey! Episode 30, can you believe it? We're getting pretty good at this. Last time we talked about cloudy and cold weather. Lucas: Right, we learned 曇っています and 寒いです. Today we're staying with weather but going to the warmer side — hot and warm. Luna: Oh nice! I've been wanting to complain about the heat in Japanese. Summer is coming, right? Lucas: Exactly. So let's start with the word for hot — as in weather hot, not spicy hot. That's 暑いです. Luna: 暑いです. Lucas: Good! 暑いです means 'It's hot.' Try it one more time. Luna: 暑いです. Lucas: Perfect. Now, if you want to say 'today is hot,' you add 今日は at the beginning. So: 今日は暑いです. Luna: 今日は暑いです. Lucas: Nice! That's 'Today is hot.' Let's practice that a couple times. Repeat after me: 今日は暑いです. Luna: 今日は暑いです. Lucas: And one more: 今日は暑いです. Luna: 今日は暑いです. Lucas: Great. Now, what if it's warm, like a nice spring day? That's 暖かいです. Say it with me: 暖かいです. Luna: 暖かいです. Hmm, that's a bit longer. 暖かいです. Lucas: You got it. 暖かいです means 'It's warm.' And 'today is warm' is 今日は暖かいです. Try that. Luna: 今日は暖かいです. Lucas: Yes! 今日は暖かいです. Let's say it again. Luna: 今日は暖かいです. Lucas: So we have 今日は暑いです for hot, 今日は暖かいです for warm. Now let's make questions. If you want to ask 'Is it hot?' you say 暑いですか? with a rising intonation. Luna: 暑いですか? Lucas: Exactly. And 'Is it warm?' is 暖かいですか? Luna: 暖かいですか? Lucas: Perfect. So let's do a little scene. Imagine we're outside and I say: 今日は暑いです. What do you say? Luna: Umm... そうですね. 暑いですね. Wait, can I say that? Lucas: Absolutely! そうですね means 'That's right,' and 暑いですね is 'It's hot, isn't it?' So together: そうですね. 暑いですね. Luna: そうですね. 暑いですね. That's useful. Lucas: Now let's switch. I'll ask you a question: 今日は暖かいですか? Luna: はい、今日は暖かいです. Lucas: Great answer! Or you could say いいえ、今日は暑いです if it's hot. Let's practice that: いいえ、今日は暑いです. Luna: いいえ、今日は暑いです. Lucas: Awesome. So now you've got four new phrases: 暑いです, 暖かいです, 今日は暑いです, 今日は暖かいです, plus the questions 暑いですか and 暖かいですか. Luna: That's a lot! But I think I can remember. Let me try to use them in a sentence. Umm... 今日は暑いですから、アイスクリームが食べたいです. Lucas: Oh, nice! 'Because it's hot today, I want to eat ice cream.' That's a great sentence! You used から meaning 'because.' Perfect. Luna: Thanks! I learned that from an earlier episode. So, my sentence: 今日は暑いですから、アイスクリームが食べたいです. Lucas: Let's break that down for listeners: 今日は暑いですから means 'because it's hot today,' and アイスクリームが食べたいです means 'I want to eat ice cream.' Excellent use of what we've learned. Luna: Okay, your turn Lucas. Ask me a question. Lucas: Alright. Luna, 今日は暖かいですか? Luna: うーん… いいえ、今日は暑いです. Lucas: There you go. You answered correctly. So let's do a quick review. Repeat after me: 暑いです. Luna: 暑いです. Lucas: 暖かいです. Luna: 暖かいです. Lucas: 今日は暑いです. Luna: 今日は暑いです. Lucas: 今日は暖かいです. Luna: 今日は暖かいです. Lucas: 暑いですか? Luna: 暑いですか? Lucas: 暖かいですか? Luna: 暖かいですか? Lucas: Perfect. Now, for the next few days, whenever you step outside, try to say to yourself 今日は暑いです or 今日は暖かいです. Make it a habit. Luna: That's a good tip. I'll practice saying 今日は暑いです every time I feel the heat. Which will be, like, all summer long. Lucas: Same here. And if you're listening, try it too. It really helps lock it in. Alright, that's all for today's episode. Thanks for learning with us. Luna: Yeah, thanks for tuning in to Fexingo! Keep practicing and we'll see you next time. Lucas: Bye! Or as we say in Japanese, またね. Luna: またね!