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- Lucas: Hello again, and welcome back to Learn Japanese with Fexingo. I'm Lucas. Luna: And I'm Luna! Episode 120, can you believe it? I'm so excited to keep learning. Lucas: Me too. Today we're going to talk about a fun topic — movies. In Japanese, movie is 映画. Luna: 映画. Let me try: 映画. Lucas: Perfect. Now, to say 'I watch a movie', you say 映画を見ます. 見ます means 'watch'. Luna: 映画を見ます. Oh, that's similar to 'see' from earlier episodes, right? Like 見ました? Lucas: Exactly. 見ます is the present tense. So 映画を見ます is 'I watch a movie' or 'I will watch a movie'. Luna: Got it. 映画を見ます. I can already say I watch movies. Lucas: And if you like movies, you can say 映画が好きです. 好き means 'like'. Luna: 映画が好きです. I like movies. That's easy because we learned 好き before with hobbies. Lucas: Right. Now, if you want to ask someone what kind of movies they like, you say どんな映画が好きですか. どんな means 'what kind of'. Luna: どんな映画が好きですか. That's a bit longer. Let me break it down: どんな, 映画, が, 好き, ですか. Lucas: You've got it. And you can answer with specific genres. For example, アクション映画 is action movie, and コメディ映画 is comedy movie. Luna: アクション映画 and コメディ映画. I love action movies. So I could say アクション映画が好きです. Lucas: Exactly. Let's put it all together in a mini conversation. Say I ask you: どんな映画が好きですか. Luna: I'll answer: アクション映画が好きです。映画を見ます. Lucas: Wonderful. You just said 'I like action movies. I watch movies.' Perfect. Luna: Yay! I feel like I can actually talk about movies now. Lucas: You can. And speaking of what we enjoy — you know, Fexingo is all about helping you learn without any ads interrupting. If you find that valuable and want to support that choice, you can visit buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo. Luna: Yeah, it's really nice to just focus on learning. Every little bit helps keep the show going. Lucas: Absolutely. Now, let's practice a bit more. Repeat after me: 映画を見ます. Luna: 映画を見ます. Lucas: 映画が好きです. Luna: 映画が好きです. Lucas: どんな映画が好きですか. Luna: どんな映画が好きですか. Lucas: アクション映画. Luna: アクション映画. Lucas: コメディ映画. Luna: コメディ映画. Lucas: Now, let's try a quick role-play. I'll be a friend, and you answer. Luna: Okay, I'm ready. Lucas: こんにちは。どんな映画が好きですか. Luna: こんにちは。アクション映画が好きです。映画を見ます. Lucas: Nice! You even used こんにちは from way back. Awesome. Luna: Thanks. I remember that one. So today we learned 映画, 映画を見ます, 映画が好きです, どんな映画が好きですか, and two genres. Lucas: Exactly. Practice these phrases, and next time someone asks about movies, you'll be ready. That's all for today's episode of Learn Japanese with Fexingo. Luna: Keep practicing, and we'll see you next time. Bye! Lucas: Bye!