英语访谈对话 295 Paris

 　　Todd: OK, Raphael, you were saying you lived in Paris.

　　Rapheal: Yes, I made my studies there.
　　Todd: Paris is just an amazing city. Can you talk about Paris?
　　Rapheal:Yes! Well, the biggest difference I noticed with Tokyo is the size. Like Paris is nice in that way, you can go anywhere by walking. It might take at maximum an hour and a half if you want to go to a very far place, but basically 1 it's a city like made for walkers and you can really go anywhere just by walking, I mean it's quite pleasant cause you can see many, you know, nice buildings and places and things, just by walking.
　　Todd: Wow, that's nice. How many people live in Paris?
　　Rapheal:Including the suburbs 2 it's 8 million now. Maybe getting increasing, but the inner 3 city is only one million, so it's not overcrowded at all. Yeah!
　　Todd: So, what else would you say is different about Tokyo and Paris?
　　Rapheal:Well, specially 4, Paris you mean? The Transport is less expensive. This is important.
　　Todd: YeahRapheal:Yeah, Yeah.
　　Todd: It's more expensive?
　　Rapheal:No, it's less, sorry, it's less expensive. Anyway, the, I was surprised because Tokyo is not that expensive finally, I mean you can, you can live in a very expensive way if you want but you can save a lot as well. It's really up to you. But in Paris is quite hard to save. I mean, the food is very expensive, and if you want to go out, just, a restaurant or anything, it's really more expensive than in Japan. A restaurant for example, like prices in Japan start from a thousand yen 5, maybe less, like 600 yen, and in France like the cheapest restaurant you can find is 15 Euro which is around 2000 YenTodd: Whoa! That is expensive.
　　Rapheal:Yeah, it's more expensive, wherever you go it's more expensive if you want to go out but on the contrary 6 the cinema is really cheap, so so many people go to the cinema, I mean, the cinema is really, it's a part of Paris nightlife, like, people used to go to cinema once a week at least, almost everyone. Yeah, cause it's really cheap. A ticket is 1000 yen, maybe less.
　　Todd: So, what about sports, like what kind of sports do you like to do?
　　Rapheal:Yeah, anything. Anything, yeah! You have a lot of facilities, like gymnasium 7, swimming pools, clubs, yeah, you can practice a lot. Especially, I was a student so, I had this very easy student life because France has a lot of students, whatever it is, so they give you a bit of money, and you get discount on almost anything, so sport is specially favorized in Paris when you are a student, you canalmost like do whatever you want, as a sport almost free, sometimes, so, it's, you can do a lot of things. Actually, I did Aikido. I did swimming pool, squash 8, tennis, yeah, uh, basketball, yeah, a lot of things actually.
　　Todd: Active guy. And what about the traffic if you want to drive in Paris?
　　Rapheal:I never tested, because as I told you it's so nice to just walk, that, and I didn't own a car but it's quite tough for people living in the suburbs cause they need a car to come, the train system is not really good. It's not like, there's a lot of delay 9, trains and things like that, so if you live in the suburbs you need a car, and driving through Paris in the mornings or evening is really difficult, so I just didn't want to test, you know.