1、Rapheal曾在巴黎求学，听他讲讲巴黎和东京具体的不同吧。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
2、 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 its a city like made for walkers and you can really go anywhere just by walking, I mean its quite pleasant cause you can see many, you know, nice buildings and places and things,
3、 just by walking. Todd: Wow, thats nice. How many people live in Paris?Rapheal:Including the suburbs its 8 million now. Maybe getting increasing, but the inner city is only one million, so its not overcrowded at all. Yeah! Todd: So, what else would you say is different about Tokyo and Paris?Rapheal:
4、Well, specially, Paris you mean? The Transport is less expensive. This is important. Todd: YeahRapheal:Yeah, Yeah. Todd: Its more expensive?Rapheal:No, its less, sorry, its less expensive. Anyway, the, I was surprised because Tokyo is not that expensive finally, I mean you can, you can live in a ver
5、y expensive way if you want but you can save a lot as well. Its 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, its really more expensive than in Japan. A restaurant for example, like prices in Japan
6、 start from a thousand yen, maybe less, like 600 yen, and in France like the cheapest restaurant you can find is 15 Euro which is around 2019 Yen Todd: Whoa! That is expensive.Rapheal:Yeah, its more expensive, wherever you go its more expensive if you want to go out but on the contrary the cinema is
7、 really cheap, so so many people go to the cinema, I mean, the cinema is really, its a part of Paris nightlife, like, people used to go to cinema once a week at least, almost everyone. Yeah, cause its really cheap. A ticket is 1000 yen, maybe less. Todd: So, what about sports, like what kind of spor
8、ts do you like to do?Rapheal:Yeah, anything. Anything, yeah! You have a lot of facilities, like gymnasium, 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 b
9、it 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, its, you can do a lot of things. Actually, I did Aikido. I did swimming pool, squash, tennis, yeah, u
10、h, 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 its so nice to just walk, that, and I didnt own a car but its quite tough for people living in the suburbs cause they need a car to come, the train system is not really good. Its not like, theres a lot of delay, 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 didnt want to test, you know.
