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Today we learn two key questions in Japanese. Get ready to throw away your dictionary! Actually, you might want to hang on to it a bit longer, but you can definetely put it away! Today we teach you how to turn ordinary people into walking dictionaries and interpreters! You don’t want to miss today’s espisode of Japanese Survival Phrases.
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This entry was posted on Monday, January 30th, 2006 at 4:28 am and is filed under Survival Phrases Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
22 Responses to “Survival Phrases #7 - How Do You Say This?”
Monday at 4:28 am
Just in case anyone is interested….I have posted some photos of my daughter Sakura in a Kimono when she was 3 years old. It is not a very good web page and it is in Geocites so it tends to go down a lot, but the address is: http://uk.geocities.com/doncastlehouse/sakurachan.html I just thought as this is a site dedicated to the Japanese language and culture, something personal might be a nice touch. Jaa Mata O-genki de Steve
Monday at 9:00 am
Thanks for the post Steve! Seems the site went down, will keep checking back! Looking forward to seeing Sakura. And speaking of pictures…..we’re still working on it!
Monday at 12:52 pm
Aww, The pictures are really cute! Thanks for sharing
Tuesday at 2:56 am
Steve-san,
こんにちは!夏子です。Thank you for the pretty picture!
さくらちゃん、とてもかわいいですね。She’s so cute and her kimono is very nice.
Tuesday at 8:27 am
Steve-san, very nice pictures! Was able to access them today! Thank you for sharing and the great participation!
Please keep it up! By the way, does the rest of you family speak Japanese?
Tuesday at 8:51 am
Peter-san.
No, none of my family speaks Japanese. I have been trying to teach my wife and also my daughter the Japanese I know as we plan to visit Japan as a family……one day.
Funny enough, I recently found out that my Uncle, who emigrated to the USA when he was still young actually met and married a Japanese woman while stationed in Okinawa while he was in the US Army (or Marines…I cannot remember) Sadly they divorced and my uncle is now dead, but I would love to one day find her, as for a short while at least, my auntie was Japanese.
Anyway, I am please that you and Natsuko-san liked the photos. And thank you Natsuko-san for saying my daughter is very cute.
Jaa Mata
Steve
Tuesday at 9:35 am
Another useful episode minasan. I was on the sky train today and I kept repeating これわ英語で何と言いますか?
これわ日本語で何と言いますか?
それわ英語で何と言いますか?
それわ日本語で何と言いますか?and so on.
You guys give us really useful tools to tackle Japanese language and I think it’s great!
Tuesday at 4:05 pm
Very cute daughter in a kimono Steve. Congratulations!!!
See ya around folks
I have spoken to some friends about japanesepod101.com. They still find Nihongo kinda difficult. I told them that I found it kinda tough too,but that was b4 I found out this amazing site
Saturday at 2:34 pm
I loved this lesson. It will be very helpful. Thank you so much.
Sunday at 2:36 pm
Quick question I noticed that in one of the dialogues Peter says Jya when Natsko goe “mmm…” that she does not knwo how to say it in English. What is Jya before Peter asks how to say it in Japanese.
Thanks in advance!
Wednesday at 1:27 pm
Hi Pedro,
“Jya” just means “in that case…” or “then…”. So, Natsuko might say she doesn’t know how to say it in English, and Peter will say “then, how to say it in Japanese?” –> “Jyaa, Nihongo de nanto iimasuka?”
Hope that helps!
Tuesday at 1:28 pm
Sumi masen, i was wondering other versions of asking ‘how do you say this in” because i learned to say, ” ….eigo de nan desu ka?” Is this in a scale of formal to my version of informal?
Thursday at 3:14 pm
Thanks for the help!
Tuesday at 9:28 am
Mariaさん。they are essentially the same thing.
your version is more like “what’s this in english?” whereas the example in this dialog is literally “how do you say this in english?” hope this helps!
marky
Wednesday at 2:19 am
Prey. Lauren bellowed mum at amy wer fickt arsch pours one forher. She takes my lipsencircle her.
Wednesday at 10:21 am
Coolは日本語で言いますか?
Wednesday at 1:01 pm
ジャケリンさん、
it depends on the situation, but usually 格好いい (kakkou ii) means “cool.”
but the literal translation is “looks good.”
Thursday at 4:19 pm
Thanks for the lesson! I am currently stationed in Okinawa and trying to learn as much Japanese as possible. I used this last night to ask the girl behind the counter how to say “soy sauce” in Japanese. Thanks again for the great lessons!
Friday at 10:21 am
Kyle Hanson-san,
Thank you for trying to use what you learned from our lesson! Please keep doing that and building up your vocabulary!! Ganbattekudasai!!
Friday at 8:57 am
I have to tell you this! I studied this lesson the day before attending an anime fan convention. I thought I would try out my new skills, so when I saw a cool poster for a series I didn’t recognize (with no English title on it) I pointed to it and very carefully asked the proprietress “eigo de nanto iimasu ka?” She stared at me in amazement, carefully pronounced the name of the series back to me in English, and then said something to the girl who was working the booth with her. The girl laughed and said to me “Mom says ‘these otaku (fans) are finally getting smart’ “!
I couldn’t stop laughing =)
Thanks so much!
Thursday at 3:31 am
Konbanwa!
Hajimemashite!
Ayakashi Desu.
ok I was wondering something that just came into mind.
say i’m sitting at a resturaunt with a group of my friends, people that I am well aquainted with. and i want to know how to say something.
Would it be ok if i just point at it and say.
Nihongo de iimasu? (and raise the tone at the end of iismasu?)
Thursday at 5:19 pm
Ayakashi-san,
Konbanwa!
Do you mean that you like to ask “What do you say this in Japanese?”?
That would be (kore wa) Nohon-go de nan te iimasu ka? *raise the tone
Nan means “what.” I hope this helps.
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