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33 Responses to “Survival Phrases #38 - House Visit II”
Monday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, Hope all had a good weekend, and start off a good week with this great edition of survival phrases
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!
Monday at 9:47 pm
No Hello!? Well Hello Montauk.
Monday at 9:54 pm
Michael-san,
The special hello is only done in the beginner lessons, but I’ll say a special hello to you!
Monday at 11:31 pm
Me, too!
Tuesday at 2:02 am
Lizzie will be soooooo disapointed she missed Yoshi!
Tuesday at 2:16 am
Michael-san, おはようモントーク岬「misaki」!I’ll get that in a lesson for you ASAP.
It was my idea to systematically work our way through Long Island.
Tuesday at 3:44 am
Great gift giving phrases. We should all now rush over to Takase-sans house with cheesecake to try them out.
Is Yoshi-san’s interest in traditional or modern Japanese architecture? I had a very interesting conversation about the construction of japanese temples when in Kyoto. Something about ‘frogs legs’, (kaeru ashi) I think, which was how the vertical posts joined the horizontal members to provide a degree of bracing, whilst still allowing enough movement to allow the temple to survive earthquakes. So I now have something to ‘Ask Yoshi’
(Bother, I scoffed all the cheesecake)
Tuesday at 4:23 am
Shitsumon desu:
When you take off your shoes in a Japanese house which way do they point? Heels toward the door or the other way?
Yoshi-san:
I didn’t know you were interested in architecture. You should visit me in Oak Park, Illinois, which was the home of Frank Lloyd Wright, an architect who loved Japan and whose designs were influenced by Japanese architecture!!!
Tuesday at 4:45 am
Liz21さん、
Shoes are toes toward the door. Ready for a quick escape.
John
Tuesday at 4:58 am
I make a great cheese cake with Irish whiskey.
Tuesday at 5:21 am
Michael-san,
Oishii deshou ka ne?
Tuesday at 5:21 am
John-san,
The mental image of “escape” should help me remember this one!
Thanks for the tip about the shoes.
Tuesday at 5:24 am
Yoshi Yoshi Yoshi…blah blah blah…
How many times do I have to remind you Lizさん that you’re married.
Tuesday at 5:30 am
I’ve dug out my copy of Kazuo Nishi & Kazuo Hozomi’s “What is Japanese Architecture” which is a translation of 日本建築の形:生活と建築造形の歴史。I hope that’s the correct kanji, as the english adaption only refers to the original title in romaji. The only drawback is that there’s more information on frog-legs in there than you can throw a stick at, so I won’t need to ask Yoshiさん after all (except to be awkward - ah that’s a good reason)
Tuesday at 5:48 am
Daniel Beck,
My husband and I will welcome Yoshi to our home.
Tuesday at 6:01 am
Lizさん、
Choosing that all important welcoming speech… how about:
ようこそおいでくださいました。(How good of you to come)
or maybe if he’s brought cheesecake…
これはお珍しい。(Isn’t this a nice surprise)
Tuesday at 8:42 am
How about:
家賃、ただいま払わせていただきます。
Tuesday at 11:18 am
John C. Briggsさん、
It’s not for ‘escape’ but for ‘going out naturally and smoothly’.
When the guest leaves his shoes with heels toward the door, the host should turn them as it should be.
Jasonさん、
ひとつ付け足させていただきます。
「家賃、ただいま払わさせていただきます」 sounds politer.
Either will do , of course.
Tuesday at 11:23 am
Hi Mina-san!
お早うございます!Good morning!
Alan-san,
It’s really interesting! The frog legs. There are so much we can learn from the past. It’s amazing to think about how smart people were in the past. Now I’m surrounded by all the technology but how much do I know? Things used to be so simple but very sharp.
Liz-san,
I would love to come visit you and your husband someday. I’ve only seen the picutres of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectures. They were so original. I remember the picture of the stairs that lead to water because it was so impressive.
And about taking off your shoes, you would like to take them off with your toes pointing toward inside the house first, then you get up, turn and kneel down to turn the shoes around, so that you don’t show your bottom to the host directly. You can also put them aside so that your shoes are not in anyone’s way. But this is a very polite way. I also heard you might want to take your shoes off, toe pointing inside the house and leave them just like that in some places because fixing your shoes pointing out could mean you don’t want to stay there so long. I think it’s case by case. If you feel not safe there, you might want to escape without putting your shoes on anyways.
Jason-san,
I like your speech!
Tuesday at 1:06 pm
Yoshi-san,
(especially the part about escaping without shoes!!)
どうもありがとございました!
Thanks very much for your explanation about shoes!!
Yes, that magnificnet house by Frank Lloyd Wright is called “Fallingwater”. It’s in Pennsylvania.
Tuesday at 1:07 pm
*magnificent
Tuesday at 2:18 pm
what if you don’t wear socks? would it be weird/rude to walk around someone’s house barefoot….when i visited japan it was winter so i was obviously wearing socks, but here in california i hardly ever…i think i’d be embarassed if i had to take off my shoes!!
liz-san, like a stranger with candy, i see you are trying to lure yoshi to your house using architecture….sneaky sneaky
Tuesday at 3:33 pm
Liz-san,
Thanks for the comment!
Katie-san,
I have a good story about socks situation. I went to my really good friend’s mom’s funeral when I was in high school. I was really sad and crying, and of course it was a Japanese style funeral, so it was held inside the building and I had to take my shoes off. I was wearing black school uniform and white socks. (So it was obvious because of the color contrast) Anyways, my socks had some holes and you could see my heel and toes. It was really embarrassing and awkward. So you want to make sure unless you don’t care, or I think no socks is just fine, maybe even better in situations like mine. You just want to wash your feet once in a while!
Tuesday at 7:50 pm
Alan, this is what you’re referring to:
http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/k/kaerumata.htm
Behold the power of JAANUS.
Tuesday at 8:45 pm
Katie-san,
Hahahaha!
Tuesday at 9:29 pm
Yoshi, your comments are priceless, now I have more data to know what to do when I can travel to Japan
About socks situation, great comment of Katie-san, and thanks for the adicional explanation I never think in that situation before
JPOD101 rules!
Yoshi rocks!
Greetings to all!
Wednesday at 1:49 am
@Rene
Yes that’s it
Wednesday at 2:00 am
This lesson made me remember that someone once told me that, to be polite, one should hand over a gift using both hands. I also heard that most items people would give as gifts are wrapped in Japan - even food (and if not, it’s better to have a wrapped gift). It made me wonder if this is a general rule for all gift-giving situations, even less than formal ones?
Wednesday at 2:05 pm
Hugo-san,
Thanks! and I like The Rock!
Patrick-san,
Yes, even when you exchange business cards for instanse, you should use both hands to be polite, giving and recieving. And I think it’s ture that all the gifts are wrapped in papers most of the time. But of course there are exceptions, too. You don’t have to wrap things in casual situations but isn’t it nice to recieve something wrapped nicely even for a small gift? It’s like a little surprise when you open it. And useally, if you buy things from a store they can wrap them for you if you told them it’s a gift, well most of the time. It’s just like other countries I think. And we do pretty good job wrapping over here because we are all trained in falling papers since we were kids!
Friday at 12:28 am
Katie-san,
! Very, very nice つっこみ・tsukkomi!
Thursday at 4:52 am
Oi~! I’m new here. This was the first audio lesson-thing that I listened to. You guys are good teachers. I just wish you’d slow it down more on the important vocabulary words(Because I’m writting them down.).
Anyways, thanks!
~~Zero~~
Monday at 4:20 pm
I know I’m a long way behind in these lessons, but this one really struck a chord. Slippers inside the house… we were even given a different pair again for the tatami rooms!! And the middle of the night foray to the bathroom … a case of what you don’t get caught doing makes it OK!!!
Thursday at 8:31 am
About wrapping gifts, my brother swears that gifts have even to be offered in the plastic bag it was bought in! He experienced that by himself when a japanese (not-so-good)-friend found it poor and bad education to recieve a gift just wrapped in paper….! So, to be sure of everything, just hand over the plastic bag with your wonderful wrapped stuff inside. Would be impossible in any other country, but here it works
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