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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! We’re back, and we’re at the restaurant in Tokyo again! Last week we got you to your waiting party (machiawase), but with all of the Japanese food coming in at different times, things got a little mixed up. Today we show you how to let the waiter/waitress know that you didn’t order something. We also touch on a wrong item, as well as a missing item - stop by JapanesePod101.com and download the PDF for those phrases and more! Be sure to leave us a post!



This entry was posted on Monday, October 9th, 2006 at 6:30 pm 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.

31 Responses to “Survival Phrases #42 - Returning Food”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, we hope you had a sugoi weekend! Today in Japan it is 体育の日・taiiku no hi - Health and Sports Day is held on the second Monday of October, and it’s purpose is to promote sports and an active lifestyle.

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gillian says:

sumimasen Learning Center is not responding

Gillian

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Michael D. Cassidy says:

I can’t download anything from the weekend through Apple.

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Eran says:

Michael-san,

Sorry to hear you are having issues. I just successfully downloaded all of the weekend’s episodes from iTunes. Can you kindly email me at support@japanesepod101.com the exact nature of your problem including any errors that you may be getting. Please provide as much details as possible including the feed you’re subscribed to, your operating system, your iTunes version, etc.

Thanks,

Eran

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Vicky says:

Ah!!! Thank you so much for slowing down the lesson. I was able to understand at the first time listening. But, still will have problem speaking though. :lol:

Have a great Monday! :mrgreen:

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Eran says:

Michael-san: Glad to hear your issue is resolved :cool:

Gillian-san: Forgot to publish the Learning Center this morning :oops: Things should be working now. Please email me at support@japanesepod101.com if they are not!

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Vicky says:

Btw, nice try Cigusa-san, now Peter-san and Yoshi-san have to take her out…..

Maybe that flow I need to learn, hehe! :shock:

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Nate says:

Not that I would ever use this since I love food, but I might use it if I got some calamari on my plate. Not one of my favs.

Arogatou gozaimasu (アリガトウゴザイマス)I hope that came out right.

ネイト

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Vicky says:

Anybody can help me with bonus audio, the last phrase from Yoshi-san??? He got stomachache or something??? :roll:

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Belton says:

He’s not offering to commit seppuku to atone for his mistake is he? :shock:

せっぷくさせていただきます。

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Belton says:

He’s about to have stomache then.

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Vicky says:

My guessing was right then??? Hehehe…. :mrgreen:

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Peter says:

Belton-san, you got it. :wink:

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Hugo says:

Yoshi-san rocks! :mrgreen: That bonus tracks is priceless :cool:

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Simone says:

The bonus tracks are useful only if Japanesepod bothers to provide transcripts, otherwise, they are like water off a duck’s back to me.

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Daniel Beck says:

taiiku no iku? :???: なにそれ?

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Lucia says:

I would love to see more lessons like this, about food appearing on Japanese menus. If you could do a lesson on common “menu” words, such as teishoku, nomimono, and appetizers (?) that would be awesome! Reading menus can be such a challenge, ne?

Arigatou!! :razz:

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Belton says:

On transcripts for bonus audio.

They’d definately be useful but maybe it’s good practice not to be able to work everything out immediately. Often when Japanese speak to me I have to guess at quite a lot. (they don’t come with pdf transcripts :lol: )
And the bonus tracks are quite short so maybe it’s a nice little challenge to work them out.

a race to transcribe/translate the bonus instead of being the first poster?

Maybe if transcripts were to be given they could be held back for a few days or a week.

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Sean says:

Peter, I agree with Yoshi-san in the podcast…let’s have some lessons on yakisoba, etc! :D sounds great to me. Tell us more about Japanese food and terms for the various things with them (condiments, etc)!

Keep up the good work and thanks a million!

Sean

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Simone says:

I guess that’s what “bonus” means, some “gets” it, some “misses out”. Tough luck to those like me who are not proficient in Japanese.

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Sindy-san says:

Keep up the food lessons Yummi! :grin: so when I go to a Japanese Restaurant here in NYC I can order with confidence my Sushi and the other delicious meals so I agree with Lucia and Sean Sommers! :wink: S_R_C

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Mayumi says:

I’m with Simone on the bonus audio transcrips. Though it’s good practice to try work them out ourselves, there should at least be a provided transcript so that if we cannot work them out ourselves, we can at least read what they are and learn from that.

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sTeVe aUsTiN says:

I don’t think the bonus tracks are scripted.
But I wouldn’t mind having a go transcribing/translating them myself (if other people helped).

This one was super easy though. The waiter felt bad for bring the wrong food and committed hari-kiri. Hahahahahahaha :lol:

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maxiewawa says:

Guys, more recent lessons all have the intros scripted. I think it was after the popularity of this series of intros that they were included.

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Erik says:

Hi guys,

Thanks for a great site!

One issue though: I sometimes find (for instance in this lesson) that the most important stuff is missing from the vocab list.

In my opinion, this lesson is about how to convey that your order was messed up, and the singlemost important phrase is “… wa chumon shiteinain desu kedo”. Neither chumon or any other part of the phrase is included in the vocab…

Same for the previous shrine lessons - the most important phrase/word is missing - “please teach me”.

It’s important not to leave out words essential for survival, as this is survival phrases :-)

Other than that, keep up the good work!

/E

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C says:

hi,

was trying to decipher the meaning of the extended conversation on the bonus audio of survival lesson #42. hope you can enlighten.

thanks!

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skmt999 says:

I would love to see more food related lessons like this. It has to be one of the scariest things about going to a new place, not knowing what to eat or HOW to eat it.

I thought the bonus track was hilarious. XD

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Mayumi says:

skmt999-san,
I agree that you will be scary to go into a new place in a foreign country. If you search our lessons by “food” or “restaurant,” you’ll find more food related lessons. :smile:

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Lennart says:

Hi guys!

Again, a couple of questions. :cool: :roll:

I guess you can also use: kore wa chuumon shite inai n desu kedo, and point at the item if you’re not sure what the exact name is, but it doesn’t look like the picture? :mrgreen:
And in a phrasebook they give the phrase: kore wa chuumon shimasen deshita. This is obviously the more polite form of saying the above, but what do you guys think of it? I heard phrasebooks are common to give more polite forms, which sometimes may be akward…

Thanks again!!

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Jessi says:

Lennartさん,
Good question!
“Kore wa chuumon shimasen deshita” does mean “I didn’t order this”, but it sounds a lot more direct, to the point of being blunt. (It seems like they were trying to present the simplest way of saying it over the most natural way to say it) The politeness level does not actually change much from “kore wa chuumon shite inain desu kedo”.

The “n desu kedo” at the end of the phrase we introduced makes the statement softer and not so straightforward, so I recommend using that ;)

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Lennart says:

Thanks for the explanation, Jessi-san!
Really helpful!

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