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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! How could you lose your wallet? You could swear it was in your pocket just a few moments ago. You didn’t stop once on the drive between her parents’ home in Japan and here except for gasoline and even then, you never left the car. But when you reached into your pocket to pay for dinner, you realized frighteningly that there’s nothing there. You ask your girlfriend in Japanese, “What happened to my wallet?” She looks at you, dumbstruck and asks in Japanese, “How would I know where your wallet is?” Panicked, you reply in Japanese, “I think I lost my wallet!!” She asks in Japanese, “Is it in your bag?” Remembering your bag, you frantically grab it from the backseat and tear it open searching for the missing wallet with no success. Of course it’s not there though, why would you have put it back in your bag after you stopped for gas? Things are just not making sense… The helpful waitress alerts a policeman to help you report your missing wallet. But as you begin to describe the missing wallet in Japanese, the policeman tells you in Japanese, “We need your name, telephone number, and add…” The policeman is suddenly cut off by a screeching sound! What is that noise?!

Learning Japanese with JapanesePod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Japanese! This Japanese Newbie lesson teaches an important topic that we hope you never need to use in this situation, but it’s better to be safe than sorry. In this Japanese lesson, we teach you how to talk with the people at Japanese lost and found offices. It’s always distressing to lose something in Japan, such as a wallet, but to be unable to communicate in Japanese with those who might be able to help you would be worse. We will also introduce you to two important Japanese honorific prefixes and review Japanese verb conjugation. Study this lesson carefully and feel confident knowing you are able to talk lost and found in Japanese! Visit us at JapanesePod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Japanese lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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24 Responses to “Newbie Lesson S3 #18 - Nihongo Dōjō - Don’t Be Alarmed…Your Japanese Can Help You Find Everything You’ve Lost!”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, are you wasureppoi (a person who tends to lose things a lot)?

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Keith says:

Nice pic jpod team ;) And no I rarely lose things. How do I say that in Japanese?

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markystar says:

Kiethさん、

忘れっぽくない
wasureppokunai

not prone to losing things♪

:hachimaki:

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A person says:

Uh, two newbie lessons in a week. Is this normal? :)

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Peter says:

Great job Mayumi, this is really nice work! :grin:

A person, nope, not normal. We’re making up for Golden Week. :wink:

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プチクレア says:

Fabrizio should be extremely careful, if he usually carries around the kind of money that’s on the picture ! :mrgreen: It’s a good thing his wallet was empty this time… or his dream might have turned to nightmare ! :shock:

私も忘れっぽくないです。Probably because I tend to check everything twice…. (especially my keys…)

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watermen says:

Very nice picture, are you all going to have pictures for the future lessons?

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mayumi says:

Yes, we are going to have pictures for each lesson from now on!
がんばります! :oops:

Mayumi

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maxiewawa says:

レッソンが二つ?お疲れさまで〜す!

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Naomi says:

Mina-san

[忘れっぽい/wasureppoi = forgetful] is a good phrase to know.
私は忘れっぽいです。/Watashi wa wasureppoi desu. = I’m forgetful.

For “I loose things a lot”, you can also say…
私は よく 物を なくします。Watashi wa yoku mono o nakushimasu.
よく/yoku=often
もの/mono=item, things
なくします/nakushimasu=to lose

みなさんは、最近、物をなくしましたか?
Mina-san wa saikin, mono o nakushimashita ka?
Did you lose things recently?

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Naomi says:

Oops!
“I tend to lose things” NOT loose!
すみません。

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watermen says:

Wow..so there will be pictures in the future. I love these beautiful pics. Can we have important phrases in the pictures? I want to collect this pictures and use it as a flash card.

Naomi,

最近、大好きな人をなくしました。悲しいですね。。。

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ヒョヌ(Hyunwoo Sun) says:

Great pictures !! ^^ これからもよろしくお願いします^^!

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Naomi says:

watermen-san

それは悲しいですね…。元気に出してください。

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VGcat says:

I lost my wallet once. I searched my house for hours but, then I looked in my FRONT pocket… and there it was. :roll:

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Mihara says:

I recently entered a chatroom with “Konban wa, mina-an! O-genki desu ka?”
Someone responded, “Are you Japanese? If you are, your Japanese is horrible.”
Another said, “D*** otaku. Always pretending to be Japanese.”

How very polite of them. :roll:

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Hiroko says:

VGcat san> Sounds like that’s something that happens to me every…..day :lol:

Mihara san> I’m surprised that nowadays many people only know how to “look rough” online where nobody can actually “see” them in person. :sad:

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Mihara says:

Hiroko-san> Yeh… E, people are dumb sometimes. Ehe. xD

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nazuri says:

Ganbatte kudasai Mihara-san :hachimaki: :smile:

sometimes people can only give critics without knowing how hard things we had

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jack says:

when do you use 新しい compared to 新しく as used in this passage.

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Naomi says:

jackーsan
新しい”new” is an adjective whereas 新しく”newly” is an adverb so 新しい is often used to describe a noun and 新しく is used to describe how the action is done.

新しい くるま is ” new car”
新しく かう is “buy newly” or “buy new”

1. 新しい くるまを かいました。
2. 新しく くるまを かいました。
Basically they are saying the same thing. However the 新しい is describing the くるま”car” whereas あたらしく is describing the かいました。
Since 新しく is an adverb and describes an action, you need an action in the sentence. So you CAN NOT say…
× これは 新しく くるまです。

I hope it makes sense. :wink:

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jack says:

thanks for the quick response; i just read the pdf file wrong. I already knew about the adj./adv. distinction, but in the pdf file it says: 私の新しくて
ゴージャスな財布. I failed to notice that くて was simply used to connect the two adjectives.

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Stephen says:

Naming him “Fabrizio” definitely challenged my Katakana reading skills.

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マイ says:

私のルームメートはパワーコードのコンピューターをなくしました。

Needless to say we’re both keeping our eyes opening for it. :shock: :shock:

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