みなさん☆

This dialogue is a perfect example of informal speech you hear everyday - short and sweet! Were you able to follow along?
Please ask us any questions you may have!!

本当にケーキとコーラを飲むことはおかしいと思う？僕は２６歳だが、コーラとケーキ、最高。

So, saying something like “What do you like to eat?” would be ‘Anata wa taberu ga suki desu ka’ , right? Maybe?

コーラとケーキーは大好きです．こちゃはすきです。でもコーヒは好きじゃない.

Do you have “Arnold Palmer” in Japan? It is half iced tea and half lemonade. I recommend it highly (even with cake)!

ラウリ-san
Actually some of my friends like the combination of coke and cake.
Kiki -san
Well… “What do you like to eat?” is a bit difficult to translate directly into Japanese. Instead we say, ” what are you going to eat?”-”Nani o tabemasu ka?”
ニコレット -san
>>>久キすき？
May I ask what 久キmean?
>>>この飲む？
Kono means “This” but it’s a prenominal form (used before noun). This as in “This item” or “this thing” is kore.
So “are you going to drink this?” = これ、飲む？
テッド-san
I don’t think we have it in Japan. But it sounds so good! Especially in summer!!!

Wheelbarrow is usually called 「一輪車（いちりんしゃ）」.
The counter is 台. Same counter as 車（くるま) car.

By the way, was my earlier comment grammatically correct? I haven’t actually learned yet how to use こと. And I wasn’t sure if you could use が in informal speech. だが sounds a bit awkward to me. ありがとうございます。

なおみ先生、ありがとうございました。そのレッスンを聞こうと思います。
ところで、先生はかつてお名前の漢字を言いましたが、僕は忘れてしまいました。
もう一度教えてください。
I just realized this was a newbie lesson, so in case others are wondering what I’m talking about, I’m asking Naomi-sensei to tell us the kanji of her name, which I have forgotten.

直美先生、毎度ありがとうございます。
Thank you for your answers. That really helped a lot. I had forgot about けど.

Bess-san
It’s an invitation.
Mata(=again) sushi (=Sushi) demo(=or something) ikou(=let’s go)
So the whole sentence means “Let’s get together again for sushi or something.”
I hope this helps.

ashaさん,
Thank you for your comment!
When no context is given, it is difficult to determine the intended meaning of a phrase.
If you were given the phrase ぎゅうにゅうをのむ (you would probably see the word gyūnyū instead of miruku in this case) with no context, it could be “to drink milk”, “I/he/she drinks milk”, etc. If it were a standalone phrase on a test (not part of a reading passage, etc) I would simply say “to drink milk”.