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Intro

Jessi: Hi everyone, ジェシーです (Jeshī desu)。Jessi here!
Tomoyuki: こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)、Tomoyukiです (desu)。
Jessi: Let's Drink to Learning Japanese! We're glad you're here with us for this lesson. Tomoyuki, what did we learn in the last lesson, Lesson 21?
Tomoyuki: In the last lesson, we learned how to invite someone to do something. For example, ゲームをしませんか (gēmu o shimasen ka)?
Jessi: Which is, "Would you like to play video games?" In this lesson, you'll learn how to make a suggestion to do something. For example, "Let's [verb]?"
Tomoyuki: That's right. What's happening in the conversation?
Jessi: Kaori and Taylor take a break from playing video games.
Tomoyuki: Okay, let's listen to the conversation.
Dialogue
かおり: テイラーさん、ちょっと やすみませんか。つかれました。
Kaori: Teirā-san, chotto yasumimasen ka. Tsukaremashita.
テイラー: オッケイ。やすみましょう。じゃ、これ を のみましょう。メキシコ の おみやげです。
Taylor: Okkei. Yasumimashō. Ja, kore o nomimashō. Mekishiko no omiyage desu.
かおり: いただきます。
Kaori: Itadakimasu.
(gulp gulp)
かおり: あれ?これ?おさけ?
Kaori: Are? Kore? O-sake?
テイラー: はい。メキシコ の テキーラ です。
Taylor: Hai. Mekishiko no tekīra desu.
Jessi: Let’s listen to the conversation again slowly.
かおり: テイラーさん、ちょっと やすみませんか。つかれました。
Kaori: Teirā-san, chotto yasumimasen ka. Tsukaremashita.
テイラー: オッケイ。やすみましょう。じゃ、これ を のみましょう。メキシコ の おみやげです。
Taylor: Okkei. Yasumimashō. Ja, kore o nomimashō. Mekishiko no omiyage desu.
かおり: いただきます。
Kaori: Itadakimasu.
(gulp gulp)
かおり: あれ?これ?おさけ?
Kaori: Are? Kore? O-sake?
テイラー: はい。メキシコ の テキーラ です。
Taylor: Hai. Mekishiko no tekīra desu.
Jessi: Now, let’s listen to it with the translation.
かおり: テイラーさん、ちょっと やすみませんか。つかれました。
Kaori: Teirā-san, chotto yasumimasen ka. Tsukaremashita.
Jessi: Taylor, can't we take a little break? I'm tired.
テイラー: オッケイ。やすみましょう。
Taylor: Okkei. Yasumimashō.
Jessi: Okay. Let's rest.
テイラー: じゃ、これ を のみましょう。
Taylor: Ja, kore o nomimashō.
Jessi: So let's drink this.
テイラー: メキシコ の おみやげです。
Taylor: Mekishiko no omiyage desu.
Jessi: It's a souvenir from Mexico.
かおり: いただきます。
Kaori: Itadakimasu.
Jessi: Thanks.
かおり: あれ?これ?おさけ?
Kaori: Are? Kore? O-sake?
Jessi: Huh? Is this alcohol?
テイラー: はい。メキシコ の テキーラ です。
Taylor: Hai. Mekishiko no tekīra desu.
Jessi: Yes. It's Mexican tequila.
Vocabulary and Phrase Usage
Jessi: Yikes! So, Taylor didn't tell Kaori what it was when he offered it to her...
Tomoyuki: Yeah... That would have been a good idea!
Jessi: Hmm. It was an omiyage, or a gift from a certain place, and in this case it was special tequila from Mexico.
Tomoyuki: Which is known as テキーラ (tekīra) in Japanese.
Jessi: Right. And Mexico, by the way, was where he went for his sister's wedding.
Tomoyuki: そうです (Sō desu)。 That's right.
Jessi: Okay. Let's look at some other words from the dialogue. The first one is...
Tomoyuki: つかれました。 (Tsukaremashita.)
Jessi: つかれました (Tsukaremashita). This is a phrase that means "I'm tired." This one is pretty easy to just remember as a set phrase.
Tomoyuki: That's right.
Jessi: After playing video games for a while, Kaori started to feel tired, and so she said...
Tomoyuki: つかれました。 (Tsukaremashita.)
Jessi: What did Taylor say in response?
Tomoyuki: オッケイ。 (Okkei.)
Jessi: Which is the next word we wanted to look at! As you can guess, this means "okay" in English. I think this word is pretty universal already...
Tomoyuki: That's right, I think everyone understands it. But, the pronunciation is a little different..
Jessi: Can we hear it again?
Tomoyuki: オッケイ。 (Okkei.)
Jessi: オッケイ (Okkei)。Not drastically different, just a little. Okay, and with that, let's move onto the lesson focus.
Grammar Point
Jessi: In this lesson, you'll learn how to make a suggestion in Japanese, like "let's do [verb]"!
Tomoyuki: Jessi, how is this different from what we learned last time?
Jessi: Oh, that's a really good question. In the last lesson, we learned how to invite someone to do something, as in "Would you like to [verb]?" You're basically asking the person if they'd like to do that thing, what they think about it. What we're learning in this lesson is a bit stronger. You're not asking a question, you're saying "Let's do this" or "Let's do that".
Tomoyuki: Okay, got it.
Jessi: So again, we're learning how to make suggestions. Tomoyuki, what is our pattern for making a suggestion in Japanese?
Tomoyuki: It's simply the ましょう (mashō) form of a verb.
Jessi: The ましょう (mashō) form of a verb? Can you explain what we mean by that?
Tomoyuki: It's very simple. Just change the end of a verb, ます (masu), to ましょう (mashō).
Jessi: So you change the final ます (masu) to ましょう (mashō). And that's it?
Tomoyuki: Yup! If your sentence has an object, you can include that too.
Jessi: Okay, let's give some examples.
Tomoyuki: We had some good examples in the dialogue.
Jessi: The first one was "let's take a break".
Tomoyuki: "To take a break" or "to rest" is やすみます (yasumimasu)
Jessi: やすみます (Yasumimasu), "To take a break" or "to rest". So, to say "let's take a break", you would change the ます (masu) to ましょう (mashō), and you get
Tomoyuki: やすみましょう (Yasumimashō)
Jessi: やすみましょう (Yasumimashō). "Let's take a break", or "let's rest."
Tomoyuki: That's right.
Jessi: Listeners, please repeat. "Let's take a break", "let's rest."
Tomoyuki: やすみましょう (yasumimashō)
[pause]
Jessi: Now that one is just the verb itself. We don't need a subject or an object. Let's look at the other example we had in the dialogue.
Tomoyuki: Do you remember the verb "to drink", のみます (nomimasu)?
Jessi: のみます (Nomimasu), to drink. In the dialogue, Taylor says
Tomoyuki: これをのみましょう。 (Kore o nomimashō.)
Jessi: "Let's drink this." So のみます (nomimasu), to drink, becomes のみましょう(nomimashō), let's drink.
Tomoyuki: Yes, the ます (masu) changed to ましょう (mashō).
Jessi: All right. Let's break it down.
Tomoyuki: これを (Kore o) (Jessi: This plus を (o)) のみましょう (nomimashō)。
Jessi: Let's drink.
Jessi: Listeners, please repeat. "Let's drink this."
Tomoyuki: これを のみましょう。 (Kore o nomimashō.)
[pause]
Jessi: So those aren't so bad, right, listeners?
Tomoyuki: Let's have them make some sentences now.
Jessi: Sounds good! Listeners, do you remember how to say, "to watch"?
Tomoyuki: It's みます (mimasu).
Jessi: That's right. みます (mimasu). So, the phrase "to watch a movie" is...?
Tomoyuki: えいがを みます (Eiga o mimasu).
Jessi: えいが を みます (Eiga o mimasu). So then, how would you say, let's watch a movie? Listeners?
[pause]
Jessi: Tomoyuki, what's the answer?
Tomoyuki: えいがを みましょう。 (Eiga o mimashō.)
Jessi: えいがを みましょう (Eiga o mimashō)。Let's watch a movie!
Tomoyuki: はい! (Hai!)

Outro

Jessi: All right, well I think that's going to do it for this lesson! Listeners, leave us a comment using this lesson's grammar point!
Tomoyuki: Yes, pick a verb, and change it to its ましょう (mashō) form.
Jessi: And make a sentence! That's a great way to practice.
Tomoyuki: We look forward to hearing from you.
Jessi: Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time!
Tomoyuki: じゃあ、また! (Jā, mata!)

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