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| INTRODUCTION |
| Jessi: Talking About Dates in Japanese. |
| Naomi: ナオミです。 |
| Peter: Peter here. Naomi Sensei, 風邪ですか？ Do you have a cold? |
| Naomi: はい、少し。 |
| Peter: A little bit. Naomi Sensei… |
| Naomi: はい |
| Peter: Do you know what we say about people who catch colds in the fall? |
| Naomi: 何でしょうね。 But it’s… |
| Peter: What do you think? Take a guess. |
| Naomi: Only smart people catch colds in fall. |
| Peter: ちょっと違います。 |
| Naomi: 違います？ |
| Peter: ちょっと違うんですね。 Just a little bit different. |
| Naomi: 何でしょう？ |
| Peter: What was that you taught me the other day 夏に |
| Naomi: 風邪をひく人は馬鹿 |
| Peter: そうですね。 We have the same expression in the English about people in the fall. おめでとうございます。 |
| Naomi: 嘘。本当に？ |
| Peter: No but just wanted to have a little fun with you どの気持ちでしょう？ How does it feel? |
| Naomi: くやしい。 |
| Peter: So it feels good. |
| Naomi: No くやしい！ |
| Peter: Oh yeah it’s regrettable. You want to get back at me. |
| Naomi: はい。 |
| Peter: Okay let’s save that for another lesson. Okay so what are we talking about today? |
| Naomi: 今日は、誕生日。 |
| Peter: So today we are talking about birthdays. |
| Naomi: Yeah and date. |
| Peter: Important dates. So today we are going to learn months and dates in Japanese. So lots of things to memorize again. So… |
| Naomi: Good luck. |
| Peter: 頑張ってください。 And today’s conversation is between. |
| Naomi: 東さん |
| Peter: And |
| Naomi: キムミヨンさん |
| Peter: So we are using what kind of Japanese? |
| Naomi: Polite Japanese. |
| Peter: And today is a special event. What event is that? |
| Naomi: 今日は、 Fibritzio’s birthday party ファブリツィオさんの誕生日です。 |
| Peter: With that said, let’s get into today’s lesson. Here we go. |
| DIALOGUE |
| ♪ハッピバースデー ディヤー ファブリツィオー！ |
| ♪ハッピバースデー トゥーユー！ |
| ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪ |
| 誕生日おめでとう、ファブリッツィオ！！ |
| ファブリツィオ: みなさん！ありがとうございます！ |
| キム ミ ヨン: あのぉ、東さんの 誕生日は 何月ですか。 |
| 東 春人: えっと、私の誕生日は 七月です。 |
| ム ミ ヨン: 何日ですか。 |
| 東 春人: 七日です。 |
| キム ミ ヨン: えー？私の 誕生日も 七月七日です。ちょっとうれしいです。 |
| もう一度お願いします。今度はゆっくりお願いします。 |
| ファブリツィオ: みなさん！ありがとうございます！ |
| キム ミ ヨン: あのぉ、東さんの 誕生日は 何月ですか。 |
| 東 春人: えっと、私の誕生日は 七月です。 |
| ム ミ ヨン: 何日ですか。 |
| 東 春人: 七日です。 |
| キム ミ ヨン: えー？私の 誕生日も 七月七日です。ちょっとうれしいです。 |
| 次は、英語が入ります。 |
| ♪ハッピバースデー ディヤー ファブリツィオー！♪ハッピバースデー トゥーユー！ |
| ファブリツィオ: みなさん！ありがとうございます！ |
| FABRIZIO: Thank you so much, everyone! |
| キム ミ ヨン: あのぉ、東さんの 誕生日は 何月ですか。 |
| MI YEON KIM: So, when's your birthday, Mr. Higashi? |
| 東 春人: えっと、私の誕生日は 七月です。 |
| HARUHITO HIGASHI: My birthday is in July. |
| キム ミ ヨン: 何日ですか。 |
| MI YEON KIM: What's the date? |
| 東 春人: 七日です。 |
| HARUHITO HIGASHI: It's July 7th. |
| キム ミ ヨン: えー？私の 誕生日も 七月七日です。ちょっとうれしいです。 |
| MI YEON KIM: Really? My birthday is on July 7th too! I feel kind of honored. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Peter: Naomi Sensei, what month is your birthday? |
| Naomi: 私の誕生日？10月です。 |
| Peter: Your birthday is in October? |
| Naomi: はい。 |
| Peter: 同じです。 |
| Naomi: え、本当？何日ですか？ |
| Peter: 30日です。 |
| Naomi: 30日ですか。 |
| Peter: The 30th. |
| Naomi: Ah our signs are different. I am Libra. |
| Peter: I am a scorpion 違ってよかったですね。 It’s good that we are different. |
| Naomi: ちょっと嬉しいですか？ |
| Peter: Just a little bit. |
| Naomi: ひどい。 |
| Peter: ナオミ先生の誕生日は何日ですか？ |
| Naomi: 8日。 |
| Peter: Ah the 8th. |
| Naomi: はい、そうです。 |
| Peter: The 8th and what day are very easy to confuse. |
| Naomi: 4日。 |
| Peter: The 4th – the 8th and the 4th. So can we have them one more time. |
| Naomi: 4th is 4日、, the 8th is 8日. |
| Peter: So the 4th, there is a ちっちゃい「っ」, a small pause in there. |
| Naomi: はい。4日。 |
| Peter: While the 8th is the long vowel. |
| Naomi: 8日。 |
| Peter: Okay let’s take a look at today’s vocab. Remember, we will give you the pitch accent at the end. Okay but try and pick it up in the beginning. Here we go. |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Naomi: 誕生日 |
| Peter: Birthday. |
| Naomi: (slow)たんじょうび (natural speed)誕生日 |
| Peter: Rising on the second syllable ん, coming down on the second to last syllable う. |
| Naomi: 誕生日 |
| Peter: Next. |
| Naomi: おめでとうございます |
| Peter: Congratulations. |
| Naomi: (slow)おめでとうございます (natural speed)おめでとうございます |
| Peter: The first word おめでとう rising on the second syllable め stays high, second word ございます rising on the second syllable ざ and falls on the last syllable す |
| Naomi: おめでとうございます |
| Peter: Next. |
| Naomi: 皆さん |
| Peter: Everyone. |
| Naomi: (slow)みなさん (natural speed)皆さん |
| Peter: Rising on the second syllable な falling on the second to last syllable さ. |
| Naomi: 皆さん |
| Peter: Next. |
| Naomi: 何月 |
| Peter: What month. |
| Naomi: (slow)なんがつ (natural speed)何月 |
| Peter: Starts high, falls on the second syllable ん stays low. |
| Naomi: 何月 |
| Peter: Next. |
| Naomi: 七月 |
| Peter: July. |
| Naomi: (slow)しちがつ (natural speed)七月 |
| Peter: Rising on the second syllable and stays high. |
| Naomi: 七月 |
| Peter: Next |
| Naomi: 何日 |
| Peter: What day, how many days. |
| Naomi: (slow)なんにち (natural speed)何日 |
| Peter: Starts high, falls on the second syllable ん stays low. |
| Naomi: 何日 |
| Peter: Next |
| Naomi: 七日 |
| Peter: The 7th |
| Naomi: (slow)なのか (natural speed)七日 |
| Peter: Rising on the second syllable の and stays high. |
| Naomi: 七日 |
| Peter: Next |
| Naomi: ちょっと |
| Peter: Bit, a little. |
| Naomi: (slow)ちょっと (natural speed)ちょっと |
| Peter: Falls after the first syllable, stays low. |
| Naomi: ちょっと |
| Peter: Next. |
| Naomi: 嬉しい |
| Peter: Happy, glad. |
| Naomi: (slow)うれしい (natural speed)嬉しい |
| Peter: Rises on the second syllable れ, falls on the last syllable い. |
| Naomi: 嬉しい |
| Peter: Okay Naomi Sensei, let’s have a look at the usage for some of the words. First word we will look at is |
| Naomi: ちょっと |
| Peter: Can you give an example sentence please. |
| Naomi: これはちょっと高いです。 |
| Peter: This is a bit expensive. So here ちょっと is acting as an adverb modifying the adjective. |
| Naomi: そうですね。ちょっと難しいです。 |
| Peter: A little difficult. |
| Naomi: ちょっとハンサムです。 |
| Peter: A little handsome. ちょっとわかんないですが。 How about a little busy? |
| Naomi: ちょっと忙しいです。 |
| Peter: A little busy. How about another example? |
| Naomi: すみません、ちょっと寒いです。 |
| Peter: Excuse me but it’s a bit cold. |
| Naomi: ええ、ちょっと暑いです。 |
| Peter: Hah it’s a bit hot. So they are obviously fighting over their air conditioner. |
| Naomi: 私はちょっと暑いです。ピーターさんは？ |
| Peter: ちょっと寒いですね。 |
| Naomi: うそ。 |
| Peter: Finally let’s take a look at a phrase that could be used when you want to congratulate someone. That phrase is |
| Naomi: おめでとうございます。 |
| Peter: Congratulations. Now when someone says to you おめでとうございます what did you say to them? |
| Naomi: ありがとうございます |
| Peter: Thank you. So it’s that fixed pattern. |
| Naomi: そうですね。 in a polite situation yes. |
| Peter: Okay and of course this is the polite Japanese. |
| Naomi: はい。おめでとうございます、ピーターさん。 |
| Peter: ありがとうございます。 Naomi Sensei. |
| Naomi: In a casual situation, we drop ございます and say おめでとう |
| Peter: ありがとう。 So simple exchange right there the ございます makes it that much more polite. |
Lesson focus |
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| Peter: Let’s have a more thorough look at the grammar use in this lesson. What do we cover in this lesson Naomi Sensei? |
| Naomi: How to say the date in Japanese. |
| Peter: And the phrase related to this first appeared in what line? |
| Naomi: I think that’s in fifth line. 東さんの誕生日は何月ですか？ |
| Peter: What month is your birthday 東？ let’s take a look at this sentence component by component. First we have |
| Naomi: 東さん |
| Peter: Higashi. |
| Naomi: の |
| Peter: Possessive. Higashi’s |
| Naomi: 誕生日 |
| Peter: Birthday. Higashi’s birthday. |
| Naomi: は |
| Peter: Topic marking particle. So we are talking about Higashi’s birthday. |
| Naomi: 何がつ |
| Peter: What month |
| Naomi: 何 is |
| Peter: What |
| Naomi: 月 is |
| Peter: Month. |
| Naomi: So 何月 |
| Peter: What month, very straightforward. |
| Naomi: ですか？ |
| Peter: Is it. So literally Higashi’s birthday, what month is it? What month is your birthday Higashi? |
| Naomi: 今日 is today right. So 今日は何月ですか？ would be |
| Peter: What month is today? |
| Naomi: 今 means now. 今、何月ですか？ |
| Peter: Now what month is it. |
| Naomi: 夏 is summer. 休み is vacation or holiday. 夏休み is summer vacation. 夏休みは何月ですか？ |
| Peter: What month is summer vacation or what month is your summer vacation. Now in Japan, the normal order for the year, month and day is? |
| Naomi: Year, month and day. |
| Peter: So if you ask somebody, what day is it today? |
| Naomi: 今日は何月何日ですか？ |
| Peter: Today is what month, what day and with this, you can ask about various events and particular days. |
| Naomi: 誕生日は何月何日ですか？ |
| Peter: What day is your birthday? |
| Naomi: Yeah but instead of what day is your birthday, you usually even in English, you usually ask when is your birthday, that’s more natural right? |
| Peter: That’s right. |
| Naomi: It’s same in Japanese. We usually use いつ。誕生日はいつですか？ |
| Peter: But for this lesson, since we are focusing on the date, we are kind of crafting it. |
| Naomi: I think both sentences are fine. 誕生日は何月何日ですか、誕生日はいつですか？ Not much difference. |
Outro |
| Peter: All right. So that’s going to cover today’s lesson. Again stop by and check out the PDF. Inside the PDF, a detailed write up of what we covered today. It’s covering months and days. Okay, Naomi Sensei, maybe we should ask all of our listeners when their birthday is. |
| Naomi: はい。皆さんの誕生日は何月何日ですか？ |
| Peter: That’s going to do for today. Be sure to stop by and leave us a comment including your birthday. |
| Naomi: お願いします。 |
| DIALOGUE |
| ♪ハッピバースデー ディヤー ファブリツィオー！ |
| ♪ハッピバースデー トゥーユー！ |
| ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪ |
| 誕生日おめでとう、ファブリッツィオ！！ |
| ファブリツィオ: みなさん！ありがとうございます！ |
| キム ミ ヨン: あのぉ、東さんの 誕生日は 何月ですか。 |
| 東 春人: えっと、私の誕生日は 七月です。 |
| ム ミ ヨン: 何日ですか。 |
| 東 春人: 七日です。 |
| キム ミ ヨン: えー？私の 誕生日も 七月七日です。ちょっとうれしいです。 |
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485 Comments
HideMina-san, finally Fabrizio returns! Well, for one line at least! :roll: I'm trying to imagine what kind of hijinks goes on at a Fabrizio party and it boggles the mind. What kind of present would you give him?
watashi no tanjoubi wa Juichigatsu no sanju nichi desu. 😎😇 ❤️️ Arigatou..
Joseph Andelinさん
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Your sentence looks perfect👍
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Watashi no tanjobi wa shichi-gatsu desu
Pablo Ignacio Scalettaさん
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We might have some birthday songs invented in Japanese, but the one we always sing is the English one with the Japanese accent😅
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Ryoma
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Hello,
Is there a traditional Japanese birthday song-I mean with lyrics in Japanese? I couldn't help noticing that the one sung in the dialogue seems to be a phonetic adaptation of this song in English.
こんにちは フィル
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そうですか、来月ですね！
こんにちは Tomi
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It's 「わたしのたんじょうびはろくがつにじゅうくにち。」
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こんにちは！
はたしのたんじょびはろくがつにじゅうくにち。
06.29
こんにちは！
私の誕生日は十二月九日です。
こんにちは Cheka
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You can say "Ima wa nangatsu desuka?"
Also you can omit "Wa" in either sentences when it's a conversation(speaking).
こんにちは Mateo
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It's こんにちは 😉
Keep up the good work and Feel free to ask us any questions.
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こんいちは ^^
私の誕生日は１１月十一日