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Master speaking on the phone and put all of
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your Japanese friends at touch away. In
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the previous lesson, you learned how to ask for permission and
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how to express what you can do. Right,
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such as, May I take a
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picture? And
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I can speak Japanese. In this
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lesson, we'll look more into the usage of dekiru,
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to be able to. We'll also introduce you
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to some set phrases used when saying goodbye. Namisense,
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what's going to happen in this dialogue?
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Ashu-ri-san wa mitsuoka san
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ni demaoshimasu. Ashley
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calls, miz mitsuoka. Demo,
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mitsuoka san wa demaasen.
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But, miz mitsuoka doesn't answer the
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phone, so Ashley is going to leave a
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message. The level of formality of this
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dialogue is, FOMO. Let's
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listen to the conversation. hurr
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one time slowly. yong,
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san, ni, hai,
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mitsuoka desu, ima,
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deungwani, delu, kotoga,
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tekima, sen. Meseji
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wo one
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gaishimasu. Musimoshi,
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asuri desu, iro
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iro arigato
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kozaimashita, okage
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sama de shuchou
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wo tanoshimu
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kotoga, dekimashita,
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minasan ni al
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kotoga dekite,
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yokata desu,
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otousan to
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okasan ni
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yoroshikusta tsu, tstare
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te kudasai, asita,
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juu ichi ji no
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shikouji de,
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nuyoku ni
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kairimasu. Zeshii,
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nuyoku ni,
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tstare kudasai,
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ne matame
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lu shimatsu, ogenki
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de, sayouonara.
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Now with the English translation. Tseirokyu,
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zerunou, 090, kyu hachi
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nana roku no, 9876,
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goyong, san ni, 5432. Hui,
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mitsuoka desu. This is Mitsuyoka.
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Kima, I can't answer the phone right now.
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Please leave a message. Hello,
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this is Ashley. Thank
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you so much for everything. Thanks
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to you, I was able to enjoy my business trip. I'm
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so glad to have met everyone. Please
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say hello to your father and mother for me. I'm
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going back to New York tomorrow on an 11 o'clock
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flight. Please
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come to New York. I'll
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email you. Take care. Goodbye. I'm
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going to say hello to you.
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Please say hello to
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your father and mother for me.
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Please send me a
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note for your father or daughter. But
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some people also omit these, right? Yes,
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I'm going to say hello. And
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we'll just give you the whole number. And what's
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important here is that this note is actually how
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you read the hyphen or dash. So,
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for the address, you cannot omit
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dash or hyphen. So you need
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to say no. When
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you see the phone number, the dash is
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written between the numbers. And
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when we say it, we say no. Now,
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Japanese cell phone numbers have 11
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digits. So, the sine. 090
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is cell phone. Now
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080 is also cell
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phone because the numbers got scarce. And
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070 is usually PHS. So,
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the sine, right. 0q000080, wow.
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게다 있만에 나 바고, the sine. So
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in the dialogue, they didn't answer
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the phone, so Ashley had to leave a message.
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Now the line of the answering machine
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sounds really authentic. Yeah, it's close
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enough to what you might hear. So
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it looks like Ashley is leaving Japan tomorrow.
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She said, New
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York そそかいます. So,
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あした is tomorrow. means
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11 o'clock flight. New
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York そそそそます is going
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back to New York. Now, Misansei, you
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said あした. Hi. But some people
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say あし for tomorrow. そそそそそ,
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both そそそ and あし means
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tomorrow. What's the difference? I'd
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say あした is more common. And
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あした sounds a bit formal.
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So of these, あした is the
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more common way to say tomorrow. あしたそそそ,
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and the kanji for tomorrow are kind of
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nice, don't you think? They
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mean bright day. Right,
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the first kanji means bright, and the
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second kanji means day. So bright day.
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Tomorrow is a bright day. That's
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a very nice way to remember it. In
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fact, there's a very well-known Japanese expression that's
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something along those lines, right? あしたそそそ,
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what is it? Oh,
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there's always tomorrow. Yeah, so
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it's kind of very forward thinking. Okay,
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on to the vocabulary. あのしま
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あのしま. Various. Next,
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あのしま. To
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enjoy oneself. Next,
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あし. Certainly,
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without fail. Next,
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あしあ. Next, 你們們們? Take
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care. 你們們們們們們?
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Next, 你們們們? Goodbye. 你們們們們?
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Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words
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and phrases from this lesson. Now, Misansei,
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what's the first word we'll look at? To
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meet. It's a class 1 verb,
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so the must form is? To meet. The
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person you meet is marked by
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either tō, wō, or mō. Direction
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marking particle. So, 你們們? I meet Peter.
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I'll meet Peter. Or you
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can say, 你們們? I meet with Peter. I'll
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meet with Peter. Next, let's take a
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look at some expressions used when saying goodbye. What's
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the first one? 你們們們?
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Arigato gozaimasu. Thank you for
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everything you've done. 你們
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is a word that means various or all kinds
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of. When coupled with, 你們們們? Arigato
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gozaimasu. The implication is that the listener did
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many things for the speaker. Can we hear
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the sentence again? 你們們? Arigato gozaimasu.
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Sugiwa nandiska? What's next? 你們們?
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Thanks for asking. 你們?
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Originally means your support
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or your help. So the literal
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meaning of 你們們們們? Okage samade? Is
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because of your great support or
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thanks to your help. However,
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it can be used even when the listener
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hasn't specifically done anything for the speaker. Right?
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你們? In that case, the closest translation
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would be thanks for asking. This
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usage of 你們們們們? Okage samade also appeared in
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lesson 13. Ok. Sugiwa,
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what's next? 你們? What's next? 你們? What's next? 你們?
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What's next? 你們? What's next? 你們?
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Please give my regards to so-and-so. Please
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say hello to so-and-so. Now this phrase
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is used when you want to tell someone to give your
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regards to someone else. The person's
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name comes before the particle ni. Can
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we have a sample sentence? Sure. Minasan
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ni. Yoroshiku stai-te kudasai.
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Please say hello to everyone. Let's break it
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down. Minasan ni. To
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everyone. Yoroshiku. Well? Stai-te.
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Tae form of the verb stai-ru.
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To pass on. To convey. Kudasai.
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Please. Again, it means, please
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pass on my regards to everyone. Please
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give my best to everyone. I recommend that
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you memorize this phrase as a set phrase.
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So and so. Mi. Yoroshiku
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stai-te kudasai. Now, stai-te
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kudasai. This phrase is used
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to get a message to a third person. So
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for example, if I was in the US and
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Naomisensei was in Japan and we were talking on
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the phone. Now we have a mutual friend, Jack.
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Jack's not in the conversation. But if
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I wanted to get a message to Jack or
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say hi to Jack, I can say to Naomisensei,
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Jack-kuni. Yoroshiku stai-te kudasai. Please
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say hi to Jack. But
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in a casual situation, you can drop
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stai-te kudasai. So Jack-kuni yoroshiku. Say hi
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to Jack. The last phrase we have is, ogen-ki-de. This
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phrase means take care and is used towards someone that
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you will not see again for a long time or
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possibly ever. So desu ne?
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This sentence was originally, ogen-ki-de
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itte kudasai. Which means
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stay in good health. But
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we usually stop at de and
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just say, ogen-ki-de. Take
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care. But you can't use
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ogen-ki-de for everyday goodbyes. So
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desu ne? On to the ground point. In
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this lesson, you learn how to talk about what you can do. In
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the previous lesson, you learned noun
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plus dekiru, sentence structure. Such
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as e go ga dekiru.
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Literally, can do English. Of
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course it means can understand, read,
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or speak English. As you
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can tell from the English translation, noun
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plus dekiru is very bad. vague,
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게가 대기를
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could mean be able to speak English
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or be able to read English or
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even can understand English. If
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you want to specify the skill, you have to use the
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verb. That's what we're going to learn in this section. Okay,
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now, Ms. Hensei, how do you say, I
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can swim? To swim is 어여구. So,
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I can swim is 와타시와 어여구 게어가 대기를. Let's
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break down the sentence. I
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and the topic-marking particle. To
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swim. Thing. Particle.
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Can do. So, literally,
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I, swim thing, can do. I
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can do the thing to swim. Of
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course, I can swim or I'm
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able to swim. Be careful. You
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cannot say 어여구 가 대기를. You
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need to insert 게어 after
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the verb dictionary form. So, 어여구 게어가 대기를.
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This construction can be formed by attaching
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게어 to the dictionary form of the chosen
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verb. 가녕
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시요.
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So, the sentence structure is dictionary
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form of a verb plus 게어가 대기를. Let's
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practice with some examples. How do you say,
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to enjoy? 가녕 시요 게어가
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대기를. Follow this with 게어가 대기를. To
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say, to be able to enjoy. Can
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enjoy. How
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do you say, to speak? Add
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게어가 대기를. To say, to be able to
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speak. Can speak. So,
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에고어 하나 시요 게어가 대기를. Means,
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be able to speak English. 샠시요
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도를 is to take pictures. So, 샠시요 도를 게어가
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대기를 means, to be able to take pictures. Can
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take pictures. is
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to meet, so aukotoga
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tekiru. To be able to
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meet, can meet. So minasa
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ni aukotoga tekiru. To
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be able to meet everyone. In
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the dialogue, Ashui said, minasa
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ni aukotoga dekute, yokatadesu.
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I'm so glad to have met everyone.
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Literally, I can meet everyone and it was
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good. Dekute, as
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in, minasa ni aukotoga dekute
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is the te form. So
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minasa ni aukotoga dekute is
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to be able to meet everyone and
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yokata. It was good. So
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minasa ni aukotoga dekute.
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I can meet everyone and yokatadesu.
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It was good. So remember, the last
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verb or adjective decides the tense for
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the whole sentence. So the final adjective
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here is past. So we
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actually say, the actual translation, it was
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good that I could meet everyone. By
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putting tekiru in the te form and
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adding yokatadesu at the end, we can
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create a sentence that means we are
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glad to have been able to do
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something. For example, hanasu
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is to speak or to
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talk. So hanasu kotogate-te
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yokatadesu. I'm glad to have been able
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to talk with you. Kuru is
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to come. So kuru
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kotogate-te yokatadesu. I'm
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glad to have been able to come. Okay,
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let's recap with a quiz. The quiz
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will be multiple choice. We'll give you
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a question and three possible answers. Your
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job is to guess the answer. Okay? First
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question, which of the following
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expressions means please say hello to everyone?
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A. The
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answer is B. Please
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say Say hello to everyone. What about
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Chulis A? My name is Yoru Shikunen. Nice
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to meet everyone. Chulis C? My
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name is Sayonara. Goodbye everyone. Second
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question. A. Iroiro
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Arigato Gozaimashita. B. Ogenkite. C.
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Okage-sama-de. The answer is A. Iroiro
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Arigato Gozaimashita. Iroiro Arigato Gozaimashita. B. Ogenkite.
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C. Okage-sama-de. The
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answer is A. Iroiro Arigato Gozaimashita. C.
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Iroiro Arigato Gozaimashita. C. Iroiro
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Arigato Gozaimashita. What
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about choice B? Ogenkite. It
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means, take care. And choice C?
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Okage-sama-de. Thanks for asking.
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That concludes this lesson. The next
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lesson will be our final lesson. A. Sayonara-lesundes.
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You'll learn more goodbye phrases and find out how
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the story ends. A. A.
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A. A. A.
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A. A. A.
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A. C. C.
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A. A. B. A.
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A. M. A.
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B. A. D.
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A. A. C. M.
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R. A. A.
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A. D. A.
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R. N. D. C.
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A. B. A.
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A. A. A. A.
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A. A. A.
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A. A. A.
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