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Japanese Swotter - Speaking Drill + Shadowing
Are you learning Japanese and looking for more opportunities to speak? This Podcast drill is exactly for you. Simply repeat after me - while you are commuting, cooking or even in your bed. The drill also includes plain style dialogue, which is an informal style spoken in daily life among friends and family, and also in Anime. Now more shadowing practices are available, too. Have a go and get fluent soon! --- Learning Nihongo is fun, ne. More drills and full transcripts/translations (on your smartphone! + PDF) are available on Patreon.
Japanese Swotter - Speaking Drill + Shadowing
91 [✐4] I'll call you later. + Shadowing
[✐4. Allegretto] Upgrade your Japanese - humble and beautiful!
お+V(I,II)ます+します、ご+N/V(III)+します [謙譲語 Humble]
“I will call you later.”
[00:08]
Hello everyone. Today, we will practice the refined expressions which are useful in business situation. I also recommend you to use them when you talk to superiors or people you meet for the first time.
Note: Kenjougo is a humble way of speaking, when you speak to someone of a higher position of power or a senior person, in which you humble yourself down. Together with sonkeigo(honorific language), many learners are annoyed by these complicated systems - but today, we stick to the very basic of humble way of speaking. In fact, not just in a hierarchical context, it also gives others a sophisticated impression.
[00:21]
My condition of throat is not good today, but I will do my best.
[00:27]
Followings are when you talk about your own actions. In other words, the subject is “watashi = I”. Repeat after the sound ♫.
--- It’s difficult to reflect a humble way of speaking in the English translation, but think of it with the nuance of “let me do something (for you).” ---
[00:40]
1. I will lead the way.
2. I will explain how to use.
3. I will inform you of tomorrow’s schedule.
4. I will prepare it.
5. I will carry (your) bag.
6. I will give you the materials/handouts.
7. I will take your picture.
8. I will send the package/parcel.
9. I will lend you an umbrella.
10. I will call a taxi.
[02:45]
Now, make a sentence with “〜shimashouka” as follows.
For example,
We’re busy preparing for tomorrow’s meeting.
/ I, too, help
→ Shall I help you too?
Ready?
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「のちほど こちらから おでんわします。」
[00:08]
みなさん、こんにちは。きょうは、ビジネスでやくだつ、きれいなにほんごを れんしゅうします。めうえのひとや、はじめてあうひとと はなすときも、ぜひ、つかってみてください。
[00:21]
きょうは、ちょっとのどのちょうしがわるいんですが、がんばります。
[00:27]
みなさんが、じぶんじしんの こうどうについて はなすときのいいかたです。つまり、しゅごは｢わたし｣です。♫のあとをリピートしてください。
[00:40]
1. あんないします。
= ごあんないします。
2. つかいかたを せつめいします。
= つかいかたを ごせつめいします。
3. あしたのよていを れんらくします。
= あしたのよていを ごれんらくします。
4. よういします
= ごよういします。
5. かばんを もちます。
= かばんを おもちします。
6. しりょうを わたします。
= しりょうを おわたしします。
7. しゃしんをとります。
= しゃしんをおとりします。
8. にもつをおくります。
= にもつをおおくりします。
9. かさを かします。
= かさを おかしします。
10. タクシーをよびます。
= タクシーを およびします。
[02:45]
では、つぎのように「〜しましょうか」で、ぶんをつくってください。
たとえば、
あすの かいぎの じゅんびで いそがしいです。
/ わたしも てつだいます
→ わたしも おてつだいしましょうか。
いいですか
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Note: English translations might sound occasionally unnatural as English, as I try to preserve the structure and essence of the original Japanese.