Master Japanese in a mere 37,960,000 days. Lesson 2: Watch what you eat or you’ll end up spending the night listening to the audio version of the Bible
You might have noticed last time that you probably couldn’t read anything except for the english words. What you have to do first is learn the squiggles. After this all you need to do is to learn the words.
I’m hungry so you’re going to learn the word 食べる (たべる、to eat).
Example 1:
コックは酔っぱらったらフグを食べない方がいいですよ。
コックはよっぱらったらフグをたべないほうがいいですよ。
It’s a bad idea to eat fugu if the cook is drunk.
Example 2:
ゲームセンターの店員は「ドラムスティクを食べないでください」と言った。
ゲームセンターのてんいんは「ドラムスティクをたべないでください」といった。
The game store employee told me not to eat the drum sticks.
Now go practice by yelling it very loudly in a crowded area.
Can you put the anglicized version of each Japanese sentence up too?
No. I don’t think it’s a good idea to do that. It doesn’t take that long to learn the alphabets and after that you never need the anglicized version ever again. Sorry.