LESSON NOTES

Absolute Beginner S1 #14

Being Really Clumsy in Japan

CONTENTS
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Kanji
Kana
Romanization
English
Vocabulary
Sample Sentences
Vocabulary Phrase Usage
Grammar

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KANJI
1.

(washing dishes)

2.

3.

(sound of glass breaking)

4.

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7.

KANA
1.

(washing dishes)

2.

3.

(sound of glass breaking)

4.

5.

6.

7.

ROMANIZATION
CONT'D OVER
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1.

(washing dishes)

2.

TEIR:

Kaori-san, hont ni arigat gozaimasu.

3.

KAORI:

Ieie. A! (sound of glass breaking) Sumimasen!

4.

TEIR:

Daijbu desu ka?

5.

KAORI:

Watashi wa daijbu desu. Demo... gurasu...

6.

TEIR:

Daijbu desu.

7.

KAORI:

Hont ni sumimasen...

ENGLISH
1.

(washing dishes)

2.

TAYLOR:

Kaori, thank you very much!

3.

KAORI:

No problem. Oh! (sound of glass breaking) I'm sorry!

4.

TAYLOR:

Are you okay?

5.

KAORI:

I'm fine! But...the glass...

6.

TAYLOR:

It's okay.

7.

KAORI:

I'm really sorry...

VOCABULARY

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Kanji

Kana

R omaji

English

Hont ni

Really, truly

demo

but, however

gurasu

glass (cup)

daijbu desu ka

Are you okay? Is it

okay?

daijbu

alright, okay

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Hont ni sumimasen.
I'm really sorry.

Watashi wa nihon-jin desu. Demo shusshin wa

Nyyku desu.
I'm Japanese, but I'm from New York.

Gurasu o otoshite watte shimatta.

Kaze desu ka? Daijbu desu ka?

I dropped the glass and broke it.

Do you have a cold? Are you all right?

Watashi wa daijbu desu.

I'm all right.

VOCABULARY PHRASE USAGE

Gurasu ()
This word comes from the word "glass" in English and refers to a glass cup.
Hont ni ()
This phrase means "really" in English, and we can use it to add emphasis to certain phrases.
(Please see the Lesson Focus below for more information.)
Demo ()

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Demo means "but," and is Kaori uses it to show her hesitation.

GRAMMAR
T he Focus of T his Le sson Is Re vie wing Phrase s We 've Le arne d (and How t o Add
Emphasis t o T he m!).

Hont ni sumimase n...

"I'm re ally sorry..."

You've learned a lot of new phrases and expressions up until now! Are you ready for a
review? In this dialogue, you heard a lot of phrases that you have already learned in
previous lessons. Let's take a look at them and also see how we can make them stronger in
meaning!

Re vie wing Phrase s We 've Le arne d

Let's review some of the phrases we've learned in the order that they showed up in the
dialogue.
Japane se

Romaji

"English"

First Appe are d In...

Arigat gozaimasu

"Thank you."

Lesson 3

Sumimasen

"Excuse me."/"I'm
sorry."

Lesson 4

Daijbu desu ka

"Are you okay?"/"Is

he/she/it okay?"

Lesson 12

Daijbu desu

"I'm okay."/"It's
okay."

Lesson 12

Emphasizing a Phrase Using Hont Ni

Have you ever been in a situation where using a certain phrase just didn't seem to cut it?
In English, at times where "thank you" doesn't seem like enough, we might say "thank you
so much!" or something similar. For "I'm sorry," we might emphasize it by saying "I'm really
sorry." In Japanese, we can strengthen the phrases above by adding the phrase hont ni.
You can think of hont ni as meaning "really" in English.

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Hont ni

Japane se

Romaji

"English"

Hont ni arigat
gozaimasu

"Thank you."

Hont ni
sumimasen

"Excuse me."/"I'm
sorry."

Hont ni daijbu
desu ka?

"Are you okay?"/"Is

he/she/it okay?"

Hont ni daijbu
desu

"I'm okay."/"It's
okay."

Example s f rom T his Dialogue

1.

2.

Kaori-san, hont ni arigat gozaimasu.

"Kaori, thank you very much!"

Hont ni sumimasen...

"I'm really sorry..."

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