Archive for October, 2007
#55: Basic questions in Japanese
In this week’s lesson we study some basic questions in Japanese. These are typical questions you might be asked when meeting someone for the first time in Japan. Therefore I hope you will find these very practical.
#53: Using an electronic Japanese menu
Why bother to learn Kanji when you can just use pictures ? In more and more restaurants today in Japan you can order food using portable electronic menus. The menu is an A4 touch screen device that sits on a charger on the table and can also be detached and hand held. It’s quite a sturdy piece of electronics that looks like it can handle a few splashes of beer or yakiniku sauce. The screen has an easy to navigate user interface with pictures and various menus for you to touch and order. Once you have selected your food you can touch the confirm prompt and it will send a relay to the kitchen for your food to be prepared and served to you. It’s an ingenious system that must save a lot of time and labour although you will need to read a little Japanese to use it. I was going to publish this as a Fun Friday but I thought, why wait?
#52: Ippai
In this week’s lesson, Beb teaches us how to use the word “Ippai”. Listen to the conversations and example sentences to get an idea of how to use this word.
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#51: Beb interviews Makikomo
This week we took a little departure from our usual lesson format and listened to Beb interview Makikomo about her her various creative exploits which include handmade soap. You can see them here at Makikomo.com
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