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Absolute Beginner S1 #14 Being Really Clumsy in Japan

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(washing dishes) TEIR: KAORI: TEIR: KAORI: TEIR: KAORI: Kaori-san, hont ni arigat gozaimasu. Ieie. A! (sound of glass breaking) Sumimasen! Daijbu desu ka? Watashi wa daijbu desu. Demo... gurasu... Daijbu desu. Hont ni sumimasen...

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(washing dishes) TAYLOR: KAORI: TAYLOR: KAORI: TAYLOR: KAORI: Kaori, thank you very much! No problem. Oh! (sound of glass breaking) I'm sorry! Are you okay? I'm fine! But...the glass... It's okay. I'm really sorry...

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VOCABULARY

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Kanji

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R omaji Hont ni demo daijbu desu ka daijbu gurasu

English Really, truly but, however Are you okay? Is it okay? alright, okay glass (cup)

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Hont ni sumimasen. I'm really sorry.

Watashi wa nihon-jin desu. Demo shusshin wa Ny y ku desu. I'm Japanese, but I'm from New York.

Kaze desu ka? Daij bu desu ka? Do you have a cold? Are you all right?

Watashi wa daij bu desu. I'm all right.

Gurasu o otoshite watte shimatta. I dropped the glass and broke it.

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

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Daijbu desu ka Daijbu desu Arigat gozaimasu Sumimasen
"Thank you." "Excuse me."/"I'm sorry." "Are you okay?"/"Is he/she/it okay?" "I'm okay."/"It's okay." Lesson 3 Lesson 4

Lesson 12 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.

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You can think of hont ni as meaning "really" in English.

Hont ni

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Romaji Hont ni arigat gozaimasu Hont ni sumimasen Hont ni daijbu desu ka? Hont ni daijbu desu

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"Thank you." "Excuse me."/"I'm sorry." "Are you okay?"/"Is he/she/it okay?" "I'm okay."/"It's okay."

Example s f rom T his Dialogue

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Kaori-san, hont ni arigat gozaimasu. "Kaori, thank you very much!" Hont ni sumimasen...

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"I'm really sorry..."

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