Lesson 3 - Fluency Drills:
Eating out
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Many restaurants
in Japan have
display windows with paraffin
models of the
dishes served there.
If you see
something you would
like to order,
but don't know
what to call it,
you might stop
a person on
the street to
ask the name
of the dish or
beverage. To get
the attention of
someone when
you want
a favor, you
say "excuse me",
sumimasen.
Listen and
repeat:
Sumimasen.
To
ask "what
is this called?"
you say kore nan
to
īmasu ka? Listen
and repeat:
Kore
nan to
īmasu ka?
Now say "excuse me, what is this called?"
Fluency Drill 3:
The
answer may
simply be the
name of the
food or
drink followed
by to īmasu ("is
called."). Let's suppose you point
to a plate
of sukiyaki
and say sumimasen,
kore nan to īmasu
ka? The
answer might be
sukiyaki to
īmasu. Listen:
Sukiyaki to
īmasu.
The
passerby_might say "this
one is called
sukiyaki," kore
sukiyaki to
īmasu. Listen:
Kore sukiyaki to
īmasu.
Another
possible response
is "it's sukiyaki ," sukiyaki
desu
or "this one is
sukiyaki", kore
sukiyaki desu.
Listen:
s |
kore
s |
Now
you will
hear
some answers to
your question kore
nan to
īmasu ka?
(Subuta
is sweet-and-sour pork;
yakisoba
is
chow mein; and ebi
no tempura is
shrimp tempura.) Give
the English
translation after
you hear each
Japanese answer.
EXAMPLE:
Sukiyaki to
īmasu.
YOU: It's called
sukiyaki.
Fluency Drill 4:
If
the passerby
does not understand
which dish you are
asking about, he
may point and
say "this one?",
kore desu ka? Listen:
Kore
desu
ka?
If that’s the one you mean, you say "yes," hai. Listen and repeat:
Hai.
If that is
not the one
you mean,
you say "no,
this one,"
iya, kore
desu. Listen
and repeat:
Iya,
kore desu.
When you go into a restaurant and take a seat, the waitress should come to your table promptly to take your order. But let's assume you take a seat and no one comes to take Your order. To get the attention of the waitress, you say 'say," chotto. Listen and repeat:
Chotto.
You will be using chotto again: if you want to reorder something and when you want the check.
When the waitress comes, she will say hai, meaning "yes, sir" or "yes, ma'am." Japanese say hai to show that they are listening to you.
Fluency Drill 6:
If the waitress comes directly to your table when you enter the restaurant, she may say "what will you have?", nan ni shimashō ka? Listen:
Fluency Drill 7:
If you are not ready to order" you can say "just a minute, please," chotto matte kudasai. Listen and repeat:
Chotto matte kudasai.
After you have said chotto matte kudasai, the waitress may say hai.
Fluency Drill 8:
If
you want
to know about
a certain dish - for
example, sukiyaki - you
ask "do
you have sukiyaki?"
sukiyaki
arimasu ka?
Listen and repeat:
Sukiyaki arimasu
ka?
Let's
suppose you
want to know
if they have
curried rice.
(The word s
for "curried rice"
are karē
raisu) Listen
and repeat:
karē
raisu
Now ask if they have curried rice.
The word for "meat dumplings" is gyōza. Listen and repeat:
gyōza
Now ask if they have meat dumplings.
The
word for
"pork cutlet" is
tonkatsu.
Listen and
repeat:
tonkatsu
Now ask if they have pork cutlets.
Fluency Drill 9:
If
they have
the dish, the
waiter will
say "yes," hai, or "yes,
we do," hai,
arimasu. Listen:
hai. |
hai,
arimas |
If
they
do not have
the dish, the
waiter will
say "no." īe.
o r he
will say "no,
we don’t" which
in Japanese
can be īe, arimasen;
iya, arimasen; or
simply arimasen. Listen:
īe, arimasen. |
Iya, arimasen. |
arimasen. |
If
you
ask a question
Iike "do you
have sake?" sake arimasu ka, the
waiter may say
"no, we
don’t; we
have beer."
Arimasen. bīru
arimasu.
Fluency Drill 10:
Now
you are
ready to order.
Let's say you
want to
order one
hamburger. First, you
give the name
of the dish, "hamburger," hambāgā.
Then give the
number you want,
"one." hitotsu,
and add the
world "please," kudasai. So
to order one hamburger, you
say hambāgā
hitotsu
kudasai. Listen and
repeat:
Hambāgā
hitotsu
kudasai.
Suppose you
want to order
two hamburgers. Instead
of hitotsu, you
use the word
futatsu. Listen
and repeat:
futatsu
Order two hamburgers.
Hambāgā
futatsu kudasai.
Now ask for two orders of sukiyaki.
Sukiyaki futatsu kudasai.
There is a Japanese dish which is noodle soup with shrimp tempura. This dish is called tempura udon. Listen and repeat:
Tempura udon
Now ask for one order of tempura udon.
Now
you
are ready to
order your drink.
The names of many
drink s come fro English.
"Beer" is
bīru; "iced-tea"
is aisu tī;
"milk" is miruku;
"coffee" is kōhī;
and "Coke" is kōra.
Japanese has only one word for both "a_cup of" and "a glass of": ip-pai. "A cup of coffee" is kōhī ip-pai. Listen and repeat:
kōhī ip-pai.
Now order a cup of coffee.
"A
glass
of miIk" is
miruku ip-pai.
Listen and repeat:
miruku ip-pai.
Now order a glass of milk.
The word for "water" is mizu. Listen and repeat:
mizu.
Now order a glass of water.
And the word for "tea" is o-cha. Listen and repeat:
o-cha
Now order a cup of tea.
If you order beer or sake, you will use the words ip-pon, "a bottle." "One bottle of beer" is bīru ip-pon.
Listen and repeat:
bīru ip-pon.
Order a bottle of beer.
Now order a bottle of sake.
If there are two of you, and you want to order two cups of coffee, you say kōhī ni-hai kudasai. Listen and repeat:
kōhī ni-hai kudasai.
Listen again to "one cup of coffee, please."
kōhī ip-pai kudasai.
Order two glasses of water.
Now order two glasses of miIk.
"Two
bottles
of beer" is
bīru
ni-hon. To
order two
bottles of beer,
you say bīru
ni-hon kudasai.
Listen and repeat:
bīru ni-hon kudasai.
Listen again to "one bottle of beer, please."
bīru
i p-pon kudasai.
Now order two bottles of sake.
The waitress has asked you what you will have, nan ni shimashō ka? You will be given a series of orders for food and drink in English. Order in Japanese.
EXAMPLE: One hamburger, one bottle of beer.
YOU: Hambāgā
hitotsu, bīru
ip-pon kudasai.
One hamburger, one cup of coffee. |
________________________________________ |
One order of sukiyaki, one bottle of beer. |
________________________________________ |
One order of curried rice, one glass of milk. |
________________________________________ |
One order of shrimp tempura, one glass of water. |
________________________________________ |
Two pork cutlets, two glasses of iced tea. |
________________________________________ |
Two hamburgers, two glasses of Coke. |
________________________________________ |
One hamburger, one order of sukiyaki, two bottles of beer. |
________________________________________ |
Two orders of tempura udon, one cup of coffee, one bottle of beer. |
________________________________________ |
One order of sweet-and-sour pork, one order of meat dumplings, two bottles of sake. |
________________________________________ |
One order of chow mein, one order of sweet-and-sour pork, one glass of milk, one bottle of beer. |
________________________________________ |
Fluency Drill 13:
If
you
want to reorder
a dish or
a drink, you
add the word "more,"
mō .....
to 'your order.
For instance, "two
more beers, please" is
bīru
mō ni-hon
kudasai. If you
want to
say "one
more order of
sukiyaki, please," you
say sukiyaki mō
hitotsu kudasai. You
will hear several orders
in English.
Order the
food in Japanese.
EXAMPLE: One more glass of Coke. YOU: Kōra mō ip-pai kudasai.
One more order of shrimp tempura. |
________________________________________ |
One more order of curried rice. |
________________________________________ |
Two more hamburgers. |
________________________________________ |
Two more bottles of sake. |
________________________________________ |
Two more cups of coffee. |
________________________________________ |
One more order of sweet-and-sour pork. |
________________________________________ |
One more order of tempura udon. |
________________________________________ |
Fluency Drill 14:
When the waitress brings to you the dish or drink you’ve ordered, she will say "here you are," hai , dōzo.
Listen:
hai , dōzo.
And you will say "thank you," dōmo. Listen and repeat:
Dōmo.
When
you
have finished the
meal and want
the check,
you get
the attention of
the waitress by
saying chotto.
When she
comes to your
table, she will
say hai,
and you say "may
I have the
check?" kanjō
o-negai
shimasu.
Listen
and repeat:
kanjō
o-negai shimasu.
Fluency Drill 16:
When
you pay,
the cashier will say
"thank you,"
dōmo arigatō
gozaimashita. Listen:
Domo
arigato
gozaimashita.
And you will say "thank you," dōmo.
Fluency Drill 17:
In
this
exercise you will hear
some foods and
drinks that may be
named when you
ask "what is
this called?"
kore nan to
īmasu ka?
After you hear
the name of
the dish
or beverage,
repeat it.
EXAMPLE: sukiyaki
to īmasu. YOU:
sukiyaki
_________________
to īmas |
________________________________________ |
_________________ to īmas |
________________________________________ |
_________________ to īmas |
________________________________________ |
_________________ to īmas |
________________________________________ |
_________________ to īmas |
________________________________________ |
Fluency Drill 18:
Now you will hear the same answers. When you hear the name of the dish or drink, order it in Japanese, just as you would in a real situation.
EXAMPLE: Sukiyaki
to īmasu. YOU:
Sukiyaki kudasai.
S |
S |
Katsudon to
īmas |
Katsudon kudasai. |
Happōzai
to īmas |
Happōzai kudasai. |
Furūts |
Furūts |
Inari zushi
to īmas |
Inari zushi kudasai. |