I am having my Japanese oral test tomorrow. While practicing with Pei Ying this afternoon, I made quite a big joke when I used the wrong words.
Situation : I need to ask Pei Ying out this weekend
I wanted to say: Do you wanna drink (nomimasu のみます) coffee in the coffee shop this weekend?
[Instead I used みます which means to look at]
And so my sentence became: Do you wanna look at (mimasu みます) coffee in the coffee shop this weekend?
and so the conversation continued...
Pei Ying: When are we meeting?
Siew Gee: How about ゆうびんきょく (post office) ?
[I actually had どようび(Saturday) in my mind but I don't know why ゆうびんきょく came out instead]
Pei Ying: ???????
Gosh...I sure hope that I don't make these silly mistakes tomorrow....I am gonna practice practice practice tonight!!!!
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Hehe, that happens!!! Once in class, i said something like "sensee wa xx ni arimasu" and the sensee stared at me. :p
good luck with your oral test!! ganbatte ne!!
Can someone translate what RJ just said?
"arimasu" means "exist", or "...is at (a place)", but it's for non-living things. :p
I was trying to say the sensee (teacher) is at xx, but then I used the verb "exist" for a non-living thing.
Err, make any sense?
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