Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2

55 Make the following requests to a) a colleague b) a friend: 6. Please email me. 7. Please come 15 minutes early tomorrow. 8. Please write this in Japanese. 9. Please speak slowly. 10. Please go and buy some coffee for me. D. Act in Japanese. 1. You see a neighbor dressed up to go out. Ask where she is going? 2. Let Ms. Honda know that you are taking a trip to Okinawa with friends in May and invite her to come as well. 3. Comment that there are temples and shrines everywhere in Japan. Ask which one is the oldest. 4. You and a co-worker are visiting a customer’s office in Kyoto. Suggest that a) you call them first and then go, b) go and buy famous gifts from Kyoto for your staff. 5. Describe what you did over the weekend. Sequence activities. Describe how they were. 会話 Dialogue 4 In the office, Michael has just finished creating a file. Michael ：来月 らいげつ からのスケジュールですけど、ちょっと見 み ていただけませんか。 Raigetsu kara no sukejuuru desu kedo, chotto mite itadakemasen ka. About the schedule for next month (and after), can I have you look at it for me? Tanaka ：いいわよ。ファイルを、送 おく って。 Ii wa yo . Fairu o okutte. Sure. Please send me the file. Michael ：はい、よろしくお願 ねが いします。 Hai. Yoroshiku onegai-shimasu. Got it. Thanks in advance. Later Tanaka: スミス君 くん 、例 れい のファイルは？ Sumisu-kun, rei no fairu wa? Mr. Smith, what about that file (you mentioned)? Michael ：あれ？一時間 じ か ん 前 まえ に送 おく りましたけど . Are? Ichi-jikan mae ni okurimashita kedo. What? I sent it an hour ago but… Tanaka ：変 へん ねえ。 Hen nee. That’s odd, isn’t it. Michael ：もう一度 ど 、送 おく ります。 Mou ichi-do okurimasu. I’ll send it again.