PARTIE 1 · LEÇON 6 SUR 30 · 33 MINUTES

The First Email

Tuesday the seventeenth of October, twenty twenty-eight, ten in the morning, Ben's desk on the seventh floor. His first job as a leader, eight travellers from Canada for two nights in December, a small inn by the Kamo river in Kyoto, and his first business email, said aloud to Miss Nishimura before he types a word. She changes three words, and OK is never OK. At two the inn phones back, because emails are cold, in Kyoto's own Japanese with its own respect ending, and says yes, if the guests are quiet. Learn the shape of a business email (juunigatsu no dantai tsuaa no ken de gozaimasu; nihaku, oheya ga aru ka, gokakunin itadakemasu deshou ka; oisogashii tokoro, osoreirimasu ga; hikitsuzuki, yoroshiku onegai itashimasu), the condition of a yes (okyakusama ga shizuka nara), a yes with conditions (jouken tsuki no, hai desu ne), and how to hear Kyoto's politeness without saying it. The sixth lesson of Advanced Level 1.

Langue des explications audio : anglais