![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Things I learned (am learning) today
1. Most vending machines have changed appropriately with the season. While this originally resulted in me accidentally getting a hot tea when I wanted a cold tea a few times, I came to a funny conclusion today: If I have a cold and I want hot cocoa or hot tea or something, it takes a lot less effort to put 120 yen into a vending machine down the street and get a nice hot beverage can, than it takes to actually prepare tea or cocoa or whatever. Man, I'm so lazy, but at the same time, I fully support my vending machine overlords.
2. Tonden gives me these 10% off coupons every time I go there, and I always forget I have them. Tonight I brought my coupon there only to realize that the coupon is only good if you spend 2000 yen or more. Being by myself, that never happens. I even told that to the lady at the counter and she was like "That's too bad, I'm so sorry," and then handed me ANOTHER 10% of 2000+ coupon. Sigh.
3. I can finally sort of kind of get the end-of-day answering machine message said in 30 seconds but I still stumble over the words. This is only important because on Thursday Eri won't be at GEOS and I'll be the only one there so it's my problem to change our message on the machine -- in Japanese -- in 30 seconds. The first time I tried to read this thing it took a minute so I'm vastly improving:
お電話ありがとうございます。英会話ジオス赤羽校でございます。せっかくお電話をいただきましたが当校の受付時間は月曜日から土曜日のお昼の１２時から夜９時までとなっております。体験レッスンのお申し込みパンフレットのご要望はフリーダイヤル０１２０－０１１－１０９にて承っております。また生徒様のご連絡はこの留守番電話がお受けいたします。本日はお電話ありがとうございました。
She says my pronunciation is good but I need to stop stumbling over the keigo. (I'd simply never learned ones like that "uketamawatteorimasu" construction before.)
4. Coffee is apparently a really good example for MANY grammatical forms. I think I used some form of "drinking coffee" in every class today, be it from "what is your opinion on coffee" to "drinking too much coffee will cause you to sleep less" to "I guess coffee tastes good" to "Having drunk too much coffee yesterday, I couldn't get to sleep."
And as it is, it seems like EVERYONE in Japan drinks coffee.
2. Tonden gives me these 10% off coupons every time I go there, and I always forget I have them. Tonight I brought my coupon there only to realize that the coupon is only good if you spend 2000 yen or more. Being by myself, that never happens. I even told that to the lady at the counter and she was like "That's too bad, I'm so sorry," and then handed me ANOTHER 10% of 2000+ coupon. Sigh.
3. I can finally sort of kind of get the end-of-day answering machine message said in 30 seconds but I still stumble over the words. This is only important because on Thursday Eri won't be at GEOS and I'll be the only one there so it's my problem to change our message on the machine -- in Japanese -- in 30 seconds. The first time I tried to read this thing it took a minute so I'm vastly improving:
お電話ありがとうございます。英会話ジオス赤羽校でございます。せっかくお電話をいただきましたが当校の受付時間は月曜日から土曜日のお昼の１２時から夜９時までとなっております。体験レッスンのお申し込みパンフレットのご要望はフリーダイヤル０１２０－０１１－１０９にて承っております。また生徒様のご連絡はこの留守番電話がお受けいたします。本日はお電話ありがとうございました。
She says my pronunciation is good but I need to stop stumbling over the keigo. (I'd simply never learned ones like that "uketamawatteorimasu" construction before.)
4. Coffee is apparently a really good example for MANY grammatical forms. I think I used some form of "drinking coffee" in every class today, be it from "what is your opinion on coffee" to "drinking too much coffee will cause you to sleep less" to "I guess coffee tastes good" to "Having drunk too much coffee yesterday, I couldn't get to sleep."
And as it is, it seems like EVERYONE in Japan drinks coffee.
no subject
I think we might actually have two answering machines.