Japanese Swotter - Speaking Drill + Shadowing

91[✐4] Upgrade your Japanese - I will call you later. + Shadowing


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[✐4. Allegretto] お+Vます(I,II)+します、ご+Vます(III)/N+します
Upgrade your Japanese - humble and beautiful!
“I will call you later.”
[00:08]
Hello everyone. Today, we will practice the refined expressions which are useful in business situation. I also recommend you to use them when you talk to superiors or people you meet for the first time. 
Note: Kenjougo is a humble way of speaking, when you speak to someone of a higher position of power or a senior person, in which you humble yourself down. Together with sonkeigo(honorific language), many learners are annoyed by these complicated systems - but today, we stick to the very basic of humble way of speaking. In fact, not just in a hierarchical context, it also gives others a sophisticated impression.   
[00:21]
My condition of throat is not good today, but I will do my best. 
[00:27]
Followings are when you talk about your own actions.  In other words, the subject is “watashi = I”. Repeat after the sound ♫.    

It’s difficult to reflect a humble way of speaking in the English translation, but think of it with the nuance of “let me do something (for you).”
[ 00:40]
1.     I will lead the way. 
2.     I will explain how to use. 
3.     I will inform you of tomorrow’s schedule. 
4.     I will prepare it. 
5.     I will carry (your) bag. 
6.     I will give you the materials/handouts.   
7.     I will take your picture. 
8.     I will send the package/parcel. 
9.     I will lend you an umbrella. 
10.  I will call a taxi.
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[08:25] Dialogue
Conversation between Laura san and Assistant Manager in an office.     
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[10:14] [Shadowing]
First, listen to a sentence at normal speed. Then, I speak a bit slowly, so you start speaking as soon as you hear it (or with a bit of delay if you’re confident), like a shadow.

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Note: English translations might sound occasionally unnatural as English, as I try to preserve the structure and essence of the original Japanese. I hope it also helps you to capture the pattern of the sentence structure.

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