Asking for help
How to ask for help, offer it and say thanks, at work and at home. Asking politely uses ～てもらえますか and thanking uses ～てくれて, both from Everyday Japanese 4, so learn them here as fixed lines. Offers use ～ましょうか from Everyday Japanese 3. Tap to hear any line. The bar at the bottom plays a hands-free drill for walking.
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25 words for asking and offering
Each card shows a word or line with a sentence you'd use at work, at a counter or at home. Nine are from earlier lessons.
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Asking, offering, thanking
Requests go from short and casual to long and polite. All of them start from the て-form.
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- Two forms from later. ～てもらえますか and ～てくれて come properly in Everyday Japanese 4. For now, put the て-form in front and say the rest as it is.
- すみません says thanks too. When someone goes out of their way for you, すみません often fits better than ありがとう.
- Don't say いいえ. To say no, name the time or thing and trail off: .
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Four patterns to use today
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Say it in Japanese
Say each one out loud before you reveal the answer. Getting close counts.