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This week’s prompt
You notice that your toilet is leaking. You call your landlord and they ask where exactly the water is coming from.
家のトイレが水漏れしてることに気づいた。大家さんに電話したら、どこから水が漏れてるか教えてほしいと言われた。
いえ の といれ が みずもれ してる こと に きづいた。 おおやさん に でんわ したら、 どこ から みず が もれてる か おしえて ほしい と いわれた。
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Last week’s corrections
A friend asks you if there are any good restaurants in the area, but you can’t think of any off the top of your head.
This is a good prompt to practice using your filler words in Japanese. Stuff like:
えっとー
あのー
そのー
うーん
which all have similar meanings to the words “uhh,” “hmm,” and “umm”.
Keep in mind that while we can use 忘れる(わすれる)[to forget] to show we’ve forgotten something, it might not work every time in this context, so let’s keep this word in mind as well:
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