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You're sore from exercising

Apr 04, 2022
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Hi again. Niko here.

This week’s prompt

You and a friend are about to leave a restaurant. You’re super sore from exercising yesterday, and you groan in pain as you get up out of your chair. Your friend asks どうしたの?(What’s the matter?)

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Last week’s corrections

You’re meeting your teacher for an online lesson. You can see from the video that she’s speaking, but you can’t hear her. You suspect that the problem is on her end.

Everyone provided really detailed responses to this one!

I think I would have been more lazy in this type of situation and just said something like:

もしもし?聞こえますか?
もしもし? きこえます か?
Hello? Can you hear me?

Then I would let my teacher figure out the problem. ^_^

But let’s see the more detailed — and arguably more proper — responses that were submitted, and the feedback written by Satoko, one of our Japanese editors…

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