JAPANESQUE

in LAJ1201, we have an hour long tutorial dedicated to speaking and conversation in japanese.

every week we will regurgitate conversations we memorise from the textbook in pairs or in 3s (wadever's required). the conversation details change as we go on.

so anyway there's this damn joker in my class who week after week bring laughter to our class =)

this week's conversation is between a janitor and a resident (japanese R damn friendly and polite)

so anyway the original conversation goes like,

janitor:"it's a fine day today! going out?"

resident:"yeap, going to the post office."

janitor:"i see!"

and den at this point my tutor asked us to add in extra conversation and question to ask the resident and vice versa.

so this joker who was supposed to be the resident, started normally den when it came to the improv questions, he asked the janitor a qns we learnt from our last tutorial. usually people ask normal questions like how's your mom doing, how's your daughter doing. this guy loves to ask "how's your girlfriend doing" or "how's your dog doing" kinda unexpected questions.

but this time round he really win alrdy.

lemme type out the entire conversation.first in jap den directly translated in english.

normal guy as janitor: "kanosho was ogenki desu ka?"

joker as resident: " hai, genki desu. ano...osawa sage no konsetto isshoni ikaga desu ka?"

(whole class erupted in laughter)

normal guy (immediately):"ah! osawa sage no konsetto wa chotto..."

joker:"zannen desu ne!"

translated...

"How's your gf?" (the normal guy tryin to match the joker's cheekiness)

"She's fine. (obviously joker din fall into trap n continued..) Do you wanna go to a concert by Osawa Sage (a famous jap conductor) with me?"

"Er...I don't....think so?" (actually he rejected him in a typically polite japanese way which is literally translated as "eh...the concert is...later..." coz chotto means later)

the joker really win alrdy!! hahahah basket
but really i dunnoe if everybody might find this funny. maybe only kim-san, gen-san to nicole-san (n maybe ian-san, matt-san to sebby-san and whuever noes jap).

but its funnY ahahaha