ものだから vs. から

Recently I started taking in-person classes and my first grammar point in the class was ものだから, as I finally have some classmates, wanted to make a note.

ものだから

more like you did something wrong and want the other peson to understand and forgive (體諒). It’s like I can’t help it and got to this result. more emotional.

鍵を無くしてしまったものだから、家に入れ何んだ。
I happened to lose my keys, which means I’m stuck outside.

マナーモードに設定していたものだから、着信に気づかなくて。
My phone happened to be on silent, which is why I missed your call. (I hope you understand!)

から

on the other hand から is simply stating the exact cause-and-effect relationship.

マナーモードに設定していたから、着信に気づかなくて。
My phone was on silent, which is why I missed your call.

よりによって

Came across this in some anime that I don’t remember.

• 偏偏、好死不死
• of all things/people/places, it just has to happen now

よりによって旅行の当日に熱が出るなんて…

I feel like it might be hard for me to “use” this phrase when I speak, so changing it to something I’m more familiar with:

せっかくの旅行なのに、熱が出ちゃった。

Reference

What is the meaning of “よりによって”? – Question about Japanese

らしい vs. みたい

Saw this example on Instagram and I don’t think I’ve seen this explained like this before, so documenting it.

台湾人らしい

• Used on 台湾人
• This is the stereotypical Taiwanese

台湾人みたい

• Usually not used on 台湾人
• Doing things that a typical Taiwanese would do

Reference

Check the link for the illustrations

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdS7hm4kjXV

改める vs. 改まる

Kinda wish tumblr have a spoiler feature so I can cover up the hiragana.

改める（あらためる）

• 他動詞

規則を改める。To revise the rules.

改まる（あらたまる）

• 自動詞

規則が改まる。The rules are revised.

don-dake:

meowbrown:

ロコミ->口コミ

Did anyone also look at this for the first time and think that this is rokomi ロコミ instead of kuchikomi 口コミ 🤣? It’s word of mouth, or comments/reviews for the restaurant on tabelog.

This reminds of that time when Pokémon Official issued an apology for a typo with — I don’t know who she is — some Japanese tarento’s name and caused a lot of confusion because people couldn’t figure out what the mistake was at first glance!

Can you (general ‘you’) figure out the mistake? 😸

ALT

「藤田ニコルさんのお名前の記載に誤りがございました。

誤：藤田二コルさん

正：藤田ニコルさん

お詫びして訂正させていただきます。」

“There was an error in the printing of Ms. Fujita Nicole’s name.

Mistake: 藤田二コルさん

Correction: 藤田ニコルさん

We apologise and would like to correct the error.”

Answer (for anyone who still can’t figure it out) ↓

Keep reading

The cool thing about this is that they have the same pronunciation!

BL Vocab Part 1

Recently I got a book that specifically introduces BL Japanese???? Kinda a cool niche to be publishing educational content.

Word – Who uses it – meaning

• 俺 – 攻め – I, feels more aggressive
• 僕 – 受け – I, a bit more childish and soft, but still used by men
• お前 – 攻め – you, gives a feeling of top -> down
• そいつ – 攻め – that dude, when ヤキモチ

Other

• 声（こえ）sound from living creature, so if the two ppl are making “sounds” it’s 声
• 音（おと）not from living creature

なのか

• 俺じゃダメなのか？
• 彼を好きになったの？
• 昨日お前といたのは、そいつなの？
• 私のこと、気になってるの？
• お前、いつもあいつに優しくしているのか？

ロコミ->口コミ

Did anyone also look at this for the first time and think that this is rokomi ロコミ instead of kuchikomi 口コミ 🤣? It’s word of mouth, or comments/reviews for the restaurant on tabelog.

Words On Single

最近、対面のグループレッスンを受け始めました！
I started taking in-person group classes last week!

And I noticed that I can understand what the teacher said (the class is 90% taught in Japanese), but am having a hard time with my writing, so I need to start practicing writing more (too much typing).

• おひとり様
• おひとり様生活
• 独身貴族
• ソロ活 had typo in my notes, it’s just doing something alone

Reference

Useful phrases in class

I usually just ask in English, it’s probably better to just ask in Japanese at this level.

• 今日のポイントをまとめてもらえますか？ (ask for summary)
• よく使うフレーズの型を教えていただけますか？ (ask for a scaffold of a situation)
• 会話の例を教えていただけますか？ (ask for conversation examples)
• この言い方で合っていますか？/これで相手に通じますか？ (checking if I said it right)

Business Japanese

My brother made an HR AI Agent and I somehow made it teach me some business Japanese 😆

This is just me trying to summarize the session, there could be wrong information, if you see something weird plz let me know.

Vocabulary

• 進捗（しんちょく）progress / status
• 案件（あんけん）project / case / item
• 延長（えんちょう）extension (deadline)
• 認識（にんしき）understanding / mutual alignment
• 思いつく（おもいつく）to think of an idea / come to mind
• 型（かた）template
• 文字起こし（もじおこし）transcription
• 正午（しょうご）Noon 12:00 PM

Corrections

• When asking someone to give me something, use いただけますか / もらえますか and not あげますか, いただけますか is the best pick when unsure.
• For stating reasons use なぜなら、〜からです, I think I said なぜなら、〜ますか？
• I’m curious about… is 気になっていること

Phrases

• ありますか？ -> ございますでしょうか？
• いいですか？ -> よろしいでしょうか？

Template for progress update

OOさん、今お時間よろしいでしょうか？
[案件名]の進捗報告です。現在[OO%]ですが、[課題]に少し時間がかかっております。
[日時]までに完了予定です。
このスケジュールで進めてもよろしいでしょうか？

Prompt for next session

Let’s continue Japanese workplace practice. Last time we practiced progress updates, deadline extensions, and alignment checks.