Quick Japanese translations

mooshoepork

I have an oral exam coming up. I'm fairly confident for most of the questions, but there are a few that I can't even read. Well, I can read them, but I have no idea what the hell they mean.

Any one read japanese here?

今 持っている物を一つ 見せてそれに ついて話してください。

かんたんな料理の 作り万を 教えてください。 (please teach me the many simple things you can cook?)

What the fuck kind of question is that.

Clipse

For the first one, I think it's along the lines of "Show me something you have on your person and talk about it." The second one is "Teach me to cook a simple meal." Or at least I assume it's only one meal, it doesn't specify the number.

baudattitude

Concur with Clipse on his/her interpretations.

For #2, tell them how to boil an egg.

What is this an exam for, if I may ask? I like their approach in asking questions.

mooshoepork

japanese 6 uni exam. Its like...high school level japanese I guess. I don't really have the vocab to explain how to boil an egg. The course is pretty inconsistent.

Clipse

In every foreign language class I've taken, there have been those ridiculous open-ended questions that are hard to answer given the limited grammatical constructs you've been taught. Try to come up with something really simple (PB&J maybe?), you'll do better having correct instructions for a really simple "meal" than mangled instructions for something more complicated.

poshniallo

Just look up some simple cooking verbs.

This computer doesn't have Japanese so I'll do romaji:

yaku - fry/grill
yuderu - boil
mazeru - stir
etc (there aren't that many, as yaku covers a number of english verbs).

Then basic linkers. Hell, soshite (and then) is enough.

So you're all:

steeki wo sukoshidake yaite.
soshite poteto wo kitte.
suraisu no poteto mo yaite.
soshite, medamayaki tsukutte.

blah blah blah

Install rikaichan and read a japanese recipe page?

mooshoepork

thanks a lot, I wrote something up, I'll probably go with:

さいしょうに おゆ を わかします。。。 あとで、
たまご は おゆ にいれて、 にます。。あの、 たいてい、 3 分ぐらい。 ぱんを
きて、トスタに いれます。 2 分ぐらい。

How to make...an egg and a piece of toast lol.

Bartholamue

I'm honestly jealous that you can do that. I've been wanting to study it for some time now.

Raiden333

Bartholamue wrote: »

I'm honestly jealous that you can do that. I've been wanting to study it for some time now.

Don't you have a local community college? I took Japanese at mine during high school.

'course, nowadays all I can do is read hiragana/katakana and a few very basic phrases, but I enjoyed it while I was studying it.

Bartholamue

Yeah, I can do what you do, although I know numbers up to 10 billion.

CygnusZ

mooshoepork wrote: »

thanks a lot, I wrote something up, I'll probably go with:

さいしょうに おゆ を わかします。。。 あとで、
たまご は おゆ にいれて、 にます。。あの、 たいてい、 3 分ぐらい。 ぱんを
きて、トスタに いれます。 2 分ぐらい。

How to make...an egg and a piece of toast lol.

おゆをわかして、なべに卵(たまご）をいれます。やく３分ゆでたら、ねっとうをながして、ナベから卵をだします。カラをむいたらできあがり。
パンを切って、トースターに入れます。ボタンを押(お)すと、やく２分でトストが出来上がり。

I'm not 100% sure this is perfect. Also, doesn't it take longer than 3 minutes for a boiled egg to cook?

Chen

Hard boiled eggs take about 10 to 15 minutes.