Daily lessons · Day 19 of 90
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At the hotel: checking in
Arrive, check in, ask for what you need
Checking into a Japanese hotel is a short, formal exchange with a fixed script. You give your name, they confirm the booking, you hand over a passport, you get a key and a breakfast time. Almost everything you need you already have from earlier days; today mainly adds the vocabulary and puts the pieces in order.
Arriving
The first thirty seconds:
よやくが あります uses が, and now you can see why: あります always marks what exists with が. It is the same rule you met with すき and ほしい, and the same one behind いぬが います. Three different situations, one particle rule. This is the point at which が starts to feel less arbitrary.
What they will ask
Two questions, near enough every time:
から and まで are doing a lot of work in this lesson. Breakfast from seven, checkout until ten, a two-night stay from Friday to Sunday. If you take one grammatical thing from today, notice how often a hotel conversation is really about ranges, and that Japanese marks both ends of a range explicitly where English often leaves one implied.
In the room, and asking for things
What to say when something is missing or wrong:
もらえますか is a softer request than ください and you will hear it constantly. It literally asks whether you could receive the favour of something being done, which is why it sounds more deferential. You do not need to build it yet; recognise it, and use it as a set phrase with にもつを あずかって, because leaving bags after checkout is something you will almost certainly want to do.
Carry over, from earlier days
Check yourself
8 questions. Nothing is saved unless you finish.