Daily lessons · Day 25 of 90
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Getting help and emergencies
Ask for help when something goes wrong
This is the lesson you hope not to need, which is exactly why it should be learned before you need it. Nothing here is complicated, but under stress you will not construct sentences, you will reach for whatever is already automatic. Learn these as fixed phrases and practise saying them out loud until they need no thought.
Getting help now
Short, direct, and appropriate in a real emergency:
Note that たすけて is the bare て-form with the ください dropped. In an emergency Japanese drops the politeness, and that is correct rather than rude. Everywhere else in this course you have been adding ください; this is the one place you should not.
Explaining what has happened
Enough to describe most problems:
ぐあいが わるいです is the phrase to use rather than trying to name a symptom. It covers everything from a headache to something serious, it is what a Japanese person would say, and it gets you to the right kind of help without needing vocabulary you have not learned yet. Add ちょっと in front to downgrade it.
Making yourself understood
When your Japanese runs out, which it will:
わかります takes が rather than を, which is the same pattern as すき and あります. It is one of a small group of verbs that behave this way, and they are worth noticing as a set: what you understand, what you like, what you want and what exists all take が.
Carry over, from earlier days
Check yourself
8 questions. Nothing is saved unless you finish.