Tham khảo tài liệu 'japanese in manga land 1 phần 4', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Sample conversation Let s now have a look at a simple conversation which you can use as an example A tf U . sumimasen ga. Excuse me. B lio ft L t ỉ irt hai nan deshõ ka Yes can I help you A Mm ima nan ji desu ka What s the time please B XBậY5ỉ--CT ee. ima xji Y fun desu Mmm. It s now X Y. A 7 refl it arigatõ gozaimasu Thank you very much. B IfiofelHr dõ itashimashite Hours Bậ ji Minutes fun ỉ 0SỊ Anệ -tBệ Aaậ H í - ichiji ni ji san ji yoji oji roku ji shichi ji hachi ji ku ji jaP jũ ichi ji jũ ni ji nan ji - t - fí ĩ ippun nifun san pun yon pun go fun roppun nanafun happun kyufun juppun jippun juippun jũ ni fun nan pun Special readings in bold type You re welcome. This conversation could easily be taking place right now anywhere in Japan. All you need to do is change the X and Y for the corresponding hour and minutes and you will be able to calmly tell the time. Give it a try Take a look anyway at how to ask for the time because you will find this useful too -7 ỉ5 Bệ 11 ima nan ji desu ka What s the time now AM and PM To conclude you will probably wonder how to tell whether we are referring to morning or afternoon time. There are two strategies for this. The first is using the twenty-four hour nomenclature. For example if we want to say 6 oo PM we can say -ỳ ima jũ hachi ji desu It is now eighteen hours. However the most common strategy by far is using the time adverbs RIJ gozen or asa morning from 5 to 11 am hiru noon 12 pm gogo afternoon from 1 PM till evening Ạ yũgata evening yoru night from evening to 12 am and shin ya dawn from 1 to 4 am together with the particle 0 no just before telling the time. Examples ima gozen no kuji han desu It is now half past nine in the morning. 7- 3 Bậ 7 Ỷ ima shin ya no san ji desu It is now three o clock at dawn. -90- 12 Lesson 12 Manga-examples Now we will use the manga-examples to review what we have studied in the previous pages and to broaden our minds and have a look at a more colloquial way of telling the time. a 3 30 Kei