Culture and slang · Lesson 8

Meals: 「いただきます」, chopsticks, slurping, paying

ごちそうさまでした。おいしかったです。

What to say before and after meals and how people reply, chopstick taboos, holding bowls, slurping or not, who pays with friends or a boss, how to split it.

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In this lesson

  1. 01Main dialogue: ramen after class
  2. 02「いただきます」 and 「ごちそうさま」: whom you thank, and how people reply
  3. 03Chopstick taboos
  4. 04Slurping noodles, and other noises
  5. 05Who pays, and how to split the bill
  6. 06Easy misunderstandings

Practice

  • Match each expression to its meaning
  • What would you say?
  • Which is the right thing to do?
  • True or false?
  • Choose the phrase for each blank
  • Put the dialogue in order

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