Angel Valis
黒川
- 15 Jul 2010
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So, I haven't practiced Japanese in quite some time (since I graduated :/) and I'm getting so rusty that one day I forgot how to say "no thank you" which I used all the time when I was in Japan.
I've recently been hired by an 英会話会社 and now I'm just waiting on my certificate of eligibility so that I can apply for my work visa. As such, I've been thinking more about my Japanese and how I need to brush up on it.
The other day at my current job, I was stocking some things in a grocery aisle and a lady asked me if we had some more of a product that was listed as on sale in our ad flyer. I found it for her and she took two of them since they were listed as 2 for $5.
As she walked away, I realized that she was Japanese and I started wondering how I could have told her (to ensure that she knew) that she technically only needed to buy one item to get the sale price (e.g. things are listed as 2 for $5, but if you buy 1 you still only spend $2.50).
Back-story over...I'm still not sure how I could have conveyed that information to her:
「せール値段を受けるために、アイテムを一つだけ買わなくち ゃいけないんです。」
However, this seems a bit too direct, and also sounds like I'm saying she MUST buy only one item (which technically I am...and that's not what I'm trying to say).
I guess my question then is, how do you state a minimum requirement for something?
よろしくお願いします。
I've recently been hired by an 英会話会社 and now I'm just waiting on my certificate of eligibility so that I can apply for my work visa. As such, I've been thinking more about my Japanese and how I need to brush up on it.
The other day at my current job, I was stocking some things in a grocery aisle and a lady asked me if we had some more of a product that was listed as on sale in our ad flyer. I found it for her and she took two of them since they were listed as 2 for $5.
As she walked away, I realized that she was Japanese and I started wondering how I could have told her (to ensure that she knew) that she technically only needed to buy one item to get the sale price (e.g. things are listed as 2 for $5, but if you buy 1 you still only spend $2.50).
Back-story over...I'm still not sure how I could have conveyed that information to her:
「せール値段を受けるために、アイテムを一つだけ買わなくち ゃいけないんです。」
However, this seems a bit too direct, and also sounds like I'm saying she MUST buy only one item (which technically I am...and that's not what I'm trying to say).
I guess my question then is, how do you state a minimum requirement for something?
よろしくお願いします。
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