和訳をお願いします
When I arrived at the dormitory, a professor from the university was waiting for me. I wanted to make a good
impression So I bowed and said something like "blah blah blah domo blah blah domo domo domo" I took great
care to say the domo very clearly. The rest was in a very small and impossible-to-understand voice. Just the
sounds.
Notice that I said the last domo three times. I wanted to sound very polite. In English it would sound very
strange saying thank you, thank you, thank you, so many times, but in Japanese it did not sound bad at all.
Anyway, I didn't know what I was saying. The professor looked at me and smiled, "Oh! You speak Japanese
very well." I was very happy. Only a few hours in the country and I was already learning the rules of Japanese
politeness.
Later the same day I met another professor. I bowed and again the same unrecognizable sounds and the dear
domes. It worked well. This professor, too, smiled and congratulated me on the perfect Japanese I could speak.
The French businessman was right. A bow and a domo, and everybody is happy.
