Hearing Japanese - Magi

Today I started studying Japanese together with a friend. We both had studied separately and decided to brush up on our japanese.

In addition to going through my beginner textbook, Japanese for Busy People, I decided that I would augment my studying by watching excessive amounts of anime, listening really carefully to the dialog and taking notes.

Today is the first day of my notes so I don’t know how the format will turn out but hopefully I get this down to something practical.

One of my goals in doing this is to track my progress as well as having a set of notes to look back on

Today’s vocabulary list comes from an anime called Magi

What I thought I heard What I really heard Meaning
tatoe
tatoeba
tatoe (たとえ)
tatoeba (たとえば)
Tatoe means "however", "example".
The expression tatoeba means "for example"
tonikaku tonikaku
とにかく
Anyway
generally speaking
soueba?
soyeba?
soieba
そういえば
Come to think of it...
Now that you mention it...
nanda koko wa nanda koko wa
なんだここは
Nanda is an interjection meaning "what"
hachimitsu hachimitsu
はちみつ
Honey
Note: Hachi (はち) means bee.
Mitsu (みつ) means nectar.
Koko ni iru wa zenbu Toran no muran ningen tachi sa Koko ni iru wa zenbu Toran no munou ningen tachi sa
ここにいるはぜんぶToranのむのうにんげんたちさ
Here are all the incompetent humans of Toran
Nante hidoi koto Nante hidoi koto
なんてひどいこと
How cruel
(koto - matter, thing or event)
Boku ni mo wakaranai Boku ni mo wakaranai I don't understand either
(to me, I also don't undertand)
ochitsuke
ochitsuite
ochitsuke (おちつけ)
ochitsuite (おちついて)
ochitsukeru (おちつける) - to quiet / to calm down

I believe ochitsuite is the て form of ochitsukeru
Hitotsu onegai da Hitotsu onegai da
ひとつおねがいだ
One request
Hitotsu means "one"
Onegai used as a noun means "request"
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