Lesson #6 -- Lesson Survival Phrase #4: "Please speak slower."

もうすこしゆっくりはなしてください
mou sukoshi yukkuri hanashite kudasai
Please speak a little more slowly.

もう(すこ)

mou sukoshi

a little more

ゆっくり

yukkuri

slowly

(はな)して

hanashite

speak

ください

kudasai

please

Say this whenever someone is talking too fast (obviously).

Here's a somewhat eccentric YouTube video by a Japanese lecturer that talks about this. Instead of ください, he uses 頂けますか (itadakemasu ka). This is a slightly different, more polite way to say please.

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