Friday, February 22, 2008

Let me see the menu...

Many students make this mistake, so I thought I should write about it on the OC blog.

In Japanese, 「メニュー」 means one dish or one food item, or the sheet of paper where they are written.

In English, "menu" is just the sheet of paper with the foods written on it, or sometimes the variety of foods you can order.

Therefore, "I made a new menu" means you have many new items written on a new sheet of paper.

"I learned a new recipe" is pretty close to 「新しいメニューを習いました。」

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