Learning Japanese

[u/BaldHourGlass667]

[u/NewRootsLol]

LOL it was the same with me when I came to the country, wanted to practice my Japanese, and was asked if I wanted milk and sugar in my coffee but I didn't know how to say "Black coffee" in Japanese and said:

"Umm, no sugar and milk, please"

"ああ、ブラックコーヒー" (burakku koohii)

[u/Dizzzzza → u/NewRootsLol]

Japanese word for "work" goes like "arubaito". When I learned it I was wondering, when did they borrowed words from German? Nvm...

[u/emachel → u/Dizzzzza]

Isn't it "shigoto"?

[u/DisplacedLondoner → u/emachel]

It is, but アルバイト arubaito is more like a part time job specifically. Pretty sure it does come from German!

[u/Flaydowsk → u/DisplacedLondoner]

Came from the Dutch when they were trading with the Japanese during the isolation period.

[u/exploding_cat_wizard → u/Flaydowsk]

I don't speak Dutch, but translate gives me "werk" as Dutch for "Arbeit"/"work".

Of course, that may not be the complete vocabulary, or it's language drift...

[u/GunsNBakon → u/exploding_cat_wizard]

It's a little more of a formal term I suppose.

"to do work" can be translated as "het verrichten van arbeid", workers are also called arbeiders.

[u/plug-and-pause → u/Flaydowsk]

Came from the Dutch when they were trading with the Japanese during the isolation period.

Wrong on both counts. It was from German as stated above (not sure why you're disagreeing with that, it's an extremely well known fact) and it happened later than you're suggesting, during the Meiji period, as stated below:

https://blog.surapera.com/en/part-time-job-in-japan/#:~:text=It%20is%20said%20that%20the%20term%20%E2%80%9CArubaito%E2%80%9D,place%20to%20work)%E2%80%9D%2C%20is%20abbreviated%20to%20%E2%80%9CBa%2Dsaki%E2%80%9D.

[u/I_blockkarmafarmers → u/DisplacedLondoner]

Oh. Oh my. I just made that connection for the first time. Arbeit=アルバイト(arubaito)