You Drilled the Long One. They Said the Short One.
To say I don't get it in Japanese, say わかんない (wakannai).
You drilled 「わかりません」 for months. Then they looked at your order and said 「わかんない」.
わかんない
wakannai
I don't get it
In this video
- いや、わかんない。 iya, wakannai. No, I don't get it.
Why this phrase
Listening only. わかんない is わからない with the ら dropped, the casual form of わかりません. Kōfuku plays the clip and translates it. The viewer learns to catch it. They do not say it back to staff.
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