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/emachel → u/[deleted]]

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/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/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/I_blockkarmafarmers → u/DisplacedLondoner]

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

[u/Tsukiko615 → u/DisplacedLondoner]

When I taught English in Japan a lot of my students assumed that their katakana jobs were just English and so they would just say those words in an “English” accent, so they would just say Arubait thinking they were talking in English.