Choose your examples carefully

by Declan on May 6, 2009

In Japanese class last night we were covering  ながら which is used to show that something is being done simultaneously.

テレビを見ながらごはんを食べます。

I eat dinner while watching television.

But I wanted to know if this could be used for different situations. If there were 2 different people and you wanted to say personA does something while personB does something.

I raised my hand to ask the teacher and blurted an example off the top of my head.

Why don’t you wait here while I slip into something more comfortable…

Hilarity and much personal embarassment ensued.

and apparently no. You can’t use it like that.

Corrections welcome. If anyone would like to translate my cheesy words of seduction, please leave a comment ;)

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